Luc Feit

Berlín, 1942. Cioma Schönhaus es un joven judío de 21 años que se ha propuesto que nadie, ni siquiera los nazis, le quite su entusiasmo por la vida. Para escapar de la deportación, Cioma utiliza la identidad de un oficial de la marina, descubriendo así que tiene un talento oculto para falsificar no sólo pasaportes y documentos, sino también su propia identidad.

Paul Baumer y sus amigos Albert y Muller, incitados por sueños románticos de heroísmo, se alistan voluntariamente en el ejército alemán. Llenos de emoción y fervor patriótico, los muchachos marchan con entusiasmo hacia una guerra en la que creen. Pero una vez en el frente occidental, descubren el horror destructor del alma de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

In the German comedy Jagdsaison, a wellness weekend for three friends is in danger of derailing: Marlene is in a serious midlife crisis and is looking for a sex date. She accompanies the divorced Eva and her ex-husband's new wife to protect them from stupid things. Unfortunately, the three seem to attract chaos almost magically.

When Ulja (12) is prevented from pursuing her passion, astronomy, she decides to take matters into her own hands. With a stolen hearse and a 13-year-old classmate as a driver, she makes her way across Eastern Europe to watch the impact of an asteroid. In doing so, she not only has to shake off her persecutors, but also her pragmatic view of friendship and family.

Una terapeuta pierde el control de la realidad cuando un niño de diez años afirma que puede controlar su futuro.

Like every year, André, manager of a company named ALTER NATIVE that furnishes sanitary article, invites his seven employees to a quietly festive Christmas weekend. Yet, unlike the years before, André has bad news. He is terminally ill and wants to hand over his company to one of them. He will announce his successor in the course of the weekend. His collaborators immediately turn into competitors. When his own son, Philippe, whom nobody knew about, makes a sudden appearance, cards are redistributed, but suspicion quickly arises that André plays a deceptive game. While his employees, in a crazy race behind the back of the others, try to make their mark, Philippe tries to understand the obscure game his father is playing. And what role does the hotel owner play in all this? Jingle bells? Jingle bells!

Like every year, André, manager of a company named ALTER NATIVE that furnishes sanitary article, invites his seven employees to a quietly festive Christmas weekend. Yet, unlike the years before, André has bad news. He is terminally ill and wants to hand over his company to one of them. He will announce his successor in the course of the weekend. His collaborators immediately turn into competitors. When his own son, Philippe, whom nobody knew about, makes a sudden appearance, cards are redistributed, but suspicion quickly arises that André plays a deceptive game. While his employees, in a crazy race behind the back of the others, try to make their mark, Philippe tries to understand the obscure game his father is playing. And what role does the hotel owner play in all this? Jingle bells? Jingle bells!

Like every year, André, manager of a company named ALTER NATIVE that furnishes sanitary article, invites his seven employees to a quietly festive Christmas weekend. Yet, unlike the years before, André has bad news. He is terminally ill and wants to hand over his company to one of them. He will announce his successor in the course of the weekend. His collaborators immediately turn into competitors. When his own son, Philippe, whom nobody knew about, makes a sudden appearance, cards are redistributed, but suspicion quickly arises that André plays a deceptive game. While his employees, in a crazy race behind the back of the others, try to make their mark, Philippe tries to understand the obscure game his father is playing. And what role does the hotel owner play in all this? Jingle bells? Jingle bells!

Regine (Amber Anderson) es una mujer muy frágil psicológicamente que se esconde en la ciudad, lejos de la oscura zona rural en la que pasó su traumática infancia. Lucha por construir la familia que nunca tuvo y por superar su pasado, pero por encima de todo, de dejar atrás el desastroso nacimiento de su hermano Isaac, que se saldó con la muerte del bebé y con una madre que perdió la cordura. Por desgracia, la ciudad es hostil y estresante, con sus propias amenazas. Una abusiva relación con el psiquiatra que trata a su madre pone al límite su vida hasta que un día un trágico acontecimiento sacude por completo su estabilidad mental: el brutal asesinato de su abuela. Esto plantea una nueva y dolorosa pregunta: ¿está su hermano vivo y planea vengarse de la familia que una vez le dio la espalda?

