Highbrow

Jin (Yakusho), a young, widowed police detective who is thinking of leaving the force to better take care of his 8 year old daughter Misaki (Kanno), by chance arrests Neko (Emoto), an accomplished middle aged burglar who has just fixed Misaki's bicycle. After Neko has several weeks to see Jin in the interrogation room, he decides to confess to Jin and teach him how to become a capable detective and worthy adversary. By the time Neko serves his 10 year sentence, Jin is a highly regarded detective and they can they start their contest in earnest.

Adolescent Khaled lives with his drug-addict French-Canadian mother Monique in a Toronto tenement, his Moroccan father totally out of the picture. He is often bullied at school being a visible minority. He has lived in foster homes in the past, but both he and Monique cling to each other as the only family each has, and as Khaled had been abused in past foster homes. Monique has taught him to be suspect of authority as they believe any authority's prime motivation is to separate them. This need to be together is despite Monique not being able to take care of him properly as witnessed by them living on canned soup and stolen frozen pizza. Khaled has had to grow up faster than he should as he largely takes care of Monique, who is often bedridden, and as he defends himself and another immigrant kid named Ivan against their bullies. It is because of all these factors in combination that Khaled, after his mother passes away one evening in their apartment, decides to hide the fact of her death so that he can try to make it on his own. Beyond not disposing the body, Khaled may become overwhelmed purely by doing whatever it takes to hide the fact of her death, let alone trying to take care of himself against all the obstacles.

Ett litet samhälle i 1960-talets början. Åtta gamla bekanta i samma jaktlag har som vanligt samlats till älgjakten. Sju av dem har just varit med om när Måns Westling rattfull körde över en gammal tant. De har beslutat sig för att hemlighålla det hela men den åttonde, Klas Bodin, kommer in från stan för att delta i älgjakten. Sedan tidigare rådet det groll mellan männen och nu hotar han att avslöja dem om han inte får 30 000 kronor. Stor nervositet råder när de åtta går ut i skogen för att jaga.

A young girl is taken with a boy that she meets, but he leads her into gambling where she begins losing money, becomes desperate, and starts to steal.

Three separate couples each decide to make some important decisions on the future of their relationships. Stumbling and searching they try to find their own alternative and drastic paths to happiness.

A discharged soldier cannot stop the killings in his mind.