Isabel Meier

It's Lara's 60th birthday, and she has every reason to celebrate: this evening, her son Viktor will be giving the most important piano concert of his career. Lara was, after all, the one who'd mapped out and driven his musical career. Yet Viktor has been unreachable for weeks and nothing indicates that Lara will be welcome at his debut performance. Without further ado, she buys up all the remaining tickets and hands them out to everyone she meets. The more Lara strives to make the evening successful, however, the more events get out of control.

A plea for the liberation of female sexuality in the 21st century. The film questions millennial patriarchal structures, as well as todays omnipresent porn culture. It accompanies five extraordinary women around the globe, reveals universal contexts and shows the successful fight of these courageous women for a self-determined female sexuality and an equal, passionate relationship between the sexes.

Upon suddenly learning of her imminent death, Jacqueline von Kaenel begins to search for the key to her life. Unsparingly, she looks back and discovers how everything is connected; her youth in Franco’s Spain with her mother’s feudal past in eastern Prussia, her desire for music with the one for a dominant and powerful husband. In her ambition to be a perfect mother, she recognizes her fight for identity. But all of a sudden experiences from her childhood in a seemingly happy family crop up turning everything upside down.

She was a muse, model and performer – a star, dazzling and intense. Lady Shiva managed to rise from street prostitution to the top. She lived in the fast lane and died tragically young. Her dream was to become a singer. With her companions, we trace her life during a vibrant time that kindles a yearning and provokes until today. The story of a woman’s meteoric fate and a great dream. An irrepressible desire for freedom in all its beauty and destructive force - and a stirring friendship and love.

Causes and consequences of the assassination that happened in Sarajevo a hundred years ago still continue to reverberate in Europe. On June 28, 1914 Gavrilo Princip assassinated the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Franz Ferdinand sparking World War I that marked the start of the 20th century. As Sarajevo commemorated the centennial of the assassination, different people had different interpretations of what happened in the city a century ago and different emotions about it. ONE DAY IN SARAJEVO tells about various perspectives of the anniversary in Sarajevo combining and contrasting footage filmed by citizens of Sarajevo (with small cameras and mobile phones) with scenes from feature films about the assassination by directors from Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the United Kingdom

How many rounds you do have to spin on the dance floor until all your dreams come true? Eugene, Gino, Christina and their friends are already past their prime. But that doesn't stop them to search for love and sex. They meet in Paris daily in dimly dance clubs where they express their desire for living a full life in togetherness through dancing. And if prince charming is reluctant to appear the well-heeled ladies spent some money for lessons with 'taxi boy' Michel. Michel dances with them for money - and behaves like a real gentleman. In search of love both - men and women - overcome nearly every obstacle, even if in many cases it doesn't bring them closer to their aim.

크로아티아의 '러브아일랜드'에 만삭으로 휴가를 떠나온 브레보와 릴리안 부부. 휴양지에서 둘만의 사랑을 확인하며, 뜻깊은 시간을 보낸다. 그러던 어느날, 옛 동성연인 이었던 매력이 넘치는 플로라를 만나게 된다. 한때 너무 사랑했지만 결국 헤어지게 되었다. 만삭의 몸인 릴리안은 그녀를 잊지 못해 한밤중 플로라를 만나러가고 뜨거운 사랑을 나눈다. 그러던 중 브레보는 매혹적인 플로라 에게 관심을 가지게 되고, 그렇게 셋은 역동적인 사랑의 돌파구에 빠지게 되는데..

The movie focuses on Kristine, an art historian. Kristine's personal life take a dramatic twist when the whole family is gathering together and the secrets of the past are being revealed at her gracious mansion in the French countryside.

An unusually hot summer. Fourteen year-old Wanda moves with her family from Berlin to Switzerland. Everything will be better here. The move is meant to heal the open wounds of the family. Anna, the mother, has lost her self-confidence due to an affair her husband Joachim had in Berlin. The big house with the overgrown garden and the pretty small town all seems like one big promise. But the new beginning is difficult for everyone. Joachim, 40, throws himself into family activism while Anna, also 40, tries to strengthen the family with new rituals.

