Escalating tensions and age-old disputes turn the financially troubled
Hotel Europe into an ideological pressure cooker when a staff strike
threatens to upset an important gala dinner.
A political thriller from award-winning director Danis Tanović
(AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF AN IRON PICKER, TIGERS, NO MAN‘S LAND).
»Desert Flower« recounts Waris Dirie's fascinating path from the deserts of Africa to the catwalks of the world. Based on her world best selling novel.
The widowed Mrs. Tam lives with her youngest daughter Geraldine, who was born in the US, in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Her other children have already moved out...
Maurizio, tiny, reckless and full of energy, grew up in the poorest outskirts of Reggio Calabria, he argues with spiteful hens, speaks to wise donkeys and fights for his dream: to play the snare drum in the neighbourhood band.
It's the summer of 1984 in Schmalenstedt. 17-year-old Malte , who goes by the name of »Roddy Dangerblood«, lives with his leftwing parents in a farmhouse, is in the middle of his ceramics apprenticeship and has just discovered »punk«, which has finally made its way to Schmalenstedt.
In DOWN BY LAW an unemployed disc-jockey, a small-time pimp and a strong-willed Italian tourist meet in the confined space of a prison cell. Avoiding a specific time period, the story is set, abstractly, in New Orleans and the dense, surrounding swamps of Louisiana (places Jarmusch had never visited until after completing the screenplay). Jarmusch calls the style of the film «neo-beat-noir-comedy», with a story line that openly accepts conventions, and an atmosphere that is part nightmare and part fairy-tale («it's a sad and beautiful world»).