The most representative heroes and characters from the traditional tales and legends of the Basque Country, guided by the word. A one-eyed 'tartalo' who's been up all night is swindled by a man because he's got the miracle ring he talks about. A naughty little Kukubiltxo makes the cows and burros talk when he hides in the ear of a donkey. A lying demonic Galtzagorri is unashamed.

Gabelkin and Nikita, two little boys from a northern Russian village, never meet, and their lives appear to move in opposite directions. Gabelkin lives with his alcoholic mother, while Nikita is one of the many at a local orphanage. Gabelkin's teacher struggles with the fact that she can't have any children of her own. She'd like to adopt him, but can't, and does all she can to help. Nikita believes his mother is a woman from a photograph he found on the street.

A young man is driven mad by his obsession with the repulsive diseased eye of the old man who cares for him.

Island emerged from Tan’s annual excursions to Gotland, an island off the east coast of Sweden, the location of the renowned Russian filmmaker, Andrei Tarkovsky’s last film, The Sacrifice. Filmed in black and white, Island is comprised of shots that traverse a stark landscape of trees, horizon, and clouds. The slow camera work, coupled with the lack of human presence, creates a sense of unease in the viewer and evokes the feeling that time has been suspended. Voice-over narration recounts a woman’s experience and memories of an unnamed island, and allows the viewer to extrapolate meaning from the austere images presented. With Tarkovsky’s apocalyptic last film as a point of departure, Island represents for Tan an imaginary retreat in search of an appropriate individual response to threat, disruption, and danger.

800 years ago the people of Kenfig on the south coast of Wales thought they had built the perfect town. The town appears to have been a thriving commercial success, but then it vanished, leaving just a few castle walls to mark its existence.

The Polish Language is a film-poem which brings an original poem by Alice Lyons to life through the medium of film. The imagery in this poem is activated in imaginative ways through various styles of animation, employing hand-drawn, stop-motion, and time-lapse techniques. The typography – the style, arrangement, and appearance of the letters and words of the poem – is a central element in this film. The images, animations, and graphics flow freely into each other, mirroring the ebb and flow of the poem’s lines and verses.

A parachute jump is performed by an artist and his girlfriend at the opening of an exhibition in the artist's studio. An art dealer and a number of friends are invited to the event.

A film about Finnish artist Kalervo Palsa who was completely neglected by his peers and time.

Dreaming of an escape from the bleakness of their hometown, two teens form a unique bond at a local modeling school, where the promise of a better life pushes girls to violate their bodies in increasingly extreme ways.