Geno Lechner

La syndicaliste is the true story of Maureen Kearney, the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistleblower, denouncing top-secret deals that shook the French nuclear sector. Alone against the world, she fought government ministers and industry leaders, tooth and nail to bring the scandal to light and to defend more than 50,000 jobs.. Her life was turned upside down when she was violently assaulted in her own home... The investigation is carried out under pressure: the subject is sensitive. Suddenly, new elements create doubt in the minds of the investigators. At first a victim, Maureen becomes a suspect.

An encounter between a young nurse and her patient of the same age, Frida, on the border of professional distance and the desire for closeness.

Inge and Ludwig are full-time farmers in the Black Forest, with dairy cows and a dairy. Everything organic, all the highest quality. Despite the hard work, it is a fulfilling life. Would not it be the financial situation. As much as the two work, the debts devour them, the farm is endangered. Inge decides to look for a part-time job. When the opportunity arises to start with an escort service, she gets involved. And the plan works. But the relationship is put to the test when one of Inge's clients falls in love with her and the situation escalates.

Circles (Serbian: Krugovi) is a Serbian movie based on the true story of a Serbian soldier who risked his life to protect a Muslim civilian during the war in Bosnia. During the war in Bosnia in 1993, a Serbian soldier pays for his life after protecting a Muslim civilian from being attacked by three other soldiers. 12 years later, the consequences of this act of heroism are still having their repercussions.

The suspenseful chronicle of how the prodigious Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman helped save Europe’s premiere Jewish musicians from obliteration by the Nazis during World War II. In three years, he transformed from a world renowned violinist to a humanitarian racing against time.

탈옥한 40대 남자가 자신에게 도움을 준 십대 소녀와 함께 독일 국경을 넘어 남프랑스의 마르세이유까지 여행하는 로드무비. 시골을 벗어나고 싶어 했던 소녀와, 살인범이라는 누명을 풀고 싶었던 사내는 서로를 점차 이해하고 배워가며 함께 지중해를 바라보게 된다.

Larry is a misfit stranded in Berlin, the pilgrim capital of the lost and haunted. Whatever he does goes wrong. Yet he still can't help acting like a smartass in order to make him feel self-important about his desolate life. But Larry's life is on downward spiral… Pressurised by his girlfriend Lilly, who drives him crazy with her obsession about having a baby, threatened by Kokser, a man to whom he owns money, and trying to dodge an ominous preacher called Klaus, who takes the words of Bible as literal truth, Larry seeks help from Bruno, a homeless drifter, crossing the border between dreams and reality...

A year ago, Katrin and Max got to know and love each other with the support of the phlegmatic bass dog Kurt. Should they now match their friends and marry? At first it doesn't look promising: Katrin is fighting for a job in London and Max is constantly gone, he seems to meet other women. The help of a second Christmas dog is needed to steer fate in the right direction.

Though she only knows his first name and that he ‘works in coal’, Molly, a young Irish woman, travels to a small Polish town to find the man with whom she had a memorable one-night stand several months before. Armed with nothing more than a postcard and her own tenacity, she sets about finding her past lover, despite her landlord’s admonishments that all the coal mines closed years ago.

Told through a looping, non-linear narrative from each of the characters' points of view, the film reconstructs the stories of a Yugoslav hit man, his former lover and her police officer boyfriend, as their paths cross in New York.

Alice is 16 years old and an introverted girl with a special ability: she hears extraordinary good. When her mother sends her to a Catholic foster home, she remains an outsider in a group of self-confident teenage girls. Only Berivan, a Kurdish refugee who seeks for asylum in Germany, tries to learn more about Alice. They finally become close friends, but Berivan's relationship to an Albanian guy destroys the girls' friendship

For a long time, Halfried Seelig forced herself not to make use of her special gift for healing. When she does help a sick man one day, the news spreads quickly. Meanwhile, there is a crisis in the marriage of Halfried's daughter Marion. On her wedding day, Marion leaves her husband, fetches her daughter Laura from boarding school and moves with her to her parents in Tyrol. There she wants to take over her father's surgery after his retirement and finally work as a doctor again. At first she is not accepted by the population, Laura also does not find her way in the new environment, Marion in turn resolutely rejects her mother's methods. It also worries Marion that her daughter appears to have inherited Halfried's abilities......

