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- Luz, a young cabdriver, drags herself into the brightly lit entrance of a run-down police station. A demonic entity follows her, determined to finally be close to the woman it loves.
- Kati, Jochen and Lukas take a trip on magic mushrooms. Lukas is not coming back.
- When a married woman discovers her husband's addiction to visiting brothels, she decides to start visiting them herself and is quickly swept up into a secret life filled with new sexual discoveries.
- A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to glamorous diva of the Velvet Underground, to cult item, junkie and hag. Many faces for the same woman, whom, you realize, just couldn't bring herself to care enough to live.
- The friends Toro and Victor struggles with drug addiction and male prostitution in a hostile environment. When they lose all their money, their longstanding friendship is put to the test.
- Oray speaks in a quarrel with his wife Burcu three times 'talaq', the islamic formula for repudiation. The imam informs him about the consequences: he has to divorce his wife. Now Oray is in a dilemma: Should he stay with Burcu or with the community?
- Trains in Mumbai, are like trains from hell. As if they're the last trains on earth, people jump in through closing doors, while those unable to get in hang onto the doors. Thankfully, one of the cars is for women only.
- Referencing sixties B-movies like They Saved Hitler's Brain (1968) and The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962), Ulrike's Brain finds Doctor Julia Feifer (Susanne Sachsse) arriving at an academic conference with an organ box. Inside the box: the brain of Ulrike Meinhof, which was saved by the authorities along with the brains of the three other leaders of the RAF after their deaths in Stammheim prison. Doctor Feifer can communicate telepathically with Ulrike's brain, which is directing her to lead a new feminist revolution. To that end, she is searching for the ideal female body to transplant Ulrike's brain into. At the same time, her arch-rival, Detlev Schlesinger, an extreme right-wing ideologue, arrives at the conference with the ashes of Michael Kühnen, the former German neo-Nazi leader and infamous homosexual who died of AIDS in 1989. When the two Frankenstein's monsters of the extreme left and the extreme right meet, chaos ensues.
- Maria and her husband, Walter are a middle-class couple that has to move in with the father of hers, who has a debilitating aneurism. She suffers from an obsolete existence as a submitting housewife. Her husband is extremely catholic and does not support the idea of sending her father to an old people's home. She sees no escape from her torture, until a mysterious call takes place.
- He spies with his little eye something that is - you.
- Hashish
- Through a little accident with his bike, Henning meets Elli, a young woman in a wheelchair. Very soon they start a stormy affair with one another. Henning, the young doctor, is attracted by her unusual and direct kind - he falls in love with her. As he wants to surprise Elli, Henning travels to visit her - just to learn upon arrival that Elli was just faking her disability.
- The syrian-catholic community of Al-Khalil is renown for its work of dialogue and close relationship to Islam. During the war, several members of the community were kidnapped by the terroristgroup ISIS: Fleeing the persecution some of the monks and nuns found a new home in Iraq. With the expanding conflict they took in many displaced families. As one of the programs hosted by the community a theatre workshop took place. The participants build a play on bases the book "conference of the birds", intertwining the Sufi allgegorys with their own personal experiences. Summer 2017. ISIS is on the retreat and soon the first families will make the journey back home. The last days for this people of different origins and believes, sharing daily life in the small rosegarden.
- In a remote holiday cottage, Luis meets his father and his new family after many years. Conflict is pre-programmed.
- Musically-talented, but socially-challenged Henry, age 14, arrives at a private boarding school for music students at the beginning of the new school year and discovers there his fascination with playing the organ. From this fascination arises a general love for the instrument; playing it offers him a refuge from the bullying his fellow students serve him. His teacher, Ms. Schmidt, recognizes his talent. Her growing interest in Henry, however, further worsens his position with his roommates Erik, Mik, and Sebi. Erik feels that his status as the school's prodigy is threatened; his talent as an organist has saved him from relegation for years. Erik rules the school and goes with Melanie, who has had Henry under her spell since he first arrived at the school. Erik and his minions Sebi and Mik do all they can to make Henry's life a living hell.
- Boris has a lot of love in him, but he can't share it with anyone. He kills stranded young women and then assaults them. This is the only way he can love. His goal is to give them a kind of redemption through his personal "love arts".
- Chris (15) and her sister Fanny (10) spend their holidays in a little German village. There is nothing to do for a teenager so Chris has to spend the afternoon with Fanny. Out of boredom the girls wander off to a nearby forest. Chris starts to tease Fanny but she goes too far and soon there is a life at stake.
- Ocean Hill Drive examines a rare phenomenon, the so-called 'shadowflicker', that occurs in a suburban area on the outskirts of Boston. As a result of an erroneously installed wind turbine, the flicker effect, which brings to mind structuralist experimental cinema, appears instead in documentary images showing the landscape and architecture of a Massachusetts coast town.
- When his two mature children Anton (19) and Linda(19) start leaving the house, as they just have graduated from school, father Michael(55) stops taking care of his body as a protest. His son Anton takes part in a bed-rest-study to contribute to space-travelling, while his sister Linda is in search of her first love and is drawn to a young man, who seems to have similar problems like her father. The film is a poetic story about the progression of thoughts and dreams to go to space and about the organic beauty of the human body, its desires and longings.