In order to save tiny Luxembourg from a cosmic catastrophe, a civil servant in a midlife crisis has to find back his lost superpowers and face his biggest fear: his family.

Kurt Barnert es un joven estudiante de arte en la Alemania del Este. Está enamorado de su compañera de clase, Ellie. El padre de ella, el Professor Seeband, un famoso médico, no aprueba la relación de su hija y está decidido a destruirla. Lo que ninguno de ellos sabe es que sus vidas están conectadas por un terrible crimen cometido hace décadas.

El conocido como "El carnicero de Vilnius", Franz Murer, es un ex oficial austriaco de las SS que estableció, organizó y gobernó el gueto de Vilna. Diferentes supervivientes de la Shoah testifican, esperando hacer justicia y la evidencia es abrumadora, pero el deseo de cerrar este oscuro capítulo de la historia parece superar el deseo de justicia.

La película está ambientada en 1521 en Amberes, en una Europa devastada por guerras religiosas y durante los primeros años de la Reforma. Cuenta la historia de Falko Voeten, de doce años. Cuando el padre de Falko, Klaas Voeten, un impresor de literatura prohibida, es capturado por la Inquisición para imprimir una carta escrita por Maarten Luther; Falko es impulsado involuntariamente a ayudar a su padre y a buscar la carta. Amenazado por la Inquisición pero ayudada por Marieke, una niña huérfana católica de las alcantarillas subterráneas, Falko se enfrenta a una carrera contra el tiempo si quiere salvar a su padre de la ejecución por herejía.

When the ambitious Philip takes over the running of the family business from his father, he finds himself confronted by the mysterious reappearance of his dead ancestors. In the course of a long night, during which there is a murder, an illicit love affair and a game with false identities, Philip uncovers a closely guarded family secret.

Viena, Austria, 1910. El joven pintor Egon Schiele es un artista en alza, provocador y libre, cuya obra, caracterizada por el erotismo, escandaliza tanto como fascina a los amantes del arte.

The adolescent Milan discovers his own suspected homosexuality at the age of 17 and the consequences for him and his family but also the liberation as he understands why he has been so down and rebellious.

Urs Blank (Moritz Bleibtreu), un importante abogado, atraviesa una crisis tras el suicido de un hombre de negocios al que arruinó. Atormentado y lleno de remordimientos, en su huida y búsqueda de nuevas experiencias pierde el control de su vida, y emerge su lado más oscuro. Entonces comienza su confrontación con el diablo, encarnado en un feroz empresario farmacéutico (Jürgen Prochnow).

Mid-fifties Anne Marie Fuchs lives modestly and withdrawn in Düsseldorf. When a murder happens, it becomes clear that the inconspicuous lady, who is always in short supply, seems to be an absolute investigator with a razor-sharp mind. No wonder, because Anne Marie Fuchs is a former East German spy, especially one who still has a bill from her active time open.

In February 1945, Jules Ternes returns to Luxembourg. To escape conscription, he fled the country and joined the resistance movement in France. Back in his hometown, Jules hopes to find peace of mind and put the war behind him. But he returns to a country devastated by the Battle of the Bulge and deeply divided from four years of occupation. His sister Mathilde is now engaged to Armand, the leader of the local resistance and his girlfriend Leonie has another man in her life. Jules nevertheless resumes a relationship with her and accepts a post as an auxiliary policeman. When Leonie is assassinated along with the German farmers she works for, the life Jules was struggling to rebuild collapses. The ensuing investigation will reveal grey areas of the Occupation along with the efforts made in high places to cover them up.

Is. This. My. Son? No matter how often Tobias Wilke poses this question, there's always only one answer: Yes! Tobias, can't believe his eyes when he comes to the airport to pick up his 17-year-old son Finn – and learns that Finn is now calling herself Helen and wearing girls' clothes. Finn/Helen reveals that she's always was a girl, and that she used her year abroad in San Francisco to pass the "everyday life" test. This is required by law for everyone preparing for the sex reassignment surgery they will undergo upon reaching majority. Reactions from Helen's friends, acquaintances and schoolmates cover the entire gamut from derision to solidarity. Especially Helen's father, a well-known chef, finds it difficult to accept a situation he cannot understand. But Helen nearly always finds the right words - and humor - to counterbalance the ignorance and jeers of those around her. It is the beginning of a long, winding road towards the sexual identity she is convinced is hers.

