A Quintet

This popular international series continues with this third volume of five short films focusing on men, including Vanilla, Lightrapping, Polaroid, Five Minutes A Day, and My Brother.

New anti-gay laws have just been approved in Russia. After a competition in St. Petersburg, Italian swimmer Massimo meets a Russian of his own age, Vladimir, working as an interpreter for the delegation of which Massimo is a member. The two men fall in love, but they will have to face the cultural barriers between them, as well as old and new macho stereotypes.

Because artificial insemination in Italy is restricted to married straight couples, Chiara must travel to Holland to be inseminated, and she can’t risk losing their only chance to become mothers. Will she be able to handle the physical and emotional burdens of both her secret and her pregnancy?

Giuseppe, 33, is still struggling to build his life in a small Italian town where he has to hide his homosexuality. With a Polaroid in hand, he decides to leave for Berlin to find Peter, a summer love he has never forgotten. The shock of a cosmopolitan city is nothing compared to the moment he realizes that the German artist has a "normal" family. For him this represents the possibility of 'losing' himself and meeting Marco, who takes him around all night to arrive at dawn to the conviction that love is the only strength to find one's identity. "Polaroid" is one of five short film segments in an omnibus feature titled "A Quintet".

The culture clash between two women create an obsession full of tension from the first moment. Emina struggle to hide a dark secret to her roommate, Antonia. The life she left behind in Bosnia follows Emina in Rome, forcing her to recall a violent past. Antonia out at night, she misses her young girlfriend in New York, and it seems collecting foreign friends in great need of help.

Six people. Six countries. Experience at eye level one of their days from sunrise to sunset and be put in their chair.

When thirteen-year-old Raul is asked to entertain the local landowner's son, a game of power and pride starts between the two boys.

A drama set in a small rural town in Lebanon about Yvette who is past 30, unmarried, devoutly religious and still living with her parents. Today, she is preparing to go to a retreat. It's a dream come true for her. However, as the bus approaches, a fight breaks out between her parents. She tries to intercede, but her father's rage is overwhelming. Is she able to calm her father and go to the trip? How far would you go to protect your mother?

Lucia is pregnant and wants to find the right moment to tell her longtime boyfriend Santiago. The party they attend seems the ideal moment and indeed the night is festive and fun until... her life plans change forever.

Worlds collide in more ways than one in this stunning collection of award winning short films. Confidence is violated, classes clash and desire is concealed, yet love still triumphs regardless of the consequences.

When a stubborn old man and a fretful teenaged girl are forced to share a hospital room, an unexpected friendship forms over their hatred of fake cheerfulness and bad hospital food.

On a weekend night in Sarajevo, a half unconscious German tourist meets a Bosnian young man through an unlikely series of events. Their new friendship is tested through a fight, a call to ambulance and accusation of thievery.

Fisnik is about to embark on a absurd journey in creating a fake weeding video, to get the German visa. He has to succeed in convincing his family, friends, and his ex to join him in this crazy journey.

After the death of her father, Leyla decides to go after her family in Istanbul, looking for the answer he himself never got. A talkative taxi driver helps her, as they also share a quiet moment.

An apartment, a man, a compulsive mission. Bruno, a silent Gangster, tries to rob an apartment. He is in search of the key for the Strongbox, but what he doesn’t expect is that a video on the internet would distract him so much. In order to satisfy his own neurosis, he has now a lot more to do in the place that his was planning to.