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- Luz, a young cabdriver, drags herself into the brightly lit entrance of a run-down police station. A demonic entity follows her, determined to finally be close to the woman it loves.
- Javad, on a remote road having missed the last bus, happens to meet Gholamhossein, a man who was a close friend of his father. Gholamhossein tells him things about his father that he never knew.
- Kati, Jochen and Lukas take a trip on magic mushrooms. Lukas is not coming back.
- When a married woman discovers her husband's addiction to visiting brothels, she decides to start visiting them herself and is quickly swept up into a secret life filled with new sexual discoveries.
- Referencing sixties B-movies like They Saved Hitler's Brain (1968) and The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962), Ulrike's Brain finds Doctor Julia Feifer (Susanne Sachsse) arriving at an academic conference with an organ box. Inside the box: the brain of Ulrike Meinhof, which was saved by the authorities along with the brains of the three other leaders of the RAF after their deaths in Stammheim prison. Doctor Feifer can communicate telepathically with Ulrike's brain, which is directing her to lead a new feminist revolution. To that end, she is searching for the ideal female body to transplant Ulrike's brain into. At the same time, her arch-rival, Detlev Schlesinger, an extreme right-wing ideologue, arrives at the conference with the ashes of Michael Kühnen, the former German neo-Nazi leader and infamous homosexual who died of AIDS in 1989. When the two Frankenstein's monsters of the extreme left and the extreme right meet, chaos ensues.
- A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to glamorous diva of the Velvet Underground, to cult item, junkie and hag. Many faces for the same woman, whom, you realize, just couldn't bring herself to care enough to live.
- A young woman (Lilith), living in the here and now, lives supposedly aimless in the world. Everything is open to her and yet she cannot decide how to live her life. Spontaneously, Lilith visits her older brother in Cologne. She helps him move into a new flat and for a short moment believes to have found the right place to stay and live. However, an in - describable desire pulls her unexpectedly back into reality. Among highways, remarkable forests and paltry parking spots, she meets showman Hans, whom she trusts and follows into a strange colorful life in an amusement park.
- A girl (Schüttler) drops out of school and lies to her parents about it. Shortly after, this lie starts to spiral out of control.
- Trains in Mumbai, are like trains from hell. As if they're the last trains on earth, people jump in through closing doors, while those unable to get in hang onto the doors. Thankfully, one of the cars is for women only.
- Hashish
- 'One Long Summer' tells the story of Vroni who, as the summer slowly unfolds, experiences her first love in a small Bavarian village. Apart from the daily monotony of farmhouse chores and shy conversations about boys and sex that she has with her friend Gerti, Vroni finds herself drawn, again and again, to the woods, to the caravan of Ales, the young Czech puppeteer. Using a quiet visual language, with soft almost dream-like sequences, 'One Long Summer' shows the sweet melancholy of first love and the dusty, dragging summers of childhood that seemed to be endless.
- Lea is desperately searching for stability, a warm relationship and a reason for living. But she is floundering. Her life is meaningless, restless and aggressive. A brief encounter with Lukas develops into a closer relationship that takes her on a journey to a forgotten place, where the couple try to find out who they are, and recall a long-lost time.
- Keywan receives a call from a woman in Iran asking him to find her son Ashkan in Cologne, whom she hasn't reached for three days. Despite having minimal interaction with Ashkan, Keywan accepts the request.
- Maria and her husband, Walter are a middle-class couple that has to move in with the father of hers, who has a debilitating aneurism. She suffers from an obsolete existence as a submitting housewife. Her husband is extremely catholic and does not support the idea of sending her father to an old people's home. She sees no escape from her torture, until a mysterious call takes place.
- The friends Toro and Victor struggles with drug addiction and male prostitution in a hostile environment. When they lose all their money, their longstanding friendship is put to the test.
- Oray speaks in a quarrel with his wife Burcu three times 'talaq', the islamic formula for repudiation. The imam informs him about the consequences: he has to divorce his wife. Now Oray is in a dilemma: Should he stay with Burcu or with the community?
- Boris has a lot of love in him, but he can't share it with anyone. He kills stranded young women and then assaults them. This is the only way he can love. His goal is to give them a kind of redemption through his personal "love arts".
- Thirteen-year-old Julia has no desire to go on a trip with her father and his new girlfriend. Especially not in the Cologne cable car. But then, in the cabin, she meets Sven, a blind boy.
- After an accident Herman learns that he suffers from the rare Kahnawake syndrome, which causes him that the emotion "fear" falls out whereby he is forced to try out all phobias to become normal again.