- For Anja, her new home in Germany is only a stopover. She would much rather go to America. She skips school and makes up gangster scenes with her little brother. Life is okay until she overhears a phone call from her mother.
- A department store security guard is secretly in love with a clerk in the store's bookshop. When he witnesses a seeming rival being attacked in the train, he gets off instead of helping him. Not being able to deal with his bad conscience, his formerly controlled life breaks down.
- Walter lives together with his wife Helga isolated on a farm in northern Germany; rather they have drifted apart for some time now. After having the everyday breakfast Walter makes the last hay of the summer when he listens to the news on his tractor radio that a gigantic asteroid is approaching the earth in a great speed. Unfortunately, all attempts to avert the total destruction of mankind within 16 hours are in vain. He is uncertain how to tell his wife and decides for his own sake to conceal the end of the world from her. Trapped by his own lie Walter gradually remembers his almost forgotten love for his wife and is determined to celebrate the nicest last day on earth for her.
- El Manguito is a small village in the inaccessible woodlands of Sierra Maestra in Cuba. Twelve people live there, cut off from the outside world, without electricity supply and drivable roads. Idael, the head of the familiy, his wife Nelcis, his children, friends and brothers. The film accompanies the family in their everyday life. It takes the audience to an unknown world and shows how deeply rooted the socialist system still is in Cuba. A teacher comes to El Manguito five days a week to teach Idaels youngest son. Even in a remote place like this, education is provided for. But many other things seem to be neglected.
- The family has a wake for their youngest son, he died during the Chechen war. The elder brother Anton fulfills the last wish of the deceased. Meanwhile, Vika, who is in love with Anton, is raped, and her mother commits murder.
- A girl (Schüttler) drops out of school and lies to her parents about it. Shortly after, this lie starts to spiral out of control.
- The story of a metalsmith who lives a lonely and secluded life with his mother in the countryside. He dreams again and again of a mysterious redhead. One day, he meets a young, female hitchhiker who is the spitting image of the woman he is dreaming of.
- How much would you trust a almost stranger? What can things tell you about a character? Does a private place tell enough to decide if you want to go further in a relationship? My movie is turning around these questions and takes the audience on a journey to the unknown "territory" of a stranger. Freya meets Max at the dancefloor. They don't talk. Dance is the only language they need. Like a gravity is holding them close together they're turning around each other whole night long. When the clubs switches on the light and turns off the music they feel like thrown back in a cold reality. Out of the club he asks her "To my place or to yours?" Freya is disappointed by this dumpy question. So she makes him another offer. They start a fascinating journey through the early morning.
- Caught in a freedom of being able to decide over anything, apart for the actual bond to a person, Ben finds himself alone. He's lost contact with Lisa, only a vague trace leads to Morocco.
- Lea is desperately searching for stability, a warm relationship and a reason for living. But she is floundering. Her life is meaningless, restless and aggressive. A brief encounter with Lukas develops into a closer relationship that takes her on a journey to a forgotten place, where the couple try to find out who they are, and recall a long-lost time.
- A group of man-eating killer tennis socks made from the result of an experiment gone wrong go on a killing spree, until a gun-wielding cleaner steps in with a shotgun.
- At a motivation seminar, the smart instructor Marius comes up against an awkward participant. Jörg Karsunke, an entrepreneur from the eastern part of Germany, simply refuses to understand the straight-forward principles of "mental syntax". Marius desperately tries to teach him how to open a door. Not just open it, but to do so with the right attitude and invincible will to conquer the new room that lies behind that door. When the door finally opens, no one can remember either of them. The world has forgotten them. And what is even worse: From now on they have to stick together.
- A snail invents the wheel and goes through a cultural evolution to finally get back to its origin.
- Provocative painter Oda Jaune is profiled in this artistic documentary. Born in Bulgaria, Jaune worked up the ranks to become an acclaimed scholar. After the death of a major influence, Oda moves to Paris. This doc chronicles Jaune's preparation for a career exhibition.
- A courageous and determined young woman talks about her experiences going through Female Genital Mutilation and the need to undergo a reconstructive surgery on her genitals.
- "The Storm" - Feli and Lali prepare and act out an improvised performance in a limited space.
- A young boy finds himself in a dilemma of choosing between social peer pressures or making a moralistic decision.
- Young kindergarten teacher Angelika had planned her evening differently. But when 4-year-old Nikolaus isn't picked up, she takes him back home with her. In the course of this involuntary encounter, they slowly and gently develop a rapport that is cut short by Angelika's boyfriend Benno, who pays her an unexpected visit. As she tries to cater to both her visitors, the evening takes a turn for the worse. Based on a short story by Peter Stamm.
- In her loneliness, the young masseuse Camille experiences an everyday life, determined by rules and constraints. Not able to accept herself, she retires in isolation. Camille's controlled life changes only by the secret observation of her neighbor, who awakens her sexual fantasies, and gives her the courage to change.