Autumn of the Goslings

Heinz Strunk, plagued by crater-like skin rashes, lives with his sick mother in Hamburg-Harburg in the 1980s. As a saxophonist, he tours the North German lowlands with the dance combo "Tiffanys". In this bizarre universe of Korn, Klaus & Klaus and Koteletts, bandleader Gurki teaches him how to deliver cheerful, upbeat music. To escape ...

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Christian Görlitz

Cast

Maxim Mehmet, Andreas Schmidt, Susanne Lothar

An allegorical comedy centered on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water shortage, go on a sex strike that threatens the young couple's first night of love.

Runtime

1h 27m

Director

Veit Helmer

Cast

Max Mauff, Kristýna Podzimková, Assun Planas

Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds.

Runtime

1h 36m

Director

Éric Guirado

Cast

Nicolas Cazalé, Clotilde Hesme, Daniel Duval

In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Radu Mihăileanu

Cast

Lionel Abelanski, Rufus, Clément Harari

From an early age, Arnold believes he is an extraterrestrial. Day in, day out, he is busy trying to build a flying machine that will finally take him "home". Protected by his mother Ida and her long-time admirer, the country doctor Emil, he is regarded as a quirky but lovable outsider in his home village.

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Hardi Sturm

Cast

Max Riemelt, Katja Riemann, Armin Rohde