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- A family vacationing in the French Alps is confronted with a devastating avalanche.
- A hotel owner and landlord in a remote Turkish village deals with conflicts within his family and a tenant behind on his rent.
- Fernando, a solitary ornithologist, is looking for black storks when he is swept away by the rapids. Rescued by a couple of Chinese pilgrims, he plunges into an eerie and dark forest, trying to get back on his track.
- A troubled family must face the facts when something goes terribly wrong at their son's desolate military post.
- A documentary about two different searches conducted in the Chilean Atacama Desert: one by astronomers looking for answers about the history of the cosmos, and one by women looking for the remains of loved ones killed by Pinochet's regime.
- In April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from West to East is a game. His mother wants to leave; his father refuses. Tarek spends time with May, a Christian, orphaned and living in his building. By accident, Tarek goes to an infamous brothel in the war-torn Olive Quarter, meeting its legendary madam, Oum Walid. He then takes Omar and May there using her underwear as a white flag for safe passage. Family tensions rise. As he comes of age, the war moves inexorably from adventure to tragedy.
- In this war drama blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the working class and the bourgeoisie of 19th century Paris are interviewed and covered on television, before and during a tragic workers' class revolt.
- A young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.
- Strangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away.
- Umber Singh is a Sikh who loses everything during the separation of India in 1947 and is forced to leave his homeland. He obsessively wishes for a male heir. When his fourth daughter is born, he decides to wage a fight against destiny.
- Before the 1990s P.R.China criminalized the LGBT population. Without family law and marriage law for the LGBT couples, many had to secretly encounter for sexual activities with the risk of police arrests.
- A few months before the revolution in Tunisia, 18 year-old Farah has a passion for life and sings in a political rock band. Her mother, knowing the dangers of Tunisia, wants her to pursue a career as a doctor.
- A unique documentary on the notorious S-21 prison, today the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with testimony by the only surviving prisoners and former Khmer Rouge guards.
- Costi is a family man whose cash-strapped neighbor makes him an intriguing proposition: help him find the fortune reportedly buried somewhere on the grounds of his family's country home in Romania and split the profits.
- The unborn child of Mamlakat (Khamatova) is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother (Bleibtreu) in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a traveling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and makes her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.
- A lonely private investigator is contacted by a mysterious woman who pulls him into a mind game known as 'telephone walking'. Fascinated by her voice, Aloys discovers an imaginary universe that allows him to break out of his isolation.
- Based upon unpublished diaries, the film assumes the role of an anthropologist observing remote shepherd communities in Afghanistan where wolves and sheep have equal importance.
- Itzhak Rabin's murder ended all efforts of peace, and with him the whole left wing of Israel died. The movie shows the last of his days as prime minister, and what led to his murder.
- Lina, a young girl in war-torn Beirut, finds an ally and friend in Sihan, her domineering aunt's maid. Sihan shows Lina what her life could be like, but tests the girl's limits when she asks her to help plot her escape from the city.
- Ten-year-old Nori (Val Maloku) and his father Gezim (Astrit Kabashi) roam the streets of Kosovo selling cigarettes and barely earning a living. Only a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gezim is lured west to Germany, leaving his son behind in search of a new life. Feeling deserted and desperate to claim some sense of stability, Nori embarks on a dangerous journey to Germany in search of his father. His tenacity, resilience, and sheer grit must be enough to guide him.
- The gulf between men and women in Tunisia, political, psychological, and physical, is explored in this downbeat drama. A woman and her two daughters return to the female community on the island of Djerba from Tunis, where her husband works.
- In West Africa during the late 17th century, King Adanggaman leads a war against his neighboring tribes, ordering his soldiers to torch enemy villages, kill the elderly and capture the healthy tribesmen to sell to the European slave traders. When his village falls prey to one of Adanggaman's attacks, Ossei manages to escape, but his family is murdered except for his captured mother. Chasing after the soldiers in an effort to free her, Ossei is befriended by a fierce warrior named Naka.
- Siblings Rahima and Nedim are the Bosnian war orphans. She works as a restaurant chef and earns just enough money to survive.
- Manena goes on vacation with her father, Francisco, to a part of southern Chile. She discovers that her father's obsession with catching all the carp in his artificial lagoon is making the local Mapuche tribe angry, so she has to stop him.
- Inspired by the book of Genesis, this film tells the power struggle between two families: a clan of herders led by Jacob and another clan of hunters fronted by his brother Esau.
- This collection brings together short reports, from about 6 to 13 minutes in length, on every aspect of France's regional, cultural and artistic life during the 60s and 70s, offering other nations a comprehensive outline of French society.
- A female cabaret artist has to leave Berlin, Germany, after an incident with the Nazis. Back in her motherland Mexico she tries and succeeds in remaking her career.
- A simple game, no rules, a game in which nobody is safe.
- Once upon a time there were twelve children who were born the same day in the village of Timgad in Algeria, eleven boys and a girl, Naïma, the grocer's daughter. Over a decade later, they were all in the same class under the iron rule of Mokhtar, the secular schoolmaster. They also all played in the village soccer team founded by - Mokhtar. All, except Naïma, although she was itching to. But the families were poor and without decent shoes and worse, without a competent coach, the kids lost most of their games, particularly against Batna, their main rival. One day, Jamel, a young French-Algerian archaeologist from Marseilles, landed in the remote village. And he was not that bad at soccer.
- Two soldiers who guard a building in Paris. An abandoned suitcase, curious passers-by, an open window and a mad homeless allow to step up the situation. The border between everyday life and real danger blurs.
- A poor Beninoise corn farmer wanting to break out of his deep misery buys a shaky Peugeot 504 and tries his hand at being a bush cabdriver.
- Set in ancient city of Fez, a working class mother, abandoned by her husband who has emigrated to Europe, tells three tales to her just-circumcised ten-year-old son.
- A video compilation of eight groundbreaking documentaries selected in the biggest French festivals of 2006, dedicated to institutional distribution abroad by the Institut Français and the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères.
- In the northeast of contemporary Morocco, Zeinab, a young wife watches her husband leave the country to go underground the day after their wedding. Zeinab is expecting a child. While she is waiting for her husband to return she lulls the foetus to sleep. Time goes by and the husband does not come back.
- A riveting drama taking place in war-torn Angola.
- A collection of 1-minute animated short films about the most famous art pieces in the collection of Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, in Paris, re-imagined in 3-D as they playfully come to life on their own.
- One year, 12 months, 12 filmmakers who are filming Paris in an unusual way: "their" Paris before a symbolic date, the night of 12/31/99 to 01/01/00. They are turning one by one the pages of their own Parisian calendar of the year 1999.
- The film covers the preparation of one of the last exhibitions by French visual artist and co-founder of The New Realists (Nouveau Réalisme) art movement in the 60s, Raymond Hains, at the Serralves Foundation in Porto, Portugal, in 2001.
- Half-knight in a shining armor, half-shrimp, Virtus explores a labyrinth, which is a metaphorical stand-in for cyberspace. He whisks like the wind through a maze of tunnels, encountering chimeras and mysterious fighters on his way.
- Diatiguiya is a word for a peculiar tradition which today in Mali rhymes with the 2002 Soccer Africa Cup of Nations (CAN), and means Malian hospitality. The film covers how Malians welcome all the CAN participating teams and visitors.