Susanne Lothar

Chicago urban legend James Fotopoulos writes and directs a harrowing and daringly experimental three-part feature. The narrative, such as it is, pivots on women in the midwestern lingerie underground hooking up with hard-edged middle-aged men. (Anthology Film Archives)

Erika (Huppert) is a piano teacher at a prestigious music school in Vienna. In her early forties and single, she lives with her overprotective and controlling mother (Girardot). Lonely and alienated, Erika finds solace by visiting sex shops and experimenting with masochism. (Kino International)

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement. (imdb)

A land surveyor, K., is invited to the Castle to do some work for the Count,but when he arrives at the Village,he finds that nobody is expecting him. K.'s attempts to get into the Castle are as unsuccessful as his attempt to settle into the local village... (IMDB Comments)

A nurse from the Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. (imdb)

A story about a guy who's travelling around and playing with some small town band, but fighting to become a big music producer one day.

A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own six children and forces her mother to take the role of a mother for her grandchildren as she never did that for Rita. (imdb)

In postwar Germany, a young man's decades-long obsession with an older woman runs headlong into a war crimes trial, where he learns an awful truth.

Strange events happen at a rural school in the north of Germany during the year 1913, which seem to be ritual punishment.

A destabilized family tackles a destabilized world, entering their future with all their hopes and fears. (telepool.de)

"If not us, who?" tells the story of events in the run-up to the onset of German terrorism but above all recounts the tale of an intense love story, a passion too deep to survive in this world. (berlinale.de)

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)

After Kurt, who suffers from the rare Marfan syndrome and is almost blind, has killed his clinging mother, he goes on a journey where the boundaries between perpetrator and victim are blurred. Haunted by her calls, Kurt leaves the clients and nurses of a care home distressed. In the streets Kurt meets Conny, a 13-year-old runaway from a broken home. She readily participates in Kurt's protest against his body, not knowing what moves him or into which abyss his journey is leading. (myblindheart.com)

Carl Hamilton, a CIA-trained member of the Swedish Navy, infiltrates a terrorist group and finds himself caught between love and duty.

Set in the midst of World War 2 and interspersed with beautiful choir music, the horrors of the war unfold when the Germans realized one of the boys in the choir is a Jew and they must find him immediately. (imdb)

Since 1886, there has been a weather-station master at the summit of the mountain. He telegraphs his daily measurements into the valley from where they are transmitted to Rome, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna. (imdb)

Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling cigarettes in Germany during the weekend. One thing leads to another, and soon she finds herself pregnant. Then her life starts falling apart when Andrzei tells her he already has a wife back in Poland and her baby dies shortly after its premature birth. (Homme A. Piest)