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Twelve years after he fled, career criminal Trojan returns to Berlin. A valuable painting is set to be stolen in the city. But the meticulously planned heist soon runs out of control.
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The undercover investigator Robert is supposed to win the trust of a criminal through a fictitious relationship with Leni. However, the feelings are not just a game. It is the spied criminal, of all people, who makes him confront his contradictory feelings…
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A través de un extenso material de archivo y entrevistas con aquellos que la conocen, esta es la impresionante historia de cómo una inadaptada por partida tripe -mujer, científica y alemana del Este- se convirtió en la líder del mundo libre.
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Bewildering, amusing, insightful: Anke Engelke acts out eight authentic interviews, assembling them into a gigantic mosaic about motherhood.
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Anna is 60 and her acting heyday is now behind her. She lives on her own but has a friend and confidant in her downstairs neighbour Michel, who is also single. Reluctantly, Anna accepts a job as a language coach for 17-year-old Adrian who has a speech impediment and is something of a misfit. She recognises him as the boy who recently snatched her handbag in the street.
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El profesor Bachman y su clase es un documental íntimo que retrata el vínculo entre un profesor de primaria y su alumnado. Sus métodos poco convencionales chocan con las complejas realidades sociales y culturales de la ciudad industrial alemana en la que viven.
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El profesor Bachman y su clase es un documental íntimo que retrata el vínculo entre un profesor de primaria y su alumnado. Sus métodos poco convencionales chocan con las complejas realidades sociales y culturales de la ciudad industrial alemana en la que viven.
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Professor Karl Michaeli is a former star cellist and grantler , as he is in the book. After the death of his beloved wife Maria in 2014, the retired music professor lives alone in a three-room apartment in Vienna. To his displeasure, several foreign families are housed in his apartment building. The widowed, free-spirited apartment building owner Esther Polgar also houses refugees in his home. These are a special thorn in Karl's side.
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Ava is far from happy about having to move in with her mother again after finishing college. A lot has changed since she was a child. Her old room is occupied by her mother's home exercise machine, and Ava's friends have their own lives to worry about. However, her mother has found a new boyfriend who is not much older than Ava herself. Ava finds herself without any prospects for the future and doesn't quite know what to do with her life.
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Astrid is in her late forties and has her life firmly under control. She has fallen in love with Paul, and their first weekend trip together takes them to Budapest for a few romantic days, just the two of them. But in the Hungarian capital things happen differently than they'd planned: They run into Julius, Astrid's first great love, whom she'd met at an artists' party in East Germany in 1986.
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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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A father tries to rekindle his relationship with his son after years of absence and lack of communication. He takes him on a car ride across northern Norway, hoping it is not too late.
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Stories about citizens of a big city who encounter a variety of fates as a result of their difficulties in communicating with each other.
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An anarchist young woman breaks the tacit contract with civilization and fearlessly decides on a life without hypocrisy or an obligatory safety net.
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One year after Stine's husband died, she reclusive lives with her daughter Stephanie in a suburban villa which falls into disrepair. She encounters the charming craftsman Roger, who makes her an offer right on cue: He consents to carry out repairs as much as necessary, which have to be paid back, only when Stine has the ability to. Instead, he just wants to get a warm meal and an shower at times. Eventually one night. Stine accepts that deal despite she risks her daughter's relationship. Written by Anonymous
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Fabian Groys, a renowned journalist for a political news magazine, enjoys great freedom, since the stories he uncovers make for good sales. When he loses a hot story about the German army, the editor saddles him with a young female intern. Fabian hates teamwork and sticks the intern with what seems a classic tabloid story about the suicide of a man who had himself torn to shreds by a lion at the zoo. But thanks to the intern’s dogged determination, signs emerge that the story Fabian was working on and the gory zoo story are actually interlinked. Is it pure coincidence? And if it isn’t, how can Fabian fight a nebulous enemy?
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Lo curioso de esta película es el hecho de que hasta trece cineastas van a aportar su pequeño granito de arena con la intención de mostrar varias perspectivas acerca de Sarajevo, exhibiendo con ello una serie de lecciones sobre los aspectos más ilusionantes pero también más crueles de dicho territorio en el viejo continente. La trama arranca en el desarrollo de la Primera Guerra Mundial, siguiendo a continuación con muchos de los sucesos ocurridos en uno de los puntos más destacados en lo que se refiere a la evolución histórica de Europa en el siglo XX.
