Michael Kaczmarek

At Turkey’s oldest zoo, a lonely manager and a neglected female officer form an unlikely bond: as they hide the death of the zoo’s oldest inhabitant, an Anatolian leopard, in order to stop the privatization process and fake its escape, they set in motion an absurd charade that spins out of control. In Turkey’s grey and quiet capital, the ghost of the leopard persists.

Ukraine, 1990s. Young Vova, cruel and tenacious, struggles to find his place among the ruthless members of the underworld in a city where crime and corruption reign.

Ukraine, 1990s. Young Vova, cruel and tenacious, struggles to find his place among the ruthless members of the underworld in a city where crime and corruption reign.

Ukraine, 1990s. Young Vova, cruel and tenacious, struggles to find his place among the ruthless members of the underworld in a city where crime and corruption reign.

Ukraine, 1990s. Young Vova, cruel and tenacious, struggles to find his place among the ruthless members of the underworld in a city where crime and corruption reign.

New Yorker Kathryn has the deadly disease ALS and is completely paralyzed. She can only communicate by pointing out letters with her eyes on a special keyboard and she needs 24-hour care. It’s a horrific situation that Kathryn puts into words incisively and pragmatically. The only reason she hasn’t asked to be taken off life support yet, she says, is that she isn’t ready to say goodbye to her children. She wants at least to experience her daughter Minou’s wedding day.

A Warsaw-based Vietnamese cook struggles to fit into the European culture, which his ten-year-old daughter has already embraced as her own. A story about love, misunderstanding and food.

O escritor Martin Eden entra em conflito com a burguesia. Encarando o novo, ele se apaixona e descobre como autores são vistos na sociedade aristocrática, enquanto se questiona sobre sua própria natureza como criador.

Rachel é uma espiã da Mossad, Serviço de Inteligência Nacional de Israel. Após o funeral de seu pai, ela desaparece misteriosamente. A única pista sobre o seu paradeiro é uma ligação criptografada feita ao seu antigo mensageiro na Alemanha, Thomas. Ele é convocado para retornar à Israel a fim de descobrir a localização da ex-parceira, ao mesmo tempo em que precisa frear o programa nuclear do iraniano.

Rachel é uma espiã da Mossad, Serviço de Inteligência Nacional de Israel. Após o funeral de seu pai, ela desaparece misteriosamente. A única pista sobre o seu paradeiro é uma ligação criptografada feita ao seu antigo mensageiro na Alemanha, Thomas. Ele é convocado para retornar à Israel a fim de descobrir a localização da ex-parceira, ao mesmo tempo em que precisa frear o programa nuclear do iraniano.

Pressionado por sua família a se casar o mais rápido possível, um determinado fotógrafo de Mumbai convence uma tímida estranha a fingir ser a sua mulher durante algum tempo. Apesar da relutância, ela aceita a proposta e os dois desenvolvem um laço totalmente inesperado que os muda de maneiras antes inimagináveis.

Their names are René, Sabine and Daniel – three people among thousands of others who go on to the streets of Dresden every Monday as “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West”. They shout “We are the people!” They claim “Merkel must go!” The director Sabine Michel accompanied them for one year – on their demonstrations and in their daily lives. Merkel Must Go is not a film about PEGIDA, it asks for the personal reasons for this patriotic protest, a film about realistic and absurd fears of the present.

Tony (Jim Broadbent) é um homem de meia idade que construi uma nova vida na tentativa de esquecer o passado. Mas, ele passa a ser rodeado por lembranças com a volta de antigos amigos, como uma antiga paixão e o diário de um amigo que já morreu.

In 1987 GDR citizen Mario Röllig was arrested in Hungary for attempting to flee the GDR. Nowadays he gives talks about his experiences. This portrait shows just how subjective and riddled with taboos attempts to interpret GDR history can be.

The film is a journey through the amazing life of Alekseyev. He drank tea with Tarkovsky, got into the KGB because of Gagarin, competed with Kalashnikov and Vysotsky. One day, he will learn more about himself than he knew and could have imagined: about his talent, about the mark that he left in the destinies of other people. You can live your life again if someone loves you.

Lena is a bright, disabled girl who, after years spent studying at home, is keen to get back to school. She is assigned to a special class for disabled pupils who have to present themselves before a school commission at the end of the year in order to prove that they merit being moved back into a "normal" class. Her enervated teachers, however, show absolutely no desire to motivate the students and help them improve; on the contrary, they try to quash right from the start any interest Lena shows in more complex study material. Nevertheless, Lena soon involves herself in the school routine and gets together with classmate Anton. Yet their transparent happiness is not to everyone's liking and repercussions soon follow.

Documentary about poet Sascha Anderson.

A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary trip into the world of skate, a tale on three heroes and their boards, from their childhood in the seventies, through their teenage rebellion in the eighties and the summer of 1989, when their life changed forever, to 2011.

Rahima, 23 anos, e o irmão Nedim, 14 anos, são órfãos da guerra da Bósnia. Moram em Sarajevo, numa sociedade transitória que perdeu toda a compaixão pelos filhos dos que morreram durante o cerco à cidade. Após uma adolescência delinquente, Rahima encontrou um reconforto no Islão e espera que o irmão siga os seus passos. A vida deles complica-se quando, na escola, Nedim luta violentamente com o filho de um poderoso ministro do país.

Horror involving a serial-killer toying with a Pirate Radio DJ

Set against the raucous backdrop of the 2010 World Cup, MEANWHILE IN MAMELODI is a beautifully crafted portrait of a place and one family’s daily life inside it. The Mtsweni family lives in the Pretoria Township of the title, in the district known as Extension 11. Their world is a ramshackle collection of corrugated tin dwellings and makeshift shops, open sewers littered with debris and red-earth rectangles filled with soccer-playing children and teens. Seventeen-year-old Mosquito is one of those kids. As she studies for math tests, flirts with boys and shops with her best friend, her father Steven prepares his "tuck shop" for the promise of cash-flush tourists. Meanwhile, his wife struggles with mental illness. The Mtswenis' lives unfold as the Cup brings new hope to the ravaged town. Despite the poverty around her, Mosquito insists this is not her parents' country. She is the face of South Africa's future - part of "a new generation free to do all things."

Recém-saídos da prisão, dois jovens músicos, um homem e uma mulher, decidem formar uma banda. Juntos, eles andam pelo submundo de Teerã à procura de outros instrumentistas. Proibidos pelas autoridades de tocarem no Irã, eles planejam fugir de sua existência clandestina e sonham em tocar na Europa. Porém, sem dinheiro e sem passaportes, nada será tão fácil.

Norbert Witte, once the king of the only amusement park of the former GDR, today he is behind bars in Germany. When fleeing bankruptcy in Berlin, Norbert Witte and his family secretly shipped their rollercoasters to Peru. Things went wrong here too. In a desperate attempt, Norbert tried to smuggle cocaine to Germany. Three years later his 23 years old son Marcel was sentenced to 20 years in a Peruvian prison. Now the father is doing everything he can in order to free his son.