- After a year of drought, Nicolas prepares for "The tiger's fights" a prehispanic ritual where the village men fight to imitate thunder and foster the rain, hope of a good harvest. Inspired by one of the last surviving blood rituals in Mexico, "The Tiger's Fight" tells the story of Nicolas, a young m…
- Corinna Kleist is a juvenile court judge who, after a leave of absence following the suicide of a convicted teenager, is appointed to a 'problem area' in Berlin. She now tries harder than ever to change the system in order to prevent troubled kids from being turned into vicious criminals. In the case of 14-year-old Raf…
- Niki and his friends are members of the marginalised underclass living on the outskirts of Santiago. During Chile's transition from dictatorship to democracy (1988-1990), they forge a path from drug- and drink-fuelled nihilism and petty crime into the world of market-driven illegality and Niki begins a seemingly predes…
- (1) A jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch. (2) A young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan. (3) Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for - casting spells. (4) The discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctan…