Catalogue

13 Short Films about the State of the Nation by Fatih Akin, Wolfgang Becker, Sylke Enders, Dominik Graf & Martin Gressmann, Christoph Hochhäusler, Romuald Karmakar, Nicolette Krebitz, Dani Levy, Angela Schanelec, Hans Steinbichler, Isabelle Stever, Tom Tykwer, Hans Weingartner.

A small rightwing terror cell lives underground and dreams of nationwide attention. Tommy and Becky are tired and disillusioned until Maik joins them. Overwhelmed by a complex relationship of love, hate and friendship their path of destruction leads to a series of violent crimes.

Jara (35), a harmless big guy who works as a security guard in a super market in Montevideo, feels attracted to a young cleaning woman via one of his surveillance monitors. This attraction gradually develops into an obsession...

Determined 15-year-old Lara is committed to becoming a professional ballerina. With the support of her father, she throws herself into this quest for the absolute at a new school. Lara’s adolescent frustrations and impatience are heightened as she realizes her body does not bend so easily to the strict discipline because she was born a boy.

Summer 1898. Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush. Emily Meyer joins a group of seven German American immigrants. Together they embark on the long journey to the newly discovered gold fields in Dawson.

Two men in the near, but indefinite future... What are seed genetics expert Prof. Erol Erin and Cemil Akman, a scientist who abandoned a bright career and everything he knew, pursuing in the forbidden area called Dead Lands?

Rangoon, Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she arrives to get married. During his travels, however, panic gives way to melancholy. Contemplating the emptiness of his existence, the cowardly Edward wonders what has become of Molly… Determined to get married and amused by Edward's move, Molly follows his trail on this Asian grand tour.

In Sarajevo's Grbavica neighborhood, single mother Esma tries her best to avoid confessing to her twelve-year-old daughter that she was conceived through rape in a POW camp. Starring Mirjana Karanovic (»When Father was Away on Business«, »The Powder Keg«, »Underground«).