Part of the "Berlinale Selection 2020" film series programme. Drama // 93 minutes // 2020 // Director: Daphne Charizani Rojda is a young German soldier with Kurdish-Iraqi roots who has lived in Germany since childhood. She is now looking for her mother Ferhat in a Greek refugee camp to take her to Germany. When the […]

Part of the "Berlinale Selection 2020" film series programme. Drama // 117 minutes // 2016 // Director: Soleen Yusef Three siblings, born in Kurdistan but raised in Stuttgart, return to their country of origin to fulfil the wish of their deceased mother. She wanted to be buried in her home village next to her husband, […]

Part of the "Berlinale Selection 2020" film series programme. Coming-of-Age // 92 minutes // 2020 // Director: Faraz Shariat Rating R18 – Viewer discretion advised. Contains scenes of a sexual nature. High-cut trousers, skin-tight t-shirt, short, peroxide-blond hair. Parvis, the son of Iranian parents, has established himself in the attic of his parents’ house in […]

Part of the "Berlinale Selection 2020" film series programme. Coming-of-Age // 95 minutes // 2020 // Director: Leonie Krippendorff Rating R16 Berlin-Kreuzberg is Nora’s microcosm. Nora, the silent observer, is always tagging along: At parties, at school, at the pool, on rooftops and in apartments. Nora drifts around the monotonous housing blocks with her big […]

Part of the "Berlinale Selection 2020" film series programme.  Documentary // 80 minutes // 2020 // Director: Jonas Heldt What is the value of work in the age of the digital revolution? In Ingolstadt, 20-year-old Sedanur spends her nights sorting car parts on the assembly line for the robots. In the vast factory as high […]

Part of the "Berlinale Selection 2020" film series programme. Documentary // 110 minutes // 2020 // Director: Janna Ji Wonders Director Janna Ji Wonders tells the story of the women in her family over the last century. The film’s unifying element and silent chronicler is Lake Walchensee in Bavaria, where the family opened a café […]