Ana es una joven madre que tiene que trabajar y al mismo tiempo criar a sus dos bebés gemelos, una situación que esconde al director de su nuevo trabajo porque él no quiere tener empleadas con cargas familiares. Cuando por fin él se entera decide despedir Anna, pero justo entonces sufre un accidente que le hace perder del todo la memoria. Una ocasión que ella aprovechará para darle una lección

Durante la ocupación alemana de Holanda, en 1943, en plena II Guerra Mundial, Tuur y Lambert son los mejores amigos. Sin ser del todo conscientes de la situación en que vive su pequeña ciudad, juegan a la guerra por el bosque y van al colegio con aparente normalidad. Pero todo eso va a cambiar pronto, entre otras cosas por la llegada de una nueva alumna a la escuela, de la que ambos quedan prendados sin saber que su destino está marcado. Inevitablemente, Tuur, cuya familia tiene lazos secretos con la Resistencia, y Lambert, cuyos padres colaboran con los alemanes, verán puesta a prueba su amistad, cuando el primero descubra que incluso la vida de su familia está en peligro.

It’s the early 1950s and little Franzi is growing up in the small Austrian town of Judenburg. Her oppressive family home is dominated by her feverish and mentally ill father, who is rigid and unpredictable. Her father, who regularly delivers halves of pork for the butcher, spent several years in the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Algeria and Syria – a period which he partly glorifies but which still also haunts him. Franzi immerses herself in this world by looking at an abundance of beguiling yet disturbing photographs taken at the time by her father. Her own childish fantasy realm of fairy tales and picture books soon intermingle with nightmares as reality merges with imagination, war, horror and beauty.

A finales de la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), a un selecto grupo de historiadores, directores de museos y expertos en arte, tanto británicos como norteamericanos, se les encomienda la importante y peligrosa misión de recuperar las obras de arte robadas por los nazis durante la guerra para devolvérselas a sus legítimos propietarios. Era una misión imposible: las obras estaban muy bien custodiadas y el ejército alemán tenía orden de destruirlas en cuanto el Reich cayera. Pero aquellos hombres, en una carrera contrarreloj, arriesgaron sus vidas para evitar la destrucción de miles de años de cultura de la humanidad.

A young man goes on a road trip with an old lady he saves from a hospital.

Alaska Johansson is the perfect woman and she is the best in her profession as a headhunter. One day she is fired by her boss, a married man who she has an affair with. He also tells her that their relationship has no future. She decides that her best option is to commit suicide with a poison cocktail. She is saved when a child in a Halloween costume enters her apartment demanding sweets. Something is not right about the child. Later her neighbor is going to tell here that there never was a child. Alaska’s world is turning upside down, her perceptions seem to be merely illusions. When her car starts to act on its own and causes a crash, she becomes convinced that someone is conspiring against her. Or is there another, darker secret in Alaska’s life?

Gabriel Chevalier, 45 years old, is an ex-policeman. Unemployed, lonely and depressed,he lives like a ghost and hardly takes care of his only teenage child Juliette. One day, by pure chance, he finds a suspicious but extremely well paid job: his daily mission consists of delivering a briefcase exactly where he is told. The only rule being to never open it. These deliveries will bring him to meet weird people in strange places. Gradually, his cop instinct resurfaces...

A young woman has the idea of setting up her boyfriend with a very wealthy but sickly lady to claim her inheritance.

Police officer Tom Faber was found shot to death in his car behind the stadium. Inspector Hastert (André Jung) from the criminal police leads the investigation and searches for the murderer together with Olivier (Jules Werner), the brother of the murdered man, who is also a police officer. After an initial clue that led to the drug milieu, a prostitute appears who is said to be in a relationship with Tom and who has given him a key to a place where something important is hidden. It turns out that in a locker in the sacristy of the National Library is a file with documents that indicate Tom was on the trail of an influential businessman's sordid dealings before his death. But Olivier still doesn't see what lies behind the dead end of the investigation...

