Every Tuesday and Saturday, the colorful country market in the small Swiss town of Vevey takes place. People come from the surrounding area to buy food and crafts and to enjoy themselves as part of a time-honored tradition.

Small town life in Europe at the beginning of the 21st century. This off-beat film tells the story of three young men growing up in the northern part of Finland, a semi-rural area left out of Europe’s economic expansions and caught in a slow and seemingly permanent spiral of decline.

An experimental, coming-of-age story about a young woman’s sense of herself and her sexual identity as a lesbian. Mixing documentary and fiction film techniques, Closer creates a visually captivating and intimate portrait of 17-year-old Annelise and the world she lives in.

Alzheimer’s disease is not usually a laughing matter. But in this remarkable, personal film, director Deborah Hoffmann explores the dementia that came to inflict her own mother with a lighthearted touch that nevertheless goes to the root of the issues associated with the disease.

More than just an unusual family saga, director Even Benestad crafts a sensitive and authentic film about his father, a respected physician and transgender in a small Danish town. Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad is a complex man, both male and female, highly intelligent, a loving father, but one dedicated to his personal path of self-realization regardless of the cost to his family.

In this unique family saga, co-directors Sami Saif and his girlfriend, Phie Ambo-Neilsen, set off to find Sami’s father, who abandoned his family in Denmark when Sami was a young child. When his brother commits suicide and his mother dies, Sami feels compelled to search for the father he never knew.

Battlecentre is a community home in a London suburb operated by the Jesus Army, a group of radical evangelical Christians. Anyone is welcome there: homeless people, drug addicts, even criminals – as long as they accept Christ as their Savior and can fit in to the community way of life.

In the story of Adam and Eve, mankind is banished from Eden and sent into the world, which they must conquer and tame in order to survive. The Bushmen are the aboriginal people of southern Africa, whose origins and way of life date back to the Stone Age.

Filmmaker Claudia von Alemann’s mother, Ludmila, was a Nazi. Now, after reunification, she returns to her home during the war years and tries to explain to her daughter and granddaughter how in the 1930s she embraced Adolf Hitler as the savior of the German nation.

An American couple volunteer to host two mentally disabled teenagers from Japan for a three-month stay. They’re a bit concerned, as they have only had limited experience with the mentally retarded. But Jun and Gen are about to change their lives forever.

A road movie with a twist: The narrator describes his childhood friend, Jerry Davis, who one day just disappeared. He travels America, looking for various people in Jerry’s life, trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together.

Acclaimed avant-garde theater director Pippo Delbono had become apathetic about life. In the words of his mother, he had become “a real bum.” So he sets out to “to look for the bums…in the streets and in the squares and in the madhouses.

In the middle of a nature reserve in the Ojcow National Park outside Krakow, a group of 70 elderly, mentally handicapped men live together in a care center. They share life, waiting for death. The outside world and outside time have stopped for them.

In the 1980s, filmmaker Steve James served as a mentor and “big brother” to Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy from a dysfunctional family. Ten years later, he returns to the small southern Illinois town to get back in touch.

Twenty-one-year-old Daniel lives in Bernau, a small town north of Berlin. He grew up amidst the skinhead culture prevalent in former East Germany. This intimate, moving portrait describes how right-wing radicalism perpetuates in eastern Germany in a cycle of violence, self-hatred, a sense of disenfranchisement, and xenophobia.