Ariella Hirshfeld

A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Senta and Thomas are dying to fall in love - just not with one another. Still, when two people - a hopeless romantic and a system analyst - meet, an unexpected amour fou ensues.

When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further ado, nobody suspects this brazen young rebel to become one of the most important post-war German filmmakers. Despite early setbacks, many of his films breakout at the most renowned films festivals and polarise audience, critics and filmmakers alike. His radical views and self-exploitation, as well as his longing for love, have made him one of the most fascinating film directors of this time.

Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as economic hardship and personal defeats weigh down family relations.

Based on a provocative autobiography, this story — set in a largely Muslim neighborhood in Berlin — follows a teenage gang member who is caught between hiding his Jewish identity and saving his life.

Isabel Burger would normally consider herself lucky. An unexpected inheritance takes Isabel, a trained chef, to Crete, where her German father left her a country house complete with its own olive grove. If only her failed startup in Munich and the resulting financial woes hadn’t led to the recent opening of insolvency proceedings against her. Isabel’s insolvency administrator gives her four weeks to sell her house on Crete as best she can and use the proceeds to pay off her creditors.

Rien ne va plus is a photofilm, a love story between the souls of two people who died at the same time: Igor, a refugee from Azerbaijan, and Kah, the murdered wife of a diplomat. A film about geographical, physical and spectral borders.

Yann, a photographer recently divorced, meets Alicia in a bar. Attracted to each other from the very first glance, they quickly embark on an affair. After a short while, Alicia leaves her husband and moves in with Yann, which leads to power struggles and position battles between them. Thilda, Yann's twelve-year-old daughter who lives with his ex-wife, instinctively resists Alicia, who expresses her mood swings in a borderline mode. Yann tries to escape the situation by getting involved with Tabea, while Alicia quits her job and resumes her unfinished psychology studies. However, she spends most of her days partying with drugs and is involved in multiple other affairs...