The stones of the title are the dreams and burdens carried by these five women with interlinked lives. This story of decision and transformation was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.

In 1909, the Rigau brothers are the owners of the most important textile factory in Feixes. When Francesc dies, Julià, a dark and ambitious ex-military man, takes over the steamer and confronts everyone to make uniforms for the Spanish army that is fighting the war in Morocco.

A London man who loses his memory when he's struck by a falling object develops a way to reconstruct his past.

A Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother's estate, is reacquainted with his best friend from childhood, with whom he has a long-awaited tryst. Caught in an accelerating series of events, he discovers aspects of his father's New Age cult which take on a dangerous and apocalyptic significance.

Victor, a Lower East Side teenager, as he deals with his eccentric family, including his strict grandmother, his bratty sister, and a younger brother who completely idolizes him. Along the way he tries to win the affections of Judy, who is very careful and calculating when it comes to how she deals with men.

Iraq, 2003. Pablo, a Spanish army doctor sent on a peacekeeping mission, is involved in an attack on his convoy during a routine trip through the desert.

Composed of 6 unconventional short stories, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, a narrative is told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title refers to the alluded "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of Ceauşescu's regime.

Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin and ken seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.

Psychiatrist Caruso is arguably as nutty as his patients. He can remember at two years old being completely besotted by the charms of a naked girl. Even today, he can think of little else besides sex, sex, sex.

Bennie travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother, a once-promising writer who is now a remnant of his former self. Bennie's discovery of his brother's near-finished play might hold the answer to understanding their shared past and renewing their bond.

By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days. It’s time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father’s ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place. The arrival, at a nearby cove, of a group of boat people will throw these moments of reflection into turmoil.

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.

The Alps, late 19th century. Greider, a mysterious lone rider who claims to be a photographer, arrives at an isolated lumber village, despotically ruled by a family clan, asking for winter accommodation.

Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great love story develops between Jonas and Emilie, which is soon unsettled by the conflicts troubling the country.

У безжальній боротьбі за владу кілька кланів якудза борються за прихильність Хрещеного батька. Ватажки піднімаються ієрархічними сходами в організації, не нехтуючи змовами і брехливими клятвами вірності. Досвідчений якудза Отомо спостерігає за розвитком кар'єри своїх товаришів. У світі корупції, де панують зрада та помста, ні на хвилину не припиняється боротьба за досягнення вершини чи просто за виживання. Це — світ, де героїв немає…

Молодий академік з Оксфорда з подругою відправляються на відпочинок на Антиґуа, де в результаті події випадково знайомляться з російським мільйонером, який носить годинник з діамантами і володіє половиною острова. Він спочатку пропонує їм гру в теніс, а після запрошує в туристичну подорож: спочатку в Лондон, яка обернеться знайомством з британською розвідкою, потім в Париж і Альпи.

A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.

30-і роки XX століття. Корейський півострів захоплений японськими імперіалістами. Безліч корейців, рятуючись від окупантів, стікається до Маньчжурії — обширних земель коней і степів, які межують з їх батьківщиною і Китаєм. Злодій Юн Тхе-гу грабує потяг, і у нього в руках опиняється карта скарбів династії Цін, захованих десь в Маньчжурії. Карту також намагається роздобути холоднокровний вбивця з цілою бандою головорізів...

Хлопчик, що володіє літературним даром і хворобливою пристрастю підглядати за життям інших, пише твори, які дивують його шкільного вчителя. Опуси учня з останньої парти лякають і вражають талантом. Одного разу хлопчик починає писати розповідь про родину свого однокласника…

80-річна Една живе на самоті в старому заміському будинку. Але одного разу вона пропадає, і її дочка Кей і внучка Сем відразу кидаються на її пошуки. Через деякий час вони знаходять її в своєму ж будинку. Але Една нічого не може згадати. Вони підозрюють, що у неї розвивається деменція, але дивні явища в будинку, які вони спостерігають, наштовхують на зовсім інші висновки.