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1997. Young car mechanic Iván lives in a godforsaken village in eastern Hungary. He looks after his mentally disabled sister Eszter and earns extra money smuggling diesel oil from Ukraine. The siblings' coexistence is disrupted by a tragic event, Eszter is raped. A police investigation gets under way; in the meantime, Iván starts up a relationship with young Ilus, who has just finished school and is planning on going to the university. Iván plainly wants to leave his old life behind him, but will he be able to fulfill this ambition?

The Rule of Accident is about a group of theatre students who are trying to prepare and present a piece of theatre.

A physical comedy about yearning

An 80-year-old actress returns to the small Chilean town of her youth to fulfill her father's dream of creating a TV channel in a place which has never known television.

Albanian teenager, Saimir, emigrates to Italy to start a new life with his father. His father tries to make a living transporting illegal immigrants. When this fails to make his father any money, he is drawn into an insidious prostitution ring. Saimir helps his father, but a love interest makes him question his life and future.

Ivan keeps a 15-year-old Natalia hostage since she was a little girl. The repressive regime seems not to refrain them from forming a sort of family bond. They begin struggling with each other when the girl's sexuality awakens. Ivan desires her love and companionship. Maria de los Angles Garcia as Natalia and Marcelo Alonso as Ivan gave unforgettable performances.

Roberto Petrocchi directs this period drama set in the late 1800s. Capt. Eugenio (Arnaud Arbessier) arrives in a remote castle to take charge of a unit guarding a nameless prisoner. No one knows much about the inmate as he is held in a forlorn tower. When the captain's wife Adele (Margherita Buy) tries to shake her melancholia by playing the piano, she finds -- much to her surprise -- that she's being accompanied by violin music coming from the prison cell. Soon something in Adele changes abruptly and irreversibly. The woman is indeed captured by the music and by responding with her piano to the violin melody, she participates in the awakened relationship between the prisoner and the outside world...

Ever since Kokoro has stopped dreaming while sleeping she can't smile. Lilou does all she can to help her friend and bring both the dreams and the smile back to Kokoro's life. Kokoro suddenly disappears. Lilou wants to find her so she embarks on an unusual journey during which a dream-book and a video-game will serve her as guides. The second picture by Izuru Kumasaki is an extraordinary surrealistic children's tale for adults.