The story concerns an old globe-maker who is mysteriously killed while going through the town portraying Pere Noel ("Father Christmas" aka Santa Claus).

Pierre Brochant plays a curious game with his friends: the idiots' dinner. On Wednesdays, everyone brings an idiot, and the winner is the one who comes up with the most spectacular one. Tonight, Brochant is convinced he's found the rare pearl, "the world-class idiot": François Pignon, an employee at the Ministry of Finance and a fan of matchstick models. But he doesn't know that Pignon is about to unleash catastrophe after catastrophe and make everyone fall: "What goes around comes around."

The romantic misadventures of four friends in their forties. Bouly, a seducer, suffers from his wife's constant flights from home; Simon, a pessimistic doctor, lives under the iron rule of his possessive mother; Daniel, an homosexual, still mourns a lost love. Level-headed Etienne is considering being unfaithful to his wife for the first time; his undertaking leads the four buddies into a hilarious predicament!

Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office.

Kafka sees a waitress nibbling from a pot, which she is about to serve. In violent indignation, he complains. His complaint is upheld, and the girl is sentenced to be stoned. Kafka protests, saying he hadn't meant to trigger this, but stones are thrown at the waitress all the more vigorously. Kafka, powerless against the machinery that has been set in motion, takes his own life. Meanwhile, the girl is restored to health and sent back to serve with the pot.

In a raindrop that falls from a leaf and seeps into the earth, beautiful and cruel, happy and sad things happen and interpenetrate.

A small man sits on a train station bench. A bulky, initially polite man joins him, reads his newspaper, eats his travel provisions on the train, follows him, harasses him on the bus, in the taxi, and in his house, making himself at home. When the harassed man calls the police, the patrol arrests him, and the ruffian triumphs. The little man is released. Now helplessly exposed to the intruder's harassment, he is thrown out.

A cage is searching for a bird, but all its efforts fail. Without its help, a bird finds a way in. The cage closes its door and stands proudly on a pedestal, for it is now worthy of admiration.

A flock of birds lands on a telephone line. All their heads point in one direction, but the smallest bird's faces the opposite direction. The boss ignores several of his suggestions. His reputation is at risk, so he orders a U-turn. Now order is restored, everyone looks in the direction of the outsider. Only one wants to do something different...

A wolf wants to take a sheep, but the flock is well guarded. So he disguises himself as a sheep, practices walking, and bleats.

A beetle is fleeing from a bird. No hiding place is safe from its pursuer. So it crawls into a dark crevice that the bird's beak can't reach. The beetle laughs at the bird. It hasn't yet realized that it's sitting in the space between the earth and the sole of a man's shoe.

With great commitment and physical effort, a man crushes stones into gravel. With equal zeal, a woman shapes them into stones. The man then crushes the stones again with diligent effort...

A stoic museum guard acts as a showgirl, leading the audience through a seemingly strange program: Figures from famous paintings emerge from their frames and interact with one another. "Mona Lisa" cleans the helmet of "The Man with the Golden Helmet" and takes the "interest penny" in return. The "Chocolate Girl" drops her tray because of the erotic escapades of the "Tahitian Girl" with "Leda's Swan."

An idealistic teacher is shocked to discover her pupils are already cynical and opportunistic. Her colleague soon grows resentful when she uses new and challenging techniques to help her students overcome obstacles.

The Rabbit Is Me was made in 1965 to encourage discussion of the democratization of East German society. In it, a young student has an affair with a judge who once sentenced her brother for political reasons; she eventually confronts him with his opportunism and hypocrisy. It is a sardonic portrayal of the German Democratic Republic's judicial system and its social implications.

Li and Al, not long married, want to divorce. They feel trapped in their marriage and in their one-room apartment. They long for an unconventional, meaningful life, but the search for meaning confounds them.

There are three children growing at Tammaru farm – one boy, Margus; and two orphan girls, Mari and Tiina. Tiina is lively and full of energy. Margus holds her very dear to him. Margus’s parents want him to marry Mari instead as she is more their kind. Hotblooded Tiina is completely different from them, and her mother was once executed for being a witch. Mari thinks that Tiina has bewitched Margus and cannot stand this, so she starts to publicly blame her stepsister for being a werewolf.

Anna, the daughter of an elderly owner of Kõrboja farm, is told by her father that if she won’t move into their home farm then it will be sold to strangers. But the farm also needs a master, and Anna has been living in town for years. She comes back home and meets again Villu, her friend from childhood. Villu is still as temperamental as he used to be, and Anna has always been a stubborn one. Now they have grown up. The more fellow villagers find the couple a strange one, the more they are attracted to each other.

16-year-old Mari, raised without a mother by a drunkard father, is put in an orphanage which she immediately, though unsuccessfully, tries to flee from. The sensitive Mari finds it hard to adapt to the coarse manners and brutal games amongst the children. Only gradually does she develop a sense for the similarly difficult fates of her fellow sufferers, who have long forgotten how to cry. She even falls in love for the first time, not with her self-appointed “protector” Tauri, but with the rough-mannered Robi. “Smile at Last” takes a critical realist approach to raising attention to the responsibility over the fate of vulnerable children and adolescents.

