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The last year in Franz Kafka's life and its surprising love story.

Simone Carstensen-Kleebach has everything she could wish for in life. A husband who supports her, whom she's been married to for almost 20 years, a daughter, and great success in her job. But the pressure of being perfect in all of these roles increasingly drains her. When she gets to know Leon on holiday, sparks fly between them. And even though Simone never dreamt that "something like this" could happen, she starts flirting with Leon. Back in Hamburg with her family, she suddenly receives compromising photos of Leon and herself which could pose a threat to her marriage and professional standing. But who took these photos and what does the sender hope to achieve? Is it blackmail? When things start to get out of control, Simone does everything she can to protect her family ...

The tale of young Gritta who lives with her father, an unsuccessful inventor. When her new stepmother tries to put her away in a convent she discovers some dark secrets there.

At the real life School of Rock a group of misfit kids get in touch with their inner rock star.

In a loose set of cabaret pieces, Steffen Mensching and Hans-Eckardt Wenzel - highly acclaimed East German poets, songwriters and clowns - satirize East German life in its final days and the arrival of new times after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The clowns are allowed to leave prison to sing for people outside. As they perform their pieces, however, the country sinks into rebellion, the prison is attacked and looted, and the people chase the clowns away. Latest from the Da-Da-R was the first film made by an artistic production group that had fought for independence within the structures of the state-owned DEFA film studio for years. "Da-Da-R" is a wordplay on the irreverent Dada art movement of the 1920s and the German acronym for East Germany- the DDR.

In Third Reich Germany five people meet in a small seaside town. A plot to save a statue, scheduled for destruction by the Nazis, becomes each one's singular way of saving their own soul.

Jim and Elise are bound to each other by an uncompromising love, excessive passion and romance, which they like to experience up to life-threatening situations. But when film director Frank Morris gets stranded in the solitude of their east-German village, things start changing for all three of them.

10 May 2015.