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A family trip with boyfriend and child to the stormy island of Hallig Hooge turns into a nerve-wracking confrontation with her role as wife and mother for 35-year-old Lilith.
Pepe Lange goes swimming in the Kiel Fjord every day. When temperatures allow, he goes snorkeling. He explores the underwater world and collects trash. The short film follows him on his special patrol. This gives viewers a glimpse into a mysterious world that normally remains hidden from most of us. When we walk along the Kiel Fjord, we can see the fjord, but not quite into it. We can only guess what it looks like below the surface. That's why filmmaker Sven Bohde and his team want to offer the opportunity to look beneath the surface and experience what it's like down there together with Pepe Lange.
Period pain varies greatly in terms of its form and intensity. It is not easy to describe in words, and it is often trivialized and dismissed. This film aims to break this taboo and visualize the feeling of having a period based on personal experiences, making it more tangible.
“Artificial Intelligence,” the bachelor's thesis film by Andreas Back and Tim Seibert, begins with Till using an AI chatbot to write a term paper for him. When he succeeds, he uses the AI to save his first date with his crush Nadine at the last minute. The two become a couple, but Till increasingly uses the chatbot to maintain the appearance of being the perfect boyfriend in front of Nadine. This makes him so dependent on technology that he is hardly able to make decisions on his own anymore.
In this movie, Dmytro Dokunov and Richard Marx explore the question of the different realities which take place simultaneously: Richards in Berlin and Dmytro's at the frontline in Ukraine. How do you have to change your own perception of reality? How will the perception of your surroundings be changed too? The nature in which they live looks almost identical, but war is fundamentally changing the view.
Elke Kruse lives alone on her old farm in North Frisia. She was born during the Nazi regime in 1935, was a queen of the shooting range, and mainly tends to her beautiful garden these days. But there’s a mole that regularly destroys the gorgeous idyll with holes and black mounds of dirt. Elke wants revenge and hatches a plan. A documentary western set against the vast Frisian horizon.
A scientific expedition travels to an alternative Earth in hope of finding a new home for humanity, which has destroyed its own planet. But is it even possible to escape old patterns?
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his 15 year adventure as James Bond. Including never-before-seen archival footage from Casino Royale to the upcoming 25th film No Time To Die, Craig shares his personal memories in conversation with 007 producers, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
Two teenagers trapped in an endless time loop set out to find all the tiny things that make that one day perfect.
Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mother, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he didn't commit.
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Jamal and Silas, two ordinary guys who smoke something magical, pass their college entrance exams with flying colors and end up at Harvard. Ivy League ways are strange but Silas and Jamal take it in a stride -- until their supply of supernatural smoke runs dry. That's when they have to start living by their wits and rely on their natural resources to make the grade.
Serving life in prison for murdering their parents, Lyle and Erik Menendez speak out in this documentary explaining the shocking crime and ensuing trials.
In an intimate and joyful story of love in the face of loss, celebrated poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley find strength—and unexpected hilarity—in what might be their final year together.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht, Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore. The only one seemingly immune to his charms is Elsa's daughter Amanda, who might simply disapprove of her mother marrying a much younger man - or perhaps she senses something more sinister beneath the smooth-talking surface?
After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.
Eddie Lomax is a drifter who has been in a suicidal funk since the death of his close friend Johnny. Riding his motorcycle into a small desert town where Johnny once lived, Lomax is confronted by a gang of toughs, who beat him and steal his bike. However, Lomax is not a man to take an injustice lying down, and soon he begins exacting a violent revenge on the men who stole his motorcycle, with local handyman Jubal Early lending a hand and several area ladies offering aid and comfort.
A destitute WWI veteran is hired to help carry out restoration work on a medieval mural in a rural Yorkshire church. While living in the quiet village, he forms a close friendship with an archaeologist and begins to come to terms with his trauma.
SEDUCED AND ABANDONED combines acting legend Alec Baldwin with director James Toback as they lead us on a troublesome and often hilarious journey of raising financing for their next feature film. Moving from director to financier to star actor, the two players provide us with a unique look behind the curtain at the world's biggest and most glamourous film festival, shining a light on the bitter-sweet relationship filmmakers have with Cannes and the film business. Featuring insights from directors Martin Scorsese, 'Bernando Bertolucci' and Roman Polanski; actors Ryan Gosling and Jessica Chastain and a host of film distribution luminaries.