- The story of a metalsmith who lives a lonely and secluded life with his mother in the countryside. He dreams again and again of a mysterious redhead. One day, he meets a young, female hitchhiker who is the spitting image of the woman he is dreaming of.
- For Anja, her new home in Germany is only a stopover. She would much rather go to America. She skips school and makes up gangster scenes with her little brother. Life is okay until she overhears a phone call from her mother.
- Through a little accident with his bike, Henning meets Elli, a young woman in a wheelchair. Very soon they start a stormy affair with one another. Henning, the young doctor, is attracted by her unusual and direct kind - he falls in love with her. As he wants to surprise Elli, Henning travels to visit her - just to learn upon arrival that Elli was just faking her disability.
- At a motivation seminar, the smart instructor Marius comes up against an awkward participant. Jörg Karsunke, an entrepreneur from the eastern part of Germany, simply refuses to understand the straight-forward principles of "mental syntax". Marius desperately tries to teach him how to open a door. Not just open it, but to do so with the right attitude and invincible will to conquer the new room that lies behind that door. When the door finally opens, no one can remember either of them. The world has forgotten them. And what is even worse: From now on they have to stick together.
- A courageous and determined young woman talks about her experiences going through Female Genital Mutilation and the need to undergo a reconstructive surgery on her genitals.
- Thrypp Foundation director Ursula has to run the show and keep the company's reputation clean during a foreign government meeting. But a corruption investigation led by journalist Hannah is set to challenge Ursula's master plan.
- Three short events merge to a novel about powerlessness, where the protagonists experience a physical, cultural and climatic hell on the Turkish Aegean Sea.
- Musically-talented, but socially-challenged Henry, age 14, arrives at a private boarding school for music students at the beginning of the new school year and discovers there his fascination with playing the organ. From this fascination arises a general love for the instrument; playing it offers him a refuge from the bullying his fellow students serve him. His teacher, Ms. Schmidt, recognizes his talent. Her growing interest in Henry, however, further worsens his position with his roommates Erik, Mik, and Sebi. Erik feels that his status as the school's prodigy is threatened; his talent as an organist has saved him from relegation for years. Erik rules the school and goes with Melanie, who has had Henry under her spell since he first arrived at the school. Erik and his minions Sebi and Mik do all they can to make Henry's life a living hell.
- A department store security guard is secretly in love with a clerk in the store's bookshop. When he witnesses a seeming rival being attacked in the train, he gets off instead of helping him. Not being able to deal with his bad conscience, his formerly controlled life breaks down.
- The syrian-catholic community of Al-Khalil is renown for its work of dialogue and close relationship to Islam. During the war, several members of the community were kidnapped by the terroristgroup ISIS: Fleeing the persecution some of the monks and nuns found a new home in Iraq. With the expanding conflict they took in many displaced families. As one of the programs hosted by the community a theatre workshop took place. The participants build a play on bases the book "conference of the birds", intertwining the Sufi allgegorys with their own personal experiences. Summer 2017. ISIS is on the retreat and soon the first families will make the journey back home. The last days for this people of different origins and believes, sharing daily life in the small rosegarden.
- For three months Tomo had lived and worked for the Neumanns, a normal middle-class family. Now the robot is lying on the floor of the swimming pool. What went wrong?
- A young boy finds himself in a dilemma of choosing between social peer pressures or making a moralistic decision.
- The scene is the FC Basel stadium, the actors are the team supporters and the star is Tobias Haufner, their cheerleader. His task is to make them shout, and chant in unison in order to electrify the players and lead them to the victory. When all the fans sing together, they feel high, they feel as one, involving the spectators before their screens. Isn't that wonderful? But isn't this exhilaration a temporary loss of awareness as well, maybe the fist step to fascism?
- When 19-year Melli gets out of prison after eight months, her entire life has changed. Luckily her friends Aylin, Meryem and Tasha are there for her and want Melli to have a cracking evening.
- China is currently marked by a phase of rapidly growing urbanization. The film in this context deals with two particular cities. Yum en a derelict ghost town and Or dos a mythic city of the future,both are deserted. They exist because of completely different reasons. The film shows through impressive images how these two cities and the relation of inhabitants to these cities are developing in China in times of urban growth.
- A film about deportation-procedures in Germany.
- An alien crashes on an inhospitable planet and tries to contact their home planet. While searching, The alien experiences a world in which they are simultaneously trapped and repelled. When they meet someone who returns their gaze, they create a sanctuary for themselves.
- A man is unable to sleep and decides to count his dreams in order to fall asleep.