The film comprises six interconnected stories, one of them co-written with actress-screenwriter Iulia Lumânare. Interestingly, the feature recycles (and completes) The Christmas Gift and another, unreleased short film, New Year’s Eve. One of the protagonists is Ştefan Silvestru, the director of the national television station, who has to deal with a career-ending issue: an actress who appeared in a sketch to be broadcast on New Year’s Eve has defected the country. Silvestru’s son, Laurenţiu, who plans to defect by swimming across the Danube to Yugoslavia, is the protagonist of another story, all six of them exploring the atmosphere in Bucharest before the “end of the world”, or the fall of the regime.
Yura, working at a local nature museum, looking for a rare species, witnesses an arson in the forest. He brings the photos to a local newspaper, and gets a job there. With his new profession it dawns to him that the reality around him is a far cry from what is written in the newspaper.
15岁的意大利少女梅丽莎(María Valverde 饰)与母亲和祖母的住在一起,她的生活平淡甚至有些枯燥,每天这个天真纯洁的女孩都在渴望一段浪漫的爱情。某天,梅丽莎和好友参加同学所组织的派对,她邂逅了英俊帅气的男孩丹尼尔(Primo Reggiani 饰)。只是爱情之花并未如期盛开,梅丽莎遭遇了一次带有羞辱性质的性经历,她却从此迷上了这个玩世不恭的男孩。在接下来的日子里,梅丽莎可以引起丹尼尔的注意,而丹尼尔则对她进行各种各样的羞辱。在明白丹尼尔的心意之后,梅丽莎通过放纵来进行报复,她甚至将每段性经历都写入日记…… 本片根据曾轰动欧洲的真实的少女日记——《床前100次梳理乱发》改编。
Yaşar, a young man, has a hard time after his father's death. His inheritance from his father causes Yaşar to have problems with his stepmother. Meanwhile, Yaşar learns that her sister-in-law, Canan, who is living in the same house, is in love with her. While Yaşar is dealing with the inheritance issue and his sister-in-law, he realizes that there are some strange events at home. Yasar's mentally disordered daughter Efsun's dark past is unearthed, making things even more complicated. The pain of the family, who had to face the dark past of Efsun, is just the beginning for them.
刚刚遭受丧子之痛的家庭主妇凯伦(波迪尔·约根森 Bodil Jørgensen饰),敏感脆弱。她失魂落魄的游荡在哥本哈根的街头,在餐厅进餐时偶遇一位紧握她手不放的白痴。出于同情心,凯伦一路跟随他,目睹了一群终日装疯卖傻的“白痴们”。其实这群年轻男女并非是真正的弱智者,他们是以史托佛(杨斯·艾宾纳斯 Jens Albinus饰)为首佯装白痴的正常人。为了向中产阶级体制挑战,他们不顾舆论压力,以欺骗他人、玩弄他人为乐。凯伦一方面无法彻底成为“白痴”,一方面又对他们的行径梦寐以求。渐渐地,凯伦开始在她的家人面前扮演起了白痴,深陷其中不能自拔。本片入围1998年第51届戛纳电影节主竞赛单元-金棕榈奖。这部以“道格玛95”为电影拍摄准则的影片,不仅在拍摄手法上完全不顾画面的美感,更是继《感官世界》后又一部大量暴露性器官镜头的影片,极度挑战着电检制度和观众的道德尺度。《白痴》与《破浪而出》、《黑暗中的舞者》合称“良心三部曲”。
母亲(松佳·里奇特 Sonja Richter 饰)病重,艾尔玛(Harald Kaiser Hermann 饰)和艾瑞克(Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt 饰)兄弟两人无人照顾,只能被送往由校长赫克(拉斯·米科尔森 Lars Mikkelsen 饰)所开办的寄宿学校之中。赫克是一个信奉暴力的男人,他坚信,唯有通过武力才能够令学校中的孩子们真正信服,才能够引导他们走上正确的道路。 兄弟两人在这座名为学校实为监狱的牢笼之中受尽折磨,圣诞节妈妈会来接他们回家的承诺成为了他们生存下去的唯一动力,然而,两人等啊等啊,等来的却是妈妈的死讯。莉莉安(苏菲·格拉宝 Sofie Gråbøl 饰)是学校里新上任的文学教师,她敏锐的察觉到了这所学校里正在发生的惨无人道的暴行,却对这一切无能为力。
Nina, 30, a Ukrainian language teacher who can't leave the city of Luhansk, occupied by separatists in Eastern Ukraine, is forced to undergo retraining courses for teaching Russian. Andrii, 17, is a student who was orphaned in the aftermath of the war. They cross paths when Nina witnesses Andrii being arrested by the police after hanging the Ukrainian flag from the roof of his school. Nina knows that because they live in a world of injustice and lies Andrii can stay in jail for a long time, and she risks her life to free him. As they gravitate towards each other, they try to remind people in the occupied territories that they deserve a future, too.
梅尔默一家的每个成员都在各自的问题中挣扎。谢尔哈特很难让贝谷姆适应他们的新生活。谢尔哈特的生活中少了一个女人,而加赞弗则努力维持家庭的和睦。
这部由电影制片人兼多媒体艺术家约翰·格里蒙普雷(代表作《双重特工》)创作的新纪录片堪称一部精心结构的电影随笔。影片以刚果及其首位民主选举的总理帕特里斯·卢蒙巴的谋杀为背景,融合了地缘政治、爵士音乐、冷战阴谋和殖民实践,是一部爆炸性的混合体。片中既有详尽的研究和数据,又在形式上绝对巧妙和自由。影片追踪了卢蒙巴的权力崛起以及殖民者对将国家控制权交给其公民的抵抗。同时,影片还记录了美国试图通过派遣爵士音乐家如妮娜·西蒙、杜克·艾灵顿、路易斯·阿姆斯特朗等人来影响该国的努力。这些音乐家来到刚果演奏,浑然不知他们不过是中情局阴谋的幌子。最终,这部影片充满了音乐和电影能量,同时对仍然拒绝被抹去的殖民幽灵发出了一声强烈的政治控诉“我控诉”。