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Martin is a philosophy teacher in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Lacking direction or purpose in his life, he initiates an affair with Cécilia, a young artist's model who might have killed her former lover.

A chronicle of the interconnected lives of a group of people in the lead up to Paris Fashion Week.

The fates of two partners are divided.

When the girl of a rebelious teenage couple finds out she is being sent away, they both believe escaping the rigid order suffocating them is the only way to be free. But is it?

Black romantic comedy set around the troubled "peace process" and its effect on a cynical Belfast hack.

Chrissy contemplates suicide with her 4yo son Jake in Newcastle. Rob, a former police psychologist, intervenes and asks her on a date. The two, along with Jake and elderly Pat, become trapped in an elevator after a drunken gang damages it.

Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband leaves her. To get over the financial crisis this creates she takes in car-dealer Dave. He's homeless as Kate's husband has moved in with his wife. This leaves the problem of how to get promptly pregnant. Surely not with increasingly interesting Dave. They can't even agree on a baby's name - he thinks Fanny is silly and she finds Elvis, well, inconceivable.

This is 1920: Sophia and Trofim Ivanytch have been living on Vassilievski Island, which is part of Petrograd, for thirteen years. In their house, which looks like a ship wreck, the atmosphere is gloomy. Sophia cannot have children and she is aware that, because of that, she is likely to lose her husband. That is why, when their neighbor dies, she asks Trofim to take in Ganka, his orphaned thirteen-year-old daughter. Trofim agrees and their new life begins...

The film tells the story of two girls who are of totally different character. They know each other since their childhood and were friends until they became teenagers. But growing up and becoming adults they go different ways.

Lucy's dream of going to music school is upset by her father's fear of a jaguar. They live in a ranch in the Mixe mountains in Oaxaca where a mysterious old lady arrives asking for forgiveness.

A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire were separated in childhood, and are brought together by a series of coincidences. A tragic car crash is central to the story, but seemingly unimportant events can hold great significance.

An architect witness the brutal massacre by the police of an anti-government meeting and escapes to a remote archipelago.

A collection of short films by emerging filmmakers from the most prominent film schools in France and Europe.