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While investigating an attack on an astronomer in the mountains of Nagano, police commissioner Kansuke is struck in the left eye by a bullet and triggers an avalanche. Ten months later, Kansuke, who miraculously survived the avalanche, receives news that another researcher has been attacked at an observatory.

Matador Andrés Roca Rey is considered a star among bullfighters. Accompanied by his toreros, the matador travels from one Spanish arena to the next. Albert Serra documents the controversial spectacle with sober, haunting images, showing only the commentary-filled transfers of the cudrillas in the minibus, the elaborate dressing and undressing of the matador in his hotel rooms, and the corridas in all their bloody ambivalence.

Over the past 80 years, the population of Switzerland's Alpine valleys has experienced major changes: from small fields, large vegetable gardens, large families, a few animals and hard work on steep slopes to the post-World War II boom, which ultimately made everyday life easier for everyone. Older people talk about their experiences in the 1940s and 1950s. What their everyday life was like. How their families and God influenced them. How hard the work and winters were, and how people got to know each other.

A space princess is thrust out of her sheltered life and into a galactic quest to save her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from the Straight White Maliens.

A father and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They’re searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again. Hope is fading but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. As they venture deeper into the burning wilderness, the journey forces them to confront their own limits.

In the year 2000, Nevenka Fernández, 24 years old, Councilor for Finance in the Ponferrada City Council, suffered relentless persecution, both sentimental and professional, by the mayor, a man accustomed to doing his will politically and personally. She never decides to report, although she knows that she will have to pay a very high price: her environment does not support her, the society of Ponferrada turns its back on her and the media subjects her to a public trial. A story inspired by real events that turns its protagonist into a pioneer by taking an influential and popular politician to court for sexual and workplace harassment for the first time.

Sam is a secret agent whose toughest mission to date is pleasing her bride-to-be best friend at a lavish destination wedding. When a team of mercenaries crashes the party and takes the guests hostage, Sam is thrown into a fight unlike any before — one where she can’t risk blowing her cover or ruining the big day. As she takes on the bad guys in a high-stakes battle disguised as a fairy-tale affair, she realizes the real threat might be closer than she thinks.

Michelle, a doting grandmother, lives in peaceful retirement in a small village in Burgundy, not far from her best friend Marie-Claude. On All Saints' Day, her daughter Valérie comes to visit her and drop off her son Lucas for the week's vacation. But nothing goes according to plan.

Hank Thompson was a high-school baseball phenom who can’t play anymore, but everything else is going okay. He’s got a great girl, tends bar at a New York dive, and his favorite team is making an underdog run at the pennant. When his punk-rock neighbor Russ asks him to take care of his cat for a few days, Hank suddenly finds himself caught in the middle of a motley crew of threatening gangsters. They all want a piece of him; the problem is he has no idea why. As Hank attempts to evade their ever-tightening grip, he’s got to use all his hustle to stay alive long enough to find out…

The now-reformed Bad Guys are trying (very, very hard) to be good, but instead find themselves hijacked into a high-stakes, globe-trotting heist, masterminded by a new team of criminals they never saw coming: The Bad Girls.

The British couple Rose lead a picture-perfect life in California: he is a star architect, she is a former Michelin-starred chef and devoted family woman in the kitchen. The tables turn when his prestigious building collapses and her modest restaurant becomes a huge success. A British-style marital war ensues, which the Roses' American friends watch with their mouths agape.

Swiss director Hercli Bundi invites us on a journey into the fragile universe of money and reveals the ambivalent power of money in his film. Money that we lack seduces us, makes dreams come true or shatters them. A film that revolves around the eternal question: Do we serve money or does it serve us? And how does it actually work?