The Operative

The Operative | USA/Deutschland/Israel/Frankreich 2019 | Agentenfilm, Thriller | Yuval Adler | 16

One day Rachel, a missing spy for the Mossad, reports back. A story of a woman who was deployed in increasingly more reckless ways for unknown purposes unfolds in her supervisor‘s report to his superior.

Auerhaus

Deutschland 2019 | Drama, Literary Film Adaptations | Neele Leana Vollmar | 12

Neele Leana Vollmer‘s adaptation of the bestelling novel by Bov Bjerg captures all of the dreariness of small town life in the early 1980s.

The Cleaners – Im Schatten der Netzwelt

The Cleaners – Im Schatten der Netzwelt | Deutschland 2018 | Documentary | Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck

The documentary portrays content moderators who look at thousands of pictures and videos on facebook, twitter, and instagram day after day and decide whether they have to be deleted or censored.

Colonia Dignidad – Es gibt kein Zurück

Colonia | Deutschland / Luxemburg / Frankreich 2015 | Drama, Historical Film, Thriller | Florian Gallenberger | 16

On the outside „Colonia Dignidad“ in Chile was a deeply religious German community. Behind closed doors sect leader Paul Schäfer drugged and abused his disciples and ran a prison for the Pinochet regime. Florian Gallenberger uses the real story ...

55 Steps

55 Steps | USA/Deutschland/Belgien 2017 | Biography, Drama | Bille August | 12

Mentally ill Eleanor Riese (Helena Bonham Carter) turns to a patient advocacy agency because she is prescribed high doses of neuroleptics against her will. Her lawyer Colette Hughes (Hilary Swank) fights for patient rights with her.

Enfant Terrible

Deutschland 2020 | Drama, Biography | Oskar Roehler | 16

With cardboard backdrops and deliberate artificial staging, Oskar Roehler provides a powerful, gentle memorial to filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder who died at age 37.

Exile

Exil | Belgien/Deutschland/Kosovo 2020 | Drama | Visar Morina | 12

Xhafer, an academic in his mid-40s who is of Bosnian origin suspects he is being mobbed at work. His wife thinks he is imagining things. EXIL is a slow burning psycho thriller.

Francofonia

Francofonia, le Louvre sous l’Occupation | Frankreich/Deutschland/Niederlande 2015 | Drama, War Film | Alexander Sokurov | 12

Russian auteur Alexander Sokurov explores the history of the Louvre in Paris and meditates about art, war and life in the process.

Die göttliche Ordnung

Schweiz 2017 | Drama, Sociological Film | Petra Volpe | 6

Switzerland, 1971. A vote for women’s suffrage is pending and a small group of brave women advance equality and fight against the resistance in their small village.

I'm Your Man

Ich bin dein Mensch | Deutschland 2021 | Comedy, Romance Films, Science Fiction | Maria Schrader | 12

Historian Alma is meant to spend three weeks with a robot who has been programmed to be her ideal partner using statistical data from millions of women and Alma‘s personal “mindfiles.“

Ingeborg Bachmann: Reise in die Wüste – Ingeborg Bachmann: Journey Into the Desert

Ingeborg Bachmann: Reise in die Wüste – Ingeborg Bachmann: Journey Into the Desert | Österreich/ Schweiz/ Deutschland/ Luxemburg 2023 | Drama, Biography | Margarethe von Trotta | Interview

INGEBORG BACHMANN is primarily a film about how the traditional understanding of roles can kill love and art.

Der letzte Mentsch

Deutschland/Frankreich/Schweiz 2013 | Drama | Pierre-Henry Salfati | 12

Marcus Schwartz (Mario Adorf) wants to become Menahim Teitelbaum again. The Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivor changed his name after liberation. Now in old age he wants to be buried in a Jewish cemetery and for that he needs to prove his identity.

Plus que jamais: More Than Ever

Plus que jamais | Deutschland/ Frankreich/ Luxemburg/ Norwegen 2022 | Drama | Emily Atef

Gravely ill Hélène comes across Norwegian blogger “Mister“ online who makes her feel understood. She decides to travel to Norway.

La drum cu tata

La drum cu tata | Deutschland/ Schweden/ Ungarn/ Rumänien 2016 | Drama, Comedy | Anca Miruna Lazarescu | 12

In 1968 a completely unlikely series of events sees a Romanian family travel to the GDR and end up in a West German student commune. Based on a bizarre but true story.

Rival

Rival | Deutschland 2020 | Drama | Marcus Lenz | 12

Young Ukrainian boy Roman hides in a delivery truck and crosses the borders of Poland and Germany where his mother Oksana is waiting for him. She lives with the much older German Gert, whose wife she took care of until she died.

Sharaf

Deutschland/ Frankreich/ Tunesien/ Luxemburg 2021 | Drama | Samir Nasr | 12

Sharaf, who allegedly committed murder, quickly learns how to assert himself in prison. He skillfully navigates between the fronts, adapts when he has to, and is protective when he can be.

Themba

Deutschland 2010 | Drama, Sportfilm | Stefanie Sycholt | 12

Traumland

Deutschland/Schweiz 2013 | Drama | Petra Volpe | 12

Zurich. The whole city is preparing itself for Christmas. A number of the men and women scurrying around on Christmas Eve for their last minute shopping cross paths with Mia, a sex worker. A film about love, sex, and bourgeois hypocrisy.

Vor der Morgenröte – Stefan Zweig in Amerika

Vor der Morgenröte – Stefan Zweig in Amerika | Deutschland/Österreich/Frankreich 2015 | Biography, Drama, Episodenfilm | Maria Schrader | oA | Interview

Director and screenwriter Maria Schrader depicts four artfully composed segments that revolve around Stefan Zweig’s experiences in exile. The author of DIE WELT VON GESTERN and DIE SCHACHNOVELLE migrated to Brazil in the 1930s and committed ...

Das Vorspiel

Deutschland 2019 | Drama | Ina Weisse | 12

DAS VORSPIEL is a film about disappointment, about music obsessiveness, about a women without a center amongst five men (son, father, husband, lover, violin student).