Seventeen-year-old Luthando, adorkable, bookish and forever drifting between reality and her vivid inner world, returns for another year at a prestigious South African all-girls’ boarding school. The ...

A kind but grieving widower volunteers at a school and meets a quiet third-grade boy who has not spoken all year. Together, they discover a magical pen and a diary, and the boy slowly begins to trust ...

The London based director is celebrated as one of the biggest filmmaking talents to emerge from the Netherlands in recent years. Born in Tokyo in 1989, he studied at the European Film College in ...

Die 17-jährige Kellou verfügt über übernatürliche Kräfte, die sie selbst nicht versteht. Sie ist verunsichert und weiß nicht, wie sie damit umgehen soll. Erst als sie Aya, einer Frau in den Vierzigern ...

A series of surprising accidents shakes a small village. Why is a man dying on a park bench? Why is nobody helping in a car accident? Why does the farmer’s son feel responsible for the dead pigs?

Berlin International Film Festival - official website Once located in a forest of lush greenery, the Obinata firework factory is set for an administrative shutdown tomorrow and a major road is planned ...

Rong-Chen is a struggling member of a school recorder group. After she makes repeated mistakes during rehearsals, her teacher warns her that she might not be allowed to join the upcoming performance.

Lea is auditioning for a TV talent show. The producer asks her: “Who are you and what defines you?”. Lea has no answer. And thus begins a search for her identity. Meanwhile in her hometown, the museum ...

A “Heimatfilm” with a difference: Kristina Mikhailova asks women and girls to imagine themselves as a river. Village girls, young female city dwellers, LGBT and gender positivity activists, a ...

Berlin International Film Festival - official website In the endless Berlin nights, Hassan, a 55-year-old Palestinian Uber driver, shuttles night owls from one party to the next. Estranged from his ...

Dimitri loves to photograph the people around him. But for years, images have been slipping away from his sight. He knows that, one day, he will no longer see. He is unable to take photos as he used ...

Ni’er, a 17-year-old girl, lives and works in her small hometown. Her days are divided between her family home and the petrol station managed by her dad. At home, she quietly endures discussions about ...