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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.
- Maurizio leaves his homeland Venezuela to start a new life. Far away, his expectations and desires are bitterly disappointed.
- 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.
- Javad, on a remote road having missed the last bus, happens to meet Gholamhossein, a man who was a close friend of his father. Gholamhossein tells him things about his father that he never knew.
- A young woman (Lilith), living in the here and now, lives supposedly aimless in the world. Everything is open to her and yet she cannot decide how to live her life. Spontaneously, Lilith visits her older brother in Cologne. She helps him move into a new flat and for a short moment believes to have found the right place to stay and live. However, an in - describable desire pulls her unexpectedly back into reality. Among highways, remarkable forests and paltry parking spots, she meets showman Hans, whom she trusts and follows into a strange colorful life in an amusement park.
- 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?
- It is only the second time that Indonesians can vote for their own president. Can the power of a small elite really be overthrown by the power of many, or is real democracy just an ideal?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Hashish
- For Johanna, a vacation in Piecht is anything but relaxing. While her mother dreams of an alternative life, a real nightmare unfolds for her. She tries to get to the bottom of what is happening,but encounters brutal resistance.
- 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".
- 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.
- His grandmother's death brings Hansel from San Francisco back to Cuba to take care of his brother Marcos. With the help of an old family game, Hansel attempts to restore his brother's trust that has been lost over the years.
- He spies with his little eye something that is - you.
- A snail invents the wheel and goes through a cultural evolution to finally get back to its origin.
- A man is unable to sleep and decides to count his dreams in order to fall asleep.
- For three months Tomo had lived and worked for the Neumanns, a normal middle-class family. Now the robot is lying on the floor of the swimming pool. What went wrong?
- 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.
- Thirteen-year-old Julia has no desire to go on a trip with her father and his new girlfriend. Especially not in the Cologne cable car. But then, in the cabin, she meets Sven, a blind boy.
- In Geneva the offices of Iraqi Airlines have been abandoned.Neighborhood residents are interviewed and tell stories of strange happenings that took place there.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A young boy finds himself in a dilemma of choosing between social peer pressures or making a moralistic decision.
- Sanya and Schulz are two Russian painters in Germany. Unlike ordinary craftsmen, they have their very own way of working. During a job that Schulz documents with a camcorder, everything seems to be as it always is, until the two painters make an unexpected discovery.
- 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.
- Thrypp Foundation director Ursula has to run the show and keep the company's reputation clean during a foreign government meeting. But a corruption investigation led by journalist Hannah is set to challenge Ursula's master plan.
- 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.
- Keywan receives a call from a woman in Iran asking him to find her son Ashkan in Cologne, whom she hasn't reached for three days. Despite having minimal interaction with Ashkan, Keywan accepts the request.