Noah Lazarus

Jesper Jensen is a successful IT salesman who stops at nothing, even if it means backstabbing his best friend. Being number one in the company and having a beautiful wife and a lovely home, Jesper seems to lead a perfect life, but one day his arrogance and self confidence hits him in the face like a boomerang and he loses everything overnight. Jesper is sentenced to do community service at a recycling center with the odd and funny characters Dion, Theodor, and Lotte. At first he looks down on these people and doesn't want to be associated with them. When he begins to loosen up, however, he discovers that he can learn a lot from their straight forward and honest approach to life.

Selma Jezkova, émigrée tchèque et mère célibataire, travaille dans une usine de l'Amérique profonde. Elle trouve son salut dans sa passion pour la musique, spécialement les chansons et les danses des grandes comédies musicales hollywoodiennes. Selma garde un lourd secret : elle perd la vue et son fils Gene connaîtra le même sort sauf si elle réussit à mettre assez d'argent de côté pour lui payer une opération. Quand un voisin aux abois accuse à tort Selma d'avoir volé ses économies, le drame de sa vie s'intensifie pour se terminer en final tragique. Palme d'Or 2000

Rachel Strode, a young immigrant with a dark secret in her past, comes to Israel in the Fall of 1973 to volunteer in a Kibbutz and then to convert to Judaism. Soon, she realizes that the local Kibbutz members don't seem to like strangers and foreigners, and that the evening of Yom Kippur (the most important holiday for Jews), will bring danger to her and her young volunteering friends. What begins as a time of fun and the celebration of youth turns into a menacing and bloody night of terror, which will give a new meaning to Yom Kippur of 1973.