Nikolai von Graevenitz

Erik, recently retired, is looking forward to some post-work adventure and to enjoy his family. These plans are thrown into doubt as the harsh reality of his wife Juditha’s accelerating illness causes his own health to deteriorate. Juditha refuses to accept any outside help as Erik buckles under the pressure.

Prussia, summer 1790: Two young men, August and Karl, escape from the rules and laws of their noble households. For one day, they live out their personal freedom. They find out what taking responsibility and staying true to oneself really means to them. Until the point where their utopia becomes real: when they know that it comes to an end….

The ambitious scientist Franz Walter doesn't hesitate when he is promised a professorship at the university. He immediately accepts, pledges absolute loyalty to the system and agrees to work for the GDR's foreign intelligence service until he can take up his new position. Together with his colleague Dirk, he is sent on foreign assignments to West Germany. Franz soon has to use blackmail to get innocent people to talk. But his superiors go even further: GDR refugees and their relatives are targeted to be psychologically destroyed, forged letters, medical diagnoses, surveillance and wiretapping are on the agenda. However, this is more than Franz can bear: he feels powerless and increasingly isolates himself. When he then decides to steal secret documents for a later defection to the West, this results in an unfortunate chain reaction leading to his arrest and ultimately to his execution...

For Alyssia and Ilaria, every farewell is also a reunion. Just a while ago they were at the Italian Mediterranean coast, now here they are standing at a parking lot in front of an Esso gas station, waiting for their father’s car to appear around the corner. Affectionately, they bid their mother good-bye for now. The two sisters’ parents are separated. Just like Carleton, Sherazade and Thomas, the two girls have found their own way of dealing with the situation.

В сибирской провинции замужество, как правило, считается наивысшим счастьем для женщины. Но 80-летняя Дорочка, самая архетипическая русская бабушка, всю жизнь прожила одна. Сидя за столом у себя в кухне, она говорит о жизни, любви, сожалениях и одиночестве. Этот фильм – спин-офф картины «Сибирская любовь», показанной в 2016 году на фестивале IDFA. Ее режиссер Ольга Делан продолжает исследовать принятые в Сибири взгляды на любовь и брак.

"Kruso" tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized tourism, the isolated island became a kind of artist colony every year and a place of longing for dropouts and alternatives. Due to its proximity to Denmark, Hiddensee was also the starting point for the flight across the Baltic Sea.

After 20 years of living in Berlin, the director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siberian village, where she is confronted with traditional views of relationships, life and love. The man is the master in the home; the woman’s task is to beget children and take care of the household (and everything else, too). Siberian Love provides unrivaled insights into the (love) life of a Siberian village and seeks the truth around the universal value of traditional relationships.

Three men embark on a journey in search of meaning and happiness in the autumn of their lives: Bob swaps his safe home for a camper van and tries to find himself in the barren Californian desert; Steve, drag queen and stand-up comedian, is fed up of England and makes amends with his past in Benidorm; Yamada rediscovers his smile by reading stories to children in Tokyo.

A model family's happy life unexpectedly goes off the rails when the carefree Hedi, played by Laura Tonke, suddenly starts having panic attacks. First mental illness and then drug dependency – the happiness that these happy-go-lucky thirty-somethings once took for granted suddenly seems unattainable, and their world fragile and uncertain.

Когда пара решает взять бездомного кота, их жизненная перспектива меняется, буквально искажая пространство и время и проверяя их веру в себя и друг друга на прочность.

Five young Europeans (German, English, and Irish) try to find answers to life's questions in India and Thailand.

Five young Europeans (German, English, and Irish) try to find answers to life's questions in India and Thailand.

As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city, things turn out to be much tougher than she had imagined.

In search of a person named Jerry Davis, a faceless narrator visits various people across the United States who are connected to him in different ways. The film is described as a documentary with a fictional trace.