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- Two couples visit a home from their past, and sexual tension brings out the worst in each other. Long-buried grudges resurface.
- Maryam lives an independent life as a divorced mother of three girls. An accidental encounter with Jibril, who is serving time in prison and whom she barely knows, makes her aware of what is missing in her life. She and he elope in an ardent love affair. In the meantime, she masters the struggles of everyday life at work and at home with her children. The two of them, in search of happiness, grapple with the idealizations and projections of each other. In their yearning for one another, they attempt to fill an inner void. The attention they draw from each other ultimately becomes the measure of their self-esteem.
- Have you ever felt like a Supporting Character in your own life? What if you really are one...?
- Two years after Hannah and Jimmy's break up, the pair unexpectedly falls head over heels for each other again when selling their holiday home on a little volcanic island in the Aegean. The two want to give their relationship a second chance but could not foresee that it would be their seven-year-old daughter Luca who does everything in her power to prevent this from happening. With childish cleverness, Luca plays her parents against each other until an abysmally evil power struggle for the family throne arises in front of the island's beautiful backdrop...
- A tower block on the edge of a forest, people hoping to join the building's community as it is one of the last bastions of civilization in a world that has fallen apart.
- How long is an eternity? A few years or just a breaking of the waves at the rugged Baltic coast? Andreas and Martin share all the ups and downs of life, and their son is maturing. A cautious approach to the traces of a long relationship.
- Three women end up in a psychiatric clinic in search of safety and security.
- The starving cat ECHO is forced into a horrible deal with the Alchemaster EISSPIN.
- Gabriela (75) is terminally ill, and can barely breathe. She then embarks on a journey that takes her to a brutal, dystopian world. In a small village, she faces the consequences of her attempt to stay alive.
- Born in 1990, Tamara no longer knows the country she comes from. When her family breaks up, Tamara fights for her parental home, for her relationships - and for her own history.
- Autumn in Northern Sweden. Linn is 16 years old and finally allowed to join her father on the elk hunt. She wants to prove herself in the group of hunters, but the wilderness itself turns out to be her actual test.
- A 27-year-old Indonesian, Tim, is having a family vacation with both of his parents on a remote island far from the city, where they learn about the myth of a reincarnated deer that exists somewhere along the beach. Island locals believe that seeing the deer is a sign of meeting one's soulmate. Tim is the only one who secretly hoping to discover the deer, hiding his desire from his very devout Christian parents.
- On the hunt for an emotion long lost Fynn loses himself in the encounters of the night. As day is dawning and he stumbles across young Tom he's got to ask himself if he still owns his body.
- When David (36) hears the news that his friend Andreas (40) took his life, the days of their once close friendship have long been a thing of the past. They hardly knew each other anymore. And yet, David can't shake off the feeling of guilt over the suicide of his once best friend. David travels back home to the tiny small town near the German-Polish border where they both grew up, but what was originally planned to be a short visit to attend the funeral service, turns into a journey into a fractured past. When the deceased Andreas suddenly appears as a ghost that only he can see, David initially attempts to shake off the apparition, but the ghost turns out to be as persistent as the question why Andreas took his own life, and even more so, what keeps him still in this world and whether David had a role in this.
- After a traumatizing escape from Syria 9 year old Harun is still too scared to leave the safety of his new home. Instead he develops a daily routine to observe his neighbors with his binoculars and document their actions precisely. When one day a homeless woman comes into his field of vision, he realizes that time has come to leave his observation post.
- Schmitke is an old German wind turbine engineer. One day, he is dispatched to the Czech side of the Ore Mountains to fix an old squeaking wind turbine. His colleague disappears and mysterious things begin to happen in the forest.
- Fred, Timo and Jona finally want to move in together. And to live together, you need a bed. But no one expected what happens when three people want to sleep in one. This leads to a relationship crisis for the throuple and suddenly everything is upside down. A small, queer comedy about bedroom furniture and the question of when we actually became bougie.
- Nemo looks different. Nobody else wears a diving suit and a helmet that big. But then he meets Laika, an astronaut.
