As early as 2010, the Deutsche Kinemathek held a symposium on “The Pleasure of Genre”. The corresponding publication says ...

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The 55th Forum main programme comprises 30 films from five continents – including seven feature debuts – and encounters a world and its people that are in a bad state. “Sounding out a diverse range of ...

Rose and her daughter Sofia journey to a Spanish seaside town to meet an enigmatic healer. As Sofia embraces an affair with an alluring stranger, tensions with her overbearing mother threaten their ...

When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which ...

At a barbecue, Ryan’s five-year-old son briefly goes missing. Ryan’s violent reaction to this scare sets off a chain of events and unearths secrets from the past. A journey of self-discovery and ...

Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must ...

Hornclaw, a legendary assassin in her 60s, specialises in eliminating the scum of the earth. She has learned to accept loss but finds new meaning in her mundane yet bloody life when she meets ...

What begins as an intimate portrait of Russian independent journalists facing persecution by Putin’s regime takes a drastic turn when Russia starts a full-scale war in Ukraine and they are all forced ...

Modelled after Carl Sagan’s classic TV series Cosmos, this film displaces the dominance of Western science and embraces pluralistic worldviews – from tropical Sufi mysticism and monorealism to ...

Frisch aus der Psychiatrie entlassen, zieht Pia wieder bei ihren Eltern ein, um einen Neuanfang zu wagen. In einer Welt, die sich ebenso unsicher anfühlt wie ihr Inneres, jongliert sie mit mehreren ...