Bettina Stucky

When the pictures from Bergamo in Italy go around the world in spring 2020, even non-medical people know what the word pandemic means. The previously unknown Coronavirus is spreading rapidly across the planet. Four days later, exit and contact restrictions also apply in Germany. Since then, the life of the Konstanz intensive care physician Dr. Carolin Mellau and her family on their heads. The female doctor becomes a member of the crisis team and is on duty around the clock to prepare the clinic for the impending emergency. As an anesthesiologist intubating those infected with COVID-19, she herself carries a high risk of infection. Meanwhile, her husband Stefan has to cancel his concerts as a musician, is no longer allowed to teach his music students and is suddenly sitting at home without an income. Teenage daughter Luzy is not allowed to see her Swiss boyfriend because the border is closed. She and brother Tim cannot go to school. But the worst case for the family is yet to come.

Detective Chief Inspector Sörensen is anxious. More precisely, he suffers from a chronic anxiety disorder that makes life difficult for him. That is why he is moving from Hamburg to the Frisian village of Katenbüll, where he hopes for a more peaceful working life. But that is not how the cookie crumbles. The place is grey and bleak, it rains continuously, and the locals are not very enthusiastic in welcoming him. He also finds his new colleagues, Jenni Holstenbeck and Malte Schuster, somewhat suspect. And then things go from bad to worse. Mayor Hinrichs is found dead in his stables. Sörensen quickly realises that there is a lot of bad blood hidden behind the small town's tranquil facade and some well-founded reasons for anxiety...

In Hamburg's Elbtunnel, a man is shot in the middle of a traffic jam in his car. The murder victim obviously belonged to a group trying to discover abandoned places first. The investigators suspect an act of revenge by a competitor.

Lena is in love with her brother Noah. In the desperate attempt to conquer her feelings, she retreats into a world of her own.

François is a literary scholar and drinker. His relationships with women are limited to one year, his life is sufficiently happy. Until the day when charismatic Muslim politician Mohamed Ben Abbes becomes president in France, introduces patriarchy and polygamy and loses his job. In his growing loneliness, Rector Rediger's offer to resume his teaching at the Sorbonne reaches him on one condition: he must convert to Islam.

남성의 보편적인 두려움을 소재로 한 영화. 여자친구인 제시가 임신하자 책임질 자신 없는 다비드는 패닉상태가 된다. 어느 날 기차에서 구타를 당한 뒤 그는 운동과 스테로이드제에 빠져든다. 운동으로 두려움을 극복하는 데에는 성공하지만, 그의 공격적인 행동은 제시와 태어날 아기에게 위협이 된다. (2017년 제22회 부산국제영화제)

1971년, 젊은 주부이자 엄마인 노라는 평범하고 작은 스위스의 마을에서 남편과 두 아들과 함께 살고 있다. 그녀가 사는 이 시골 마을은 68혁명의 격변도 비껴간 곳이다. 노라의 삶 역시 마찬가지로, 그녀는 모두가 좋아하는 조용한 사람이었다. 1971년 2월 7일, 여성 참정권이 국민투표에 부쳐지면서 그녀의 공개적인 투쟁이 시작되기 전까지는... (2017년 제11회 여성인권영화제)

Nama, a teenager from Mali, has crossed desert and sea for his freedom. When Nama is injured in a fight, an old man named Willi lets him move into the house that he used to share with his son Stefan. The father and son have not spoken for years and the three men may have little in common, yet what binds them together is their search for a home where their wounds from present and past can heal.

By-the-book logopaedist Matthias Pretschke, failed husband and father, is the very embodiment of order, who doesn't know what hit him when his wife Petra demands a divorce. Admittedly, he hasn't paid much attention to Petra, nor to their daughter, who's in full puberty, nor to their son, who craves his dad's attention. Petra agrees to give him one week to show them if he can change. And he's in luck: he meets himself, only cooler. Tom Senger is the name of the twin he never knew he had. Though Matthias and Tom look alike, they're completely different. Tom, for example, is a typical actor: arrogant, macho and broke. Matthias decides to switch roles in the hope that Tom can be a worthy replacement for a week. "I'm playing you. Only better," says Tom, who sees right away what's missing in the Pretschke home. As the days go by, it gets more and more difficult to distinguish which one is which. And this may not be bad at all.

The two 15-year-old girls Zoe and Asal are best friends. They are spending their last summer holidays together before the earnestness of life begins. But this summer their friendship is put to the test by the arrival of a backpacker whose name is Kai.

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.

오래된 성에 살고 있는 꼬마 유령의 소원은 단 한 번만이라도 낮 세상을 구경하는 것. 그런데 어느 날 기적처럼 꼬마 유령의 소원이 이루어진다! 하지만 기쁜 것도 잠시, 환한 햇빛에 닿은 꼬마 유령의 몸은 새까맣게 변해버렸다! 마을은 정체불명 새까만 꼬마 유령의 등장에 공포에 휩싸이고, 꼬마 유령은 온 마을 사람들에게 쫓기는 신세가 되어버린다.. 그런 꼬마 유령을 도와줄 사람은 꼬마 유령의 본 모습을 아는 마을의 개구쟁이 삼총사뿐! 과연, 꼬마 유령은 원래의 모습을 되찾을 수 있을까?

크리스마스 이브에 스위스 취리히에 사는 외로운 네 가족에게 일어나는 이야기이다. 매춘부들을 관리하는 사회복지사이지만 남자 친구 몰래 성적 환상을 가지고 다른 사람과 성관계를 하는 주디스, 남편이 매춘을 했음을 알게 된 부유층 임산부 리나, 최근 이혼으로 힘들어하며 매춘을 통해 외로움을 극복하려는 롤프, 남편과 사별하고 남자 친구인 주앙에게 성적 욕망을 품는 마리아, 이들 네 가족의 이야기는 모두 거리에서 매춘부로 일하는 불가리아 출신 미아와 연관이 있다.

In this acutely observed and sharply written debut feature from director Sylvie Michel, the contrasting parenting philosophies of a well-to-do divorcee and his immigrant cleaning lady becomes an angry debate over deeper issues of social class and cultural values when their teenage children disappear after a night on the town. (TIFF)

Investment banker HP has allegedly ridden out the crash of the stock exchange. One evening, on a barbecue event with his banker friends and their wives, HP's Danish au pair girl threatens to blow the whistle on her love affair with HP's married boss. HP wants to please everybody but what was set out to be a gathering amongst friends spins out of control into a night of blackmail and intrigue.