Peter, a married psychotherapist, and Suzanne, a professional dominatrix, have been engaged in an affair of sensual dominance and submission in an S&M dungeon where they must abide by the rules. Now, those rules are about to be broken when they agree to see each other on the outside. As Peter becomes increasingly obsessed with the troubled Suzanne, they embark on a sordid psychosexual journey into their tortured pasts through their most carnal desires.

Vergessensfuge is a meditation on the psychology of obedience and submission, in this instance springing from a handful of photographs taken in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp immediately after its liberation in 1945. The images are of young women, aged 20 - 30, who were guards at the camp - to say, compliant, obedient Germans doing as they were told to do.

A woman travels by train. She is trapped between her memories of a love affair she had ended and her search for freedom. Her destiny depends on the imagination of a scrip writer who is writing a story for a film.

In Paris in 1935, a young Jewish woman married to an anti-fascist activist befriends her neighbor who is dating a far-right supporter.

This is a light comedy about Amir, a young Pakistani who has been working for Jo for six years. Jo has a ready-to-wear clothes shop in the Sentier area and his business is prospering. He promised Amir that he would help him get his legal papers, but he has never kept his promise. Now he is sending Amir to his colleague Ralph in exchange for an unpaid debt from a card game. He thinks that this is a good opportunity to get rid of the illegal worker. Ralph is a fifty-year-old baby who keeps forgetting his appointments, his bank balance, and everything else that he should remember to run his life smoothly. His business is a complete disaster. A year later, Ralph's business has picked up, but Joe's is going down the drain. Thanks to whom? It is easy to answer this question if one follows Amir during his daily chores in the shop. But neither Jo nor Ralph's bother to take the time off to notice the hard work of this poor employee.

Raoul Peck directed this French-German-Haitian drama set in Manhattan where medical examiner Chase Dellal (Geno Lechner) isn't happy with the diminishing aspects of her life: Not only does she face political pressures to soft-pedal her testimony, her marriage to a judge (Bob Meyer) is collapsing. Suddenly, new options appear after deposed Haitian politician Dimitri (Jean-Michel Martial) re-enters her life. Playwright Israel Horowitz has a role in this film as morgue cop Timothy.

켄지는 별달리 하는 일 없이 부모가 부쳐주는 돈으로 생활하고 있는 뉴욕의 일본인. 어느 날 8등신 몸매에 금발을 자랑하는 고혹적인 매력의 미녀가 죽음의 신 ‘데쓰(Death)’로 나타나 한 아랍 남자를 쫓아 달리는 이상한 꿈을 꾼 켄지는, 다음 날 친구와 만나기로 약속한 카페에서 간밤에 꿈에서 보았던 죽음의 여신 ‘데쓰’가 바로 그 아랍 남자를 쫓아 달리는 것을 보고는 아연실색한다. 그리고 이 믿을 수 없는 일이 어떻게 일어날 수 있는지 직접 확인하기 위해 그들을 따라 켄지도 달린다. 그러나 도망가던 남자에게 사실을 물어본다는 것이 결국에는 데쓰 일행에게 그 남자를 잡아 넘기는 격이 되어 버리고, 데쓰는 켄지에게 감사의 키스를 남기고 사라진다. 다음날 아침, 이상한 꿈을 꾸다 잠에서 깬 켄지는 순간 자신의 머리맡을 지키고 있는 데쓰를 발견하고 소스라치게 놀란다. 데쓰는 낮에 자신을 도와준 것에 대한 감사의 표시로 오늘밤 9시에 켄지를 데려갈 것이라고 미리 일러준다. 즉, 켄지는 앞으로 12시간 밖에 살지 못할 것이라는 얘기. 데쓰가 12시간 후 자신을 데려갈 것이라는 사실을 믿을 수도, 믿지 않을 수도 없는 켄지는 절망하기 시작한다. 12시간 후에 죽을 운명에 처한 켄지는 인생 최후의 의미 있는 일을 하려고 발버둥을 친다. 과연 켄지는 죽음을 기다리는 12시간동안 무엇을 할 것인가?

