Rian Johnson has announced filming has begun on Knives Out 2. The former Star Wars: The last Jedi director who got nominated for Best Screenplay for his work on the first installment of Knives out, twitted a photo of a camera with the see as background writing: “Aaaaaaaand WE’RE OFF! Day one of filming on the next Benoit Blanc mystery. […]
Somewhere in Berlin. But not just any time, this is here and now. A postman delivers a parcel and, soon afterwards, everything changes. A terrorist attack rocks a family to the core. Maxi – who loses her mother, her brothers and her home – tries to look forward, but is still deeply insecure. Nothing seems to work. Her father is […]
1943, World War II. A long winter is about to begin in the endless territories of the occupied Soviet Union. István Semetka is part of a special Hungarian unit tasked with travelling from village to village looking for partisan groups. One day, while heading towards a remote village, the company falls under enemy fire and their commander is killed. As […]
Mina’s life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband Babak was innocent of the crime for which he was executed. The authorities apologise for the mistake and offer the prospect of financial compensation. Mina starts a silent battle against a cynical system for her own and her daughter’s sake. Just as her money is running out, a […]
Youngho is summoned by his father, who is a doctor. Finding him busy with his patients, one of whom is a famous actor, Youngho has to wait. When his girlfriend Juwon moves to Berlin for her studies, Youngho shows up in the city to surprise her. Through her mother, Juwon has found accommodation at the home of an artist whose […]
When a grave illness strikes down her father Paris, Artemis decides to return home after an absence of some years. Being the sole child of divorced parents, she is the only one who can look after her dad, who requires daily care. Father and daughter embark on a journey into knowledge and revelation, which heralds a new beginning for their […]
Eight-year-old Nelly has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods where her mum, Marion, used to play and where she built the treehouse Nelly has heard so much about. One day her mother suddenly leaves. That is when Nelly meets a girl of […]
A video goes viral. It shows a man and a woman having sex while wearing masks. The woman is, nevertheless, identified. Too bad she is a teacher and supposed to be a role model. And this, moreover, in the post-socialist country of Romanina, but ultimately in any society that is about to get lost in a social network discourse of […]
In this new film by Dominik Graf, we visit Berlin in the early 30’s. A period of shine for the underworld of the metropolis, where brothels are artists’ studios, Nazis are yelling abuse in the streets and Babelsberg is dreaming of producing “psychological cinema”. Our protagonist is the idealist Jakob Fabian. Everybody knows him with his last name, something his […]
Where does one feel at home? In Stadtallendorf, a German city with a complex history of both excluding and integrating foreigners, genial teacher Dieter Bachmann offers his pupils the key to at least feeling as if they are at home. Aged between twelve and fourteen, these pupils come from twelve different nations; some have not quite mastered the German language. […]