2020-11

A paramedic devoted to his patients struggles to make time for his wife who begins to believe his patients are more important to him than she is.

Thomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former addicts who live isolated in the mountains and use prayer as a way to cure themselves.

13-year-old Ava learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected, and she confronts the problem in her own way.

Two Turkish women, one oppressed by sexist traditions and one liberated by modern mores, have more in common than it would seem.

In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.

During the Second World War, two boys become inseparable as they find adventure amidst the action around them. Their lives take a tragic turn when they meet a mysterious girl.

Hotel guests find themselves isolated when a snowstorm rages furiously. Two of them die in mysterious circumstances. On vacation there, Captain Horak takes the case in hands but things start to get out of control.

A philosophy professor wants to leave her hotel to go to her parents' on Christmas Eve, but is stopped by the police and locked in a room with an officer. She is suspected to have plotted an extremist terror attack.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has lasted 100 years. 100 years of war, bloodshed, bitterness, suffering. 100 years of stalemate, intransigence and failed peace deals. And now, it's all over! They've finally found the solution: A game of soccer. The winner gets to stay. The loser leaves forever. And no whining.

Helmut Draeger, director of a German bank, gives the talented bank employee Martin Kreye the opportunity to speculate in New York in real estate. Martins Career quickly takes a high flight. He soon gets under .

England 1959. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.

Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in a state-run youth farm. In a random act of kindness, the town hairdresser agrees to foster him on weekends.

The crew is running out of money to finish their film.

1944. Walter Proska is a young Wehrmacht soldier who begins to question the purpose of the war, who the real enemy is and whether his real duty should be to his fatherland or his own conscience.

Germany, mid 1950s. One night, the wife of the mayor, Dr. Gerd without a trace. That same night, a detonation is reported in nearby 'Bone Forest'.

A small farmer in Germany loses everything when he has to declare bankruptcy because he cannot compete with the large factory farms. He takes to the road on a bike, with his last sow in the sidecar to visit his beloved Birgit, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, in the eastern part of Germany. During his road trip with the pig he meets many others who are in a similar predicament.

Frida yearns to become a mother, but her burning desire remains unsatisfied. And yet her Boyfriend walks out on her.

A mountain hiking tour of friends brings to light unexpected conflicts.

Erik/Erika Schinegger - the ski sensation that became media sensation. As Erika she was celebrated. As newly discovered Erik repudiated and accused of fraud. A true story about the injustice of nature, the taboo topics in Austria in the 1970s.

Nicole Lehnert came to work at an escort service through her friend Inès. It finances her law degree. At dinner, she met the much older Friedrich Benning - rather by chance. Friedrich's colleague Lars Albers had booked the meal through the escort agency. Nicole likes the charming, successful banker who falls in love with her. Friedrich is divorced, the two children Helen and Simon have long since left the house, and now he is lovingly taking care of Nicole. He rents her an apartment and buys her fancy clothes. Friedrich doesn't understand that it will soon be too much for Nicole. She can no longer concentrate on her law studies, does not pass her exams. When Nicole got to know the up-and-coming start-up entrepreneur Josch of the same age, her relationship with Friedrich began to crack. She becomes pregnant, stops studying and is there for her daughter. But Friedrich does not give up, he continues to support her. The drama of mutual dependencies takes a tragic turn: one night Friedrich finds Josch in Nicole's apartment covered in blood. Now the commissioners Luise Menzel and Nasrin Karimi start work.

A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.

An unceasingly kind Italian peasant and his family are blatantly exploited by a tobacco baroness.

Der 78-jährige ehemalige Architekt Richard Gärtner möchte seinem Leben ein Ende setzen. Dies soll jedoch nicht im Ausland, sondern ganz legal mit der Hilfe seiner Hausärztin geschehen. Für Dr. Brandt kommt es aus persönlicher Überzeugung nicht infrage, ihrem zwar betagten, aber gesunden Patienten ein todbringendes Präparat zu besorgen. Richard Gärtners Fall wird exemplarisch vor dem Deutschen Ethikrat diskutiert. Strittig ist dabei nicht die Frage, welche Formen von Sterbehilfe für Ärzte straffrei sind, sondern ob Mediziner dem Patientenwunsch eines Lebensmüden gerecht werden müssen - egal ob jung, alt, gesund oder krank. Ethikrat-Mitglied Dr. Keller befragt die Sachverständigen und lässt so die unterschiedlichen Experten zu Wort kommen. Die Verfassungsrechtlerin Prof. Litten und der Anwalt von Richard Gärtner stehen Bischof Thiel und Ärztekammerchef Sperling dabei mit unterschiedlichen Meinungen gegenüber. Am Ende richtet sich die Ethikrat-Vorsitzende direkt an das Publikum: Soll Richard Gärtner das tödliche Präparat bekommen, um sich selbstbestimmt das Leben zu nehmen?

Teaching Capoeira - that's his life. But when the martial arts master Ezequiel throws down out of frustration and pride, because not he, but the son of the boss becomes the new head of the school, he is without work. For an immigrant person of color without training, this is not an ideal starting point to quickly find a good job again. So he ends up as a "driver for monument protection" with the small business owner Reynaldo and his young colleague Jason. In truth, however, they clean public urinals at night - "monument hygiene," as they amusedly call it. Now it is a question of particularly beautiful, antique urinals and also an honorable job. For Ezequiel, the work in the "black night brigade" is well below his dignity. Neither his wife Marta, who works as a nurse, nor son Stevie, for whom Ezequiel is hoping for a brilliant academic education, he can tell - he thinks. Then Stevie tells him that instead of studying, he wants to become a hairdresser .