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- Ten-year-old Nori (Val Maloku) and his father Gezim (Astrit Kabashi) roam the streets of Kosovo selling cigarettes and barely earning a living. Only a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gezim is lured west to Germany, leaving his son behind in search of a new life. Feeling deserted and desperate to claim some sense of stability, Nori embarks on a dangerous journey to Germany in search of his father. His tenacity, resilience, and sheer grit must be enough to guide him.
- At a family gathering on a boat, engineer Markus vaguely remembers what his mother did to him when he was a child. Soon, Markus and his wife Monika have to face an unthinkable truth and violation, that a mother would seem incapable of.
- Christmas is approaching, and with it, desire for harmony, beauty, light, and hope.
- NORDSTRAND tells the story of two brothers, Marten and Volker, who meet in their parents' now empty house on the coast. Older brother Marten would like to pick up together their mother from prison where she has been since the death of their violent father years ago. But Volker seems only to have come in order to sell the house. He apparently can't forgive neither his mother nor his older brother for the fact they didn't protect him from the abuse committed by the head of the family.
- West Germany, 1982: Hubertus and Sebastian are fighting for their future against their fathers. Their unconditional love for Punk Princess Debbie and the raw power of Alternative Rockabilly Music are the only statements of freedom in this little nowhere town. Everything else around them is boundaries and pressure. But they decide to run and live their truth. This film has a big cast of great young actors, intense emotions, and an original soundtrack by German rockabilly bands.
- A killer comes into a bar... What sounds like a joke isn't funny at all for an ex-police alumni turned vigilante-killer who planned to pick up his girl and then leave town forever.
- After the death of his parents an apathetic young man travels to a foreign country to live in their house and look after their turtle.
- Anne Clark, an icon of music history and a terrific pioneer of spoken word art, has been on stage for more than 30 years. It transforms language into unique music. Since the early 1980s, New Wave classics such as OUR DARKNESS and SLEEPER IN METROPOLIS have provided a thrill of excitement that has inspired generations of musicians. Her analog synthesizer sounds made the gloomy poet a pioneer of techno. After drastic confrontations with her record company, she disappeared from the musical scene and re-invented herself in the quiet solitude of Norway. Director Claus Withopf accompanied Anne Clark for nearly a decade, portraying a socially critical as well as overwhelming exceptional artist - a musical rebel,
- A grumpy old man is confronted with a group of migrant workers and has to challenge his prejudices.
- Taweez tells the story of an old, lonesome talisman-writer, who earns his money with prophecy and has already lost the hope for acknowledgement in life, but suddenly finds himself as a messiah as a result of the rumours in the village.
- Eymen, Eray, Gustaf, Max and Svea are fundamentally different: from their age, their social environment, their faith and their interests. What they have in common is a special position within their family structure. They are what is often called "shadow children" in the jargon of psychology. As siblings of children who are chronically ill or have a short life span or are disabled, they have to deal with issues such as responsibility, renunciation and loss much earlier than their peers. Their reality is fundamentally different from that of other children and young people in Germany. Quietly observing and with great respect for all family members, the film approaches the different life realities of the siblings and introduces them to their everyday life. An everyday life that remains hidden to most people, even if about 4 million people in the country have a brother or sister who is chronically or life-shorteningly ill or disabled. The retreat of the affected families into the private sphere as well as the social repression and tabooing of illness and death - especially when it comes to children - contribute their part to the fact that the life experiences, the problems, but also the special competences of the "shadow children" are still hardly perceived publicly.
- Isaac, an African refugee, becomes stranded on an island in the West. But the supposed paradise turns out to be his private hell. Driven by pain and anger, he makes his way across a country full of contradictions, which highlight his dreadful past and elucidate his tragic journey to Europe. The loss he thereby had to suffer drives him to a bloody act of revenge.
- Documentary of German electronic musical group Tangerine Dream.
- After 8 years of separation, 25-year-old Hannes meets his father in a little mountain hut for a weekend in the Bavarian Alps. By the influence of their very different girlfriends Ann and Lavinia, the stage-director father and his actor son cautiously try to make a new start. It's a bold venture, leading all of them into an abyss of unforeseen cruelty.
- Werner Nekes is a leading contemporary experimental film maker. His work includes numerous avant-garde films that received many awards and distinctions. Closely related to his cinematographic work is his very substantial cinematographic collection, spanning about 40,000 objects ranging from the early days of cinema to phenomena of visual perception - a collection that is truly unique in the world. This film shows a cross-section of Nekes' films and reveals some particularly intriguing treasures from his collection. In conversations with Alexander Kluge, Nekes reveals his profound knowledge of cinematography and his lifelong and abiding interest in exploring the concept of perception. The film also looks at his close collaboration with Helge Schneider and Christoph Schlingensief.