Pamela Katz

When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fisher, now 90... (imdb)

Attractive, contented Yvonne Schumacher (the excellent Barbara Auer) has built a comfortable life with hubby Stefan (Stefan Kurt) since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Her world is shaken to the roots when she receives a letter from a woman in prison telling her Stefan was cheating for six years. Yvonne makes the long journey to jail to meet with the writer, Vera Glaubitz (Barbara Sukowa, in her fourth film for von Trotta). (variety.com)

depicts a remarkable love story that blossomed amidst the terror of a German concentration camp in 1944 Poland. This impossible passion fuels the courage of a Polish prisoner who manages to rescue his Jewish girlfriend. Against all odds, they escape the camp and survive a treacherous journey to freedom. But during the chaos of the end of the war, they are forcibly separated and each is convinced that the other has died. (imdb)

Is the ex of your ex your friend or your foe? That's the question Jade (Ingrid Bolsø Berdal) is confronted with when Maria (Katja Riemann) turns up on the doorstep of her New Yorker penthouse. Nick has just recently dumped Jade for a younger woman - just like he once dumped his ex-wife Maria for the younger Jade. Nick owns this luxury apartment that now both women have a claim to - and they somehow have to come to an arrangement. (filmfestival.cologne)