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A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.

When the crew of a bankrupt cargo ship gets stuck on board for months, isolation breeds pressures that sink the men into a sea of madness and terror.

While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin "free of Jews" in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII. The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight.

A struggling street photographer in Mumbai, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée. The pair develop a connection that transforms them in ways they could not expect.

Maya is a little bee with a big heart! Join her on an epic adventure.

Aryan is a Syrian refugee trying to make his way into Hungary from Serbia, along with his father and many other wretched souls. They are all caught, and find themselves in a web of cynicism and corruption.

'Hunter's Bride' traces the romantic rivalry between two veterans of the Napoleonic Wars who vie for the heart of the same woman.

Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert - and the visas that allow them to leave Tehran to do so.

Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, is now sheriff in Erbil, the capital city. No longer feeling useful in this society now at peace, he thinks about quitting the police force, but instead agrees to be stationed in a small valley, at the very borders of Iran, Turkey, and Iraq. It is a lawless territory, right at the heart of illegal drug, medication and alcohol trafficking. Having arrived in the small village, he refuses to bow down to Aga Azzi, the seriously corrupt tribal chief and absolute ruler of the area. Baran meets Govend, the village school teacher, who is also rejected by the villagers. Like Baran, she represents another law, that of the young and autonomous Kurdish state. Govend is all the more vulnerable as she is not a married woman.

Based on the true story that shocked a nation in the summer of 1988 and revealed the scandalizing amount of errors committed by the media and the police in a half-baked attempt to rescue hostages.

Lena is a bright, disabled girl who, after years spent studying at home, is keen to get back to school. She is assigned to a special class for disabled pupils who have to present themselves before a school commission at the end of the year in order to prove that they merit being moved back into a "normal" class. Her enervated teachers, however, show absolutely no desire to motivate the students and help them improve; on the contrary, they try to quash right from the start any interest Lena shows in more complex study material. Nevertheless, Lena soon involves herself in the school routine and gets together with classmate Anton. Yet their transparent happiness is not to everyone's liking and repercussions soon follow.

Matthias, a successful employee enjoys his luxurious single life in Berlin until his mother dies. With her last wish to scatter her ashes in Cuba, she sends him on a journey into his past, to search for a true home.

Smart, quick-witted Julie is in her mid-20s. She marches to the beat of her own drum and has her own manifesto: do nothing. And she really means NOTHING: no work, no studies, no friends. Agnes is a happy-go-lucky nurse of the same age. With a husband and a child, she fits into society's expectations without giving them any great thought--until, that is, she meets Julie. Together they start a rebellion that brings them to the limits of their respective worlds. Stay Still is the story of a generation with a poetic, witty undercurrent. Dangerous, but very exciting.

The Renaissance master Botticelli spent over a decade painting and drawing hell as the poet Dante described it. The film takes us on a journey through hell with fascinating and exciting insights into Botticelli's art and its hidden story.

After losing in love, Karl, a young author of a popular anonymous blog, decides to give readers control of his life. This fictional drama paints a portrait of a generation immersed in the virtual world.

This Ain't California is a celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary documentary trip into the world of roller boarding in the German Democratic Republic. A coming-of-age tale of three teenagers and their passionate love for a sport on the crumbling tarmac of the streets in the German Democratic Republic, which was considered very ill-fitting. The punk fairy tale is a story of the subversive powers of fun in that part of Germany, which had lost touch with its citizens. The film follows its three heroes from their childhood in the seventies through their teenage rebellion in the eighties, ending in the last summer of their life in the German Democratic Republic in 1989, when their life changed forever, and follows them to 2011.

Seventy-five year-old Harry, recently released from a prison term in Germany, travels to Nova Scotia where he and his wife owned a small island. On arrival he finds that the Island is now occupied by an eccentric woman, sixty-five year-old Susan, who is fleeing from a nursing home confinement. Both seek solitude and space and find a way to survive a series of adventures that help them both forge a new friendship.

Planet Earth. USA. 2015. The natural oil resources are running out. The hatred between East and West has spread like a plague all over the world. The planet is on the brink of World War III.

The fates of three German-born Muslims in Berlin collide as they struggle to find their place between faith and modern life in contemporary western society, caught at a crossroads where alluring liberated lifestyles conflict with deeply-rooted traditions.

A cinematic travelogue in contemporary Istanbul, based on Eremya Komurciyan's 'History of Istanbul in the 17th Century.'

Alekseev, a retired singer-songwriter, is invited to a radio program many decades after his career saw a dramatic turn.

A portrait of an unusual man, a highly emotional family drama and a fascinating crime story all at once.

Sascha Anderson, writer, pop and media star in the GDR. Depicts her double life as a radical dissident and a Stasi informer.

BRASCH - this legendary name stands for one of the most sensational German family histories of all time. This film chronicles a family saga across three generations against a historic backdrop.