2020s

Ezio Bosso reveals his real self and takes us into his world and his imagination, as if were a diary.Read More »

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Katja, Sascha, Benni, Laila and Schöller. These five young people have more in common than just the fact that they are living in provincial Germany free of parental interference. They have one last winter together before they finish school, then they are supposed to know what they want to do: stay or leave. In between homework and smoking dope, martial arts training and gossiping about deflowering people, they explore their feelings in all kinds of different relationships, searching for each other, hiding, kissing and fighting. They want to live, to conquer the world and find out who they really are. They are young and exude an enviable naturalness when it comes to gender identities and roles, above all Katja, played by Marie Tragousti with a lot of new female power. Melanie Waelde’s feature debut is tremendously intense and vibrant. Going beyond cuteness, she draws these “naked animals” with a raw, sensual and sensitive openness rarely seen in German cinema. On the cusp between the end of childhood and burgeoning maturity, body and soul are still more or less united. Just like loneliness and intimacy. We are vulnerable – and that’s a good thing.Read More »

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The film is a surreal comedy based on a reinterpretation of Robinson Crusoe, speaking of current affairs through visual poetry and symbolism. The film is a colorful, poetic and funny musical fable.Read More »

Toko Suguri is married and they have a lovely daughter. She doesn’t have any major problems in her life. One day, Toko Suguri meets her former lover, Akihiko Kurata, at a friend’s wedding. They haven’t seen each other in ten years. Toko Suguri indulges in a sexual relationship with Akihiko Kurata.Read More »

Vural’s life is the epitome of mundanity. He performs his duties as a father to a young boy, a husband, and a caring son to his sick father, with whom he runs a photography shop across the American Consulate in Istanbul. Yet, Vural has a secret, a minor transgression of his faith: an affair with Sonay, a young woman who visits his shop for passport pictures she needs in order to apply for a visa to the US. In her emotional distress, she confronts Vural, putting a threat on his uncomplicated living. Vural is faced with a hard choice between to deal with the consequences of this relationship or go down the dark path of dealing with his complete loss of morality.Read More »

When the misanthropic tile salesman Lothar is diagnosed with a terminal disease, he sells his business and gives his dog and all his money to an animal shelter and checks into a hospice, where it turns out that he was misdiagnosed.Read More »

When the police refuse to investigate their daughter’s alleged suicide, two computer-illiterate parents decide to design a protest banner. Based on the infamous Miryang case in South Korea which shocked the nation in 2004 and continues to fuel public outrage even today.Read More »

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Can witnesses a murder in a small town. The police don’t allow him to leave after his testimony. On the other hand, a quarantine is declared due to rabid dogs. The whole town turns into purgatory with no exit is almost at the edge of insanity.Read More »

When Luisa, 45, returns from a psychiatric clinic after a bout with severe postpartum depression, she enters a new confinement in her dazzling home, surrounded by family members and a brigade of servants who expect her struggles to remain invisible. Unable to continue playing the role of the perfect housewife, Luisa’s only escape is to waltz elegantly into madness.Read More »