Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

1979 film directed by Volker Schlöndorff

Val is 23 years old and full of dreams. She travels to New York to become an actress. She is lonely in a strange country, in a strange city, with little money and no friends. In her path, she meets weird people who they, also, seek their dreams but everyday life gets in the way. Tired and hungry she sits on the corner of a building. Across the street a writer whose fantasy has dry out. In an instant she becomes his muse... At the Oscar's night she will be the one with the Golden Globe in her hands.

在一户普通人家的院子里，某天地下长出一个圆滚滚的粉红色小球。随着时间的推移，小球变得越来越大，最终他破土而出，长成椭圆形的大个子，孩子们为他起名叫“巴巴爸爸”。巴巴爸爸乐观善良，他柔软的身体可以随心所欲变换任何形状。不久，他遇见通体黑色、美丽动人的巴巴妈妈，两人结婚生下 了七个颜色各异、性格不同的孩子，分别是巴巴拉拉，巴巴利波，巴巴祖，巴巴伯，巴巴贝尔，巴巴布莱特和巴巴布拉伯。巴巴一家和人类们和谐相处，过着充满快乐和惊奇的生活……
本片是法国一部著名的连环画，首创于1970年，后由联邦德国引进并改编成每集5分钟共45集的系列动画片。

1957 film by Ernst Marischka

In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in their 90s) to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native city of Havana. The result is a spectacular compilation of concert footage from the group's gigs in Amsterdam and New York City's famed Carnegie Hall, with director Wim Wenders capturing not only the music -- but also the musicians' life stories.

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. Fifteen celebrated film-makers were invited to create their own vision of what time means in ten minutes of film.

Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and overall confusion; and an old man reminiscing over his youth.

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

2003 film directed by Wolfgang Becker

Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.