The Good Friend

A serial killer dispassionately discusses the nuts and bolts of his grisly avocation, as well as the youthful traumas which helped to mold him into a psychopath, in this disturbing independent drama from Germany, based on the true story of of Germany's most famous child murderer Juergen Bartsch who, between the ages of 15 and 19, abuse...

Runtime

1h 21m

Director

Kai S. Pieck

Cast

Tobias Schenke, Ulrike Bliefert, Walter Gontermann

A feature film about the life and death of the famous Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr, who was murdered in 1990 and who tried all his life to hide his homosexual tendencies from the public. The life story is told from the perspective of his professional environment and - sometimes in a documentary style - his fellow actors report on hi...

Runtime

1h 41m

Director

Jo Baier

Cast

Jürgen Tarrach, Ruth Drexel, Alexander Lutz

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.

Runtime

1h 49m

Director

Jean Becker

Cast

Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Fanny Cottençon

A disturbed young man pushes away his exurban family to seek wildness in the woods. The boy's urge for the primitive manifests in his bedroom at home and in a wild dog he follows through the countryside.

Runtime

21m

Director

Daniel Patrick Carbone

Cast

Michael Daley, Emma Miccicke, Rebecca Flint

Strangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away.

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

Panos H. Koutras

Cast

Kostas Nikouli, Nikos Gelia, Yannis Stankoglou