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- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- After marrying a poor woman, rich Rahul is disowned by his father and moves to London to build a new life. Years later, his now-grown younger brother Rohan embarks on a mission to bring Rahul back home and reunite the family.
- A woman puts an ad in a magazine looking for a man to fulfill her fantasy of a stringless, anonymous pornographic affair.
- A group of toys take matters into their own hands when their Christmas delivery is in jeopardy.
- Sandrine, a woman in her thirties gets tired of life in Paris and decides to leave her work in computers and become a farmer. She takes the required practice for two years, and after that she buys an isolated farm from Adrien, an old farmer who decides it's time to retire. However, Adrien wants to stay a few more months before moving away from the farm, and the rough winter finds them together...
- Cologne-Ehrenfeld, November 1944. They're young, wild and rebellious, like young people anywhere and in any time, but working-class boys Karl and his younger brother Peter are Edelweiss Pirates. They oppose the Nazis, and are pursued by the Gestapo. With the escaped concentration camp prisoner Hans Steinbrück, they plan acts of sabotage, until the Gestapo take them on with their full might. When they're arrested, Karl is torn between his will to survive, his feelings of responsibility, his love for his brother, and his loyalty to the Edelweiss Pirates.
- A look at the people who live precariously, but with an unusual level of resourcefulness and imagination, in four gigantic urban agglomerations: Mumbai, New York City, Moscow and Mexico City.
- Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?
- Five women, all near the wrong side of forty, face life's ups and downs together with laughter, tears, and sometimes irony. Their only imperative: live, love and live some more.
- Sensing that their relationship is crumbling, Christian avoids celebrating Christmas with his girlfriend Julia and heads for Paris. Alone in their Berlin flat, Julia decides that this is the time to drop her lover Frank, so she invites him to dinner. Deciding between the two men grows harder as Frank keeps impressing Julia with his wit and sex appeal, while Christian annoys her with a series of desperate calls from his refuge.
- After 30 years of service, an honourable family man retires and falls in love with another woman. A deep instinct for life pushes them towards a passion like those of their youth.
- Teenagers Lucinda and Benji are would-be rock stars. When the villain, Maestro- a outlandish cross between Fred Astaire and Nosferatu's vampire - steals Benji's shadow, the boy can no longer play a note. Worse, he begins, physically, to fade away.The heroic parrot, Globi -loved by European kids for generations - tracks Maestro to a subterranean Gothic opera house. There he discovers Maestro's megalomaniacal agenda : to steal the shadows of all the world's musicians and so force the world to dance only to his tune. Globi and his friends must reunite the shadows with their musicians in order to save the world's music and the world itself!
- A young couple in search of true love and a real life flee the big city frenzy to Spain and get caught up in an excessive party with drugs, sex, sacred goldfish and a washed-up crook.
- Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad, and Roman live near the northern border of Austria in 1995. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The quintet meets and gets close to one another, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.
- A young Austrian survives the crash of a commercial airliner. Six years later, she's a clerk, a mother, and happy. Then she dies in a car accident. Over the next year, her daughter goes through various medical blood tests, her husband is having an affair with her best friend, her sister trades sex for shelter, her brother is tiptoeing around a friendship with an emotionally-locked clerk whose mother is lonely, and an unpopular high-school student has bad skin. The daughter has her eye on a certain boy--the very one who was driving the car in the fatal crash. In happenstance are there patterns? In life is there meaning?
- Lisa's life changes dramatically when she discovers she is seropositive.
- Young migrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Serbia and Venezuela attend a Swiss integration class where they learn a new language and prepare for employment.
- The Surgeon Steffen is innocently accused of the murders of women that have taken place in the city in recent months. Attempts to clear his identity are hampered by the fact that he has recently been sitting and watching his colleague Katharina from a distance in her home. To put everything right, he takes the police's talkative psychologist hostage and sets out in search of the killer.
- After a quarrel Henny leaves the apartment. New fellow-lodger of Robby and Kalle becomes Paul. The three guys couldn't be more different, but nevertheless all of them have the same problem: women. When the mysterious Malu appears, each of them wonders if she may be their dream-woman.
- Delhi's Kathputli Colony slum is India's largest community of traditional artists. Puppeteers, musicians, dancers, as well as laborers from all over India live here. But this is about to change forever. The government has decided that this slum is to be demolished, its people resettled in high-rises. Young residents Vijay, Kusum, and Rahul decide to protest with their arts and soon find themselves at the center of a unique and creative resistance movement against the government's plans. Simultaneously, they courageously pursue their personal dreams in a society that rejects them for their poverty, class and gender. Against the backdrop of the impending demolition, the personal and the political merge more and more as the protagonists come of age in surprising and sometimes tragic ways.