What Swiss director Stefan Schweitert did for accordion music and for yodeling (Accordion Tribe, Cinequest, 2005; Echoes of Home, Cinequest 2008) he now does for traditional Balkan music. This wonderful film is also a love story – and a door into a world of musical wonders.

74살의 동갑내기 부부 프레드와 아니타는 두 명의 자녀를 키우며 50년 동안 부부로 행복하고 평범하게 살아왔다. 하지만 지난 시절과 최근의 변화들을 돌아보며 삶과 죽음을 생각하던 부부는 ‘잠시’ 떨어져 지내기로 한다.

Two strangers have a strong impact on a young man who's spending some time with his family in this drama from Germany. Seventeen-year-old Anton has been struggling to make sense of his life since his father committed suicide when Anton was attending boarding school. Anton's mother, Luiza, wants to mend her strained relationship with her son and introduce him to her boyfriend, Paul, so she arranges for them to take a vacation together.

Asa, a young and cheerful dreamer, returns from his Russian naval service to his sister’s nomadic family on the desolate Hunger Steppe of central Asia, so that he can begin his own life as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must first win the hand of the only eligible girl for miles—his mysterious neighbor, Tulpan.

Leonidas, a young, ambitious police officer, is assigned to a remote island in the Aegean Sea. He dreams of solving important crimes, but there are few to be found in the sleepy beach community where he is left to such menial chores. Each day at the town café, Leonidas and the other locals watch the beautiful Angeliki, the small islands most famous daughter, as she hosts a popular talk show on national TV. These daily rituals are shattered when the island experiences what appears to be an actual crime-the island drunk, Zacharias, is found dead at the base of a cliff. Eager to do some sleuthing, Leonidas soon finds clues that tie the victim to Angeliki, who returns to the island and joins the investigation.

Sonja is a waitress at a guesthouse in the Bernese Oberland and happily engaged to her boss Markus. Everything changes when an Indian chef called Rajah enters her life. Rajah is the chef on a Bollywood film set, but when he spies Sonja in the supermarket it is love at first sight. He starts working at the guesthouse where his artful cooking sets Markus on a culinary mission and soon attracts the j

Five boys in Istanbul use a rhyming game to determine which boy gets their combined funds to go to the movie theater that day, as they are too poor to all go. The other boys wait for the lucky one to return to tell them the story of movie, with attendant gestures and sound affects.

아멜리에의 프로듀서가 전세계 최고의 감독 20명과 찍은 18편의 옴니버스 영화로, 파리를 배경으로 한 18가지의 색다른 사랑 이야기를 담고 있다. 5분의 제한 시간 안에서 펼쳐지는 이야기들의 한가지 공통점은 바로 '사랑의 도시, 파리'라는 주제이다. 각각의 감독들은 이 주제를 받아들이고 자신들만의 개성을 듬뿍 담은 작품들을 탄생시켰다. 마치 를 연상시키는 내레이션으로 연결된 18편의 짧은 영화들은 파리를 배경으로 펼쳐지는 갖가지 훈훈한 사랑의 기운을 전달하고 있다. 파리 시내 20개 구 중 한 곳을 골라 최소한의 비용으로 5분 동안 사랑이야기를 찍기. 에 참여한 20명의 감독에게 주어진 공통조건이었다. 몽마르트 언덕, 에펠탑, 차이나타운, 마레, 센 강변 등 파리 곳곳을 배경으로, 현대 파리의 일상과 주인공들의 천차만별 사랑, 그리고 세계 곳곳의 감독들이 파리에 보내는 사랑이 함께 어우러진다. 감독들 각자의 개성과 세계적인 스타들의 모습이 몽타주된 감미로운 영화.

Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is introduced to King Frederick II of Prussia in 1747. The aging composer and the young monarch clash and a battle of egos ensues.

Flanders, a famous female author, travels in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German capital. She is deeply depressed by the events because she saw the communist state as a very good thing that has now ended. In the joy of these days she finds no one to understand her, so she has to travel back to Munich. After meeting several people, known and unknown, it seems as if there will be no way to go.