Un sastre soñador, al borde de la ruina, intenta reinventar su vida y alegrar la vida a las novias de Atenas. Nikos vive en el ático de la sastrería familiar. Cuando el banco amenaza con embargar la sastrería y su padre cae enfermo, Nikos entra en acción: con una maravillosa aunque extraña sastrería sobre ruedas, consigue reinventarse a sí mismo aportando estilo y confianza a las mujeres de Atenas con preciosos vestidos.

En las afueras de la capital de Chad, la decidida madre soltera Amina trabaja incansablemente para mantenerse a sí misma y a su hija María de 15 años. Cuando Amina descubre que María está embarazada y no quiere un hijo, las dos mujeres comienzan a buscar un aborto, condenado tanto por la religión como por la ley. En el proceso, madre e hija forjan una conexión más fuerte que nunca.

One year after Stine's husband died, she reclusive lives with her daughter Stephanie in a suburban villa which falls into disrepair. She encounters the charming craftsman Roger, who makes her an offer right on cue: He consents to carry out repairs as much as necessary, which have to be paid back, only when Stine has the ability to. Instead, he just wants to get a warm meal and an shower at times. Eventually one night. Stine accepts that deal despite she risks her daughter's relationship. Written by Anonymous

Tras la guerra civil en Somalia, la familia Shaash se encuentra dispersa por todo el mundo. Yasmin se ha criado en Alemania y siente que ahí es donde tiene su hogar. Cuando su abuela Imra se ve forzada a dejar su exilio en Etiopía, Yasmin hace todo lo posible por encontrarle una nueva patria. Con el fin de poder tomar una decisión, ella, sus hijos y su padre, viajan a Etiopía para ver a la abuela. Pero ¿a dónde puede ir una mujer de 88 años de edad y qué posibilidades tiene? Será que mudarla a Alemania o a Italia, donde vive un hermano sin techo, ¿es la mejor opción? De pronto todos los miembros de la familia comienzan a cuestionar su propia identidad y se preguntan si después de todos estos años, durante los que cuatro generaciones han tratado de realizar sus sueños en el extranjero, realmente han llegado hasta donde se lo habían propuesto. El drama familiar trasnacional Global Family recibió el premio de Mejor Película Documental en el Festival de Cine Max Ophüls Preis 2018.

The door has been closed for many weeks. A teenager has locked himself in - shutting out a helpless father, mother and sister. In Japan, youths like him have already been given a name: Hikikomori (the secluded). The phenomenon is also beginning to spread throughout the Western world. This is all the family has been able to find out. All they can do is stand in front of the locked door and ask, beg, implore, throw tantrums, despair, accuse, ignore and hope. All the while, the door increasingly becomes a mirror of their own lives.

Filmmakers Ibrahim, Suliman, Eltayeb and Manar, close friends for many years, left their motherland in the sixties and seventies to study film abroad and founded the Sudanese Film Group in 1989. After years of distance and exile, they are reunited, hoping to finally make their old dream come true: to bring back cinema to Sudan by reopening the Halfaia Cinema, a dilapidated theater in Khartoum.

After seven years in prison, a female student in Tehran is hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defence against a rapist. For a pardon, she would have had to retract her testimony. This moving film reopens the case.

An exploration of the reality behind the dream of a better life; what is lost and what is gained in the pursuit of personal wealth and perceived happiness.

Fall 2018: The Hambach Forest becomes a chaotic scene of the climate conflict. In the midst of this chaos, film student Steffen Meyn has a fatal accident. Based on footage he collected over two years, we follow Steffen’s path up the trees and into an activism full of contradictions.

An Israeli director currently living in Berlin returns to Israel to meet some of her friends from primary school. She learns what has been happening in their lives since their paths parted while we get a glimpse of different Israelis.