Dreams of Getting Rich

Something Always Happens

Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.

Phoenix's Lament

"Only after death did I find out that I was Bai Yueguang, the prince of the Beijing circle." Shen Xiwei, only child of the chairman of the Yunshui Group, was in love with Pei Yunxiao, her driver's son. Shen Xiwei's dad passes away suddenly, and in hopes of marrying Pei Yunxiao, she transfers all she inherited to him. Pei Yunxiao and his girlfriend, Meng Qingran, infect Shen Xiwei, and as she's in her death bed, they refuse to help her. They leave Shen Xiwei to die, and in her last moments, she finds out that the only person who loved her was Zhao Tingshen, the prince of the Beijing circle. She vows that, if she gets a second chance, she'll learn from her mistakes. Zhao Tingshen swears to protect her in another life, and that he'll be there to love her. Shen Xiwei is reborn as the girl she was 10 years before passing, in her last year of university, and she'll do everything to unmask Pei Yunxiao and Meng Qingran and find her true happiness with Zhao Tingshen.

Kultainen vasikka

Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.

Journey to the West

"Journey to the West" is an embedded documentary film into a bus full of Chinese tourists visiting Europe (6 countries in 10 days!) for the very first time. This road movie captures with humor, poetry and spirit the cultural differences between China and Europe in a play of mirrors and contrasts. It also destroys the stereotypes about the emerging Chinese middle class and reveals what they think about the "others" who are "us", the Westerners.

Skin of Youth

San, a transgender singer, and Nam, an underground boxer, struggle to save money for San’s gender-affirming surgery in 1990s Sai Gon. San works as an escort, while Nam fights in brutal dog-cage matches. When San is denied surgery due to her mental health history, their relationship fractures. Nam seeks solace with a prostitute, Mimi, who becomes pregnant. San, initially furious, eventually accepts Mimi. As they find a fragile peace, a seaside trip turns tragic when Nam kills a robber and is imprisoned. San must now risk everything to secure Nam’s freedom.

Notes of Autumn

Leo is a successful author who is experiencing a tough writer's block. Feeling the pressure to finish the new installment of his popular series of books, Leo swaps homes with his best friend, Ellie, for a period of time. During his stay at Ellie's place, Leo ends up meeting Matt, who helps him get out of his own way when it comes to writing something new and inspiring. Leo and Matt's newfound friendships turn into something far more meaningful, just as Ellie is experiencing a similar situation with Sam.

The Island

Zora, a young black woman, discovers that her father has been murdered during her family’s luxury vacation in Caribbean. With the help of her surviving family members, Zora must save herself from dying at the hands of the beautiful, Martisha and avoid the mythical obstacles throughout the island. During this journey, Zora learns that she is even more powerful than she thought.

Der Onkel aus Amerika

Courage

Belle Bennett plays as the widowed mother of seven children living in Sioux City, Iowa. She moves with them to Cambridge, Massachusetts in order to educate her children with culture and give them every advantage. Bennett, who is unversed in financial matters, soon faces poverty for herself and her children. She takes out a loan from an unscrupulous lender (played by Richard Tucker), who is so impressed by the charm and valiant spirit of Bennett than he neglects to ask her for collateral. Bennett, however, is only able to partially pay her creditors. Marion Nixon, Bennett's eldest daughter, is shocked by her mother's actions and attempts to sacrifice herself to Tucker in order to clear her mother's obligations, even though she is engaged to marry a well to do Harvard undergraduate, played by Rex Bell. This film is believed lost.

Sanam

In a small valley, riders pursue and kill a man. A horse thief, so his assassins claim. But for his ten year old son Issa, the disappearance of his father causes an avalanche of problems. With the family name stigmatized, Issa is bullied by the other children in the village. While his mother fights to clear her husbands name, Issa is left to his own devices. But unexpectedly, his solitude gives birth to his freedom, his real passion, horses.

Kasbah

A young man who lives in Morocco, his father and his half-sister are the characters. When the girl disappears in Kasbah, a night club, her half brother becomes the prime suspect.

The Unwanted

Carmilla comes to a rural town where her mother mysteriously disappeared years earlier. She is aided in her quest by an emotionally troubled local girl, with whom she becomes romantically involved. Their relationship ignites the wrath of the girl's father, who holds the key to the dreadful truth Carmilla is seeking. Inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's famed Gothic novella.

Solang es hübsche Mädchen gibt

Germany in 1947. After the Second World War, revue stars Alice and Ellen meet up again with their husbands in Munich. The place where their dream career began. During a visit to their childhood home, the ladies reminisce and relive the exciting events.

Gravy

It's All Hallow's Eve. A trio of costumed misfits with very special dietary requirements seizes a Mexican cantina and force the staff to engage in a late night of gaming, food and libations. The only caveat is what's on the menu.

Tante Wanda aus Uganda

Las Horas Contigo

Ema finds out she is pregnant with an unplanned child she's not sure she wants to keep, the same week her beloved grandmother becomes gravely ill. Spending her last days at her grandmother's side, Ema is forced to spend time with her estranged, larger than life mother, getting to know her and seeing her with new eyes. As she spends time with the people gathered around her grandmother in her last days; Ema re-evaluates her beliefs, her fears and her set ideas about family, love and parenthood.