German Film Festival 2021

Berlin 1933: Anna Kemper is 9 years old when her life changes dramatically. To escape the Nazis, Anna’s father flees to Zurich. His family follows soon. Anna has to leave everything behind, even her beloved pink rabbit soft toy. She faces a new life in new places full of challenges and privations yet tries to not loose courage. 

A bold and timely adaptation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s eponymous classic. This is the story of Francis, how he arrives in Berlin, how he enters this city thrice, how he stumbles, trips and falls, how Berlin becomes his undoing and how he finally resurrects as a better person.
 

What drives our world becomes paradigmatic in Davos: Traditional farming in contrast to the global elite, who operate untied from all places, virtually without touching the ground. DAVOS is a film about equilibrium and contrast, about capitalism in our fractured world and the impact of the powerful on the many.

 

When Fuchs starts his new job as a teacher in a prison school, replacing the old and unconventional teacher Berger against her will, he is forced to confront his biggest fear, triggered by the mysterious, withdrawn inmate Samira.

Fund manager Oliver who has recently become a paraplegic uses a therapy trip with a group of people living with disabilities as cover to smuggle his illegal earnings across the Swiss border. A fast-paced roadmovie that challenges all notions of "normal".

 

Zazie is convinced that noone needs „ the great love” until she is invited to her best friend Philipp’s wedding and finds herself caught in a time loop.
 

Lisa is moving out. Mara is left behind. As boxes are shifted, walls painted and cupboards built, abysses begin to open up, yearnings fill the room and an emotional rollercoaster is set in motion. A tragicomic catastrophe film. A poetic ballad about change and transience.
 

Director Annekatrin Hendel sits down with the photographer Sven Marquardt and two of his old friends from past punk rock times. This documentary tells the story of three friends whose individual lives are defined by their artistic view of the world, by radicalism, and open-mindedness.
 
 

ONCE WERE REBELS depicts two urban, liberal couples in their 30s who decide to help a Russian friend escape to Austria.
 

In 1981 Taiwan invited women to a first World Cup in women’s soccer – at a time when the German Football Association (DFB) more tolerated than promoted women’s football, which had officially been banned in Germany until 1970.
 

A story of home, friendship and soccer: Outcast Ben and refugee Tariq overcome jealousy and animosities and find friendship.