Benedikt Schiefer

Colombia, 1990’s. A single mother attempts to keep her family together after her son is drafted by the army and assigned to the front in the country’s most dangerous war zone. To do this, she embarks on a journey against time in a society ruled by men, corruption and violence.

Ainouz se baseou na história de seus pais, Iracema, uma brasileira, e Majid, um argelino, que se conheceram nos Estados Unidos. Eles se separaram em 1965, quando ele retornou à Argélia e ela, ao Brasil, grávida. Karim só conheceu o pai aos 20 anos. O filme é um inventário afetivo dessa relação. “O Marinheiro das Montanhas” integra a seleção Sessões Especiais da 74ª edição do Festival de Cannes.

Um engenheiro químico de origem estrangeira se sente discriminado e intimidado no trabalho, e mergulha numa crise de identidade.

Uma mulher desapareceu. Após uma nevasca, seu carro é descoberto em uma estrada para uma pequena vila remota. Enquanto a polícia não sabe por onde começar, cinco pessoas estão ligadas ao desaparecimento. Cada um com seu próprio segredo.

Antigas cartas de sua irmã Guida, há muito desaparecida, surpreendem Eurídice, uma senhora de 80 anos. No Rio de Janeiro dos anos 1950, Guida e Eurídice são cruelmente separadas, impedidas de viverem os sonhos que alimentaram juntas ainda adolescentes.

A small town in Japan's exclusion zone searches for normalcy in the five years following the greatest nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl.

A história se passa no antigo aeroporto de Tempelhof, na capital alemã, uma das construções mais emblemáticas do regime nazista, que há dez anos foi desativada para voos.

Fabian Groys, a renowned journalist for a political news magazine, enjoys great freedom, since the stories he uncovers make for good sales. When he loses a hot story about the German army, the editor saddles him with a young female intern. Fabian hates teamwork and sticks the intern with what seems a classic tabloid story about the suicide of a man who had himself torn to shreds by a lion at the zoo. But thanks to the intern’s dogged determination, signs emerge that the story Fabian was working on and the gory zoo story are actually interlinked. Is it pure coincidence? And if it isn’t, how can Fabian fight a nebulous enemy?

A man and a woman at an art exhibition share a fleeting moment of attraction, which neither can act upon. Days later, a chance second meeting leads to an innocent coffee and the two strangers – both married - toy with their unexplainable fascination for each other. Svenja is curious and finds herself in a hotel room with Roland, but she does not consummate an affair. A powerful executive at the large bank where Svenja's husband works, Roland is used to getting what he wants. He manipulates the transfer of her husband to Indonesia to replace a recently murdered bank manager. Unaware of Roland’s actions, Svenja now ceases to resist...

Armin Steeb is adrift: just finished with school, living with his middle-class parents, clueless about finding work. He tries connecting with a girl, he engages in risky sex with strangers in public toilets, he goes to job interviews. He also sends an anonymous letter to a local Munich newspaper, claiming responsibility for a fatal road accident. He fitfully pursues notoriety as he goes through life nearly without affect. What will it take to get Armin to smile?

This is the story of Sylvia, who looses her stepchildren on a shopping trip in Poland. For fear of loosing her husband's love, too, she is unable to tell him what has happened and returns home, pretending anything is fine. When realising the missing of his children, the father starts a desperate retrieval. He is ready to give up anything in order to find them. Sylvia supports him in any way; she tries to comfort him and takes care of his hope's vulnerable flame. For the first time he really needs her. While the children are trying their best to get home, the police fails in detecting their whereabouts. When a very vague trace leads to Poland, the parents hit the road to find their children on their own.