Recently freed from prison in Russia, Valentina heads back to Estonia on a quest to find her son Jüri, who she had given up for adoption years ago. With the conviction that their reunion will be a happy ending, Valentina searches high and low until she finds her son in Tartu, adopted by a wealthy family. Reconciliation turned out to be more challenging than she had expected.

Three women, a journalist, her French friend and a pop singer, deal with life, career, desire, sex and personal fantasies.

Berlin, 1974. Grischa and Heinrich are actors, accidentally locked in the rehearsal hall one night. He tries to seduce her; she's puts him off. Later she dumps her husband and sleeps with Heinrich, who ups the ante by suggesting they have a child. She takes him seriously by initiating a journalistic project interviewing working mothers, asking how they balance work and family, delving into their sexual histories. Heinrich sulks when she spends evenings on the project, he's childish. Should she leave him? The story plays out against the backdrop of left-wing political agitation.

Dans son documentaire …ce qui importe, c’est de le transformer, la réalisatrice s'intéresse aux ouvrières de l'industrie métallurgique à Francfort, Wetzlar et Mannheim. Elle rend visible la manière dont le travail en usine et le travail familial se conditionnent mutuellement en tant que lieux d'exploitation qu'il ne suffit pas d'interpréter, mais qu'il faut fondamentalement changer. Ce sont les femmes elles-mêmes qui s'expriment dans le film et qui discutent entre elles des possibilités et conditions de changement. "Le tournage était extrêmement compliqué et la direction des entreprises généralement peu intéressée à rendre publics les conditions de travail catastrophiques des femmes. Il fallait une sorte de "Wallraffiade" féminine* pour obtenir les autorisations de tournage en faisant semblant d'aborder des sujets supposés et d'autres intentions".

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war but he is not the same person as in 1939, and he and Lene find it difficult to live together again.

Edda est photographe de presse en RFA, et mère célibataire. Elle peine à concilier vie professionnelle et personnelle, alors qu'une occasion se présente à elle. Avec ses collègues, Edda prépare une exposition de photos sur Berlin. Le jeune mère devra se démener pour obtenir des financements et lutter contre les attitudes élitistes du monde de l'art.

Erika and Franziska haven't seen each other for 4 years. 10 years earlier they both felt that they had the same chances in life: both were young, attractive and imaginative. They overlooked what would, right from the outset, separate them: their very different emotional make-up, their different character.

Angela and Robert have been married for 10 years and are still very much in love with each other. They give each other complete freedom and form a perfect couple. Their happiness is not disrupted when Robert brings his young friend Claudia home for the weekend.

Film as a sort of family therapy – an unvarnished chronicle of a divorced mother in West Berlin’s Märkisches Viertel neighbourhood. She talks without reserve about why her family is falling apart, while at the same time discussing her own ambitions.

Detective Peter Flowers has to deal with Nola, the "most beautiful and corrupt woman in the world"...

Scenes from a marriage in crisis. Karin Hendrich is 30, the mother of a young daughter. Before marrying, she was an interpreter. Her husband, Robert, doesn’t understand why she wants to go back to work. He’s a shipyard engineer and can provide for everything Does he suspect that Karin is cheating on him with Ulrich, one of his freelance colleagues?

Bernhard has to drop out of university after an altercation with a neo-Nazi. He falls in love with Johanna, the daughter of a building contractor, and travels to Prague with her. Johanna's father pulls the strings in the background to put his future son-in-law on the right track from his point of view…

Daniel accidentally witnesses a man being robbed in the street. After his report to the police doesn't get the attention he had hoped for, he starts looking for an explanation himself and becomes more and more entangled in doubts about his environment and his own actions.

Warning : Purgatory contains images of organs and animal dissections.

A son, in defending Prussia circa 1814 under the thumb of Napoleon, washes away the disgrace of his aristocrat father who had collaborated with the French and caused the deaths of countrymen.

Heinrich George plays Henner who lives with his wife and child on a tugboat, going on the river to Berlin. There he meets the attractive Gescha (Betty Amann), and a story of love, betrayal and sadness ensues.

Inspired by Robert Flaherty's narrative documentaries, the Jewish ethnologist and filmmaker Friedrich Dalsheim made this expedition film with a fiction plot. The villagers of Bedulu on Bali live in peace and harmony. Only witches and demons threaten their happiness by causing trouble and bringing disease to the village. Even Wajan and Sari can only come together after they have overcome the demonic forces.

A young woman takes the train to Berlin. She wants to kill her friend Wolf, a theater actor. When the woman meets him, he tells her about his weird wife.

A surreal-looking episodic film about the freedom of trying out new lifestyles and dropping out of society. Hans, who lives aimlessly into the day, meets the successful guy Ardy and because he suddenly wants to stop doing nothing, he gets left by his girlfriend Petra …