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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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hashish
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A married couple is taken out of sleep and threatened with a loaded crossbow by a bizarre shape (Anti Cupid). But Anti Cupid does not rob the couple, but apparently only talk to them. But soon it turns out that Anti Cupid knows more about the couple ...
- 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.
- Three short events merge to a novel about powerlessness, where the protagonists experience a physical, cultural and climatic hell on the Turkish Aegean Sea.
- After an accident Herman learns that he suffers from the rare Kahnawake syndrome, which causes him that the emotion "fear" falls out whereby he is forced to try out all phobias to become normal again.
- 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".
- Turkish Kraut is a documentary film portrait of two young families with German-Turkish background, who live in the Ruhr region. The families open up their private living space and invite the viewer to take part and experience their lives, with the hope of dismantling prejudice and cultural misunderstandings. The film shows, with the typical humor of the region, that despite social and religious differences, love knows no bounds.
- 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.
- 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.
- The scene is the FC Basel stadium, the actors are the team supporters and the star is Tobias Haufner, their cheerleader. His task is to make them shout, and chant in unison in order to electrify the players and lead them to the victory. When all the fans sing together, they feel high, they feel as one, involving the spectators before their screens. Isn't that wonderful? But isn't this exhilaration a temporary loss of awareness as well, maybe the fist step to fascism?
- Every weekend at an illegal drag show in a suburb of Havana, Sebastián, a 17 year old Cuban teenager, transforms into »Mila Caos«. He suffers from his mother's indifference and dreams that one day she will see him on stage.
- Through a little accident with his bike, Henning meets Elli, a young woman in a wheelchair. Very soon they start a stormy affair with one another. Henning, the young doctor, is attracted by her unusual and direct kind - he falls in love with her. As he wants to surprise Elli, Henning travels to visit her - just to learn upon arrival that Elli was just faking her disability.
- 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.
- "If stammering were allowed, I would stammer loudly and proudly. I... I... I... I... I... am Emil an... an... an... an... an... and I stammer. I sta... sta... sta... sta... sta... stammer."
- 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.
- 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.