A well-known architect’s trip to the Paris Airport takes an unexpected turn when a young woman forces him to listen to her story. What seems to be a flirtatious encounter changes in time, although the time line is interrupted, to become a provocative and threatening relationship. Ghosts from the past and sense of guilt resurface more easily in a non-place such as an airport and during a conversation with a stranger. The film seems to tell us that there is no such thing as fate. There is a cosmic order; from this idea comes the title of the novel on which the film is based. The threads of the plot are weaved together to then be undone and become visible.

Benedetta Carlini’s process to become a nun starts as a little girl in Pescia, in Tuscany. Her repeated mystic visions and stigmata win her popularity within her community. However, once she enters the convent, her passionate relationship with Bartolomea, who is there to find shelter from her abusive father, will change her future, and her popularity within the community starts to waver. Good and evil, paradise and hell coexist in the controversial figure of the nun, who towers over an incredibly spectacular story, which the Dutch director spectacularises.

In a car, driving from Berlin to Switzerland through Italy and Greece, there are Martha, her father Kurt, and her best friend Betty. The reason for the trip is the assisted suicide of Kurt, a terminally ill man. United by the same, painful destination, each of them deals with their own personal trip made of fear, concern and solitude. It is a road movie, not too dramatic, and a therapeutic itinerary also for the audience.

Béatrice, a widow, lives with her son and mother in Calais, in the north of France. Their life was disrupted by Mokhtar, an Iranian teacher who had illegally taken refuge in Europe. For the love of Béatrice he will have to fight his country’s prejudices and laws.
Based on the real and controversial love story between a French widow and an Iranian refugee, Ils sont vivant,  is an ode to change driven by the heart, the only law and ideology to be followed.

It‘s high summer in the middle of nowhere, Mecklenburg, Germany. Five houses, one bus stop, cows, and nothing but fields. Twenty-four-year-old Christin (Saskia Rosendahl) lives on the farm of her long-term boyfriend Jan, twenty-five (Rick Okon). The exciting post-reunification years that defined her childhood are long gone. Her relationship is loveless. Her father drinks. Christin, too, keeps the cherry liqueur under her car seat. In the shimmering heat of summer, time seems to stand still – until forty-six-year-old wind energy engineer Klaus (Godehard Giese) arrives from Hamburg and sets the world spinning again.

The film pieces together the hectic life of the Kurdish-Iranian rapper and producer Giwar Hajabi, who later would become famous with the alias Xatar. He moved to Germany in the late 1980s with his family and to support himself he joined some shady cocaine trafficking circles. When one of the drug deliveries disappears, he tries his big shot to save his neck from the cartel. In prison he finds in music the instrument for his liberation and redemption.

During a summer in Japan, four young men unexpectedly realize that they have in common
the novel ‘N.P’ written by the late and mysterious
Sarao Takase. The
book is a collection of 98 autobiographical short stories written in English during the period Sarao Takase was living in the United States. Some years later, Shoji Toda, who was curious about the novel, started translating the book into Japanese, but he committed suicide and left the translation of the last story unfinished.
It will be precisely this mysterious 98th story, and the alleged curse hidden between the pages of the book, to motivate the protagonist, Kazami, to set off on her journey.

Herra is a beautiful girl with long blonde hair and blue eyes, who is studying Economics at the University of Prague where she meets Nazir, an Afghan boy whom she will fall passionately in love with. This unexpected coup de foudre will lead her to leave Europe and move to in a post-Taliban Kabul, ready to start a new life together with her newly married husband and his family.

After having lost his job and wife, Kenji moves back to Akita, the town in the north of Japan where he was born and there he meets Naoko, an old friend of his who is also back in town for her upcoming wedding. However, their reunion goes upside down when they find an old photo album, which brings back to memory the passionate relationship they had when they were teenagers. Kenji and Naoko cannot resist and very soon surrender to the love that had deeply involved them in the past. Only for five days though, until Naoko’s bridegroom, a soldier currently on mission, will be back for the wedding.