Social drama

Jack, Lisa and Mathis are suddenedly orphaned. All three react to the catastrophe in their own way. Jack, who has just come of age, gets custody.

Katharina and Steffen have everything but still want to escape the comforting predictability of their lives. Will they dare to take that one step?

Olga, who is grieving for her mother and also anorexic, is sent to a psychiatrist who is dealing with her own losses in an unusual way.

A lawyer faces infanticide charges for a child she didn't know she was carrying, igniting a trial that questions motherhood's essence.

Karine becomes the leader in the fight for her job, but the young woman is tetanized by an invisible handicap.

Authentic, honest drama about a family threatened by the downward spiral of depression, alcoholism and jealousy.

"MADONNAS paints the astonishingly differentiated picture of a young woman who neglects her children." (taz)

The modernization of post-war style apartment blocks in central Germany becomes a journey into his own GDR past for architect Alexander.

A haunting psychogram of an entire generation of ex-GDR citizens who have not yet fully accepted that they now live in the Federal Republic of Germany

On 3 summer afternoons, a family meets up a beautiful house in an upscale Berlin neighborhood. They come together but ultimately drift further apart.

Jealousy and biting jokes about old wounds start slowly, but build until bald-face confessions and hand-to-hand scuffles take over.

The first part of Thomas Arslan's "Berlin Trilogy", which shows young people with a Turkish migration history from their own perspective.

Driven by their obsessions and fears, three Berliners lose themselves in the urban jungle.

This delicate ensemble film tells the story of the Leblancs and their well-kept family secret.

A bittersweet drama about bird-loving Yusuf facing the loss of his little paradise on the rooftops of Adana.

A gritty thriller inspired by a true story. After suffering a brutal attack, a teenager seeks revenge.

Rumen, a 13-year-old boy, is bullied by his classmates who taunt him and call him 'Pig'. Full of pent-up rage, he strikes back.

Paul Aivanaa Manaté makes film history as the first Franco-Polynesian director ever and was able to enlist Sebastian Urzendowsky for the role.

They skate, smoke, rap and compare their bullet scars. A surreal portrait of Brazil's fallen youth.

With his at once contemporary and timeless drama, Affonso Uchôa confirms his reputation as one of the most promising talents in Brazilian cinema.

An illegal immigrant from China is desperate for work in Japan. He pretends to be someone else to get a job at a traditional soba restaurant.

Awaiting his prison sentence, Ilkka spends his last night of freedom with his younger brother Simo.

French drama about love, economic dependence and gender roles.

Vandam is a hard-drinking, brawling loser from a housing project on the outskirts of Prague. With the advent of capitalism, his favorite pub also has to ...

Four characters will meet, love and separate in Gare du Nord, one of the busiest train stations in Europe.

After years in a juvenile detention center, Spira returns to his neighborhood, but gentrification and demolition excavators are taking hold.

A brutal sex crime reveals the monstrous nature of humans, while a police officer must preserve his humanity.

Törless is a pupil in a secluded boarding school. He is a loner who resents the cruelty of his fellow pupils.

Dominick has a superpower and suffers from it. He longs for normality - a refreshingly pessimistic take on the superhero genre.

In this harrowing drama, the father of a gay Chilean man tries to deal with the violent death of his son.

On their flight from the Gulf of Guinea to the Moroccan coast, two people, despite or because of the omnipresent danger, find each other.

A family turns a blind eye to an injustice in this Turkish drama, provoking an even worse disaster.

A comet hits earth and wipes out almost all of humanity. A single girl appears to be the only survivor.

Andres gives up his ordinary life in the city. He moves to the quiet farm of his deceased parents and spends his days in the forest, aimlessly cutting ...

England, 1959. A woman decides to open a bookshop, despite protests from the local population.

Norwegian-Pakistani teen Nisha is torn between two worlds until the worlds colide.

Cobain (15) tries to get his pregnant mother Mia to quit her self-destructive lifestyle. When she refuses to clean up her act, Cobain takes over.

Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin.

Roland Gräf's film P.S. paints a critical counter-image to the workers' and peasants' state of the GDR, which earned him massive criticism.

1964 DEFA, East German Film by Konrad Wolf based on the novel by Christa Wolf. Tale of star-crossed lovers divided by worldviews in a divided Berlin.

Will is released from prison early to look after his rebellious niece Stacey. For both of them, it's a chance to make a fresh start.

An unconventional portrait of a man whose life motto reminds us of the poets of romanticism: The genius writes its own rules.

A touching documentary about the everyday life of Zurich's forgotten youth.

