Ephtim is a 73-year old pensioner currently living in Bulgaria. He is a lifelong communist and still attends socialist party meetings in Sofia with his friends. By following Ephtim on his day-to-day life, from his meager dinner table to the park where he walks his dog, we see how the difficulty of life today makes people in Eastern Europe still reminisce about the good old days.

This film shows life and work on two farms in Zeeland, a province in the Netherlands. Here, some farmers, for different reasons, have chosen to keep on working with horses of the Belgian Underbred race. These huge and heavy horses, with their calm and friendly character, were traditionally used in this region because of the heavy clay. Nowadays, all farmers, except for a small group of stubborn horse-lovers, have switched to the tractor. The film interweaves the story of the farmers with the life cycle of the horses. As the story develops, the specific interest of each separate farmer-breeding, horse-show or work pride-becomes clear.

The Inuit Eskimo are probably one of the most misrepresented people in the world, stereotyped as a peaceful people living in harmony with nature. This misrepresentation has been greatly contributed to by filmmakers in the past 100 years, in films ranging from Peter Elfelt's "Ride with Greenland Sledge Dogs" (1896) to Billie August's "Smilla's Sense for Snow" (1997). This film focuses on the contribution of such films to Greenland's historical development over the past 100 years.

In Nancy's Wedding Center in Chinatown, New York, Nancy Ma and the wedding photographer, Mr. Ma, work to recreate big-screen-like beauty and glamour for the customers in their bridal shop. This documentary short video follows a young Vietnamese couple's visit to the shop's photo studio.

Set in an institution in Prague that comprises a convent, a women's prison, and a nursing home, this film follows the lives of two women, a patient and a prisoner. The film explores what home means to these women, and how they struggle to recreate it on leaving the institution.

The Naxi are a Tibeto-Burmese people inhabiting the northwestern part of Yunnan Province, on the Lijang high plateau. The film follows He Limin, researcher at the Lijang Dongba research center, active Dongba practitioner, and Naxi cultural activist, on his trip to Lijang plateau, where he undertakes to convince the older Dongba priests that his mission to revitalize the old Dongba culture is in keeping with their own pursuits.

This film is about Shi'a Muslim Muharram rites in the Caribbean island-nation of Trinidad. It looks at this visually and aurally stunning occasion through a number of different lenses and will be of interest to anyone who is engaged with the role that performances, religious observances and rituals play in the presentation of 'self' and 'other' in public as well as private settings.

Oyakata features the 63-year old woodcarver, Sakaba Kei, in Arakawa, an old-town quarter in Tokyo. In trying to adapt his traditional profession to modern times, Sakaba finds himself exposed to the contradictions between his open mind and his emotions, which are still strongly tied to tradition.

Set in a fishing village in southern Ghana, this film traces the events following the sudden death, at the age of 45, of Kotey, an electrician for the Ghanaian army. The villagers know that such a death is most likely to be the result of a curse, but the precise cause must be established before the funeral can take place. So the ancestors are consulted, as is the dead man himself in the spirit world. The film concludes with the building of an appropriate coffin, in this case a giant screwdriver.

Each year 30,000 Moroccans cross the Straits of Gibraltar: 14,000 are sent back, 1000 drown; 15,000 manage to set themselves up. Behind these statistics, the filmmaker tries to define the often-wrecked lives of these people.