Posted on January 29, 2024
The head chef at swish Hamburg restaurant The Lido, Martha Klein’s (Martina Gedeck) perfectionism and obsession with good cooking leaves little free time for romantic entanglements. However, when her Read More
Posted on January 10, 2024
In a dystopian, performance-oriented society, adolescents struggle for good grades while their dreams are shattered by an indifferent system. In a not-to-distant future, in which integration serves to protect Read More
Posted on January 10, 2024
Switzerland, 1971: Nora is a young housewife and mother who lives with her husband, their two sons and her father-in-law in a little village. Here, in the Swiss countryside, Read More
Posted on September 7, 2023
After the death of her mother, teenage Manuela (Hertha Thiele) is sent off to a boarding school run by the autocratic Fräulein von Nordeck (Emilia Unda). Initially withdrawn from Read More
Posted on May 11, 2023
The opening to Sonnenallee hints that this fine new German comedy is going to offer a twist on the usual teenage coming-of-age story. With a screenplay by first-time director Read More
Posted on May 3, 2023
In 1961, shortly after the Berlin Wall is built, young lovers Konrad (August Zirner) and Sophie (Meret Becker) attempt to flee East Germany for West, but only Sophie manages Read More
Posted on May 1, 2023
In the Fade begins with a brief wedding scene shot on a shaky camera phone between a Kurdish prisoner and a tattooed, bottle dyed blonde. Cut to the present Read More
Posted on April 27, 2023
Inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, Never Look Away tells the story of a young art student, Kurt (Tom Schilling) who falls in love Read More
Posted on April 3, 2023
A warm tale about an unlikely friendship between two lonely, displaced characters. Alexander is an 84-year-old Jewish war veteran who is desperate to remain living independently in his Berlin Read More
Posted on February 24, 2023
In Zurich, little blonde girls are disappearing and turning up dead. The villagers suspect a local man (Michel Simon), but his arrest proves to be a dead end in Read More
