languages German & Koreandirected by Faraz Shariat
starring Chen Emilie Yan, Julia Jentsch, Alev Irmak, Arnd Klawitter, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Kotbong Yang, Petra Hartung, Kathrin Angerer, Mercy Dorcas Otieno, Benjamin Radjaipour, Max Krause, Jonathan Kempf, Lasse Klene, Alain Kappel, Jörg Westphal, Susanne Bredehöft, Marie Rosa Tietjen, Marc Fischer, Markus Friedmann, Mai Phương Kollath, Raphael Westermeier, Béla Gabor Lenz, Sven Seeburg & Jean-Philippe Adabra
After surviving a racist attack, state prosecutor Seyo Kim takes her own case to court – confronting both the perpetrators and a justice system that turns a blind eye to right-wing extremism.
starring Bella Ramsey, Daniel Quinn-Toye, Ruby Stokes, Earl Cave, Conrad Khan, Jasmine Elcock, Neil Patrick Harris, Jessica Gunning, James Norton, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Josie Walker & Barbara D'Alterio
Ivy is a teenager in remission from cancer, whose mum and dad insist she attend Children Run Free Camp, a summer retreat for young adults affected by cancer. However, as Ivy is reluctantly dragged through camp experience, she discovers new feelings with new friends.
starring Charly Hübner, Lina Beckmann, Thorsten Merten, Bruno Di Chiara, Jens Münchow, Tom Jahn, Max Tuveri, Christian Näthe, Mélanie Fouché, Anna Unterberger, Moritz Vierboom, Dagmar Sachse, Björn Jung, David Bredin, Rainer Frank, Lukas Spisser, Nina Vorbrodt, Clemens Bobke, Björn Grundies, Tim Ehlert, Penelope Frego, Peter Erhard Knirsch & Ela Cosen
In the middle of his life, Paul Gompitz from Rostock makes the decision to travel to Syracuse in Sicily. He is driven to follow in the footsteps of the poet Johann Gottlieb Seume. But: Paul lives in the GDR, behind the most annoying border in the world. His plan is impossible by legal means. So he has to prepare an escape.
starring Valérie Donzelli, Frédéric Pierrot, Mathieu Spinosi, Emma Ravier, Daniel Garlitsky, Marie Vialle, Nicolas Bridet, François Ettori, Valentin Pradier, Fred Scotlande, Grégory Montel, Marion Henin & Elisa Doughty
Astrid Thompson finally succeeds in fulfilling her father's dream: to bring together four Stradivarius for a unique concert, eagerly expected by music lovers around the world. But Lise, George, Peter and Apolline, the four virtuosos recruited for the occasion, are incapable of playing together. The rehearsals are one ego crisis after another. With no solution in sight, Astrid decides to go and find the only person who, in her eyes, can still save the event: Charlie Beaumont, the composer of the score.
When successful archaeologist Ursula Scheuer makes a sensational discovery of a body during a bog excavation, her demented mother suddenly dies. Unexpectedly, a childhood trauma breaks out for Ursula. The appearance of her new assistant Mel is also puzzling: she seems to know Ursula’s past very well. Ursula is increasingly drawn into a mysterious web of fantasies and deceptions and must finally free herself from it.
While the world is in lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lore has to cope with a painful loss: her mother has died. Back in the small town of Erkelenz in North Rhine-Westphalia, she struggles against entrenched family structures and a paralyzing bureaucracy. Above all, she has to find a way to come to terms with the death and say goodbye to her mother.
An entire generation of Germans was raised on male comedians. But what about their female counterparts? Maren Kroymann, Hella von Sinnen, Bettina Böttinger, Esther Schweins, and Gaby Köster look back at the way women were portrayed on TV in the 1990s and early 2000s, when jokes at women’s expense were the order of the day.
“Two young women in the world – a reunion weekend in Melbourne. Em’s on a break, Jessie’s always been chill. Dialogue like a babbling brook, sweet, smart, banal to heavy and back again, honest and unafraid of pathos. A generation of happy wounded souls.”
When Jessie's estranged friend from Sydney spontaneously arrives in Melbourne, they spend a weekend together to distract themselves from their many problems and their existential dread. FWENDS is a celebration of the power of friendship and an ode to the splendiferous messiness of growing up and, maybe, growing apart.
starring Sebastian Bezzel, Simon Schwarz, Lisa Maria Potthoff, Gerhard Wittmann, Eisi Gulp, Enzi Fuchs, Daniel Christensen, Stephan Zinner, Max Schmidt, Thomas Kügel, Ferdinand Hofer, Sigi Zimmerschied, Petra Berndt, Eli Wasserscheid, Michael Ostrowski, Castro Dokyi Affum, Lara Mandoki, Ruby O. Fee & Milan Peschel
Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.
Charlotte, Helena, and Oskar haven't really been in touch since their experimental filmmaking group disbanded. A shared vacation aims to reunite the bitterly estranged trio, but envy and jealousy soon flare up again. Things get really complicated when Rudolph joins the group and they decide to make a film about a female serial killer.
In this sweeping love story that spans three decades of passion, heartbreak, and hope, Nino and Yasmina find themselves drawn together by a magnetic relationship. As they face an impossible choice between love and survival, they must decide if they want to build a family and chart a path to happiness in Lebanon, despite the tragedies ravaging the country.
Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea has always been a place where people have sought freedom. This film takes us on a journey through an entire century, starting in the golden 1920s, as it assembles the island’s scenery, history, and personal stories into a fascinating portrait. Then as now, the political upheavals that have swept across Germany have left their mark.
After the world's population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission comes through on the radio while he’s flying his old Cessna, it sparks a hunt for the provenance of the sound.