Open Cinema

• Germany
• 2016
• 119min

In a small village in the Black Forest, Peter and Lisbeth are in love. But things aren’t so simple. Lisbeth’s father is a rich glassworker, while Peter is a poor miner. To become respectably rich, Peter bargains with Michel the Ho...

Flash Forward

• Iceland,Denmark
• 2016
• 129min

Tor and Kristjan spend a turbulent summer in a remote fishing village. Tor’s best friend Kristjan is always protecting him from his sisters at home and others outside. Both are from dysfunctional families, Tor with a disinterested...

• Venice Film Festival (Venice Days)

Special Programs in Focus

• Colombia
• 2016
• 15min

Wide Angle

• France,Canada
• 2016
• 75min

Beautiful and hand drawn with direction from Jean-Francois Laguionie this castaway tale features a seventy something Louise and she is stranded for winter in a French seaside town. The result of missing the last train out of town,...

Wide Angle

• Lebanon,Qatar,Armenia,France
• 2016
• 84min

Those from the Shore is a documentary about Armenian refugees living in Marseille, France, and demonstrates how France’s refugee policy operates with indifference. Some Armenians forced to leave their home to avoid imprisonment or...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan,Germany
• 2016
• 90min

Kanjaki, a middle-aged man, goes to a quiet countryside village. He puts his helmet on a shrunken old woman whom he meets by chance in a shop. As soon as he presses the buttons on the helmet one by one, she suddenly remembers forg...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Germany,Jordan,Netherlands,Qatar
• 2016
• 83min

Ahmed, a construction worker, lends his cousin money that he had received from a customer as a deposit. Unable to get it back, he has no money to return to his customer, nor does he have enough to proceed with construction. He is ...

Midnight Passion

• Indonesia
• 2016
• 117min

A mysterious young man jolts awake after months in a coma, nursed back to health by young student-doctor Ailin after being discovered left for dead with a gunshot wound to the head. It’s a rebirth of sorts and, realizing that the ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bhutan
• 2016
• 95min

Deep in the dense forest of Bhutan, apart from secular society, a unique ceremony takes place every Year of the Monkey, which comes in every twelfth year in Buddhist monk and director Khyentse Norbu’s unconventional mystery drama....

Wide Angle

• Senegal,France
• 2016
• 110min

Young Senegalese street musicians Thiat, Gadiaga, and Kilifeu form a rap band called “Keur Gui”. The Revolution Won’t Be Televised is a fascinating documentary following Keur Gui and their passage to becoming social leaders throug...

• Berlin Film Festival (Forum)