21 X NEW YORK is an intimate portrait of the city and its people. We meet the characters in the NYC subway and we follow them to the surface finding out about their lives, cravings, passions, hopes and dreams - sometimes lost and sometimes still waiting to be fulfilled. What comes out of it is an...

The stage lights, the applause – Astrid loves being a cabaret performer, and loves her tolerant and supportive husband Markus. Every decision is taken together, and this one is no different: what will they do with the child that Astrid is carrying, now, six months into the pregnancy, that she lea...

It’s a fact: good Germans wait at red traffic lights. But what do you do when the green man simply won't appear? Taking place almost entirely on the most pernicious traffic island imaginable, 90 DEGREES NORTH is a humorous, fantastical parable offering an extreme take on the notion of following t...

One morning in August 2012, renowned Syrian photographer Issa Touma saw young men lugging sandbags into his street. It turned out to be the start of the Syrian uprising in the city of Aleppo. Touma grabbed his camera and spent nine days holed up in his apartment, recording what was happening outs...

On his 30th birthday, Tom Fassaert receives a mysterious invitation from his 95-year-old grandmother Marianne to come visit her in South Africa. At that time, the only thing he knows about her are the myths and predominantly negative stories his father told him. She was a femme fatale who went th...

Brunhilde Pomsel was closer to Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels than anyone alive today. She was his personal secretary and stenographer. Having lived through and been a part of the major historical shifts and ruptures of the 20th century, she is worried; people tell her that the t...

AMALIMBO is the story of Tipuana, a five year-old girl who experiences the limbo when she tries to pass to ”the other side” in her desperate urge to meet again with her recently deceased father.
It is a short story that happens in an undefined place, and also in an undefined future.

Direction: J...

59-year-old Ove is the block’s grumpy man who several years earlier was deposed as president of the condominium association, but he could not give a damn about being deposed and therefore keeps looking over the neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the t...

Reda is 26 years old. His dreams of escaping the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain El-Helweh ended in failure after three years of being trapped in Greece.

He returned with a heroin addiction to life in a camp being torn apart by internal strife and the encroachment of war from Syria.

Against al...

Company commander Claus Michael Pedersen and his men are stationed in an Afghan province. Meanwhile back in Denmark Claus’ wife Maria is trying to hold everyday life together with a husband at war and three children missing their father. During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy ...

David is discharged from the army after serving for twenty-seven years. He returns to his home and his family after being distanced from them for years, and tries to find himself in his new civilian life. He believes that, like his friends who retired from the military before him, he too will fin...

In the middle of the Aegean Sea, on a luxury yacht,
six men on a fishing trip decide to play a game.
During this game, things will be compared.
Things will be measured.
Songs will be butchered, and blood will be tested. Friends will become rivals and rivals will become hungry. But at the end of t...

Sarajevo‘s Hotel Europe is bustling in preparation for tonight‘s European Union gala for the centennial of Archduke Franz Ferdinand‘s assassination. But the disgruntled staff plans to strike because they haven‘t been paid for two months.

If this prestigious political dinner fails, the already mo...

Anybody who ever used a camera knows that the photographer is always present as a reflection in his own motif. A reflection that reveals itself in framing and in the way people in front of the camera react to the person behind it. But above all the reflection of the storyteller is revealed in the...

Roman returns to the land near the border with Ukraine he has just inherited from his grandfather. Fully decided to sell this vast but desolate property, he is warned by the local cop that his grandfather was a local crime lord and his men will not let go of the land - and their smuggling busine...

1995, Ostia. Vittorio and Cesare are just over 20 and are not only lifelong friends: they are “brothers for life.” Their lives are filled with clubs, cars, cocaine and booze. Despite their interdependence, they have different spirits and over time, Vittorio longs for a different life. He meets Li...

Edmond's impulse to love and be close to others is strong ... maybe too strong. As he stands alone by a lake contemplating his options, he goes on a journey backwards through his life, and revisits all his defining moments in search for the origin of his desires.

Direction: Nina Gantz

Script: N...

Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a leading video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle’s life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious...

Four couples struggle on the edge of mother Europe. In countries troubled by economic and social crises they stumble through life with charm, sex and plenty of passion - a movie about the politics of love. In Sevilla, Juan (21) and Caro (23) experience the wonders of a young love. However, Juan i...

WINNER EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY 2016

Samuele is 12 years old and lives on an island in the middle of the sea. He goes to school, loves to shoot his slingshot and to go hunting. He likes land games, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and the men, women and children who try to cross i...

Istanbul is in the grip of political violence. The state uses new underground techniques in the hunt for terrorists in shantytowns. Kadir works as a garbage collector to search for traces of bomb-making – the price he paid for a secret early parole. He is reunited with his younger brother Ahmet w...

The film tells the story of the last offspring of a powerful German family whose cannons killed countless people in two world wars: Arndt von Bohlen and Halbach – the last Krupp.
Unwilling to fulfill the expectations of both his family and their company, this homosexual son of an industrialist wa...

Thousands of men, women and children struggle to get into Europe as a comfortable English family sets out on what appears to be a holiday.

Direction: Daniel Mulloy

Script: Daniel Mulloy

Production: Afolabi Kuti, Shpat Deda, Chris Watling, Scott O'Donnell, Tim Nash, , ,

Cinematography: Victor ...

Daniel Blake (59) has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State.
He crosses paths with single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been ...