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- Two couples visit a home from their past, and sexual tension brings out the worst in each other. Long-buried grudges resurface.
- Have you ever felt like a Supporting Character in your own life? What if you really are one...?
- Maryam lives an independent life as a divorced mother of three girls. An accidental encounter with Jibril, who is serving time in prison and whom she barely knows, makes her aware of what is missing in her life. She and he elope in an ardent love affair. In the meantime, she masters the struggles of everyday life at work and at home with her children. The two of them, in search of happiness, grapple with the idealizations and projections of each other. In their yearning for one another, they attempt to fill an inner void. The attention they draw from each other ultimately becomes the measure of their self-esteem.
- A tower block on the edge of a forest, people hoping to join the building's community as it is one of the last bastions of civilization in a world that has fallen apart.
- Two years after Hannah and Jimmy's break up, the pair unexpectedly falls head over heels for each other again when selling their holiday home on a little volcanic island in the Aegean. The two want to give their relationship a second chance but could not foresee that it would be their seven-year-old daughter Luca who does everything in her power to prevent this from happening. With childish cleverness, Luca plays her parents against each other until an abysmally evil power struggle for the family throne arises in front of the island's beautiful backdrop...
- How long is an eternity? A few years or just a breaking of the waves at the rugged Baltic coast? Andreas and Martin share all the ups and downs of life, and their son is maturing. A cautious approach to the traces of a long relationship.
- Once a week they meet in an apartment to escape the big city and to become poets for a few hours. On one of these days an unexpected guest pays them a visit.
- Due to an unexplicable act the destinies of three people collapse and dissolve into a dramaturgical dance about victims, offenders and the truth that lays between the lies.
- Three women end up in a psychiatric clinic in search of safety and security.
- After Sara commits suicide, her mother Magdalena chooses an unconventional way to lament. She uses rituals in order to integrate the loss of her daughter into her life. But despite of her effort to go back to normal, Magdalena is constantly confronted with her daughters death. When Sara's former boyfriend appears, the reason for Sara's suicide can no longer be repressed.
- On the coastline of Windholm one morning 15 years ago the ocean just disappeared. Since then the emptiness has been raising questions and anxiety. The cause of the phenomenon remains unclear. With a new theory at hand the physicist Micha (28) is one of many young scientists who is trying to get his hands on to one of his university's rare scholarships to explore the phenomena. After the many years of work he has put into the project he must once again see how a bold idea ends at the doors of the antiquated establishment - he receives a rejection. At the same time Jana (31), daughter of the institute's boss and Micha's former colleague on the project, resurfaces at the university. This doesn't make the situation any easier for Micha. A year ago she left him and the project and ran off to Portugal. Jana has now returned to put a definite end to her scientific career - but there is something else: Jana has to clarify something with Micha. When Micha decides to take the trip to Windholm to prove his hypothesis despite the rejection and without official permission she joins him. In Windholm the young scientists are confronted with the remains of a village community that has never been able to overcome their trauma. On the day the ocean disappeared - so did all the children from the viallge. But have the kids really drowned that day? Their bodies were never found. Micha clings to rational thinking and only the scientific phenomenon is of his concern. But as his measurements take longer than planned the village pulls him deeper and deeper into its spell. Micha meets Hanna (19) the only remaining child. She tries to rebuild the neglected public pool, guides tourists through the village and is convinced that the kids are still out there somewhere. Jana strikes the thought that it is no coincidence that Micha and her have been lead to this place. Abandoned houses and playgrounds, a small footprint on the empty ground of the ocean, the room of a boy who dreamt of becoming an Astronaut - this is where Micha and Jana have to come to terms with their own past and a loss.
- On the hunt for an emotion long lost Fynn loses himself in the encounters of the night. As day is dawning and he stumbles across young Tom he's got to ask himself if he still owns his body.
- In a Baltic Sea village the residents wake up from their political lethargy in the struggle for the fate of the popular tourist location. A film about the essence of democracy between white resort architecture and the sound of the sea.
- When David (36) hears the news that his friend Andreas (40) took his life, the days of their once close friendship have long been a thing of the past. They hardly knew each other anymore. And yet, David can't shake off the feeling of guilt over the suicide of his once best friend. David travels back home to the tiny small town near the German-Polish border where they both grew up, but what was originally planned to be a short visit to attend the funeral service, turns into a journey into a fractured past. When the deceased Andreas suddenly appears as a ghost that only he can see, David initially attempts to shake off the apparition, but the ghost turns out to be as persistent as the question why Andreas took his own life, and even more so, what keeps him still in this world and whether David had a role in this.
- In the southern United States, two young women meet by chance in the back of a police car and, without saying a word, experience the injustice hovering above them.
- A film about Germany, small town society and a huge motorway.
- In the artist colony Rocket Perelman ten people strive to live their version of freedom and independence - everybody for themselves and all together. But that's hard work, since the joined theatre production puts the groups' idealism to a hard test.
- A 27-year-old Indonesian, Tim, is having a family vacation with both of his parents on a remote island far from the city, where they learn about the myth of a reincarnated deer that exists somewhere along the beach. Island locals believe that seeing the deer is a sign of meeting one's soulmate. Tim is the only one who secretly hoping to discover the deer, hiding his desire from his very devout Christian parents.
- Vivi (Britta Hammelstein) is exhausted. Actually, she is about to become an attorney and to move in together with her boyfriend Adam (Golo Euler), but somehow, she is stuck. She tries to flee back to her Moms (Victoria Trauttmansdorff) couch, only to find that there is no more space for her. Vivi's father (Detlev Buck) assumes that she needs some rest and sends her to an island. He equips her with all kinds of pieces of advise about positive-thinking and self-improvement. But its all too much for Vivi. Slowly, Vivi explores the island and gets to know the peculiar locals. She takes a job in Ottos (Ferdinand von Schirach) small store and moves in with single-mom Biene (Inga Busch) and her 13-year-old son Eric (Jerome Hirthammer). Vivi enjoys the imperfectness for a while, and she frees herself from the compulsion to constantly prove something.
- Born in 1990, Tamara no longer knows the country she comes from. When her family breaks up, Tamara fights for her parental home, for her relationships - and for her own history.
- Tina and Marlene. A friendship between two girls in the middle of nowhere in Brandenburg, East Germany. Alcohol filled weekends between suburban disco and football fields, Berlin far away. Relentless they head for the night, to fulfill their longing for intimacy and recognition.
- Gabriela (75) is terminally ill, and can barely breathe. She then embarks on a journey that takes her to a brutal, dystopian world. In a small village, she faces the consequences of her attempt to stay alive.
- Janusz, a pawnbroker in his late 40s, is confronted with the sudden death of his estranged wife. To cover up for all his failings, he hires the young prostitute Irena to act as his girlfriend and join him for the funeral. A tale about guilt, abandonment and love.
- A car crash thrusts Francis, the dreamy film projectionist, into the world of the ruthless gangster Mascarpone.