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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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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".
- 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.
- Hashish
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Two lives in one body. A pregnant woman and her unborn child. On a hot summer day at the lake, the woman explores the transformation of her body and the physical and sentimental connection to her baby.
- 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.
- 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.
- Three short events merge to a novel about powerlessness, where the protagonists experience a physical, cultural and climatic hell on the Turkish Aegean Sea.
- 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 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.
- He spies with his little eye something that is - you.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Paul is nine years old and refuse to speak - only at his grandmother he dares it. When she becomes ill, his world menace break down.
- Alain is an angel: frozen, lawless, instinctively. Her beauty seduces men and women, but whoever gets close to her is only part of her game. Untill she meets a boy who's innocent tenderness melts her - Alain wants to possess this boy.
- A film about deportation-procedures in Germany.
- 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.
- Nico, Kathi and Tessa have not seen their flatmate for days. He is holed up in his room and only comes out in unnoticed moments to ransack the refrigerator. While the 'friends' try to contact him with increasingly drastic means, the already smoldering conflicts break out among themselves. Nico's friend Simon doesn't understand how someone manages to get everyone's undivided attention even though he's not there. Then he learns that his jealousy is not entirely unfounded .
- 'One Long Summer' tells the story of Vroni who, as the summer slowly unfolds, experiences her first love in a small Bavarian village. Apart from the daily monotony of farmhouse chores and shy conversations about boys and sex that she has with her friend Gerti, Vroni finds herself drawn, again and again, to the woods, to the caravan of Ales, the young Czech puppeteer. Using a quiet visual language, with soft almost dream-like sequences, 'One Long Summer' shows the sweet melancholy of first love and the dusty, dragging summers of childhood that seemed to be endless.
- When 19-year Melli gets out of prison after eight months, her entire life has changed. Luckily her friends Aylin, Meryem and Tasha are there for her and want Melli to have a cracking evening.
- A man is unable to sleep and decides to count his dreams in order to fall asleep.