Acting
In contemporary Mannheim, Branko and Merab, two hapless hitmen, are assigned to kill a businessman for unknown reasons. Although the unsuspecting businessman offers them plenty of opportunities to kill him, the two men are prevented from carrying out their mission by the most absurd coincidences, even after taking on a new helper by the name of Carlos.
Amy and Sophie, two young American foreign aid workers, are hiking through the mysterious Caucasus Mountains. Lost, they stumble upon a place that doesn't exist on any map, and is completely cut off from the rest of the world. No telephones, no roads, just the dark, looming, ominous mountains. In this archaic world one man strikes fear into the hearts of all. The Breeder kidnaps young women stained by sin, fallen angels such as Sophie. Provoked by her naked swim in a lake, he violently abducts Sophie and takes her to his breeding station, a secret former Soviet laboratory.
Sonja, an attractive blonde, picks up a man with a foreign accent in a bar. He quotes the Persian poet Hafiz to her and tells her he's a writer working on an erotic story about a man and woman who meet in a bar. She invites him to go home with her for the next part of the story - and everything goes wrong.
Frank Hennings loses his wife and daughter in a bomb attack in the middle of Berlin. In his grief, the retired civil servant focuses on just one goal: revenge. When the investigation is closed prematurely, he travels to Morocco on his own initiative and follows in the footsteps of Sharif Nader, the suspected mastermind of the attack. In order to get close to Nader unhindered, he applies for a job as a private tutor for his 13-year-old daughter Yasmin using forged papers. While Hennings teaches the girl in a heavily guarded house, he waits for a favorable opportunity to shoot her father.
On the flat island of Texel, Marie is a girl who has a vivid imagination who dreams about mountains. She feels oppressed by the strict religious island community and its narrow-minded way of life. Being the only girl in a big and poor family during wartime, she doesn't have much of a choice than to marry Paul, the beachcomber’s son. From the moment a regiment of Georgians are stationed on the island, Marie’s life changes and flourishes. With their film, music, and especially with their inventive, unusual survival strategies and entirely different life style, this isolated group of outsiders and in particular the young soldier Goga opens a new way for Marie. Through them, she realizes all her dreams without fear.
Giorgi, a Georgian unemployed actor and tragic looser is suddenly confronted with the arrival of his 15-year old daughter Tina whom he hasn't seen for 10 years. Together with his black lover-to-rent room mate Ngudu and the wooden-legged soap opera actress Mia he desperately tries to show Tina a fake life of a rich man who's got everything, including a big car and a villa. But things go wrong and his daughter isn't that stupid. So soon she starts enjoying the pure chaos around her until all secrets are revealed.
