Andreas Patton

A film about several persons shown in different constellations talking to each other about their inner feelings, relationship problems, future plans, and so on. As the original title ("My slow life") indicates, it is a very slow film with hardly any action at all, more a sequence of still photographs than a movie - even the camera hardly ever moves. Rather, the camera looks for, and finds, beautiful views of silence and peace, thus reflecting what the persons shown are looking for.

Antares gets its name from the ancient Greeks and means Anti-Ares (the God of War, also called Mars by the Romans). The film comprises three interconnected stories that are in a sense three 'Scorpio stories' with intense emotions, both positive and negative: sex, jealousy, violence, crisis and death. (imdb)

A compulsive gambler is forced to take a chance with his own life. (imdb)

A teenage boy, Anton, spends his vacation with his mother and her boyfriend in rural Bretagne. He gets soon attracted to the mysterious next door neighbours, David and Katja, and while hanging out with them experiences a whole new world.

ourteen-year-old Jasmin longs to be near her biological mother, Eva. Following her mother's release from prison, an excursion into the country together becomes a first test for the fledgling mother-daughter relationship. They smoke, dance and stroll together - the mood is promising. But time and again, it is revealed that their needs and expectations are light years apart. For the moment, neither Eva nor Jasmin seem up to the task of fulfilling each other's quest for identity and support. (labandafilm.at)

The story of a large house in Leipzig. Before the war it was used as an atelier for the Zadikow family, who manufactured fur coats and gloves there. Then came the war and they were forced to sell to another Jewish family, the Scheindls.

In postwar Germany, Hans is imprisoned again and again for being homosexual. The one steady relationship in his life becomes his long time cell mate, Viktor, a convicted murderer. What starts in revulsion grows to something called love. (imdb)