Boy es un sordomudo con una imaginación vibrante. Cuando su familia es asesinada, Boy escapa a la jungla y es entrenado por un chamán misterioso para reprimir su imaginación infantil y convertirse en un instrumento mortal.
A snack bar owner smokes with his Muslim neighbor in the stairwell of their apartment building at night. Her husband is his good friend. They draw closer to one another as the nights go on and look out over the city to the dark satellites, the brutalist concrete buildings on the outskirts of the city - relics of the GDR past. A security guard watches over Objekt 95, a satellite town with a residential complex which many foreigners call home. While on patrol at night, he gets to know a young Ukrainian woman who fled her home country when the war broke out. He wants to protect her, while his friend, the “old security guard”, radios to him from an abandoned Russian barrack night after night. A woman from the train cleaning service drinks in a train station bar after her night shift. There, she meets a hairdresser. The two of them become friends and spend many nights together in the station. Every night, her desire grows even greater for this woman who is exactly as lonely as she is.
Tim Walker, de 17 años, viaja de Londres a los Alpes austriacos para asistir al legendario internado de Mozart. Allí, descubre un pasaje olvidado de siglos de antigüedad hacia el mundo fantástico de "La flauta mágica" de Mozart.
Christian es nuevo en el supermercado. Se adentra en este universo desconocido con la ayuda de su compañero Bruno, que le enseña todos los trucos de la profesión y se convierte en su amigo. En poco tiempo se enamora de Marion, que trabaja en el departamento de dulces y siempre bromea con él. Pero Marion está casada, aunque no es feliz en su matrimonio.
Un excampeón de boxeo de la Alemania del Este se ve forzado a trabajar haciendo encargos para un recolector de deudas. Pero su vida cambia cuando le es diagnosticada una enfermedad terminal.
To save his deathly ill dog, the unemployed Rolf bets the little money that he has on a horse and hopes for the best. Sometimes even outsiders get a chance.
At an elite private Border School four students form a clique to sneak out of school after hours to meet, drink and play. By trying to escape the golden cage which their wealthy parents have stuck them in, they search for the Extreme. In the course of time their excessive games grow more and more violent and soon they turn against the weakest of the group.
A man is haunted successively by seven women who have lost their keys. He reacts to the request that he be allowed to use the toilet with increasing helplessness and despair, which is discharged in violence.
