Urban hustle and bustle predominates in "Howrah, Howrah", a look at Calcutta's central train station. Shift 180 degrees and nature rules in Chinese "Herdsmen", a year in the life of a nomadic Kazak family with 11 children. Arduous rural existences are considered by Japan's Motohashi Seiichi in both "Alexei and Spring" (about a farmer) and "Nadya's Village" (on a village near the Chernobyl plant.) Rural life is threatened in both Thai short "March of Time" and Turkish student film "Vanished with Water". Spanish "Fuente Alamo, The Caress of Time" and Romanian short "That's Life" also zoom in on villages. Birds are featured three times - once in a Latvian film about relocated terns birds, then again, in a film about soaring, solitary Cretan creatures, and finally, in dance filmmaker David Hinton's "Birds".