"How come you're not married yet?" El Arosa covers a few days in the life of a small group of teenagers in Nile-Delta. For at least two of them, these are the most important days of their lives. So far...

A shot of a few buildings in the middle of nowhere, and then the camera delves deep into exotic, luxuriant vegetation. We are in Tropical Islands, a leisure complex near Krausnick, a village 70 kilometres south of Berlin on the site of a former Soviet airbase. At this very spot, moving from one affectation to the next, the upheavals of the last century pile up like so much sediment. Europe's scars and contradictions, its mindscape, its dreams and illusions.

'Kiss Of The Moon' is a passionate attempt to engage in intimate contact with the Khusra community, to understand how it feels to live in a world where there are no shades of grey in terms of gender, life is always either masculine or feminine. The ultimate goal of the film is to cross the boundaries of gender and talk about the issues of 'being', and of the endless desire to be loved and to love.

Passing the Rainbow looks at ways of subverting the strict gender norms in Afghan society, in areas like performance and film production as well as in daily and political life. A theatre company run by a young teacher in Kabul who moonlights as an actress, a policewoman who also directs action films, an activist with the organisation RAWA who defends the radical separation of State and religion, and Malek, who lives as if she were a boy in order to get a job: these women are the heroines of Passing the Rainbow.