Gesa Jäger

Filmes

The Teachers’ Lounge
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When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.
Another Reality
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In Germany’s big cities, members of families involved in crime live in a parallel world. Young men with well-kempt beards, bulging muscles and big cars let us into their homes and share their dreams. Gangsta rap and a different kind of integration. Better than any fiction.
Dream Away
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Stunning and surreal, this hybrid documentary finds a group of hotel staff reflecting on their life, hopes and dreams in a deserted Egyptian holiday resort.
Air
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Louk is deep as the sea. Manja is pure as the air. Her love means: No fear. No lie. No trace.
Right Here Right Now
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Hamburg, St. Pauli, New Year's Eve. Oskar Wrobel runs a music club in an old hospital at the edge of the Reeperbahn. While fireworks go off in the streets of St. Pauli, he prepares the big final party - the club has to close. Thankfully there is no time to think about it because the chaos is breaking into his living room, all while hell break loose at the club. The film, based on the novel by Tino Hanekamp, was filmed with hundreds of extras attending a real-life three-night-long party.
Tiger Girl
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Having failed to get into the police force, Margarete takes up training as a security guard. One night she runs into a sexually agressive ex-colleague who insists on hailing a taxi to take her home to his place. Enter Tiger: short brown hair, a tough girl and a fighter, the cab driver. Realising that the situation is far from consensual, Tiger speeds off with Margarete, leaving her companion standing in the street. It won’t be the last time she rushes to Margarete’s aid. Tiger lives in an attic flat with two men. She knows how to wield a baseball bat. Stealing a uniform from security and renaming Margarete ‘Vanilla’, she begins to steer her life in a completely different direction.
Happy Hour
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A mulher do quarentão HC o deixou. Perturbado, ele não tem nada além de seu sobrepeso e dos dois amigos de infância Wolfgang e Nic. Um deles, psicólogo, convence HC a passar um tempo na Irlanda. Lá, entre cervejas, uísques, garotas e memórias sobre sua juventude, surge uma questão: o que é amizade?
A Perfect Place
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Life on the land is undergoing a fundamental change: the villages are dying out, people go away, the houses remain empty. Frank is facing a major change: the decision to move to the city for his family the only future promising solution. A tragicomic film about a family between techno and brass bands and a place between nature reserve and piglets factory.
Love Steaks
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Clemens trabalha como massagista, Lara como cozinheira, mas sua clientela é a mesma: os hóspedes de um hotel de luxo. À medida que faíscas começam a surgir entre os dois, a sensibilidade dele se choca com o temperamento ardente dela – os opostos se atraem, mas a harmonia não está à vista.
You missed Sonja
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Rick Hardin, a mid-30s author of pulp novels, just wants to pick up his girl Sonja at a lonely gas station. But it seems that the cab has already picked her up. At the rest rooms, he witnesses a man battering a woman. Is it Sonja? Rick decides to help, but has to realize, that the victim is not Sonja at all, but a weird woman, who does not want to be helped. And he has to admit, that life sometimes holds strange twists. Unfortunately, this realization seems to come too late.