Films

Nominated for the Crystal Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, this story of young romance follows two university students on a road trip across Europe.

A recent box office hit in Germany, this uplifting comedy stars Jella Haase as a directionless young woman who is given an empty jar and told to fill it with adventures.

In this witty dark comedy, two people who think that their life is not worth living anymore form a life-changing friendship in Amsterdam after a chance encounter.

Two sisters grow up haunted by a terrible crime they witness, but when one passes away the other begins to suspect she’s being possessed in this twisting thriller.

Vicky Krieps, breakout star of Phantom Thread and Frederic Lau star in this atmospheric mystery about an outsider who arrives in a small Luxemburg town that is hiding a dark secret.

Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Elisabeth Escher, a 9-year-old girl raised Catholic in a 1960s provincial Austrian town discovers that she is actually Jewish.

A dark fairy-tale set in a rural community in the Black Forest where a poor charcoal-burner (Frederik Lau, Victoria) makes a terrible deal in order to marry his beloved.

A birthday gathering is memorable for all the wrong reasons in this historical tragicomedy, as an East German family attempts to celebrate their Communist patriarch on the eve of the Berlin Wall’s collapse.

After their mother dies, Ben and his younger 22-year old brother Barnabas who has an intellectual disability set out to find their father, in this touching drama based on the French bestseller.

Pioneering female painter Paula Modersohn-Becker is portrayed in loving, colourful strokes by Carla Juri (Morris from America) in this engaging German biopic.

This gripping and touching drama about the long shadows of the past follows a 92-year-old former German Army officer as he searches for the woman he loved long ago.

A superbly crafted and utterly gripping drama starring Bérénice Bejo and Alexander Fehling about a seemingly idyllic family on holiday in the Italian Dolomites.

After weeks of avoiding one another, separated couple Hannah and Julian must spend New Year’s Eve painting their shared apartment in Niels Laupert’s intimate romantic drama.

Set against the turbulent backdrop of the current European border crisis, documentarian Jakob Preuss follows migrant Paul Nkamani’s inexhaustible flight to freedom from Cameroon to Berlin.