Love Stories from Fukuoka 17

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Across the country, an engaged woman becomes convinced that they belong together, despite their never having met. Will their paths collide despite the odds?

A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

Clara (Karin Viard) is a stripper with a high-strung, jealous boyfriend with the curious name of Loockeed (Antoine Chappey). The couple are friends with the even-temperred, almost saintly Max (Gerald Laroche), an auto mechanic. The three of them set out from their home in the north to journey to the Alpine mountains near Switzerland and Italy, where they will help a fourth friend take care of his pleasure boat business at Lake Annecy while he is in military service. As the trio attempt to establish some sort of equilibrium in their new lives, Max must constantly deal with Loockeed's testy, jealous barbs. Despite this, the three of them remain friends.

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The film tells the story of pure small nurse Ye Xiaotong found that migrant workers boyfriend Fang Qiang derailed to break up.

A corporate worker's impulsive decision to leave her desk job leads to a transformative solo adventure, where strangers become friends and comfort zones fade into distant memories.

After four women discover they were all duped by the same seemingly ideal man, they unite into a secret, highly strategic team dedicated to exposing his lies and executing a master plan of revenge.

A couple registering for marriage at the local Religious Council office is shocked when the officer informs them that the bride's parents are not listed as lawfully wedded couples.

A lyrical fourfold perspective on WWII through the eyes of a young partisan couple, a town photographer and a German officer.

Salem and Lubna, two lovers trying to have a normal time together inside of Cairo, but most of the time Cairo prevents them.

1941 and the war culminates. The wife of a lieutenant and a sergeant fall madly in love. Times and circumstances -military service, marriage, friendship between the two men- forbid this love, but do not negate it. When the lieutenant is injured and taken to hospital, the two lovers, against all odds, dare the only possible way out: he defects, she leaves her husband, and they begin a journey without return towards the border.

Soviet High School girls are sent to the U.S. where they are taught to become secret agents and use sex to find information.

After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.

A married young academic falls under the sexual thrall of a much older man whose air of jaded ennui conceals a secret desire for vengeance.

Lucien is on vacation in the country with his mother and grandmother. He finally decides to write to his uncle. When his mother finds out, she explodes with rage.

Years after his teen romance with Milea, a now-adult Dilan tells his version of their love story when a high school reunion brings them back together.

The man who turned the girl into an obsession from the first glance has mastered every detail of her life. And now, he is ready to reveal himself.

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.