Angela Winkler

Michael Haneke’s provocative study of emotional disconnection in the age of mass-media saturation is a metacinematic labyrinth in which the boundaries between actual and mediated violence become terrifyingly indistinguishable. Arno Frisch stars as the teenage son of wealthy, disengaged parents whose obsession with violent videos leads him to create his own monstrous work of real-life horror.

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe's artistic director (Swinton), an ambitious young dancer (Johnson), and a grieving psychotherapist (Ebersdorf). Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

Lars Eidinger is one of Germany's most extraordinary actors. Director Reiner Holzemer gives us an up-close and personal look at this exceptionally talented actor and his body of work.

The drug-addicted SIN tries once again to withdrawal from heroin and therefore wants to get away from the cold, gray city of Frankfurt /M to a Greek island. The young woman gets the money for the flights by selling blank prescriptions which she stole in the doctor's office of her father. Sin separates from her boyfriend LEON and tries to win her friend and young prostitute ILLY for the travel, who was dropped out by her her pimp MESUTH. However, the two girls do not come too far. Looking for Illy's passport they strand on a permanent campsite near the Frankfurt airport. In the caravan of Illy ́s alcoholic mother reveals all the misery of addiction and hopelessness. The film shows a realistic, unsparing look at the endless cycle of drugs, alcohol and drug-related crime, which Sin wants to escape with her last strength, but she can manage it only by breaking off consistently all bridges behind her. The longing to travel to sunny Greece ends for the physically entirely leached Sin once again only in the rehab.

It was once the source of life, light, and warmth. But now the sun has turned the entire world into a baked and barren wasteland. Marie, her little sister Leonie and Phillip are heading for the mountains. Rumor has it there is still water there. Along the way they run into Tom, a first-rate mechanic who becomes indispensable. But can they trust him?

After returning from a business trip in Finland, Bruno (Bruno Ganz) find that his wife Marianne (Edith Clever) wants her husband to leave her alone with their son. A struggle with loneliness and adapting to the new situation ensues.