German Film Festival 2020

Summer 1989 in the GDR, the demise of which can be sensed and even heard on West German radio: Tailor Adam and his girlfriend Evelyn have to make a decision while on holiday in Hungary.

A big city fairytale full of wit and bizarre supporting characters from the past, it’s romantic, playful, and, at the same time, a love letter to Berlin. 

Berlin-Kreuzberg is Nora’s microcosm. A sweaty forehead, sunburnt skin and butterflies in her stomach: 14-year-old Nora meets free spirit Romy in a glowing Berlin summer.

 

A declaration of love to the microcosm that is the 'pub', with its stories and figures filmed from the neighbouring table.

Young unruly Goldmund is sent to a monastery by his father to atone for the sins of his mother, who abandoned them. It is there that he meets Narcissus, a brilliant, scholarly novice, who is introverted and aloof. A unique and deep life-long friendship is born.

Zurich, 1989. A dutiful policeman is tasked with gathering information on the city’s left-wing theatre people. But the more he looks behind the curtain, the less he believes in his mission.
 

For Nora and Aron, it's love at first sight when they meet in the subway one rainy day. A complete chance meeting, Nora says. Everything is predetermined, Aron says....

Foster home, group home, special needs school – no matter where Benni ends up, she is always immediately kicked out. The uncontrollable nine-year-old is what the child protection services refer to as a "system crasher".

Director Janna Ji Wonders tells the story of the women in her family over the last century. The film’s unifying element and silent chronicler is Lake Walchensee in Bavaria, where the family opened a café in 1920 which still exists today.