In a post-soviet republic of Georgia, in South Caucasus where religious and folk traditions are still the main authority, new generation of pro-western youth tries to build their own future. The protest of 10 000 young Tbilisi citizens turns into 2 day massive rave at the Parliament of Georgia.
Married for a decade, a couple have no child. He is a lawyer, however, and as a result of one of his cases has the daughter of an imprisoned man living with them. The girl, who is understated, has a boyfriend, but otherwise only ventures out to meet her jailed father. The family is visited by the daughter of a friend from Osaka who has made the journey without informing her parents. That her personality is the opposite of the girl who lives in the house is obvious. At the same time, the wife runs into her own ex and the husband faints at work due to exhaustion. The live-in girl tends to the husband in a way that leaves the latter's wife concerned.
Inspired by “Voyage to the land of Brazil” by Jean de Léry, this short follows the adventures of Nicolas Durand, from Villegagnon, and the estabilishment of a French colony in 16th-century Rio de Janeiro.
This atmospheric slow-burn drama follows Marina, an Israeli lawyer who appears to have escaped her suffocating, traditional Caucasus roots only to be drawn back years later. Tasked with representing Nino, a mother seeking to reclaim the son she left behind 11 years earlier, Marina travels to a remote mountain village and forms an uneasy alliance with Dato, the boy’s devoted uncle, whose resentment and old-world rigidity complicate her mission. As they embark on a tense journey toward Tbilisi, buried wounds, cultural divides, and conflicting loyalties surface, forcing both strangers to confront the past and reconsider what home, duty, and belonging truly demand.
A wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with an old man. They are both arrested by a detective. A year later, the gambler is staying with a gangster boss when he comes across the woman and her partner again. The boss lusts for both her and his own daughter, while the boss's crazy yakuza brother loves his daughter, who, in turn, watches the player and wants to destroy the people standing in her way.
A wacky coup d'etat masterminded by a Russian call girl, in of all places, staid Switzerland, is the subject of Daniel Schmid's black humorous satire on power and its misuses.
In the Siberian taiga, a mail plane carrying wages for workers from timber industry and fur farms crashes. Two people skiing in the taiga, two rivals, set off along untrodden paths in search of missing money.
The foreman of a small construction crew working on a major construction site is dissatisfied with laziness and a lack of conscientiousness. So he decides to have a frank conversation with those on whom the livelihood of all his crew members directly depends.
The film is based on Moldovan and Romanian folklore about the folk hero Fat-Frumos.