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- A group of young Ukrainians is preparing a modern stage version of Hamlet. Their goal is to use their own wartime experiences and traumas to relate to Shakespeare's play.
- "Lost and Found" is a film project for which six young filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe have each developed a short film on the theme of "generation". Together, these six short films make a whole cinema evening. Unique thereby is the selection of young directors, who are currently among the most talented in the Central and Eastern European region. Also special is that five of the short films (four short narrative films and one short documentary) are visually framed by an independent animation story. The filmmakers made their films with local producers in their home countries; post-production was carried out in Germany. The theme "generation" is the thread running through the whole film. It mirrors a new self-understanding of young filmmakers in Central and Eastern Europe. Traditions and national history are viewed in a new way and cinematically narrated. The concept of generation was not intended to neutralize the differences between the countries, but to create a fascinating frame for comparison. The stories were written in accordance with this thematic guideline especially for this project.
- Made from images filmed by the Syrian artist Amel Alzakout after the boat on which she was fleeing Syria sank off the coast of Lesbos, Purple Sea reports on the moment in which the co-director and the other passengers are floating in the sea in their life-jackets, waiting to be rescued. Her voice-over accompanies this extremely poignant experience.
- Omar, a photographer, has a special experience with death. He is trying to express it through a new project. One day, three photo sessions and witnesses. Between the walls of a studio, one photographer and three people meet up after a casting. Bodies express stories of sex, love and trauma in the city of Beirut.
- Baile Herculane is one of the oldest resorts in Europe and the place where only a few centuries ago kings and queens were swimming in the healing waters. Relu, Mitica and Gelu are three masseurs, who serve as our tour guides through this magical maze of an Eastern European 'Garden of Eden'.
- Hanna, a melancholic woman, returns to Lebanon after 12 years to search for her twin brother who was kidnapped during the Lebanese civil war.
- Twenty minutes into his mesmerizing, formally inventive portrait of the legendary Romanian writer Norman Manea-a survivor of the concentration camps as a child who escaped the Ceausescu regime in 1986 and now lives in the U.S.-René Frolke does what few cinematic biographers dare to do: put their subjects' texts on screen. The inclusion of a complete story from Manea, which we read piecemeal throughout, is just one of the many playful moves Frolke makes in this collage-like, ceaselessly surprising, and deeply moving film. A study of the day-to-day business of intellectual life (panels, book signings, interviews), Le Beau Danger is also a sensitive meditation on the experience of exile.
- Night has to trick the mother of the missing child into sleeping to save her soul.
- A visual poetry about the lust of a man chasing a woman, dictated by the mind of Kurt Schwitters.
- Documentary deals with the murder of a housemaid in Morocco and with the social context behind the crime.
- The focus of the film "Souvenir" is Alfred D., who calls himself a "Democracy Exporter". For more than twenty years, Alfred has worked for German foundations around the world to promote democratic awareness and the rule of law and to record his missions on film. He has also staged himself in front of the camera again and again, most recently his election campaign for candidacy as a member of the European Parliament of the SPD in his Swabian home constituency.
- Kosovo war 1999. A woman is torn between losing the family or saving her family honour.
- Syrian history has been multicultural for centuries. This story is a voyage through Syrian culture until today's insanity, trying to find hope for the Syrian people. This project won the Robert Bosch Stiftung film prize for international cooperation between filmmakers from Germany and the Arab World in the animation category (2016).