- In a remote village, whose name roughly means "a cold place", this film looks for warmth in encounters. The Ukrainian village of Stuzhytsya is situated in the Carpathian Mountains in the border triangle between Poland and Slovakia. The three elderly female protagonists - a farmer, a post office clerk and a biologist - are firmly rooted in a place where hardly any young people are left in 2019, the year of Zelensky's election victory. Over time, the film crew also becomes, at least temporarily, a valued part of the village community.
- A border region village between the Czech Republic and Germany tells the love story of Tommy (19) from a socially disadvantaged background and Julia (18) from a wealthy family.
- While Demétria waits for her daughter to come back home from school, a violent police raid breaks out in her neighborhood.
- A man sets out in search of his lost love: a journey that draws him into the turbulent heart of present-day India and transforms inevitably into a confrontation with the past.
- The feature film 'After Spring Comes Fall' tells the story of a young woman who tries to escape the turmoil of the Arab Spring.
- On the coastline of Windholm one morning 15 years ago the ocean just disappeared. Since then the emptiness has been raising questions and anxiety. The cause of the phenomenon remains unclear. With a new theory at hand the physicist Micha (28) is one of many young scientists who is trying to get his hands on to one of his university's rare scholarships to explore the phenomena. After the many years of work he has put into the project he must once again see how a bold idea ends at the doors of the antiquated establishment - he receives a rejection. At the same time Jana (31), daughter of the institute's boss and Micha's former colleague on the project, resurfaces at the university. This doesn't make the situation any easier for Micha. A year ago she left him and the project and ran off to Portugal. Jana has now returned to put a definite end to her scientific career - but there is something else: Jana has to clarify something with Micha. When Micha decides to take the trip to Windholm to prove his hypothesis despite the rejection and without official permission she joins him. In Windholm the young scientists are confronted with the remains of a village community that has never been able to overcome their trauma. On the day the ocean disappeared - so did all the children from the viallge. But have the kids really drowned that day? Their bodies were never found. Micha clings to rational thinking and only the scientific phenomenon is of his concern. But as his measurements take longer than planned the village pulls him deeper and deeper into its spell. Micha meets Hanna (19) the only remaining child. She tries to rebuild the neglected public pool, guides tourists through the village and is convinced that the kids are still out there somewhere. Jana strikes the thought that it is no coincidence that Micha and her have been lead to this place. Abandoned houses and playgrounds, a small footprint on the empty ground of the ocean, the room of a boy who dreamt of becoming an Astronaut - this is where Micha and Jana have to come to terms with their own past and a loss.
- A young girl faces the loss of her father as she's trying to find reason in his suicide.
- The shy Hugo is a caretaker in a prefabricated building. He feels at home here, is appreciated by the residents and sings his songs in the corridors. Dramatic changes make Hugo uncomfortable in his home. Similarly dissatisfied is Johanna, who lives in a bus in front of the house and faces racism and sexism on a daily basis. The two grow closer - sharing a sense of not quite belonging and, above all, a love of music. For Hugo, the world is visibly coming apart at the seams: birds that reject freedom, a dollhouse that develops a life of its own - At the same time, a catastrophe is brewing in very real life that puts Hugo and Johanna's friendship to the test.
- Vivi (Britta Hammelstein) is exhausted. Actually, she is about to become an attorney and to move in together with her boyfriend Adam (Golo Euler), but somehow, she is stuck. She tries to flee back to her Moms (Victoria Trauttmansdorff) couch, only to find that there is no more space for her. Vivi's father (Detlev Buck) assumes that she needs some rest and sends her to an island. He equips her with all kinds of pieces of advise about positive-thinking and self-improvement. But its all too much for Vivi. Slowly, Vivi explores the island and gets to know the peculiar locals. She takes a job in Ottos (Ferdinand von Schirach) small store and moves in with single-mom Biene (Inga Busch) and her 13-year-old son Eric (Jerome Hirthammer). Vivi enjoys the imperfectness for a while, and she frees herself from the compulsion to constantly prove something.
- In the artist colony Rocket Perelman ten people strive to live their version of freedom and independence - everybody for themselves and all together. But that's hard work, since the joined theatre production puts the groups' idealism to a hard test.
