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- Amina, a practicing Muslim, lives with her daughter, 15-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants to abort the child, they face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is legally and morally condemned.
- Follows a female student in Tehran who was hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defense against a rapist. For a pardon and after seven years in prison, she would have had to retract her testimony.
- The bank threatens Nikos to repossess his tailor shop and his father fall ill. Nikos with a tailor shop on wheels, reinvents himself while bringing style and confidence to the women of Athens.
- Four older Sudanese filmmakers with passion for film battle to bring cinema-going back to Sudan, not without resistance. Their 'Sudanese Film Club' have decided to revive an old cinema, and again draw attention to Sudanese film history.
- A family struggles with the teenager son who suffers from Hikikomori phenomenon. Suddenly, he closes the door and locks himself in, shutting out a helpless father, mother and sister
- French documentarist Sonia Kronlund follows actor and director Salim Shaheen, an Afghan movie star who produced more than 110 low-budget movies in a country devastated by war.
- In 2018, Steffen Meyn died from a fall during the protests in Hambach Forest. This film combines the footage he shot on a 360-degree helmet camera with interviews with environmentalists and asks how far activism must go.
- CENSORED VOICES combines raw original recordings of Israeli soldiers recounting their fears and doubts following Israel's 1967 Six-Day War, using archival newsreel footage as a stark reminder of how far the region remains from peace.
- An Israeli director currently living in Berlin returns to Israel to meet some of her friends from primary school. She learns what has been happening in their lives since their paths parted while we get a glimpse of different Israelis.
- A documentary about the outcome of a decision made by a brother and sister in 1945. One missed meeting, two families, and three generations.
- On the 5th of September 2006 constructions began with a happy ground breaking ceremony. Six proud men in dark suits took the ceremonic spades in Schönefeld, south east of Berlin, and laughed at the cameras. Including the Prime Ministers of the States of Brandenburg and Berlin, Mathias Platzeck and Klaus Wowereit, former head of the Deutsche Bahn company Hartmut Mehdorn and the former Federal Minister of Transport Wolfgang Tiefensee. Only one person wasn't allowed on the picture: the mayor of Schönefeld, Udo Haase. What went wrong on the airport construction side outside the city gates of Berlin?
- After falling in love with a photographer, a young man follows her to war and puts himself into the shoes of a war reporter.
- How do we explain to our children, that we all have to die one day? Actually, do we really have to? In "Eternity at Last" French writer and enfant terrible Frédéric Beigbeder explores if we have to accept birth, sickness and death as the natural course of our lifes. He takes us on a journey to our future selves and meets with so called transhumanists. They are cyborgs, scientists, philosophers and entrepreneurs who already took our evolution into their hands. While fighting against his own insignificance, Beigbeder asks for the meaning of transhumanism and thus for nothing less than the meaning of life.
- One year after Stine's husband died, she reclusive lives with her daughter Stephanie in a suburban villa which falls into disrepair. She encounters the charming craftsman Roger, who makes her an offer right on cue: He consents to carry out repairs as much as necessary, which have to be paid back, only when Stine has the ability to. Instead, he just wants to get a warm meal and an shower at times. Eventually one night. Stine accepts that deal despite she risks her daughter's relationship.
- A missed meeting in 1945 splits a family into two. The director's grandmother decides to drift away from the place of her catastrophe to a new Jewish state while her brother Feiv'ke chooses to change his name and stay in the place where he was once a prisoner . Following the choices made by a brother and sister, the director finds herself on a journey between Israel and Eastern Germany, between past and present, victims and victimizers. Which questions can be answered after their death, 63 years after that missed meeting?
- Wolfgang Weber, archivist of the city of Castrop-Rauxel, makes an astonishing discovery while receiving treatment at Thomas Vallomtharayil's Ayurvedic clinic. 150 years earlier, another Thomas was at work where the clinic stands today: the mining pioneer and Ruhr legend Thomas Mulvany. This film accompanies Wolfgang Weber in a documentary style through his research into the astounding parallels between the lives of the two Thomas', which leads him to a striking conclusion: Thomas Vallomtharayil is the reincarnation of Thomas Mulvany.
- Yasmin has lived an almost normal life as a German ever since she was three years old. The family fled from Somalia during the civil war and now lives scattered around the globe. When Yasmin's grandmother no longer wants to stay in her Ethiopian exile, a transnational family drama evolves, circling around the essential question: Where is Granny to live? And suddenly, the family confronts their own aspirations: Have they actually arrived where they want to be? GLOBAL FAMILY is a twistful documentary about a transnational family drama, in which four generations of a refugee family each pursue their own dreams of family, home, and future.