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- A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.
- The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
- At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.
- When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.
- The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.
- A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
- Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.
- A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.
- Recently released from a mental hospital, Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family in their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.
- Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
- A small-town priest struggles with his faith.
- Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
- An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- A cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor.
- A childless couple passes off an anthropomorphous tree stump as their baby, but things get out of hand when the monstrosity comes to life and demands to be fed.
- The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
- A father and his son live together in a roof-top apartment. They have lived alone for years in their own private world, full of memories and daily rites. Sometimes they seem like brothers. Sometimes even like lovers. Following in his father's path, Aleksei attends military school. He likes sports, tends to be irresponsible and has problems with his girlfriend. She is jealous of Aleksei's close relationship with his father. Despite knowing that all sons must one day live their own lives, Aleksei is conflicted; his father knows he should accept a better job in another city, perhaps search for a new wife, but who will ease the pain of Aleksei's nightmares?
- Varlam, the despotic mayor of a small town, dies. After his funeral, his body is repeatedly unearthed and buried again. Through flashbacks and dreamlike scenes, we witness his rise, power and ambiguities.
- In Jakarta, a young journalist struggling to escape from the confines of familiar obligations, receives a telegram informing him that his mother is dying.
- An ordinary man is lured into a strange puppet theatre by a map and finds himself embroiled in a production of the Faustian legend.
- Six people unknowingly form a cycle of masturbation as they each cause others to privately indulge in their fetishes.
- Documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict Chet Baker. Fascinating series of interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers, interspersed with film from Baker's earlier life and some modern-day performances.
- In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a tamer form of Republicanism. How could the love story between a young sales girl and a soldier unable to decide if he was pro or against the radical fashion? Two short months were needed for the answer to be found - in blood and tears, and under rain that washes all past memories. Any day, a New Babylon shop will open with frilly things for the bourgeois girls. The washerwomen will be there to wash them.
- The telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and one warrior's endurance and battle of its menace.
- Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
- Dariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind Ekaterina to appear in porn, but they are not so innocent themselves.
- A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.
- A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
- A psychotic 12 year old makes life hell for his emotionally frail mother.
- Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.
- A documentary portrait of a one-room school in rural France, where the students (ranging in age from 4 to 11) are educated by a single dedicated teacher.
- A painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness, he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old, religious woman. Although but a few words are spoken, love grows.
- A young American who was raised by Mexican bandits, now must choose sides when his Mexican gang carries out violent murderous raids into U.S. border towns.
- A musical of sorts set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win the $25,000 prize.
- The dangerously obsessive relationship between a psychologically manipulative brother and sister who isolate themselves and draw others into their mind games.
- Young Iranian Kurdish siblings try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.
- A theatre troupe from rural Fenyang struggles under the decline of communism and rise of popular culture in China in the 1980s.
- Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov's quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival.
- A talented but poor minstrel is forced to wander throughout the world because of impossibility to be with his true love - a rich merchant's daughter.
- Using almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary - an old man with hiccups, a shepherdess and her sheep, an old woman who may or may not be up to no good, some folk-singers at a wedding, etc. While most of the film is a series of vignettes, there is a sinister and often barely perceptible subplot involving murder.
- An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act.
- Set during the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites that followed the 1917 revolution in Russia
- After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.
- An author works on a project on the subject of love, and, in the process, crosses paths with a former love in his life.
- After a run-in with the law, a Mongolian man becomes a fugitive and joins the Russian Civil War.
- When a young girl becomes lost in the hustle and bustle of Tehran, her journey turns into a dazzling exercise on the nature of film itself.
- Max is on holiday at his grandmother's place in the Elzas in France. He's fascinated by the guitar playing of gypsy Miraldo. In exchange for writing letters to the social security institutes he gets guitar lessons from Miraldo. He becomes friends with Swing, a boyish gypsy girl, who shows him nature and takes him to exuberant musical evenings.
- An endearing coming-of-age film - riding a bike, flying a kite, climbing trees, being raised by goofy yet loving parents and a friendship that lasts a lifetime. Written and directed by the late Yasmin Ahmad.
- During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in his previous films, this Kurdish director is again focusing on the oppression of his people.
- Stylistic documentary about the cyberpunk movement. William Gibson, author of cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, and Timothy Leary, famous advocate of psychedelic drugs, share their thoughts on the future of society and technology.