¡Finalmente Verano! Jeff no puede esperar a que sus mejores amigos, Julia y Leo lleguen con sus padres al camping. Los tres pasan un tiempo muy unidos y provocan en Jeff un cambio de su vida monótona con su malhumorado padre sobreprotector. Dado que la madre de Jeff murió, los dos viven solos, a los pies de un antiguo castillo, que se vende a la misteriosa Duc de Barry. Pero no sólo la inminente llegada de los nuevos señores arremolina este año una cierta confusión en la vida de Jeff. La misteriosa leyenda de la maldición de Melusina, una hermosa sirena, los lleva a él y a sus amigos en busca de un tesoro escondido en una emocionante aventura.

Walter, un asesino profesional algo torpe, ha fastidiado un trabajo y debe huir de la ciudad. Cuando Berger, el líder del crimen organizado local le ofrece vivir un tiempo en su casa de los Cárpatos para protegerle, Walter acepta sin pensárselo dos veces e invita a que le acompañe a su viejo amigo Mickey. Cuando después de una juerga muere por accidente Sybille, la joven esposa del mafioso, lo que parecía una agradable escapada con un trabajo sencillo se convierte en una lucha por sobrevivir en la nieve.

The story of Johnny Chicago's brother, Ray, and his friend Chuck Moreno, both petty criminals. The latter wants to take the ashes of Johnny, who was fatally wounded by the police after a bank heist, to Chicago.

It's Adam's first internet date, but when he transmitted his photo to the date, he never received the date's pic in return. So there he is, sitting in a gay bar (a totally alien world for Adam) waiting for his unknown Mr. Right to approach him. He is late, that's for sure. Adam's tension rises with every passing minute. With a little help from the snappy Waiter, Adam tries his best to relax. And finally, Mr. Right appears, or doesn't he?

Guenther y Paul quieren vivir al límite y sin compromisos. Durante un fin de semana que pasan con Hilde, la hermana de Guenther, en una casa de campo, Paul queda fascinado por la chica y se enamora de ella. Aunque parece que ella le corresponde, en realidad, tiene otros amores. Se ve en secreto con Hans, el antiguo amante de Guenther. Mientras, en compañía de un grupo de amigos, celebran en el jardín una fiesta bohemia, aparece de improviso Hans y desencadena una montaña rusa de emociones que pronto resulta incontrolable.

Philipp Wagner, un vendedor de coches, tiene un carácter más bien depresivo. Su jefe, que es el hermano de su novia Katja, lo desprecia. Un día, mientras está conduciendo, Philipp choca con la bicicleta de un niño y se escapa. Tiene muchos remordimientos y entra en contacto con Laura, la madre del niño pero no consigue confesar que es el responsable del accidente. Su existencia se vuelve cada vez más dolorosa, como la de Laura.

A young man can't quite commit to his sex-hungry girlfriend. Then he meets a mysterious lady (lady?) in a local bar. Will she find out? And will she care?

In Differdange, in the South of Luxembourg, six unemployed men decide to create the "Dole Club", whose rules forbid its members to work, even in the very unlikely event that they are offered a job. Geronimo, Théid, Frunnes, Sonny Boy, Abbes and Petz all agree to abide by the strict regulations of the club. In accordance with them, they manage to survive. But they can do it only on petty theft and other swindles, which is bound to end badly...

Would you swap your clothes for underwear and even pay for it?

Reunion of six short films having homosexuality as theme: "The Absolution of Anthony", by Dean Slotar, depicting a 16-year-old boy living with a Catholic grandfather in Bronx; "Smear", by Sam Zalutsky, telling the story of a boy who is in love with a straight friend; "Front Room", by Pierre Yves Clouin, an experimental short showing a gay physical relationship; "Fairy Tale", by David Kittredge, when a man decides to introduce his boyfriend to his homophobic family; "Ferkel" or "Piglets", by Luc Feit, showing an old lady who tries to ruin a sexual encounter; and "Stanley Beloved", by Simon Chung, telling the story of a boy who, before going to study abroad, decides to spend a summer day with his best friend.

Two men are on the verge of making love, but an old neighbor does everything she can to ruin their adventure.

The title of the film, set in Luxembourg in 1942, during the Nazi occupation, amalgamates the words Schacko (helmet) and chapeau claque (opera hat). The village, in which it is set, has not yet been feeling the effects of the war at this point.