Desarraigo

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

Richard Eyre

Cast

Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy

An almost bombproof method of staying single is called "speed dating". 18 people participate in such an event. Nine men and nine women are sitting opposite each other in order to sell optimally under the pressure of time and to find a partner. They are looking for a date - and have nothing else in common. They talk about allergies, cap...

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

Ralf Westhoff

Cast

Sebastian Weber, Anna Böger, Felix Hellmann

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Runtime

2h 23m

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Cast

Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko

The unusual friendship between a German embassy employee and a twelve-year-old refugee girl helps both of them rediscover their joy in life, but also brings with it suspicion, corruption and violence.

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Dito Tsintsadze

Cast

Burghart Klaußner, Lika Martinova, Marika Giorgobiani

A family spends three summer days in a beautiful lake mansion close to Berlin. Together with her new lover, Irene visits her brother Alex, who still inhabits the house with Irene's writer son Konstantin. Konstantin's girl-friend pops in, too, and all of them drift away from each other more and more.

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Angela Schanelec, Stefan Butzmühlen

Cast

Jirka Zett, Miriam Horwitz, Fritz Schediwy