- By dancing an indian dance artist creates a colorful, fantastic Bollywood world. A thrilling story about love, lies and the various facets of reality.
- In Havana, transsexuals Odette, Juani and Malú wait for genital surgery - performed by European top surgeons and organized by the president's daughter, Mariela Castro. Castro is leading a sexual revolution combined with classic state socialism. New possibilities face old problems: will Cuban trans people find happiness despite intolerance, poverty and prostitution?
- Samuel undergoes an experimental sound-therapy, through which memories can be re-experienced. But he attempts to go beyond the limits of the technology.
- What at first glance looks like a beautiful spa by the sea, the people of Varna simply call THE PIT. A cinematic portrait of the Bulgarian present and the investigation of a microcosm that stands for an entire society.
- 'The Emperor's New Clothes' in a new robe. KAISER translates Hans Christian Andersen fairytale into a company in the 21st century. A dystopian yet colorful narrative about power, hierarchies and invisible caterpillars.
- A young woman protests against the time she lives in by not living up to it. Melusine refuses to become an adult. If anything goes, nothing ever happens. That is true for today as much as for this film. Protest can only happen in a counter world. Melusine creates a better world for her own. Here, her companions are the animals, jumping jellies and magical strangers. Sometimes, she dances a pas de deux with a poodle. If anything goes, even poodles are politics.
- When Margret loses her husband to his diagnosed dementia, she creates a new reality for them.
- Two estranged brothers overcome the deep-seated and prejudiced rift in their relationship during a late-night car ride.
- Ein Casting. Viele Übergriffe. Fünf Schauspielerinnen, die sich dagegen wehren. Regisseurin Alison Kuhn gibt diesen Frauen und sich selbst eine Stimme. Was bedeutet solch ein Vorfall für die Betroffenen? Fünf junge Frauen erzählen ihre Geschichte. Sie alle haben vor mehreren Jahren an demselben Casting teilgenommen und wurden mit systematischen Übergriffen, zum Teil sexueller und gewaltsamer Natur, konfrontiert. Gemeinsam erarbeiten sie, was damals geschah und teilen mutig ihre Gedanken und Emotionen. Durch die aktuelle "MeToo-Bewegung", die 2017 ins Rollen gebracht wurde, ist der sexuelle Missbrauch in der Filmbranche - aber auch außerhalb - ein brandaktuelles Thema. THE CASE YOU - EIN FALL VON VIELEN gibt Einblicke über den Ablauf solcher Taten und was es für das Leben und die Arbeit der Betroffenen bedeutet. Entstanden ist ein hochaktueller Film über #MeToo und die Missbrauchskultur in der Film- und darstellenden Kunstbranche, ein Film für alle, die sich für Themen rund um den Machtmissbrauch in institutionellen Strukturen sowie für die Fragestellung nach den Grenzen der Kunst interessieren. Wie weit darf Kunst gehen? Wie kann verhindert werden, dass diese Grenzen überschritten werden?
- Félie's father, Giorgio, died a year ago. Since then, her mother, Antonia, has been fighting alone for the continued existence of the shared large tomato business. Meanwhile, eight-year-old Félie increasingly retreats into her own world, which she found in the old greenhouse in the family garden. While both of them become estranged from each other due to their different ways of dealing with their shared loss, their grandmother Guiseppa, who has traveled from Italy, tries everything to bring the two of them together again.
- Only when Sam meets Kwesi he is confronted with his German-Ghanaian identity. But their burgeoning love is endangered by Kwesi's questionable residence status.
- You left your home to move far away. You were struck by a wind of change and were unfaithful to yourself. You reinvented yourself and you are now feeling free. But suddenly pressure arises in you.
- Due to an unexplicable act the destinies of three people collapse and dissolve into a dramaturgical dance about victims, offenders and the truth that lays between the lies.
- A car crash thrusts Francis, the dreamy film projectionist, into the world of the ruthless gangster Mascarpone.
- The last days of a German terrorist before his assassination attempt.
- Two friends embark on a journey together which will test the limits of their friendship and uncover dark secrets. Reality and imagination start to blur. Can they trust everything they see?