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A struggling comprehensive gets a makeover courtesy of the private sector.

Four short films in different genres from the most consistent group of independent filmmakers in Bulgaria.

On a very hot evening in Buenos Aires, Soledad returns home after visiting her boyfriend. In the deserted streets, she crosses paths with a Ford Falcon and two ambulances - a public one and a private one. The film explores the paradox between cyclic and linear time.

Two middle-aged brothers have been planning a trip to America. When David finds out that Ezra has a girlfriend, he becomes jealous and withdrawn.

The tale of a grumpy badger who just wants the world to let him sleep.

After their deportation from Germany, a group of teenagers of Roma descent suddenly has to integrate into life in the Serbian capital of Belgrade, a city they actually only know from TV. They do not speak the language and, being gypsies, they are often discriminated against. They find release and new friends in the break dance scene. There, it does not matter who you are, as long as you can make the right moves. In this student film from the Potsdam Film School, three friends candidly tell about their lives in Germany, where they spent most of their childhood, and their day-to-day lives in Belgrade.

On a rainy night a battered taxi drifts through the streets of Berlin. Iona, a Russian immigrant, is behind the wheel. His son Sasha had financed the family by driving the taxi until his sudden death. Now Iona tries his best as a blundering taxi driver. But what he really wants is to find someone to talk to about his son's death.

A look inside the world of die hard motorcyclists.

You use to have to make an effort to overhear other people's intimate conversations. Now you have to make an effort not to. The Intimacy of Strangers is a story of life, love, loss and hope - entirely constructed out of real, overheard mobile phone conversations

Dakar, Senegal. Ousmane, a 7 year old child, begs in the streets. He decides to write a letter to Santa Claus.