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Willy Wonka – chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time – is proof that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible.

Five seniors dare to step into the unknown. For 18 months, they participate in a training based on mindfulness and altruism, which is measured for a study. The goal is to evaluate the effects of meditation on aging. The film narrates their personal journey and mirrors it with scientific objectivity and the challenges of aging well in our society. Living longer and longer - yes, but how?

A brutally realistic story about a life of a young singer who changes his life towards new opportunities in his career.

Albert and Bruno are in debt up to their necks. While seeking help from community workers to get their lives back on track, they run into a group of young green activists. Lured by the free beer and snacks rather than by the ideals of eco-activists, Albert and Bruno find themselves joining the movement without much conviction.

The conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) moves like a fish in water in the liberal artistic and intellectual circles of the American East Coast in the 1940s. At the age of 25, he is able to fill in as a conductor at New York's Carnegie Hall, a little later he meets his future wife, the actress Felicia Montealegre. Their thirty-year relationship and the resulting family life with three children are marked by Bernstein's tireless creative energy and zest for life, but hit a severe crisis when the star conductor begins to live his bisexuality all too openly in the wake of the '68 upheaval.

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday—drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.

There are more than 300 Bach choirs and Bach ensembles worldwide, most of which are made up of amateurs. For many, their lives are inextricably linked with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. What do people seek and find in his music? What connects them across continents? What fascination lies in the music of the famous German composer, which manages to transcend borders, cultures, religions and centuries? The film embarks on a journey through six continents to meet amateur musicians and singers who have made Bach their "centerpiece".

Seven year old Sol spends the day at her grandfather’s home, helping with the preparations for a surprise party for her father. Throughout the day, chaos slowly takes over, fracturing the family’s foundations. Sol will embrace the essence of letting go as a release for existence.

A son undergoes a remarkable transformation as the bond with his father begins to fracture, and he becomes consumed by a quest for vengeance.

Although they could hardly be more different, Arthur and Felix are best friends - one of them a pedantic philistine, the other a rascal living life in the fast lane. To help his burnt-out friend, Arthur lends him his medical card for a check-up at the hospital and learns that Felix is terminally ill. Because Arthur doesn't have the heart to tell Felix the truth straight out, he gets so tangled up that Felix ends up thinking his best friend is dying! So Felix begins to look after Arthur, who is perfectly healthy.

The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.