2011-2020

Veit Helmer’s sizzling ‘behind the scenes’ exposé of the casting business and how acting hopefuls break into show biz.Read More »

When her husband Cemal is arrested in Romania, Emine is left alone with their child who needs immediate surgery.Read More »

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In contemporary Indonesia, religious radicalisation is playing an increasingly important role. The banned Indonesian Islamic State (NII) successfully recruits among young people who don’t have any prospects of training or work. Nugroho tells three different stories: that of the girl Rima, who emerges as a valuable staff member of the NII; Jabir, who quits school for lack of money and returns to his parents, and Asimah, the mother of Ainsi, who has been kidnapped by the NII.Read More »

O Tasqueiro is a somewhat forgotten Aki Kaurismäki short. Originally shot in 2012, then released for the first time in a TV showing in 2018, this dialogue-free short chronicles the tragic and comedic life of a barkeep in an old Portuguese village, attempting to find love and keep up with the changing times. All of this is showcased in the trademark Kaurismäki style, with visual flair and melancholy.Read More »

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Tadeusz has devoted his life to photography, especially photo reportages. Now he has grown old and passes on his art to Michal, a highly motivated 15-year-old. They go on a trip together, travelling through Polish villages in their van with the built-in dark chamber, portraying the people they meet. Their black-and-white photos add up to a visual travel diary. Piotr Stasik has found his own poetic way of capturing the work of Tadeusz Rolke, who used to work for “Spiegel” and “Stern”: as a documentary road movie that also seems to be a trip through time. From the start this enterprise radiates an old-fashioned quality. And this is not just about the good old analogue image. When the developed photos are strung across the empty market square on a clothesline, they enable simple encounters that could never happen on Facebook.Read More »

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In one fell swoop, nine-year-old David Van de Steen lost his mother, his father and his sister in an attack by the Brabant Killers in Aalst. His grandfather, Albert, has the well-nigh impossible task of giving David a new perspective on life, a future.Read More »

A young woman, played by Martha Plimpton, learns of her adoption and eventually quits her law firm job in NYC and goes on a journey to find her birth mother – played by Jacqueline Bisset.Read More »

A robber regrets having brutally hit an elderly woman in order to snatch off her handbag and attempts to make up for the damage he inflicted. But his past deeds as snatch thief hunt him, keeping him from restarting his life anew.Read More »

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Miguel is a 14-year-old kid about to go back to a centre for minors. His mother, out of work and with an unstable personal life, is incapable of taking care of him. This is why Miguel lives in a state of constant urgency, doing the housework, selling Kleenex or stealing from supermarkets. All this ends when Social Services come for him again, and his mother makes him seek refuge in the house of Bogdan, a Rumanian ex-lover of hers who lives in a nearby town. At the same time, María, the owner of a bar, sympathizes with the boy and gives him the virtually maternal treatment that he does not get in his own home. However, everything is thrust forward when the mother suddenly disappears.(imdb)Read More »