An aging beauty queen reluctantly escorts her daughter and friends back to Paris, Texas — her home, which she mysteriously fled a decade earlier — to oversee a beauty pageant in this campy road dramedy.
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Felipa, a first-generation American girl, dreams of becoming a teacher. Her first pupil is her uncle, who she tutors in English so he can get a driver’s license and a better job.
Big Joe is a lineman for the telephone company. Angel is a teenage migrant worker. They form an unlikely alliance and start a rose-growing business. At first wary of each other, they grow to trust and like one another. Eventually, Angel must leave the area when his father relocates the family in search of migrant work.
The elderly Veronika who lives alone has two resolves. The first is to collect sufficient money through her own labour, to be able to visit her only living relative, her son, in London. The second is to start cultivating her long-neglected vineyard. The lady, who has suffered greatly over the years, works with stubborn will and quiet serenity to achieve the goals she has set herself. Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay’s lyrical, documentary-style film received numerous awards at international film festivals.
In Istanbul, the Kurdish immigrants are constantly hassled by the cops. Mehmet is arrested for something he hasn’t done and beaten up in prison. Later, his new friend, Berzan, who scrapes a living selling music tapes from a barrow, is killed in police custody. Mehmet is determined to take Berzan’s body back to his village in the south. That is the coffin bit, which becomes a genuine adventure. A silent cry for freedom and peace, a movie that expresses the wish of people living peacefully together.
Released from jail on serious health issues after being sentenced 10 years earlier as a university student activist, Yusuf returns to his village in the eastern Black Sea region. In the modest house tucked in the beautiful mountains, he reunites with his longing elderly mother. She lovingly takes care of him while he spends idle days resting and occasionally meeting his childhood friend Mikail in the village. One day Yusuf meets Eka, a beautiful young Georgian prostitute. With time and circumstances against them, the two misfits desperately try to connect.
Eleven directors from 11 countries each contribute an 11-minute short reflecting on the events of 11 September 2001: A village teacher in Iran tries to explain to her young students what’s happened; city kids in Burkina Faso think they’ve spotted Osama bin Laden; a deaf Frenchwoman in Manhattan writes a Dear John letter to a man who left that morning for work at the World Trade Center; a Chilean remembers Allende; events recall other deaths; a mother endures more than her son’s death. The tones vary, as do the locales. Most stories are about others coming to terms with the events of the day, but at least one confronts the viewer with tragedy and death.