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A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. When he is humiliated by a group of locals, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising and pushes him to his breaking point.

All his life, Michael Hartung, owner of a hopelessly debt-ridden video store, has bet on the wrong horse. When an ambitious journalist confronts him with the results of his research, everything changes for the charmingly melancholy Micha. Many years ago, as an employee of the Reichsbahn, he is said to have organized the largest mass escape in the GDR. Stasi files prove the case. He was apparently even imprisoned and then deported to an open-cast lignite mine. Seduced by a lavish salary, Micha confirms the story, although only fragments of it are true.

Directed by two-time Grammy nominee D. Smith, KOKOMO CITY takes up a seemingly simple mantle — to present the stories of four Black transgender sex workers in New York and Georgia. Shot in striking black and white, the boldness of the facts of these women's lives and the earthquaking frankness they share complicate this enterprise, colliding the everyday with cutting social commentary and the excavation of long-dormant truths. Accessible for any audience, unfiltered, unabashed, and unapologetic, Smith and her subjects smash the trendy standard for authenticity, offering a refreshing rawness and vulnerability unconcerned with purity and politeness.

Haby, a young black woman who is committed to improving life in her Parisian banlieue community, discovers a plan to redevelop the neighborhood and demolish the building in which she grew up. The man behind it is the white pediatrician Pierre Forges, who has risen to become mayor after the sudden death of the incumbent. Together with her family, Haby sets out to fight the city administration and its grand plans.

After a long absence and the death of his ex-wife, aging film director Gustav Borg returns to Oslo to recruit one of his two daughters, a celebrated stage star, to play the lead role in an autobiographical feature film. When his daughter categorically refuses, Borg hires a young Hollywood star as a replacement and also reconnects with his other daughter, who played with him as a child. The struggle over the film brings old family conflicts to the surface.

Melrick is an unruly young boy who spends his summer in French Guiana at his grandmother's house to escape his turbulent daily life in Stains, France. At the end of his stay, he plays the drum to revive the memory of his late uncle, Lucas Diomar, who died in tragic circumstances. Despite a wave of murders of young men shaking the headlines, Melrick becomes aware of his place in a family destroyed by irreparable grief.