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A friendship born from anthropogenic loss of home: when the village where 11-year-old Ben and his family live has to give way to open-cast lignite mining, they move to the city. There, Ben meets Tariq, whose family has fled Syria. Though they start out as competitors, the shared experience of a new beginning soon welds them together at school as well as the football club.

 

In her visually playful and provocative science‑fiction film, Sophie Linnenbaum imagines a strictly hierarchical three‑class society on the brink of revolt. A sixteen‑year‑old  schoolgirl is abruptly displaced from her privileged world and finds herself in the slums, where she forms unexpected friendships and navigates a coming‑of‑age journey within a surreal film world that critically reflects themes of exclusion, xenophobia, and capitalist structures.
 

Caught between duty and desire, Tilda has spent years keeping her family afloat, working, studying and raising her little sister Ida, because their mother battles an alcohol addiction. When a new love and a life‑changing opportunity in Berlin beckon, she must decide what she owes to the ones she loves, and what she owes herself.
 

Light, playful and humorous, Julian Radlmaier's sun drenched film interweaves the stories of three women and one man to tell a tale of inequality, escape and uncertainty, but also of freedom and friendship. An alchemy of encounters, including with ghosts, set in a romantic small town in eastern Germany, where, according to a popular song, the most beautiful roses bloom.

Spring 1945 on the North Sea island of Amrum: twelve-year-old Nanning looks after his family whilst his father is a prisoner of war. As the Nazis’ defeat becomes increasingly clear and their ideology begins to crumble, his mother sinks deeper and deeper into despair. In an attempt to cheer her up, Nanning uncovers painful truths about his family and realises that the greatest danger does not always come from outside. A sensitive and moving film about the end of childhood, set against the striking backdrop of the North Sea.

At the age of 20, Joachim is unexpectedly accepted into the renowned acting school in Munich and moves in with his eccentric grandparents. Between the bizarre challenges of acting school and the unusual, often alcohol-infused rituals of his grandparents, Joachim tries to find himself and his role in life. From the producers of Toni Erdmann and based on Joachim Meyerhoff’s eponymous bestselling novel, this is a bittersweet true story about a young man caught between two worlds.