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Nick Gutlicht lives of illegally selling valuable books, owes money to a bunch of other crooks and has to hide from them. By chance he ends up in the mansion of the famous, now very old philosopher Curt Ledig, who despite the age related forgetfulness and pathological kitchen phobia resists to move to his daughter. Nick is hired by the family as watchdog. Now Curt can work on a presentation for the upcoming symposium, which anybody thinks he's capable of anymore. Nick thinks he has an excellent hiding place. This partnership of convenience of the two individuals quickly develops its own momentum. Curt regards Nick as an exciting research object and subjects him to an absurd therapy. For Nick it's a unique opportunity to fund his finances with Curt's phenomenal library. The strange couple is going through turmoil of incalculable proportions.
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Agnes, a teacher from the Hessian provinces, has come to Berlin to identify a dead girl who might be Lydia, her runaway daughter. It turns out not to be Lydia, but Agnes stays in the city anyway. Still frantically looking, she comes a young stray called Ines who no longer leaves her side...
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Agnes, a teacher from the Hessian provinces, has come to Berlin to identify a dead girl who might be Lydia, her runaway daughter. It turns out not to be Lydia, but Agnes stays in the city anyway. Still frantically looking, she comes a young stray called Ines who no longer leaves her side...
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Días de verano en la Riviera Francesa. Una villa con vistas al mar en lo alto de una colina. Merle acepta la invitación de su amante pero al llegar ahí sólo están sus hijos, Emma y Felix. No saben nada de la relación de su padre. Una guerra silenciosa pero constante por el statu quo comienza. Merle lucha por la posibilidad de un futuro socialmente prometedor, el cual se va desvaneciendo delante de sus ojos.
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Matei lives with his grandfather in Romania. His parents have gone to work in Italy. After arguing with his grandfather, he leaves. A poignant, beautifully shot film on the illusions and disillusionments of childhood.
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Frank Molesch, un asesino convicto, aprovecha la oportunidad para huir y se esconde en el bosque. Sin embargo, el asilamiento y la certeza de que es buscado por la policía, lo trastornan y el miedo comienza a agobiarlo. La policía utiliza todos su recursos para encontrarlo; al final, es un detective enfermo quien más se acerca a la verdad.
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Several street children in Berlin talk about their daily life, referring not only to drug addiction and physical/traumatic injuries, but also to their talents and dreams.
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A man travels to Berlin because his ex girlfriend is in a coma. He takes their son, Manuel. The father goes to the clinic often and Manuel feels out of place, so he prefers to ride his skateboard through the city in winter. The speechless and motionless body of the woman disturbs father and son, each one in his own way. The son faces the libidinous turbulences of becoming an adult, while the father suffers the physical discomforts of his age. A confrontation of different body images within an environment of emotional distance and the coldness of the city.
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At the Paris airport Orly, a woman falls for a stranger, a family heads to a funeral, a couple lose touch, a wife reads her husband’s break-up letter. All wait for their planes. Absorbed in their immediate fates, they move through the impeccably structured space, unaware of a looming threat outside.
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Johannes Rettenberger es una persona introvertida que pasa sus últimas días en la cárcel preparándose como un gran atleta. Cuando sale se presenta a los diferentes campeonatos nacionales en su país, Austria, donde aparece como la gran revelación local. Una misteriosa fuerza, una gran capacidad de sacrificio parece que le empujan a ganar, pero de dónde proviene esa superación es un misterio. Mientras consigue pasar inadvertido en su reintregración en la sociedad, aprovechará sus cualidades para seguir haciendo lo que antaño, robar bancos. Una historia sentimental o la sombra del agente de la condicional serán algunos de los elementos que puedan truncar su camino. (FILMAFFINITY)
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"In the Shadows" slithers through underworld Berlin in grand style. En route to a twisty finale, German writer-director Thomas Arslan keeps his audience glued to the increasingly desperate actions of Trojan, a thirtysomething career criminal whose latest job slowly catches up with him.
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Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.
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Melanie Straub lives aimlessly into the day, or more accurately: into a Saturday. She′s alone at home, surrounded by the emptiness of her new life.
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A family spends three summer days in a beautiful lake mansion close to Berlin. Together with her new lover, Irene visits her brother Alex, who still inhabits the house with Irene's writer son Konstantin. Konstantin's girl-friend pops in, too, and all of them drift away from each other more and more.