Gesche's Poison is a psychological portrait loosely based on the true story of Gesche Gottfried who became notorious in 19th century Bremen for killing fifteen people with arsenic. Known by her neighbors and friends as a merciful Christian, loving mother and devoted wife, she poisoned within fifteen years her parents, her brother, two husbands, three children and numerous friends. When caught, she never denied her deeds, but could not give any reason.

Hippolyte, the chef at the small Paris restaurant of the title, is losing his sense of smell - and without that, you can’t cook. Not in France. The restaurant has to close. Guests and customers of the ailing master chef gather for one last fabulous meal. Between courses, personal conflicts are explored and flashbacks flesh out incidents from the lives of the restaurant owners.

The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a "permanent" relationship, what do they choose to do?

베토벤의 오랜 친구인 안톤 쉰들러는 어떤 의문점을 풀기 위한 조사를 시작한다. 베토벤이 모든 유산을 영원한 연인 앞으로 남겨놓고 죽었기 때문이다. 쉰들러는 친구의 마지막 소원을 들어주기 위해 그녀를 찾아나선다. 마침내 쉰들러는 카스퍼의 미망인이자 베토벤의 옛 연인이었던 조안나를 찾아 그녀에게 어떤 대답을 기대한다. 조안나는 처음에는 베토벤의 연인이었음을 부인하지만, 바덴에서 함께 지냈던 여름을 회상하고는 진실을 인정한다. 조안나는 카스퍼가 지기에게 접근하는 동안 베토벤과 사랑에 빠지고, 그들은 호텔에서 만나 함께 사랑의 도피를 약속했었다. 그러나 베토벤은 폭풍 속에서 마차가 고장나는 바람에 약속된 시간에 도착하지 못하고, 그녀는 베토벤이 서둘러 보낸 전보를 받지 못한 채 카스퍼에게 돌아간 것이다.결국 받지 못한 전보, 부숴진 마차, 그리고 자존심의 상처는 베토벤과 그의 연인 조안나의 비극적 결별의 원인이었다. 하지만 비록 헤어졌을 지언정 베토벤의 조안나를 향한 사랑이 끝난 것은 아니었는데..

2차 세계대전 당시 독일군이 점령한 폴란드. 시류에 맞춰 자신의 성공을 추구하는 기회주의자 쉰들러는 유태인이 경영하는 그릇 공장을 인수한다. 그는 공장을 인수하기 위해 나찌 당원이 되고 독일군에게 뇌물을 바치는 등 갖은 방법을 동원한다. 그러나 냉혹한 기회주의자였던 쉰들러는 유태인 회계사인 스턴과 친분을 맺으면서 냉혹한 유태인 학살에 대한 양심의 소리를 듣기 시작한다. 마침내 그는 강제 수용소로 끌려가 죽음을 맞게될 유태인들을 구해내기로 결심하고, 독일군 장교에게 빼내는 사람 숫자대로 뇌물을 주는 방법으로 유태인들을 구해내려는 계획을 세우는데...

Hovering between the realms of poetry and history, this stunningly photographed, elegiac work – shot mostly in long takes – mixes cryptic metaphor and fantastic symbolism to tell the story of Avetik, an Armenian filmmaker exiled in Berlin. In sensuous, lyric styling, Askarian employs dreamlike images to reflect the history of his homeland, tranquil childhood memories, images inspired by erotic medieval poetry, and autobiographical shades of his own exile in Germany.

After the German reunification: A widowed, unemployed archaeologist with two children and a single futurologist with a little daughter in Berlin fall in love at first sight and persistently and unwaveringly develop a life together. An equally unspectacular and rigorous examination of love as a crucial basis for private and political action.