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Jürgen Friedrich Mahrt (1882-1940) left behind a large collection of taxidermied birds and butterflies, as well as countless photographs, documenting the wildlife habitats of his time, many of which no longer exist today. His great-granddaughter has the collections analyzed by experts.
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La vida de Anfi es una batalla constante. Su trabajo en la construcción no le da el suficiente dinero para mantener a su familia y además se está hartando de él. Por si fuera poco tratar de sobrevivir, su agresivo carácter no ayuda a que las cosas sean un poco más sencillas. Para evitar ser expulsado de su casa, Andi debe reunir 5.000 Euros. Su mujer Sonja, la madre de su hoja Fiou, la más pequeña de los tres, quiere ayudar. Sin embargo, cuando Andie descubre que está dispuesta a emplear sus ahorros para ayudarle, éste entra en cólera. Recibe entonces un ultimátum: o paga la casa o dejará de ver a Fiou. Su único talento está en el boxeo, por lo que decide centrarse en entrenar para participar en un torneo amateur que le podría proporcionar el dinero que tanto necesita
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Dessau, largely destroyed during the war and characterized by emigration since reunification, is demographically one of the oldest cities in Europe. A portrait from two perspectives of its young inhabitants.
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Two boys from different worlds. Of all possible times, the start of summer vacation is when 10-year-old Jona has to move away from Berlin to the German-Czech border with his mother and new stepfather. He's lonely and angry as he inspects his new surroundings. Across the border, he meets Miro, a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy. Jona is fascinated by the confident but taciturn boy, only slowly discovering the fate that's hidden behind Miro's grown-up façade.
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A coming-of-age tale with a difference about the grumpy doctor Annebarbel Buschhaus donning her ice skates again at the age of 58 after an absence of 40 years. Back on the ice, she tries to revive long suppressed childhood dreams – and makes a new friend, Jolina Kuhn, Berlin’s youth figure skating champion. Through her new friend, Annebarbel begins to open up and break away from her dominant mother.
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Composer and filmmaker Christian von Borries' new film Desert of the real visits these contemporary wastelands. In a rich collage of acted scenes and documentary footage, he extends the metaphor of the wasteland to today's medial reality. At the heart of so many holographic simulations and replicas, in a world custom-made for selfie and instagram tweets, he reveals emptiness and potential violence. (David Riff) The only way to trace the distinction between the semblance and the Real is, precisely, to STAGE it in a fake spectacle.
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Una semblanza del desencanto y del fin del amor a través de dos parejas, dos historias separadas por treinta años. Grecia, 1984. Kenneth, inglés, y Theres, alemana. Mochila al hombro, se ganan su sustento cantando en un parque. Cuando Kenneth tiene que partir porque su madre está en el hospital, algo difícil de recuperar se rompe. Treinta años más tarde, Ariane, actriz de televisión, deja a su marido tras una crisis matrimonial. En el Berlín de 2014, ambas historias confluirán.
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Margaret, una mujer divorciada incapaz de superar la pérdida de su hijo adolescente, comienza a encontrar consuelo en Joe, un joven que no tiene hogar y que parece dispuesto a compartir experiencias y tiempo con ella. No obstante, la extraña relación entre ambos adquiere una dimensión más oscura en el momento en el que Joe comienza a involucrarse en una peligrosa pandilla y el marido de Margaret se opone al contacto que une a los dos.
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Loosely inspired by the director’s own memory of a girl’s disappearance from her village, the film follows Arlene, a young factory worker living alone in a rural Irish community.
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Despite having lived in the East German countryside for several months, teenager Lars and his dad, Henrik, are still treated as unwelcome guests. Henrik is building a “marriage barn,” a proposed bed-and-breakfast for newlywed Berliners.
