His guitar is out of tune and Fedor (25) isn’t in the best of moods. At the end of the year, the threat of World War III is constantly on the news, which he listens to hungover. While his sister Nina ...

A “Heimatfilm” with a difference: Kristina Mikhailova asks women and girls to imagine themselves as a river. Village girls, young female city dwellers, LGBT and gender positivity activists, a ...

The promise of love and family has returned to Sándor, a widower, and his young son when an incident occurs that upends his new life. Sándor is the only witness to a serious accident involving his ...

Berlin International Film Festival - official website Introverted 16-year-old Lucia joins the all-girls choir at her Catholic school, where she befriends Ana-Maria, a popular and flirty third-year ...

As a child, Tamara Stepanyan came across Armenian cinema on television in the living room with the whole family. Her mother was a virtuoso cellist, her father a famous actor from the 1970s onwards: ...

Dr. Barbara Wurm has been section head of the Forum since August 2023. Born in 1973, she studied comparative literature and Slavonic and German studies in Vienna, Moscow, Innsbruck, Munich and Leipzig ...

A psychological thriller following Samaan, a young security guard who belongs to a generation whose parents were murdered by religious violence in the Arab region over the past decade. Then children, ...

“Sarmatische Zeit” (Sarmatian Time) is the name of a poetry collection by Johannes Bobrowski, which becomes a personal, lyrical leitmotif for Volker Koepp in this visually striking, far-reaching ...

New York, June 1961. Legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans has found his musical voice and created the perfect trio, including bass player Scott LaFaro, his musical soulmate. A residency at New York’s ...

With the passing of Moritz de Hadeln, the international film community has lost one of its most influential and respected ...

Jeff is invited by his friend Max to travel deep into the woods and stay with them at the isolated wilderness lodge of acclaimed film director Blake Cadieux. Jeff has high expectations for the trip: ...

Factory owner Maryati exploits her employees with excessively long shifts, luring them with incentives to make them prioritise productivity and greed over sleep. Putri is convinced that, because of ...