In Dice We Trust

Mikael Persson is about to realize his dream, a big musical with Sweden's top artists and with himself in the leading role. But a few weeks before the premiere the National Bailiff Authority comes knocking, forcing Michael into private bankruptcy and his family to leave their home.

A girl from a boarding school finds a baby and has to keep it because she seems to be the real mother to everyone.

Nursel is an actress who settled in France. One day, she is offered the lead role in a play about Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, whom Nursel admires. But when she returns to her home in Istanbul, she encounters Perisa, an Iranian translator who has come to Istanbul to search for the man she loves, Arash, with whom she is pregnant.

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampaging brigands in peaceful celebration.

The 11-year-old Younes is selling his father's car parts at a lively street market. The day starts out festive, but when the young folk singer Kelvin and his menacing father arrive, the atmosphere deteriorates fast. A silent struggle develops between Younes and Kelvin, one that is not only waged between the boys, but also between their dominant fathers. As the day progresses in this park in Amsterdam, the two boys discover that even though they once seemed so different, their situations are actually the same.

In a school of separate worlds, boundaries have been set and lines have been drawn. Their love will break the rules.