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Lysis and All Is Well
3 Days In Quiberon (3 Tage in Quiberon)
(Country: Germany, Austria, France; Year: 2018; Director: Emily Atef; Writer: Emily Atef; Stars: Marie Bäumer, Birgit Minichmayr, Charly Hübner, Robert Gwisdek, Denis Lavant)
Dramatisations of Romy Scheider's last two interviews with journalists.
All Is Well (Alles Ist Gut, All Good)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2018; Director: Eva Trobisch; Writer: Eva Trobisch; Stars: Aenne Schwarz, Andreas Döhler, Hans Löw, Tilo Nest, Lina Wendel, Lisa Hagmeister, Dagny Dewath, Thomas Gräßle, Annika Blendl, Doris Buchrucker, Hildegard Faust-Albrecht, Vera Flück, Marc-Philipp Kochendörfer, Valentina Kühnel, Hermann Linnenbrink)
A woman keeps silent after a rape.
Gundermann
(Country: Germany; Year: 2018; Director: Andreas Dresen; Writer: Laila Stieler; Stars: Bjarne Mädel, Alexander Scheer, Milan Peschel, Peter Schneider, Axel Prahl, Thorsten Merten, Alexander Schubert, Anna Unterberger, Peter Sodann, Christian Skibinski, Leni Wesselman, Alexander Hörbe, Hilmar Eichhorn, Peter Rappenglück, Benjamin Kramme)
Story of a construction worker turned singer-songwriter in the German Democratic Republic
In The Aisles (In Den Gangen)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2018; Director: Thomas Stuber; Writer: Clemens Meyer, Thomas Stuber; Stars: Franz Rogowski, Sandra Hüller, Peter Kurth, Andreas Leupold, Michael Specht)
Christian is new to the warehouse. He falls in love with Marion, but she’s married. Magical realism in the east German provinces.
Lysis
(Country: Germany; Year: 2018; Director: Rick Ostermann; Writer: Rick Ostermann; Stars: Oliver Masucci, Louis Hofmann)
A father takes his estranged son on a rafting trip into the wilderness that suddenly turns into a struggle for survival.
Transit and Styx
Matti And Sami And The Three Biggest Mistakes In The Universe (Matti & Sami und die drei größten Fehler des Universums)
(Country: Germany, Finland; Year: 2018; Director: Stefan Westerwelle; Writer: Salah Naoura, Ingo Schuenemann, Stefan Westerwelle; Stars: Mikke Emil Rasch, Nick Holaschke, Sabine Timoteo, Tommi Korpela, Roy Peter Link, Eero Milonoff, Eeva Soivio, Bendix Hansen, Ramona Kunze-Libnow, Doris Kunstmann, Tristan Göbel, Olivia Jones, Meri Koivisto, Vesa Wallgren, Mikke Emil Rasch)
A boy desperate for a family holiday convinces his parents he has won the lottery... but things don't quite go as he hoped.
Styx
(Country: Germany, Austria; Year: 2018; Director: Wolfgang Fischer; Writer: Wolfgang Fischer, Ika Künzel; Stars: Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekesa, Alexander Beyer, Inga Birkenfeld, Anika Menger, Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekesa, Alexander Beyer, Inga Birkenfeld, Anika Menger)
A storm in the middle of the ocean, a boat full of refugees that is about to sink and a woman all by herself...
Transit
(Country: Germany, France; Year: 2018; Director: Christian Petzold; Writer: Christian Petzold, baesd on the novel by Anna Seghers; Stars: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman, Maryam Zaree, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt, Sebastian Hülk, Emilie de Preissac, Antoine Oppenheim, Louison Tresallet, Justus von Dohnányi, Alex Brendemühl, Trystan Pütter, Ronald Kukulies)
Georg flees to Marseilles to escape the German army. Assuming a false identity, he tries to obtain passage on a ship bound for Mexico. But then he meets Marie and his plans change.
Full Review
See:
Franz Rogowski in conversation on controlling his breath, a space for the imagination, the images and colours in Transit, and his work at the Kammerspiele
, Christian Petzold in conversation on Franz Rogowski, a memory, an identity and the language in Transit
, Christian Petzold in conversation on Alex Brendemühl and George Romero in Transit, author Anna Seghers, Isabelle Huppert and Claude Chabrol
, Franz Rogowski in conversation on Christian Petzold's Transit and The State We Are In
, Christian Petzold in conversation on Franz Rogowski, a memory, an identity and the language in Transit
, Christian Petzold in conversation on Alex Brendemühl and George Romero in Transit, author Anna Seghers, Isabelle Huppert and Claude Chabrol
, Franz Rogowski in conversation on Christian Petzold's Transit and The State We Are In
Two Men In Suits (Zwei Herren im Anzug)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2018; Director: Josef Bierbichler; Writer: Josef Bierbichler, Josef Bierbichler; Stars: Josef Bierbichler, Martina Gedeck, Simon Donatz, Irm Hermann, Sarah Camp, Johan Simons, Peter Brombacher, Josef Staber, Stefan Hofinger, Benjamin Cabuk, Margarita Broich, Wowo Habdank, Philipp Hochmair, Traute Hoess, Andreas Lechner)
Set in Bavaria during the summer of 1984, an embittered father and his estranged son are staying behind after the guests at the funeral of their wife and mother leave. The father decides to tell his son the whole story... who responds with his own version of events.
Wild Heart
(Country: Germany; Year: 2018; Director: Charly Hübner, Sebastian Schulz)
A documentary about the band Feine Sahne Fischfilet whose singer Jan “Monchi” Gorkow has become an unlikely force against racism and anti-Semitism
3 Days In Quiberon and Wild Heart
Yung
(Country: Germany; Year: 2018; Director: Henning Gronkowski; Writer: Henning Gronkowski; Stars: Janaina Liesenfeld, Emily Lau, Joy Grant, Abbie Dutton, Tyrell Otoo, Malik Adan, Alexander Iskin, Janaina Liesenfeld, Emily Lau, Joy Grant, Abbie Dutton, Tyrell Otoo, Malik Adan, Alexander Iskin)
The the lives of four millennials making a living with crack and webcam porn and spending a better part of their lives at parties.
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