En ung amerikansk kvinna följer motvilligt med sin pojkvän till en avlägsen liten by i Sverige för ett traditionellt midsommarfirande, men det blir något helt annat än de någonsin kunnat vänta sig.

I en nation som är svårt splittrad av krig gör Lincoln allt för att stoppa inbördeskriget, förena landet och avskaffa slaveriet. Med stort mod och redo att göra allt som krävs, även bryta mot lagen, vet Lincoln att hans beslut under denna kritiska tid kommer att vara avgörande för kommande generationers liv.

När den 48-åriga änkan Hwei-Lan Gao (Joan Chen) berättar för sin oförstående far att hon är gravid förvisar han henne från Flushing tills hon gifter om sig eller bevisar att det hela gått obefläckat till. Då Hwei-Lan inte har någonstans att ta vägen flyttar hon in hos sin vuxna dotter Wil (Michelle Krusiec), en läkare på Manhattan som inte vill ha någon inneboende, särskilt inte sen hon träffat Viv (Lynn Chen), hennes sexiga älskarinna. Så Wil bestämmer sig för att göra vad vilken dotter som helst med en gravid ogift mamma skulle göra: hon försöker sammanföra Hwei-Lan med alla lämpliga ungkarlar i stan.

I slutet av 1800-talet skickas den unge danske prästen Lucas till en isolerad, avlägsen del av Island för att bygga en kyrka och fotografera de delar av befolkningen som han möter på sin väg. Men ju längre in i det obarmhärtiga och karga isländska landskapet han kommer i sällskap med sin vägvisare, desto mer förlorar han känslan för sin egen verklighet, sitt uppdrag och sina moraliska plikter. När han kommer fram till den lilla bebyggelsen där han ska bo hos den danske handlaren och hans två döttrar så sätts Lucas tro och kyskhet på allvarliga prov.

A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.

While The Rolling Stones rehearse "Sympathy for the Devil" in the studio, an alternating narrative reflects on 1968 society, politics and culture through five different vignettes.

A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.

Lao Yang is head of logistics of the group. He is responsible for the equipment, building materials and food (mainly chickens) to arrive in the isolated Chinese prefab camp. The Congolese government was supposed to deliver these things but so far the team hasn't received anything. With Eddy (a Congolese man who speaks Mandarin fluently) as an intermediate, Lao Yang is forced to leave the camp and deal with local Congolese entrepreneurs, because without the construction materials the road works will cease. What follows is an endless, harsh, but absurdly funny roller coaster of negotiations and misunderstandings, as Lao Yang learns about the Congolese way of making deals.

Ibrahim, a Moroccan soldier, is sent to a deserted island off the Mediterranean coast of Morocco to monitor the movements of smugglers and illegal immigrants. One day, Ibrahim finds a Sub-Saharan man, Mamadou, washed up on the beach. While the unlikely pair tries to survive on the miniscule island, they inadvertently trigger a diplomatic incident that crescendos into a regional military crisis.

British sad sack Gary is a failed entrepreneur who has just arrived in Beijing's stylish Sanlitun district, allegedly to start a business. There are other reasons why he has uprooted himself — he's followed his ex-wife and young son, for one — but he soon finds out that China isn't the easiest place to succeed. Blissfully untouched by self-awareness, and only fitfully in tune with reality, Gary sallies forth to make money, armed with faith in himself and little to no knowledge of Chinese culture. He soon hooks up with Frank, a trust-fund kid from Australia who offers to mentor Gary in Eastern ways, although Frank's pedagogical method is restricted to yelling at Gary for being a Westerner and not being as "Chinese" as him.

A hundred years after the theft from New Zealand of three irreplaceable tribal carvings, two Maori, Rewi and Peter, decide it's time for ancient grievances to be put right. Both men are in Berlin where the carvings are stored in a museum. Plans go awry when a group that Peter has assembled breaks into the museum. Rewi persuades the others to let him put his own, more daring plan into action. Tensions build and international media interest broadens when a sniper's bullet hits Peter.

This short film was created by a group of Indigenous filmmakers at the NFB in 1972 and is essentially a song by Willie Dunn sung by Bob Charlie and illustrated by John Fadden: "Who were the ones who bid you welcome and took you by the hand, inviting you here by our campfires, as brothers we might stand?" The song expresses bitter memories of the past, of trust repaid by treachery, and of friendship debased by exploitation upon the arrival of European colonists.

What happens when a group of international artists travel to North Korea to create art like the regime have never seen before? While the world is on the verge of nuclear war, a group of Western contemporary artists are invited into the eye of the storm. The aim is to collaborate with North Korean artists in a creative exchange project displaying new and challenging art in a country where abstract art is forbidden.

A century ago the Torres Strait Island were the subjects of the famous Cambridge Anthropological Expedition - the resulting depletion of their cultural artifacts left them with nothing but a history of remembered loss. The only people in the Pacific to make elaborate turtleshell masks have none left - they are all in foreign museums. In a quest to reclaim the past, Ephraim Bani, a wise and knowledgeable Torres Strait Islander, travels with his wife to the great museums of Europe where his heritage lies. The film, an SBS Independent production, shows that the thickest of masks cracks when a descendant of the original owners enters a museum.

When a northeastern brazilian worker, Filismino, is forced to move to the big southeastern metropolis of São Paulo, the northeastern grim reaper is forced to go there and kill him.

Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, Vietnamese refugees have built the largest Vietnamese community outside of Vietnam, in Orange County, California. In 1999, "Little Saigon" burst onto the national stage when a store owner displayed a poster of Ho Chi Minh, triggering protests by Vietnamese Americans struggling to reconcile their past demons with their present lives. Saigon, U.S.A. uses this moment to examine this community's changing identity and growing empowerment.

In Estonia a political prisoner leaves the jail, only to discover that his best friend had stolen his girl. In Latvia a Russian soldier has a Latvian girlfriend. Her Latvian friends accept her boyfriend. But other Russian soldiers use coarse violence against them. In Lithuania an old priest had spent 15 years in Siberia and may still be secretly watched by the police.