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With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.

Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.

Newly widowed Santosh inherits her husband's job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a girl's body is found, she's pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.

A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

A woman disappeared. After a snowstorm, her car is discovered on a road to a small remote village. While the police don't know where to start, five people are linked to the disappearance. Each one with his or her own secret.

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

A chronicle of the romance between Camille and Sullivan, which begins during their adolescence and picks up after Sullivan's 8-year absence from exploring the world.

A musician travels a great distance to return an instrument to his elderly teacher.

In a war ridden country a woman watches over the husband reduced to a vegetable state by a bullet in the neck, abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before.

An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.

Former district attorney Karin Lossow and Detective Chief Superintendent Julia Thiel, a formidable mother-daughter duo, solve criminal cases on the picturesque island of Usedom.

Fanny is 17 and still looking for herself. She struggles to make friends. When she goes to Germany, she meets pen pal Lena, who dreams of getting involved politically. Fanny is troubled. To please Lena, she is ready to do anything.

When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves.

"Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives," but Kena and Ziki long for something more. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.

A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.

Two students marry in secret despite objections from the woman's mother. In a mosque in Hamburg, they promise to stay together, but the man commits to an act that will shake the whole world.

A determined young Saudi doctor's surprise run for office in the local city elections sweeps up her family and community as they struggle to accept their town's first female candidate.

The film follows a 30-year-old man named Gabriel, a French war reporter who was taken to hostage in Syria and then heads to India after months in captivity.

Four tragicomic interconnected stories about how devoted Muslim men and women are trying to manage their love life and desires without breaking any religious rules.

Years after a nervous breakdown Karl goes on tour with old friends and upcoming electronic music DJs. Beeing the only sober person in a environment full of drugs and alcohol starts to bring back demons.

Marie is looking forward to traveling to Japan with her Hunsrück women's choir. She doesn't let her mother talk her out of her dream either, who is going to Rüdesheim for a cure just now and wants to get her daughter to represent her in her small town shop. On the way to the airport, bad news thwarts her plans: her mother is in a coma under mysterious circumstances - and she needs her there. While the suitcase is already on its way to Tokyo, Marie, with a heavy heart, boards the Rhine skipper Hans' ferry to Rüdesheim, where tourists from all over the world are celebrating the Wine Week. There, Marie remains stuck at the bill of a sociable round with a Japanese businessman. In order to get her money back, the deceived woman wants to track down the shady Mr. Tanaka. Fortunately, she meets the waitress Krystina. The Ukrainian not only takes Marie in, but gives her an idea that makes a "Sayonara" even more remote.

A film within a film, "Looking for Oum Kulthum" is the plight of an Iranian woman artist/filmmaker living in exile, as she embarks on capturing the life and art of the legendary female singer of the Arab world, Oum Kulthum. Through her difficult journey, not unlike her heroine's, she must face the struggles and sacrifices, and the price that a woman must pay if she dares to cross the lines of a conservative male-dominated society.

Two pensioners, a video camera and an indecent proposal.

A story set in the former Yugoslavia and centered on a guy who returns to Herzegovina from Germany with plenty of cash and hopes for a good new life.