Portrait of a Portuguese bar whose boundary is a road in a little village. Through a succession of everyday scenes, a community appears, which is unified by the fact that there they feel “at home”. Its protagonists eat, drink, discuss, watch tv... they all spend time there, waiting for something.
Andreas will soon be twenty. It’s a special moment in which the threads of his life become inextricably entwined into a knot. Entering the adult world and slipping back towards childhood. Studying, football matches with mates, and family life centred around his father’s workshop. A new relationship with a boy his own age and a long-time “friend” who works for his father becomes too much for him. A moment when Andreas has to choose, a knot he tries to unravel, overcome or flee.
On the island of Reunion, Lunet and his grandfather Dadabé set on a quest to turn a hen into a dodo bird, whose magic feathers might save the boy’s seriously ill mother.
An orthodox heroine astride a motorbike. Young people breaking the monotony of a country life through stunt riding. A meeting against a Western backdrop between two universes that are at odds with each other except for their very reason for being: passion.
Max goes thru an odd night across a hazy city to discover his true self. He encounters with Les Étranges, inhabitants of a dreamy underworld who guide him thru it, teaching him the value of love.
Gabriel, a young Georgian man, has a love relationship with a transgender woman Amaia, who lives in the Tbilisi suburbs. Embedded in the reality of Georgia, their relationship is threatened. They are given over to the sheer strength of their feelings and are fragile in a violently hostile environment. A narrative of exemplary discreetness.
While the vultures squabble over food, life carries on as usual for a small community in the Spanish mountains. The elderly teach the young to hunt. Those still too young, (im)patiently await their turn. A girl sets out with her donkey. A farewell and a new beginning.
The prisoner Klara Wendel was supposed to be deported from west to east Switzerland. But strange incidents occur during her transport, and all her companions disappear. Klara is found wearing a nun’s habit. To get to the heart of the matter, a tribunal is hastily set up in a barn. The judges want to find out how Klara has managed to escape and why she’s dressed as a nun. On trial by men, Klara somehow manages to take over and become the director of both the trial and the film.
Loneliness, anger. Artemisia feels she has more in common with the zoo animals than with her mother or the other girls. Perhaps, by losing herself in the wild, she will discover who she is.
To run away from a monotonous everyday life, 63-year-old Daniel found an activity which gives him a way to exist.
To escape from a lack of perspective in Kosovo, Hana decides to resort to the services of Emir, an illegal smuggler in Serbia that will drive her to Hungary. On the way, complications arise as Emir's unscrupulous associates try to take advantage of Hana's vulnerability. In the midst of the frozen winter, Hana's courage and determination and Emir's principles and beliefs will be put to the test.
Baghdad, early 1990s, in a reality where humans have been replaced by cyborgs, a young couple and their newborn try to flee their country where war has just broken out.
Eli and Gian go on a field trip to the theater where their older brother works. The two boys are soon left behind, as the theater is preoccupied with the play in progress. In the midst of this chaos, the two brothers explore their new-found freedom.
Calvin crosses the city with a conquering step. He sells honey from the Middle East, natural Viagra from Malaysia and passes his sales knowledge to younger people. His skin-deep voluntarism is at the service of a future perspective that his family would not have wished for him.
Two young men are playing in a bathtub. Then a third and fourth slip in to join them. They are called Émile and they are looking for their “perfect mother” when a fifth man arrives, the Émile who reconciles them all.
Rayane, a black-market delivery man, goes on one fraudulent mission after another to raise enough money to pay for his sick father's operation. After a mission goes wrong, he returns home, money in hand, and comes back to reality: his father has in fact been dead for two months.
Ibrahim is a concierge at an art school in Switzerland. One day, a student who is looking for Ethiopian songs for a project asks for his help. Her insistence will force Ibrahim to reconnect with his past and his origins.
Jean & Michel go on a journey in the Clos du Doubs in search of a rare bird. During their wanderings, the couple crosses seasons at full speed, a certain amount of rivers and above all, ups and downs.
Chaima, a 25-year-old woman of Maghreb origin, lives with her parents in a popular neighbourhood on the outskirts of Geneva. It's her day off, she pretends to go to work in her uniform and retrieves her bag under the stairwell. She joins her friend and accomplice Leila. Together, they go off to party.
