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1977. Sixteen-year-old Mario lives in a small village in Ticino, Italian-speaking Switzerland. While society around him is shifting in many ways, he experiences his first awkward sentimental approaches, has trouble in school, and constantly clashes with a father who doesn’t seem to get him. When he is sent off to the mountains to work as a farmer for the summer, some unexpected encounters will teach him a lot about life, love, and most importantly about himself.

Through a tapestry of improvised scenes, archive footage, interviews and texts, this film traces the key stages in the life of the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann – from her childhood during the war in Carinthia, through her rise to prominence as a star of the Gruppe 47, to her final days in Rome. Her journey is marked by Bachmann’s complex relationships with Paul Celan, Hans Werner Henze and Max Frisch, and her lifelong struggle to develop her own radical language.

Angela and Joe, a weary married couple, invite over the couple next door whose raucous lovemaking regularly serves as a stark reminder of their own marital crisis. The guests turn out to be an unconventional swinger couple who wouldn’t be averse to swapping partners with Angela and Joe. Will this be a breath of fresh air or the final nail in the coffin for Angela and Joe if they go along with the experiment? The evening takes a turn that soon spirals out of everyone’s control.

South Africa, 1968. Apartheid is the law of the land. Khuthala, a talented young musician, wants nothing to do with his family’s laundry business. He dreams of jazz, of a life shaped by music, not by soap and steam. But when the apartheid government begins cracking down on Black-owned businesses, and Khuthala’s father is arrested and beaten, his dream begins to shatter. To save his father, Khuthala makes an impossible decision.

An inexplicable cosmic event transports Oak Street from its suburban idyll to a place inhabited by dinosaurs. Faced with this unfamiliar environment, the members of the Platt family quickly realise that they can only survive if they stick together.

Paris, at the beginning of the 20th century. The sought-after painter Antoine Balestro is convinced that he is to blame for his wife’s death and gives up painting. He attempts to make contact with the deceased through a medium and, in doing so, encounters a fairground performer who is a convincing fraud. When Antoine’s gallery owner discovers the deception, he hires her to reinforce his lucrative artist’s delusion that he is in supernatural contact with his wife.

In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl at school who introduces him to a mysterious late-night T.V. show — a vision of a supernatural world pulsing beneath their own. As time goes on, however, questions begin to arise about why the show sometimes seems more real than their own lives. In the pale glow of the television, their view of reality begins to crack.

Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original's star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.

Allie is a hopeless romantic; Owen has just been dumped. They meet in New York, where a new rule applies: sex for singles is only allowed on one day a year! Perfect timing, because today is the big day… But what if this is more than just a one-night stand?