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Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul

  It’s not the expected thing for a documentary on Turkish music to open with a quote from Confucius, but that is not the only fascinating surprise that Crossing the Read More

Europa Europa

  Jewish teenager Salek (Marco Hofschneider) is separated from his family when they flee their home in Germany after Kristallnacht. He ends up in a Russian orphanage for two years, Read More

Dog Days

  Summer in Vienna is the backdrop for intersecting anecdotes about six locals. Anna (Maria Hofstätter), a compulsive hitchhiker, travels to shopping malls with strangers. A widower (Erich Finsches) asks Read More

Falling

  In Barbara Albert’s Falling, five independent women are reunited for the funeral of a beloved teacher. As the five women reconnect, a day of sober mourning turns into a Read More

Your Unknown Brother

  After being released from a camp for political prisoners in 1935 Nazi Germany, Arnold Clasen returns to Hamburg to lead a quiet life.  He contacts Renate, with whom he Read More

Gun-shy

  A loner who spends his time volunteering for meals on wheels meets an intriguing girl who becomes his best friend. But what he initially considers to be a romantic Read More

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

  The Final Days is the true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Sophie Scholl is the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The Read More

The White Rose

  During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany’s Nazi government. The students form a resistance Read More

Talk to Her

  After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco’s girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has Read More

Spain in a Day

  Based on the concept of the film Life in a Day, directed by Kevin Macdonald and produced by Ridley Scott, Spain in a Day brings to life the history Read More