Fifteen-year-old Lulu (Francesca Neri) has a crush on Pablo (Oscar Ladoire), the best friend of her older brother, and loses her virginity to him. Years later, as an adult, they meet again in Madrid, where Pablo introduces her to a dangerous world of uninhibited desire. Based on the controversial...

How is happiness measured? Can satisfaction with one’s life be rated on a scale from one to ten? The Kingdom of Bhutan’s famous – and highly exoticized – government policy measuring its nation’s Gross National Happiness operates on the idea that the basic tenets of fulfillment can and should be q...

Secondhand bookstore owner Tada (Seto Koji) can’t forget Ikka (Sato Honami), a former colleague at his old job, despite the fact that one of his regular customers, Misaki (Kawai Yumi), persistently asks him to marry her. Meanwhile, Ikka feels overwhelmed by preparations for her wedding to Ryosuke...

Aida (Gresa Pallaska), a tough business woman living in a small Albanian town on the shores of Lake Ohrid, works a lucrative job as city planner until her comfortable life is unexpectedly shattered when her son is accused of sexual assaulting a classmate. Convinced of his innocence, Aida begins h...

One morning, six-year-old Amalka wakes up and hears her family arguing behind closed doors. Something about being unhappy, fairy tales, and doing everything wrong. Upon getting the adults' attention, she is told her grandparents will be taking her on a day trip. After an idyllic afternoon spent a...

Momoko (Noriko Eguchi) is a 41-year-old housewife who has been married to her husband, Mamoru, for eight years. She meticulously maintains their home and devotedly attends to his every needs, but all her care and attention masks the emotional rift that has developed between them. Mamoru has grown...

Luis (Lautaro Murua), an aging Spanish fascist author lives in virtual isolation on the Sitges coast, where he fabricates his memoirs while suffering from a guilty past. Two reporters, his niece Mariana (Victoria Abril) and her friend Elmyr, arrive to interview him for a magazine expose. Caught u...

In the Swiss Alps, seamstress Claudine (Jeanne Balibar) has a risqué arrangement at the local hotel. In exchange for a tip, the concierge provides her with intel on any bachelors visiting for brief stays, whom she then pursues for sexual trysts. After repeat chance encounters with an attractive G...

Transgender sex worker Kristina lives alone in Belgrade with her cats and antiques collection while undergoing non-hypnotic regression sessions. She accidentally meets Marko, a former theology student, and despite their different backgrounds, the two begin a relationship. In her search for antiqu...

Nikos (Dimitris Imellos) is the last hope for his father’s tailor shop that makes custom men’s suits. Long in arrears with payments to their lender, the bank informs them that they must foreclose on their assets. Making matters worse, Nikos' father suddenly falls ill, leaving him all alone to fig...

On the brink of the First World War, fifteen-year-old Anka is sent from her Slovakian village to work as a maid in a wealthy Prague household. Once there, the insecure newcomer is charged with looking after Resi, the family’s difficult daughter, enduring episode after episode of cruelty and humil...

In 1950s Madrid, Paco is engaged to Trini, an innocent young woman who has amassed considerable savings for her marriage. While in search of a job, Paco rents a room from Luisa (Victoria Abril), a worldly and seductive widow who eventually convinces him to kill Trini and steal her money. But can ...

A writer summons four actresses to rehearse her play in the country. Over the course of a week, the girls begin to measure each other through the material. As the creative process gains momentum, they share their yearnings and personal stories. Soon a summer story unfolds about princesses, horses...

Begoña (Laura Morante) is a thirty-something successful executive by day who is consumed by torrid passion and insatiable desires every night. Encouraged by her therapist, she begins to keep a video diary of her promiscuous encounters using a palm-sized videocassette recorder, but her reckless ob...

Turin, 1938. Seventeen-year-old Ginia (Yile Yara Vianello) leaves the countryside with her brother in search of a new life in the city. Though Turin lies in the shadow of a rising fascist government and her brother yearns to return home, Ginia is optimistic about the future. In a short time, she ...

Bored in her marriage, Desideria (Ana Belén) meets and falls in love with Yaman (Georges Corraface), a handsome Turkish tour guide, while on holiday in Istanbul. Fueled by a passion she has never felt before, Desideria leaves her husband and plunges herself into an obsessive affair with Yaman, wh...

In a small, sleepy village in the Basque Country, a sculptor named Ane and her three children arrive at her mother Lita's home for summer vacation where they are surrounded by extended family and nosy neighbors. Ane and her mother's relationship is strained – Lita disapproves of her daughter's fr...