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- Time Stranger is the story of a bunch of teenagers getting transported back in time through Japan's history, and getting mixed up with samurai shenanigans.
- Summer 1996. A small town nestled in the shadow of a gigantic factory. Ben, a shy eleven year old boy, lives there alone with his mom when she leaves him to strike. The coming of the troubling Eva in his bunch disturbs him a little bit more, especially when she mentions the legend of a mysterious creature hidden under a nearby lake's pontoon. As a game, Eva challenges Ben: walk through the "pontoon of the death", and come back. But Ben fails miserably. At night, the Creature appears to him.
- Nowadays, in Tristan da Cunha. 270 people live on this small island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Nick and Anne, two teenagers, have known each other since their birth, and are lovers since childhood. But Anne's just made up her mind: she's going to study in England, 6152 miles away from Tristan.
- It's the last day of the family's vacations. What could go wrong?
- An old man is lonely after the death of his wife. To fight his boredom, he spends his days making puzzles. The living room walls display dozens of puzzles carefully assembled over his monotonous days. Then one day the old man finds a mysterious box at his doorstep. Inside the box are puzzle pieces. Driven by the desire to discover what it represents, the old man commences to assemble the puzzle. While doing so, strange and uncanny events begin to occur around him.
- When the ambassadorial spaceship Tiger Shark crashes on the hostile Spidertron Planetoid, its surviving crew must do everything they can to keep from getting killed while preserving a universe-shattering secret.
- In the darkness of their living room Guillaume and Caroline are fighting for their common goods, splitting them with a dice game.
- A number of children are playing in the woods, when a dog makes his way up to them with a splinter in his foot. One of the children withdraws this and bandages the foot with a handkerchief, whereupon the dog returns to his master, a peddler. Seeking the hiding place of a squirrel the oldest of the three children falls from a tree and lies there unconscious. The shades of night are gathering fast and the other children are making every effort to locate their brother, but in vain, and with heavy hearts and tear-dimmed eyes they return to the anxious mother and relate their experiences. The neighborhood is all agitation in a few moments and all join in search of the missing lad. A peddler happening along seeks the cause of the excitement and offers his dog as assistance. The other little ones recognize the dog and, showing the animal the handkerchief, the dog is off in quest of the one who served him so kindly. All follow into the woods and, with lighted torches, they seek the lad. The dog, however, is the successful one, and soon leads the anxious father to his son. Returning home with the lad all are overjoyed, and the father wishes to reward the peddler, but he accepts nothing, as he maintains that the obligation rests upon him for the kindness of the boy towards the dog.
- The director, Zaradasht Ahmed (1968), turns into a character in the film. His background and, not least, his inquisitiveness and fascination guide us as we enter this world of his. He himself has made the journey into Europe, albeit for separate and possibly more serious reasons than our other characters, but he has no trouble comprehending their motive power. Zaradasht fled from the First Gulf War; he had just graduated from the Kirkuk Institute of Technology in Northern Iraq. He wandered through the minefields in the Kurdish part of Iraq, and eventually reached Syria and later Lebanon. After five years on the run, he arrived in Norway in 1995 as a quota refugee. He still lives here, he has passed 40, and feels he has to move on. Life in Norway is safe and comfortable, but something is lacking. Fata Morgana lies to the south, beyond Gibraltar. Here he meets someone who reminds him of the dream he had as a young man.
- Hakan is a young Turk who works as a construction painter in France with his father Mustafa. When his future is read out to him in coffee grounds, he decides to make some difficult decisions. Mustafa will have to face the choices of his son for the first time.
- Crowned with single blessedness and old age, the occupant of a room in a tenement house has his rest disturbed by a number of college students occupying the room above. He raps on the ceiling and, securing little satisfaction, he remonstrates with the agent of the building, whom he awakens from his sleep. This dignitary promises to serve notice to move and departs on his mission. However, invited to a social cup, he joins in the hilarities. His spouse seeking the cause of the disturbance is also invited to join. The irate old bachelor, beside himself with rage, now makes investigation on his own account, and is served with a notice to move.
- A magician presents a circular piece of paper from which he removes the flags of the allies. Then from each flag he produces a soldier from the respective country, and finally he produces a Chinaman. But hardly have the allies seen the latter than they pounce on him and try to cut him into pieces. The funniest part of our story is that the Chinaman escapes in a balloon, with an expression of childish innocence on his face as the allies try to cut him up.