[1][2] The directors include Aki Kaurismäki, Fatih Akin, Béla Tarr, and Peter Greenaway.
[3][4] All the short films express their creator's vision of what is Europe or the European Union.
[5] The Portuguese director Teresa Villaverde shows migrants arriving on the coast of Italy, in "Cold Water"[6] while the Finnish Aki Kaurismaki films the Portuguese town of Bico.
[7] For Lithuania, Šarūnas Bartas directed "Children Lose Nothing",[8] a wordless romance involving two teenagers.
Variety commented that "Offering one of his most accessible films in years, U.K. helmer Peter Greenaway lays on a witty parable in which naked people, each body-painted with a national flag, climb into a warm shower together in the same order in which each country joined the EU.