Anna Bronsky works as a violin teacher at a conservatory. Against her colleague’s will, she agrees to teach a new student in whom she sees great talent. With full dedication, she prepares Alexander for his midterm exam –and, by doing so, not only neglects her own son Jonas but also drifts apart from her husband, [...]
Pelikanblut
Jan Smacka2020-06-24T12:27:29+00:00Wiebke (45) lives together with her adoptive daughter Nicolina (9) on an idyllic horse farm. After many years of waiting, she now has a chance to adopt another girl, Raya (5), to provide Nocolina with a longed-for sister. The first weeks are harmonious, and the siblings get along great. But shortly thereafter, Wiebke, realizes that [...]
The Dreamed Path
Jan Smacka2018-08-17T12:02:37+00:00“Two couples suffer the failure of their relationships 30 years apart. Director Angela Schanelec’s bisected narrative is a quietly beautiful meditation on love, loneliness, and happiness just out of reach. Rigorous, intelligent, and formally beautiful, her work deals with notions of chance and transience, the complexity (and frequent opacity) of human relations defying the dictates [...]
Anishoara
Jan Smacka2018-08-17T12:07:53+00:00“’Anishoara’ is the real name of her lead actress, whose unselfconscious, taciturn magnetism captivated the director. (…) Scutelnicu’s camera observes her with a removed but intense interest as she dashes through fields or listens to the sounds of night or does her chores, always with a strange, self-contained single-mindedness. It’s rare that a film about such [...]
Babai
Nikola Mirza2017-05-19T14:29:33+00:00“10-year-old Nori is obliged to grow up at a very young age after the early death of his mother and then his abandonement by his father, Gezim, in the Kosovo of the 1990s. After a dangerous and eventful journey, Nori finally arrives in Germany and is reunited with his father, but he cannot understand how [...]
Der Nachtmahr
Nikola Mirza2017-05-19T14:29:33+00:00“Tina is 17 years old and seemingly has everything a girl her age could wish for. But one night after an intense party, she begins having severe nightmares. From this point forward she is haunted daily by a profoundly hideous creature. Her parents do not believe her story. The only one with whom she talks [...]