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Max, a stand-up comedian in his mid-forties, lives separated from his wife and his autistic eleven-year-old son Ezra back at his father's house, and is just as awkward in his performances as he is with his erratic son. When Ezra is to be reassigned to a special school, Max snaps and sets off on a road trip across the USA with his son. In LA, an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel beckons, but with the authorities, his ex-wife and father on his tail and his unpredictable offspring in the back seat, it's a long way to get there.

Kolya and Vasylii learn that their father, who left them when they were children, is dying in Luxembourg, far away from them. One of them wants to go and find his father, while the other one does everything he can to prevent the first from leaving the country. As a result, they both go to Luxembourg in search of their dad: Kolya considers him a hero, while Vasylii thinks he is a scoundrel.

Der Dokumentarfilm mit Clown Gaston geht der Frage nach, woher kommen die komischen Figuren im Theater, Circus und Film und wie hat sich die Komik und Humor im Laufe der Zeit entwickelt. Der Schweizer Clown Gaston auf seiner Abschiedstournée mit einem Wandercircus. Gespräche über Komik, das Lachen und den Narren mit Dimitri, Gardi Hutter und Emil Steinberger. Eine dokumentarische Reise auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Komik und Hommage

an einen grossen Circus Clown, einer der Letzten seiner Art.

After submitting his application to resign, a judge, Ata, seeks shelter in his family villa out of town. When his son, Farhad, a university student, is released from the prison, Ata experiences a cold reunion with the family while his wife, Giti, is filing for divorce. But a car accident, leading to the death of Farhad, and the paralysis of Giti, puts him in a game of concealing the truth from Giti and Vida, Farhad’s girlfriend – just as it has been constantly concealed since the time of the loss of another family member under the heavy steps of history in a country shaken by the public movements from time to time…

A young woman prepares a cup of tea, and irons hijabs. She is looking for freedom, for her personal revolution. A short film dedicated to all the women who had no choice.

Beitollah is a religious man who has been dreaming about a box of gold coins appearing at the end of a cave. He believes these coins are a miracle and wants to find them. But since he does not consider the coins to be halal, he wants to find a non-religious assistant to accompany him on the search. With the help of a job advertisement printed on the back of counterfeit dollar bills that Beitollah distributes on the streets of Tehran, he recruits the young Shoja and the two set off together to search for the coins. They discover several caves in the north of Iran but none is the right one. They move on to the central deserts of Iran and spend the night at a Caravanserai roadside inn. The inn’s owner suspects that the two might be looking for treasure and decides to follow them on his motorcycle…

In the year following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, young journalist Claude Baechtold finds himself in the war zone of Afghanistan. Not entirely voluntarily, the avowed anti-militarist is dragged by two fearless reporters on a round trip through the entire country.

Marked each year by celebrations, Israel’s Independence Day coincides with the commemoration of Al-Nakba (the Catastrophe) — the day Palestinians memorialize their dispossession and displacement. For Tamer (Mahmoud Bakri, a member of the acting dynasty begun by veteran Palestinian performer Mohammad Bakri) and his high-school friends — Safwat (Mohammed Abd El Rahman), Shekel (Mohammad Karaki), and Rida (Ahmed Zaghmouri) — the social and psychological dissonance of being Palestinian in Israel is a daily struggle that is only heightened in the lead-up to Nakba Day.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine finds Alina in Irpien, near Kiev. She is alone, with her leg in a cast after recent surgery. She manages to escape with her cat from a bombed and cut off city in one of the last evacuation groups. She reaches a cottage in a nearby village where her parents are stuck. For the first weeks they try to live normally. Her mother conducts online classes, her father takes care of his cats and the animals in the neighborhood, Alina records current events with her camera. However, the front is getting closer and closer, and they have to make a decision – to stay or to run away? When the neighbors leave their homes, Alina and her parents, under the cover of the night, hurry to pack. At the very last minute, the father decides to stay...

Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabalay is on a month long work trip to Norway when the Egypt/Gaza border closes and he is unable to return home. He details his seven year fight to get back to his family, during which time he made his award-winning film Ambulance

Claé and Bruô, secret agents from enemy Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon, must overcome their differences and combine forces to find the Perlimps and infiltrate into a world controlled by Giants where war is imminent.

At the height of his career, dancer Steven McRae, first soloist with the Royal Ballet in London, injures his Achilles tendon and collapses on stage. His career seems to be over. But after a two-year break, he begins a special program, accompanied by his trainers and the company's medical team. Despite all adversity, Steven McRae wants to return to the stage and dance the most prestigious roles in the repertoire once again.

Thirty-six years after the events of the first film, the Deetz family returns home to Winter River following Charles Deetz's unexpected death. Lydia's life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened, releasing Betelgeuse.

A group of villagers embark on a pilgrimage to Hazur Sahib.

Retired Georgian teacher Lia wants to find out what has become of her missing niece Tekla. Achi, a teeanger from Tekla's former neighborhood, claims that Tekla has gone off to the more liberal Istanbul as a trans woman and immediately follows Lia's heels when she sets off. Together, the two rummage through the Turkish metropolis' vibrant neighborhoods, where transsexuals and other outsiders hire themselves out. In the process, they come across the amiable trans lawyer Evrim, who is an activist for the queer scene.

In a world where toys have become unpopular, villain Billy Willy sets up a terrifying plot to kidnap YouTubers and blow them into space. One million YouTuber Da-in goes out to find Billy Willy with fastest aircraft Sky to save her kidnapped mother! Can Sky save the Earth with Maximum Speed?

Poland, 1990 – American music journalist Ruth takes her father Edek, a Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his childhood haunts, hoping to make sense of her family's troubled past. When Edek, reluctant to face his trauma, undermines their trip with his unpredictable and more eccentric than usual demeanor, Ruth is forced to challenge him and the values with which he raised her.