The Black Oud

A young woman in the woods finds community in nature as she processes her death.

Jip and Mijntje meet at a party organised by their mutual friend Lino. The sparks fly immediately and they grow closer as the months pass. Suddenly Jip gets the feeling that Mijntje doesn't really know them as well as they thought. Jip starts to doubt their connection and realises that their 'situationship' has reached a dead end.

Enraged, a teacher murders a young pupil. Over the years, another boy is bred for one sole purpose: to avenge his sister’s death.

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncover the truth behind his former idol.

When a marriage is threatened by a long excursion for work, domestic trouble is buffeted by family and friends.

A poet's muse calls on his inner child to save their relationship.

The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and schemes to raise money so he can spend time with her. Additionally, a young women begins harvesting lotuses for a writer suffering from leprosy, and a child trinket seller loses his traveling case.

Zooni Ali Beg is a blind Kashmiri girl who travels without her parents for the first time with a dance troupe to Delhi to perform in a ceremony for independence day. On her journey, she meets Rehan Khan, a casanova and tour guide who flirts with her. Although her friends warn Zooni about him, she cannot resist falling in love with him and he takes her on a private tour of New Delhi. But there is more to Rehan than meets the eye and Zooni will have to make a heartbreaking decision.

When Dominik forges a friendship with a classmate who suffers from a unique speech impediment, his whole world turns upside down. Now, during summer holidays, he must find a path through contrasting worlds, and decide whether he wants to live a life full of comfortable shallow pleasure, or free himself from old habits and glimpse into the depths of the human experience.

As a kid, Leo thought he possessed, like a magician, the secret power to make things happen. As a young man, he certainly knows how to make things happen with women. But as his best friend Krantz would say to him, "Why do you always ask questions you already know answers to?" Leo believes firmly in what he invents from one day to the next. Images, impressions, stories fill his head. That's just how he is: life, for Leo, is just a game. Behind this childlike attitude, hides the very essence of his own life's quest.