Tereska lives with her parents and little sister in one of the many pre-fab blocks of flats built under the Communists. Nothing about Tereska’s family is exceptional: her father occasionally drinks and her mother, a pious woman, rather blatantly prefers Tereska’s younger sister. Tereska dreams of escaping this world and becoming a fashion designer...
Katja and Isabella decide to have a child. However, like many lesbian couples they soon discover that this is much more difficult than they first imagined. Citing legal reasons, most of the sperm banks and fertility clinics refuse to treat them. Fortunately, they are able to find one doctor willing to help - for a large sum...
A look at terrorism in Algeria through the eyes of Rachida, a teacher in one of the school districts. Rachida lives and teaches in a popular neighborhood in Argel. Like most of her countrymen, she thinks the conflict which is bleeding out her country does not affect her, until the day she is confronted by a group of terrorists that includes a former student of hers, Sofiane...
ENT physicians gather at a provincial hotel in Salta. The hotel owner, Helena, is subdued, brittle, avoiding the calls of her ex-husband's pregnant wife. Family dysfunction seems everywhere. Helena's daughter, Amalia, about 14, discusses vocations in a Catholic girls group...
A young tough develops a taste for the classics when he falls for a girl who wants to be an actor in this drama from France. Krimo is a streetwise teenager who doesn't have much to say to either his mother or his girlfriend, Magali, and plays tough guy with his friends...
Finnish film directed by Aku Louhimies and based on a crime novel Elavien kirjoihin by Marko Kivi. It tells a story of a single mother Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her life anew. When her former boyfriend Lalli comes back from abroad, it opens a window into a past that Pike wants to put behind her.
15-year old Fatou and her friends Betty and Kim are looking for love but confusing it with sex. One night after a striptease game with a group of boys Fatou is raped. Afterwards she denies it ever happened, even to herself. But one day the truth catches up with her.