45th Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear and Silver Bear competitors (1995)

Three teenagers plan to steal the necessary funds to open their dream shop in the US, but things get messy.

A New York philosophy grad student turns into a vampire after getting bitten by one, and then tries to come to terms with her new lifestyle and frequent craving for human blood.

A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.

Eunice is walking along the highways of northern England from one filling station to another. She is searching for Judith, the woman, she says to be in love with. It's bad luck for the women at the cash desk not to be Judith, because Eunice is eccentric, angry and extreme dangerous. One day she meets Miriam, hard of hearing and a little ingenuous, who feels sympathy for Eunice and takes her home. Miriam is very impressed by Eunice's fierceness and willfulness and follows her on the search for Judith. Shocked by Eunice's cruelty she tries to make her a better person, but she looses ground herself.

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.

Lorenzo, a milanese astrophysicist, has recently inherited a country house in Sicily and has it restored by Salvatore, an introverted carpenter. Salvatore starts his job with the help of his handicapped son. Since work seems to be very slow Lorenzo goes and checks on them and finds out that Salvatore has turned the house into a therapeutic community for troubled people. At first he's very angry but then his good heart prevails.

The lives of men and women living on Callejón de los Milagros in Mexico City.

An air-hostess is pregnant but she does not know the name of the father, a foreigner. When the baby is born, she gives it to her sister that has already two children. The child grows up as another member of the family. Although the adults keep the secret, the children know that he is different.

About Neo-Nazis and the Holocaust. A non-story divided into three parts. The first introduces Hades, an eccentric half-Jewish coffin maker. The second depicts scenes from a Jewish ghetto. In the third, Hades is buried at sea.

Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end up with her. To maintain his reputation, he marries an antiseptic, frigid but classy lady of a prim and proper background (White rose). Dissonance abound when he finds his bride irritating.

The film charts the fortunes of two women who loved each other as sisters, but whose paths diverge when the Revolution brings an end to their old way of life in the brothel.

A stubborn man past his prime reflects on his life of strict independence and seeks more from himself.

While on his honeymoon, a man sees a judge who sentenced him to seven years in jail and begins plotting his revenge.

A Westernized teenager struggles to come to terms with the white magic practiced by members of her family.

An autistic boy witnesses his parents' double murder. A controversial therapist seeks to probe the child's mind in order to solve the case.

A Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of neighborhood activity, and the stories of its customers.

Based on the great river story, (Taebaegsanmaek) The Taebaek Mountains chronicles the lasting generational conflict between proprietors and peasants in South Korea.

The young teenager Otto is entering the summer holidays in 60s Oslo, without getting a real holiday, and he is not accepted in the gang or the football team. But then he meets exciting mysterious Frank, which changes everything.

The myth of the sunken city of Atlantis is the focus of an imaginary journey through the mind of the renowned professor Neuffer. He finds himself rapt in a vision which occurs as the autumn mists descend upon the Allgaeu mountains: the mystical island of Atlantis never sunk at all, on the contrary, the sinking of the world's oceans has meant that the island is now where nobody ever imagined it could be-on the "roof of the world"-in the Himalayas. Neuffer and Nele, a young woman, set off to Tibet in search of the land of dreams...

The Blue Villa is a seedy bordello on a Mediterranean island where the villages are frightened by the ghost-like return of a young man, who mysteriously disappeared after the killing of a young Eurasian woman.

An uptight and conservative woman, working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university, finds herself strangely attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman who works at a local carnival that comes to town.

The Suns are a typical Hong Kong family: May, forty something, works for a trading company; her husband, Bing, works as a low-grade civil servant, and Allen, their teenage son, is still at school. Trouble strikes one day when Bing's mother dies of a stroke, leaving her husband old Mr. Sun. Alzheimer's Disease is diagnosed. From that day on, the family's daily life is thrown into a poignant. Old Mr. Sun develops a tendency to wander off and get lost, he wakes up yelling in the middle of the night plus he is rude and disobliging ... all this, along with May's already full schedule as wife, mother and employee, drives her close to the edge of her endurance. The very last thing they all wanted has to happen: old Mr. Sun has to go into a Nursing Home. But it does not turn out quite like they expected...