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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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.