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A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take the role of a mother.
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Johannes, a new assistant at the university, is asked to provide reports on an Algerian colleague - who is suspected of being a sleeper. He refuses, but the seed of doubt has been planted. A fragile friendship which is overshadowed by professional and emotional competition eventually leads to betrayal.
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Great feelings about a selfless young doctor on the wrong path of passion: On the eve of the First World War, Ernst is betrayed and betrayed by the two women to whom he gives his heart. He serves in World War I, gets injured, gives himself up. His love for a Polish countess saves him. But the lover dies in childbirth and the supposedly common daughter is not his. His world finally collapses when even his beloved father robs him of the glory of a medical discovery. And yet he finds the strength to continue the fight for his happiness.
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Marseille describes an interlude in the life of young Berlin photographer Sophie. Wanting a change, Sophie does an apartment swap, so she can go photograph the city of Marseille, and most of all get away from Berlin.
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Jost roams through the streets of Berlin. He opposes the world enraged, aggressively and furiously in a self-destructive way. He continuously provokes situations proving to himself that everybody hates him. He is convinced he does not need anybody and does not let anyone get close to him. Anna is walled in by her fear and unable to leave her apartment. She manages to keep this situation from all the others in a system of lies. Her reserves draw to a close. She heads for a catastrophe. One day, Jost shows up at her door.
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After the dashing Bavarian Lena Mayerhofer catches her future husband having a fling with her bridesmaid, she flees to Berlin to take over her Aunt Käthe's long-established bakery. Her gay friend Donald is there to give her advice and support.
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Dos jóvenes mujeres sentadas en una cafetería un día de verano. Situaciones que se encuentran todos los días unas mil veces. Pero, ¿qué ocurre cuando intentas describir esa normalidad?
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Lynn (22) lives with her brother in Berlin. There she enjoys the advantages of family life, without really feeling involved in it. She does not have any precise aim in life, but manages to awaken the interest of many people with her direct and spontaneous character. Her boyfriend David is very different: he is entirely engrossed in his very disciplined swimming training for the world championships. David does not intend to allow himself to be distracted by the complicating factors of a relationship with Lynn. When Lynn, working behind the till of restaurant, meets the Japanese student Koji, everything gets more complicated. They can't exchange many words, but it is soon clear that their moments together mean a lot to both of them.
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Adam es un compositor de éxito con una gran casa de campo al lado de un bonito lago. En motivo de su 60 cumpleaños, Adam prepara algo verdaderamente especial. Invita a las siete mujeres más importantes de su vida, para compartir con ellas siete días maravillosos. En última instancia también asiste su hijo, al que no había visto desde hacía 15 años.
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Mimmi is a very lonely girl, not knowing what to do with her life. On the search for friends and boyfriends, she wanders around alone in different cities.
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A young photographer has fallen in love with his girlfriend's sister. Nobody knows quite what to do. A stylish variation on the problems of triolism made with striking stability of style and a great feeling for mise-en-scène.
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Drama of four friends who spend time together in the country when one of them meets a man who claims to be Jesus Christ who wants to share the love secret of the universe with her and so he impregnates her, dies in her bed, and then totally disappears, leaving the friends unsure if it all happened
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An American film-critic flies to Berlin to investigate about the life of German film-maker Murnau. After meeting his former girlfriend and finding a statue near Murnau´s tomb, begins a strange mystic journey through time and space: a romantic unification of ancient and modern world, suspicions and memories, art and life. And the critic is about to learn something new of himself...
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Film by Wolfgang Schmidt.
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The obscure philosopher Georg Hermes almost withdrew from the world to concentrate on his studies, especially Heraclitus, having no relationship since his mother's death. When he wants a new suit for a lecture (actually very minor) about his new book, he meets the sisters Franziska, Breate and Marthe, who run a boutique, share a house and have a lover each. Those invite Georg to dinner, Franziska even on dates. Falling off a boat he gets naked with her, and they become lovers. The girls all take to Hermes and get him to move in, spoiled by all and offered polygamy.
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A man is released from jail end starts an affair with a married woman.
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In the darkroom, 50 unexposed film strips were laid across a surface, upon which a frame of "La sortie des ouvrier de l'usine Lumière" was projected. The stringing together of the individual developed sections make up the new film, which reads the original frame like a page from a musical score: within the strips from top to bottom and sequentially from left to right.