Hommage

An average, everyday metalworker and volunteer firefighter content in his marriage to his childhood sweetheart finds his emotions unexpectedly stirred when he falls for a pretty waitress from a nearby town.

Runtime

1h 28m

Director

Valeska Grisebach

Cast

Andreas Müller, Ilka Welz, Anett Dornbusch

A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.

Runtime

1h 54m

Director

Mira Nair

Cast

Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shah

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard ...

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Agnès Varda

Cast

Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray

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

Swiss drama in the form of a road movie starring Bernadette Lafont. Hairdresser Christelle is harassed daily by her chauvinistic husband until she can no longer stand it and flees. She then meets the strong landlady Mona and learns to see her life from a different perspective.

Runtime

1h 34m

Director

Patricia Plattner

Cast

Anouk Grinberg, Bernadette Lafont, Philippe Bas