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Frank, serving a life sentence, takes a prison job caring for ageing incarcerated men with Alzheimer's and dementia. What begins as a self-interested bid for parole becomes a profound, transformative bond with fellow prisoner Louis, offering Frank a glimpse of redemption in an unforgiving place.

Whilst searching for his father’s remains, a diver is swallowed by a sperm whale 24 metres long and weighing 60 tonnes. He has one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out.

The group of friends from “Das perfekte Geheimnis” have to ask themselves the question on a chaotic short trip to the south: Is there life after the truth or is their friendship over?

Ever since he retired, Harry has done nothing but grumble, drink wheat beer and tend to his delphiniums. So says Lore. She clings to her job as a librarian, organises cringe-worthy readings and reveres her poets as if they were prophets. So says Harry. For an elderly married couple, the two of them talk an astonishing amount – yet they usually mean something else entirely. When their daughter Julia wants to get married for the third time, a row is inevitable – and yet it’s only the tip of the iceberg. Unspoken questions, old jealousies and differences come to the surface.

Prishtina, Kosova, late 1990s. As war looms and ethnic tensions escalate, 13-year-old Dua struggles to find her place among her peers and within her changing body. After an incident shakes her community, she becomes a target herself and bonds with a fearless girl, Maki, who draws her toward an unexpected form of resistance. Between the daily violence and the growing threat of exile, there is little room for quiet awakenings.

Birgitta Martensson has been living with Alzheimer’s for eleven years – and she insists that her life is still a good one. With humour, openness and sheer willpower, Birgitta fights to retain her independence, even though control over her own life is increasingly slipping from her grasp. One thing is certain for her: a care home is out of the question. Over the course of almost three years, the filmmakers follow Birgitta and her best friend Christiane on their journey.

England, around 1800: Following the death of their father, the two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, face an uncertain future. The level-headed Elinor conceals her feelings for Edward Ferrars, as a future together seems hopeless due to social and family obstacles. The younger Marianne, on the other hand, falls head over heels in love with the charismatic John Willoughby. Caught between hope, disappointment and the constraints of their time, both sisters must find their own way.

Through exclusive archival footage and never before seen home video, this documentary aims to explore the real face of Andriy Viktorovych Kuzmenko (Kuzma Skryabin), the father of the contemporary Ukrainian rock and roll scene.

In 1993, estranged Street Fighters Ryu and Ken Masters are thrown back into combat when the mysterious Chun-Li recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament: a brutal clash of fists, fate, and fury. But behind this battle royale lies a deadly conspiracy that forces them to face off against each other and the demons of their past. And if they don't, it's GAME OVER!

Alma, alone in her big townhouse, and Mina, a single mother from a housing project in another city, have organized their lives around the prison visits they make to their respective partners. When the two women meet in the room outside the visiting area, an unlikely friendship begins...

An entire generation of Germans was raised on male comedians. But what about their female counterparts? Maren Kroymann, Hella von Sinnen, Bettina Böttinger, Esther Schweins, and Gaby Köster look back at the way women were portrayed on TV in the 1990s and early 2000s, when jokes at women’s expense were the order of the day.

At an elite fundraising gala, celebrities and socialites find themselves in danger when armed activists storm the venue in pursuit of a legendary relic that could unlock supernatural powers.