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“Emmett − Tief in meinem Herzen” (“Emmett – Deep in My Heart”) is a film with theatrical elements, telling the story of the 14-year-old Black teenager Emmett Till, who became the victim of a racist murder in Mississippi, USA, in 1955. This murder is considered the spark for the civil rights movement in the USA as well as a global, public-media confrontation with racism. Emmett’s story is not an exclusively Black or American story. Emmett had to die because he (allegedly) whistled after a White woman, while his killers were acquitted by an all-male, all-White jury, only to openly admit to the murder in an interview a short time later. “Cases like Emmett's are repeated in Germany and around the world. They affect us all – they are the stories of each and every one of us. Almost 70 years after Emmett Till’s murder, we live in a world that is still shaped by structural racism.

Hunting down the murderer of their families in an anarchic Berlin of the near future, the outlaws Tan and Javid find themselves trapped in the wicked fairytale of a mysterious screenplay that entangles them in a vicious circle of revenge - apparently all written by a clueless dentist.

In Ethiopia, Frank Michalka has found a new home and left his criminal past behind. But happiness does not last long and the former offender must go back to Germany. Once there, he immediately falls back into old patterns and robbed a bank.

Jesus, a forty-year-old man, accompanies his mother Maria to a choir retreat. The Catholic code of conduct could well be maintained, if it weren’t for the temptations of the world outside.

이제 막 성인이 된 열아홉 살 헬렌은 어린 시절부터 엄마의 이해 못할 히스테릭과 아빠의 무관심으로 상처 입은 후 독특한 세계관을 갖게 된다. 그것은 자신의 몸으로 다양한 성적인 도전과 실험을 하는 것. 처음 만난 남자에게 자신을 맛(?) 보게 하고, 세상의 가장 더러울 것 같은 화장실을 자신의 몸(?)으로 청소하는 등 헬렌의 독특한 세계관은 주변사람을 당황하게 만들곤 한다. 특히 부모님의 이혼 후 헬렌의 도전과 실험은 더욱 왕성해진다. 헬렌은 어느 날 전신 면도 중 중요부위를 다쳐 병원에 입원하게 된다. 병원에서 헬렌은 엽기적이고 발랄한 자신의 상상을 남자 간호사 로빈에게 털어놓으며 자신의 상처로부터 벗어나려 애쓰지만 현실은 더욱 암울하기만 하다. 결국 헬렌은 가족의 화해를 위해 자신에게 위험한 선택을 한다. 헬렌의 엽기 발랄한 도전은 어떻게 될까?