Chris Kraus

An elderly piano teacher trains a young convict at a women's penitentiary. (imdb)

In the summer 1914, on the eve of World War I, the young Oda von Siering leaves Berlin to return to her family home, an estate on the Baltic Coast, in a region shared by Germans and Russian aristocrats.

A renowned German Holocaust researcher, grandson of a prominent Nazi war criminal, is struggling with his family history, his career, and his hatred of people in general. At the height of his personal crisis, he encounters a passionate, manic French Jewess with a Teutonic complex. Her remarkably frank and unconventional manner turns his professional and family life upside down and helps him finally break down the barriers he has built around his life. (Tokyo International Film Festival)

The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. The script reveals main characters in Hirschfeld's life including impossible love interest Baron von Teschenberg, and Hirschfeld's aids- young Karl Giese and guardian angel, the transvestite Dorchen, as they establish the First Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin in 1920, and follows their struggles to keep

For 15 years, the former piano wunderkind Jenny was sentenced to prison for a murder she didn't commit. Since her release, she's been trying to numb her self-hatred with prayers at a Christian halfway house. When she meets the Syrian war refugee Omar who has a talent for singing, she agrees to play the piano for him on a TV music talent competition. However, by appearing on this show, Jenny also has to face the man who actually committed the crime for which she was convicted. (imdb)