- Four people meet during a language course in Italy. Returning to their respective homes and partners in various Austrian and Swiss towns, they attempt to slot back into their everyday lives, but conflicts and deceits are soon exposed.
- "The Unemployment Club" is a social comedy whose backdrop is the decline of the steel industry in the south of Luxembourg. Somewhat in the style of Ken Loach, it has been described as a Luxembourg "Full Monty".
- Links two artistic trajectories located in different eras. The first concerns Paul Klee, whose trip to Tunis in 1914 marked his work considerably. The second is Tunisian director and painter Nacer Khemir, who is inspired by Paul Klee's work. The film shows the reconciliation of the possibilities offered by the image and the unveiling of the link between two artists. Nacer Khemir undertakes, almost a hundred years later, the same journey as Paul Klee and returns on his past, on the history and culture of his country.
- Stefan, a gay bartender in a trendy club, doesn't care a lot about his professional and personal future. One night, the mysterious Martin stares at him, so he thinks that his guest searches a quick love affair. Stefan invites him to his apartment, where Martin is rather surprised at his intentions and explains that he doesn't want sex, but his attention for their common past. Martin searches his father, a foreign worker from Italy, who is also Stefan's originator, which he didn't know. Their mother kept Martin, while Stefan was adopted. After the first shock, Stefan decides to join his "new brother" on his trip to Italy. They only have some photos and letters of a holiday trip to Cattolica and their father's name: Giuseppe Iacoviello. This is the beginning of an odyssey across Italy and their way to themselves...
- "How nice it would be to have a sister", Anna often thinks... At 9 years old, little Anna with an overflowing imagination spends her afternoons off in an imaginary world that allows her to overcome the difficulties she meeting in her family and at school. One day, everything changes. While she is hiding in the school photocopier, the machine turns on and creates a replica of herself: a second Anna! Now one can go to school while the other has fun - and no one notices, so begins an exciting game of misunderstandings and confusion!
- Marcus is a survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. His survival strategy after the war was total oblivion. But now the past catches up with him and he wants to be buried as a Jew among his own. To his surprise, however, he must first prove that he is a Jew at all. He needs documents or testimony.
- Nardos, an Azmari singer from Addis Ababa, dreams of telling stories about the lives of ordinary people through her music. In her search for the stories behind her songs, she meets Gennet, a poet who lives on the streets with her children. Nardos puts the lives, visions and power of Ethiopian women at the center of her creation as we slowly immerse ourselves in a rapidly changing country.
- Flora Stein lives in a typical new housing complex, somewhere in Switzerland. She is married to successful food technician Hans-Jörg Stein. So far, the couple's longing for kids remains unfulfilled, even artificial insemination hasn't been successful. Of course it doesn't help that Hans-Jörg has to go on a training course exactly when their next appointment is due. During his absence Flora starts an affair with her neighbor Paul, a writer with writers block. Paul fancies Flora to be his muse, and even Flora blossoms in his company. Soon after her husband's return the couple agree to adopt a child but then Flora discovers she is finally pregnant. But by whom?
- Luckily, the carer Hans-Peter Stalder knows the secret code: a money-making strategy that promises hand-picked investors unbelievable profits and a carefree life in the lap of luxury.
- Architect Luca (Roberto Citran) goes to the Jewish section of Venice to restore a house where reclusive novelist Elio (Omero Antonutti) lives. When Elio lets Luca read the manuscript of his current novel about a famous composer, Luca begins to imagine himself in the role of the composer.
- When a 9-year-old girl discovers that her mother works as a prostitute at night, she tries to escape their morbidly symbiotic relationship in a bold move.
- Silva fulfills herself a dream: from Poland she flies to USA. With only a few hundred dollars she arrives in New York, incapable of the language. Not long until the charming swindler Avi steals all her money - but she doesn't give up: She hunts him down, follows him around, demanding her money back.
- Semi-documentary about the migration of the architects and constructing workers from the area of the Lake Lugano to Bohemia and Moravia.
- After attempting suicide, Michi is sent to boarding school by his mother. But even there, the question of the truth about his father catches up with him again.
- Rapper/Pan-Africanist Awadi and R&B-singer Facoly are juxtaposed with three griots. This provides an insight into contemporary Senegalese culture oscillating between tradition and modernity.
- Globi helps out a girl get the snack she's willing to pay at a snack bar, kept away by the villain Mr. X who hates children beyond everything.