Back from the First World War, a German Robin Hood turns against the capitalist exploitative order.

The puppeteer Sebastian travels through the German post-war landscape with his foster child.

After meeting the woman on the train Erwin Retzmann kills her in the forest.

Ira translates to "wrath," but this feeling is barely voiced by the main characters, who live on the grim fringes of society.

Compelling exploration of indifferent and resentful teenagers and the conflicts with their parents.

In the usually grueling everyday life of Moscow, a city of millions, ambulance driver Oleg tries to preserve a remnant of humanity.

In his surreal drama, award-winning Kazakh director Emir Baigazin deals with youth in an eroding society.

In Helsinki, two destinies intersect in the midst of racism and loss: Cohesion and humanity can overcome everything.

Two people meet again after more than fifty years. They were lovers once, but their lives took different turns: she married his best friend.

Heartbreaking drama about the Armenian genocide at the beginning of the 20th century.

A heartbreaking drama about love and transience. Winner of four German Film Awards.

At the request of his mother Gitte, Marko (Lars Eidinger), travels from Berlin to his parents (Corinna Harfouch, Ernst Stötzner) in the countryside.

A family working for a luxury textile factory face lay offs but doesn't want to go down without a fight and enlists the help of documentary filmmaker.

Alice works in a call center on the outskirts of Zurich. Inspired by her job, she calls lonely grandmothers and pretends to be a granddaughter in need ...

A coming-of-age tale with a difference about the grumpy doctor Annebarbel Buschhaus donning her ice skates again at the age of 58 after an absence of 40 ...

A family reunion aboard a ship becomes a turning point in the life of 39-year-old engineer Markus.

Thierry, 51, a family man and skilled machinist, has been unemployed for 20 months. Can he keep his dignity while looking for a job?

NORDSTRAND tells the story of two estranged brothers, Marten and Volker, who meet in their parents' now empty house on the coast.

17-year-old Mateo dreams of Los Angeles. He wants to work there and support his family in their small Zapotec village in southern Mexico. The only way ...

One of the legendary films of New Hollywood: Dennis Hopper's THE LAST MOVIE disappeared so quickly from theaters in 1971 that few have seen it. After ...

Winner of the Bronze Student Oscar.

At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother.

When the elderly and lonely Hanna causes an accident in Germany in which a young man from Kosovo dies, she tries to track down his family.

Hamburg, mid 80s, Alex is a cabby. The sound is hard, pubs are dark and loud, people constantly argue about anything, people smoke all the time, and not ...

Three wacky slacker guys open a pizzeria in Slovenia's capital. To grow their business, they offer to make a wish come true for every ordered pizza.

Now in original version: The tragic story of an abandoned teenage girl living in an unnamed former Soviet country, who slips into a downward spiral of ...

15 years ago off the coast of Windholm the sea disappeared and with it, all the children. Since then, the losses hang like a curse over the region.

A circus gives the street children of St. Petersburg hope and a chance for a better life.

The captivating story of three gifted street musicians in Jakarta over a tumultuous 5-year period in their own lives and that of Indonesia.

Luna and Amar are a happy couple, but then Amar loses his job. An old friend, who is devout follower of Islam, offers Amar a job. He begins to change... Amar ...

This sharply observed psychodrama follows an accountant plagued by panic attacks and self-pity who maneuvers himself into an existential impasse.

Winter 1968. Historian Dr. Dallow is released from prison. He is still trying to cope with and understand why he was put behind bars for 21 months.

In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII.

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, while Paula raises two children ...

Vittorio De Sica 1948's classic social drama.

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences.

Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan leads a secret life of addiction that most of his students ...

Just like Lützerath, Erkelenz and Hambach, the village in this film has to make way for open-cast mining. But one man refuses to leave.

A gangster movie from Kenya: funny, sad, brutal. It was the first Kenyan film ever entered into the Best Foreign Film Oscar race. Produced by German Star ...

A gangster movie from Kenya: funny, sad, brutal. It was the first Kenyan film ever entered into the Best Foreign Film Oscar race. Produced by German Star ...

One evening two teenagers go out together. The next morning the’re gone. The story of two single parents who feel connected and yet are worlds apart. A ...

A love story about two troubled souls from a small town in northern Nevada. CHANCES won the Golden Reel Award.

A crime drama set in the multicultural, expat district of the same name in Seoul, South Korea.

The Partyqueen Nico is a luxury girl from a wealthy home. At a party she falls in love with Paco, who is her complete opposite.

Will Tremper's view on daily life in East Germany is not free of cliches, but he doesn't' portray the West in a particularly positive light, either.