With actors Mina Sadic and Oktay Çagla.  A young German-Turkish woman, Hülya (Sadic), returns from Germany to her late father’s small mountain village in Turkey to write about him. As she learns more about him, she finds her impression of him shifting, nebulous and not wholly positive, and time and place itself become disoriented. Links: IMDB, […]

With actors Denis Moschitto, Moritz Bleibtreu, and Volkan Özcan. Set in Hamburg and produced by Fatih Akin, Chiko is a tale of the son of an immigrant family Issa (Denis Moschitto) and his friend Tibet (Volkan Özcan) who dream of becoming big-time drug dealers, until they hook up with local dealer and pimp Brownie (Moritz Bleibtreu). Links: IMDB […]

With actors Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, and Jasna Fritzi Bauer. Christian Petzold’s critically acclaimed historical drama follows Barbara Wolff (Nina Hoss), a physician in East Germany who is imprisoned and relocated for requesting permission to the leave the country. Though she hasn’t given up hope of escape, her plans take an unpredictable turn when she […]