„Un tânăr cinefil frustrat, care se pretindea a fi Mohsen Makhmalbaf, este arestat”. Titlul de mai sus din ziarele din Teheran a fost însoțit de următoarea știre: „Acuzatul, care se dădea drept celebrul regizor de film, a intrat în viața unei familii înstărite cu intenția aparentă de a dori să realizeze un film cu participarea lor. Toate acestea au fost aparent o scuză pentru a explora casa familiei și pentru a plănui o spargere care a fost prevenită prin arestarea bărbatului”. Știrea i-a oferit lui Kiarostami ideea pentru un film semi-documentar intitulat CLOSE-UP. Kiarostami l-a vizitat pe acuzat în închisoare, a contactat persoane de la departamentul judiciar și a obținut permisiunea de a filma procedurile judiciare. El a instalat două camere în tribunal: una cu obiectiv cu unghi larg pentru a înregistra procesul, iar cealaltă cu obiectiv de prim-plan pentru a cerceta adevărul psihologic al cazului

Four mathematicians are gathered and meet with a top official of the United States Department of Defense. After some discussion, the group agrees that they must be wary with whom to trust and control their solution. The official offers them a reward of $10 million in exchange for their portion of the algorithm, swaying them by attempting to address their concerns. Only one of the four speaks out against the sale, and in doing so is forced to reveal a dark truth about his portion of the solution. Before they sign a license to the government, however, they wrestle with the ethical consequences of their discovery. -- Wikipedia

Filmul urmărește întâlnirea dintre un bărbat și o femeie într-un sat italian din sudul Toscanei. Bărbatul, scriitor britanic, tocmai a susținut o prezentare în cadrul unei conferințe; femeia, de origine franceză, deține o galerie de artă: o poveste universală care s-ar putea întâmpla oricui și oriunde.

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

O dramă în care împrejurările aduc împreună patru oameni din caste diferite, acestea interzicându-le în mod normal să formeze prietenii între ei.

In this black comedy the lives of a timid small-time printer and his young wife are turned inside out by the arrival of a stranger who moves in and takes over their world. Set in a village-like outpost in the heart of Tokyo, this is a wry commentary on Japanese xenophobia. Kiki Sugino heads a spritely ensemble cast.

A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they're getting ripped off. They decide to plan their own robberies, but they are amateurs and things don't go too well. One of the youths, Cordoba, whose girlfriend Sandra is pregnant, just wants to get enough cash so they can leave Argentina and get to Uruguay to start a new life. He and his friends plan one last robbery, but things don't go as planned.

Un film în care orice se poate întâmpla - eroul și eroina își schimbă fețele, vârsta, aspectul, numele și așa mai departe. Același lucru: dragostea dintre bărbat și femeie... într-o poveste de dragoste arhetipică tăiată din 500 de clasici din întreaga lume.

An account of the many tribulations that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, known for his subversive art and political activism, endured between 2008 and 2011, from his rise to world fame via the Internet to his highly publicized arrest due to his frequent and daring confrontations with the Chinese authorities.

Fosta Uniune Sovietica, anii `46, la putin timp dupa terminarea razboiului. Un barbat moare, inainte de nasterea fiului sau. Dupa sase ani, aflati intr-un tren, baiatul, Sania si mama lui intalnesc un tanar chipes, de care ea se indragosteste. Curand, cei trei se muta impreuna, ca o adevarata familie fericita. Alegerea nu este buna, dar numai copilul isi da seama. Insa este prea mic si nu poate sa-si convinga mama sa renunte. Curand, barbatul, care ii da lui Sania lectii de viata - sa lupte si sa castige cu orice pret - se dovedeste a fi un hot.

Daniele is a young man from Sant’Erasmo, an island on the edges of the Venice Lagoon. He lives on his wits, isolated even from his peer group who are busy exploring an existence of pleasure-seeking expressed in the cult of the barchino (motorboat). This obsession focuses on the building of ever more powerful engines to transform the little lagoon launches into dangerously fast racing boats. Daniele too dreams of a record-breaking barchino, one that will take him to the top of the leader board, but everything he does to further his dream and win respect from the others turns out to be tragically counterproductive. The decline that erodes the relationships, environment and habits of a rootless generation is observed from the timeless perspective of the Venetian landscape and its island outskirts: the point of no return is a foolish, vestigial tale of male initiation. Violent and destined to fail, it explodes dragging the ghost city along on a psychedelic shipwreck.

Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.

Marina Lenk is an experienced Ornamental Jumping athlete. However, an attack of Tinnitus — an unbearable ringing sound in the ears — drags her from the top of her game to the edge of madness.

După multe săptămâni de întoarcere acasă fără nicio captură, bătrânul pescar Santiago este nevoit să trăiască din donațiile vecinilor săi. El hotărăște, împotriva dorinței fiicei sale Angela, să navigheze din nou departe în larg, pentru a se putea întoarce la vechile sale succese ca pescar, cu o captură mare și cu capul sus. În marea liberă, ghinionul lui se transformă în noroc și prinde un pește-spadă uriaș. Pentru Santiago începe o bătălie dramatică cu el însuși, în două zile și nopți, învață lecția vieții sale.

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquers Sicily and Naples. When the Bourbon monarchy has left Southern Italy, he supports Victor Emmanuel II of Italy who achieves a lasting unification under the aegis the House of Savoy. Roberto Rossellini has said he was prouder of this film than of any other film he ever made.

A young woman loses her father unexpectedly. Even though she wants to dissociate herself from everything, her father's house needs to be packed. While she gets stuck between her father's belongings and memories, her relationship with the house starts to have its own ups and downs. The grieving process begins to take shape, influenced by the spirit of the house.

During the uprising to overthrow the Shah's regime in Iran, protestors set fire to movie theatres to protest Western culture. Forty years later, four people decide to re-create the past by burning down a theatre.