With actors Idil Üner, Sesede Terziyan, and Adnan Maral. Based on the autobiographical novel by Hatice Akyün, Einmal Hans mit scharfer Soße follows Hatice Coscun (Idil Üner) and her pregnant sister Fatma (Sesede Terziyan) as they rush to find Fatma a husband before their father Ismail (Adnan Maral) finds out about the pregnancy. German men come…

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Daniel Brühl stars as a talented boxer, accepting an offer of a dubious businessman to become a professional. Marko Stemper, 19 years old, comes from a disadvantaged background and works as a window cleaner. His father, an alcoholic, tyrannizes the whole family, so Marko’s only joy in life is boxing. As he is the most…

Eine Frau, verheiratet und Mutter zweier Kinder, verlässt ihre Familie. Nachdem sie mit ihrem Mann einst die Bewegung der 68er aktiv miterlebt hatte, ist von den damaligen Idealen heute nichts mehr übrig. Der Mann ist mittlerweile ein erfolgreicher Unternehmer, die Familie führt ein vollkommen angepasstes Leben. Nach ihrer “Flucht” aus dieser beengenden Welt lernt die…

With actors Maria Kwiatkowsky and Pinar Erincin Sixteen-year-old Alice was put into a Catholic educational institute for girls by her mother. She is quite different from the other girls: Because of her extreme sense of hearing she perceives the world around her differently from other people and prefers to stay pretty much by herself. In…

Available on DVD Nina, die Tochter eines Verlegers kommt, ohne es zu ahnen, in den Besitz eines Tonbandes, mit dem sich der Tod eines hochrangigen Politikers aufklären lässt. Ihr Vater will ihr zwei Bodyguards zur Seite stellen, doch durch eine Intrige des BND, der ebenfalls hinter dem Band her ist, erhalten ausgerechnet Erkan und Stefan,…

With actors Düzgün Ayhan and Fidan Firat Sehmuz, his wife Delal and their three children have saved themselves by escaping from Turkey to Switzerland. They are temporarily lodged in the asylum centre, together with refugees from Africa and East Europe that can se the funny side of everyday life despite their scars and nightmares. However,…

With actors Karoline Herfurth and Elyas M’Barek. In the blockbuster romantic comedy Fack ju Göhte, Karoline Herfurth and Elyas M’Barek play Lisi Schnabelstedt and Zeki Müller, polar opposites whose paths cross when small-time crook Zeki, just released from prison, takes a job at the Goethe-Gesamtschule as part of a scheme to recover an unsavory creditor’s lost loot. Ms. Schnabelstedt’s…

With actors Karoline Herfurth and Elyas M’Barek. In the sequel to the blockbuster romantic comedy Fack ju Göhte, Karoline Herfurth and Elyas M’Barek return as Lisi Schnabelstedt and Zeki Müller, an unlikely couple of teachers at the Goethe-Gesamtschule. Ms. Schnabelstedt and Mr. Müller, now an item, are tasked with improving the school’s image by taking their students on a…

With actors Elyas M’Barek and Jella Haase. In the third entry in the blockbuster comedy franchise Fack ju Göhte, Elyas M’Barek returns as Zeki Müller, still at the Goethe-Gesamtschule after his relationship with Lisi has come to an end and she has moved to England. Zeki now has to prepare his students, including Chantal Ackermann (Jella…

Rückkehr oder Integration: der Film bringt die Fragen, die zwanzig Jahre Ausländerbeschäftigung in der Bundesrepublik mit sich bringen, auf einen Punkt. Der Film erzählt vom Alltag einer italienischen Großfamilie, der Familie Villano, die nach fünfmaliger Rückkehr in ihre Heimat – ein kleines Dorf bei Neapel – beschlossen hat, nun für immer in Deutschland zu bleiben.…

Filmart Takes Position is the name of an international appeal for artistic contributions issued and organised by Sixpack Film every two or three years. Each time there is a new theme concerning a social and political topic in the widest sense of the term. Alien/Nation has been chosen as the theme of the first film…

With actors Klaus Kinski and José Lewgoy available on DVD with English subtitles Fitzcarraldo is the story of an obsessive dreamer at the time of the rubber boom at the turn of the century who, in the depths of the Amazon jungle and beset by dangers of all kinds, has visions of presenting grand opera,…

Helin, on her father’s death, travels from Tunceli, Turkey to Berlin to meet her mother and sister. To actually meet the guy he is to marry, she is guided through a white feather that appears in her dreams. Meanwhile, she is stalked by a man who has paid to marry her, and she tries to…

With actors François Göske, Paula Schramm Available on DVD in Germany Eigentlich bekommt alles, was mit Frankreich zu tun hat, bei dem Schüler Hendrik sofort die “rote Karte” – sei es die Sprache, der Schulunterricht, die Musik oder die Menschen: Frankreich ist einfach “uncool”. Diese Einstellung ändert sich erst, als Hendrik sich unsterblich in die…

With actors Jasmin Tabatabai and Navíd Akhavan Survival is not enough. Fariba Tabrizi has made it. Under peril of death she has fled from Iran. In Germany she has no alternative way of avoiding the threat of deportation other than to assume the identity of a deceased co-detainee. So what happens after a few months…

With actors Benno Fürmann and Christiane Paul available on DVD in Germany Nils, Caro and Tayfun: They used to be best friends when they were young. They shared everything, and together they were on the top of the world. But their friendship fell apart when Caro couldn´t decide whether to be in love with Nils…

“Germany, huh? So you’re Nazis” “No, we’re not Nazis. We’re communists. Ja, free communists.” This tongue-in-cheek exchange between two friends, Tom and Veit, and the American immigration officer in New York characterizes the humor and events explored in Markus Goller’s 2010 film, Friendship! The story is simple: after the Berlin Wall falls in 1989, two…

With actors Günter Walraff Im Jahr 1985 landete Günther Wallraff mit dem Reportage-Buch “Ganz Unten” einen Aufsehen erregenden Bestseller. Wallraff beschreibt darin seine niederschmetternden Erfahrungen als vermeintlich türkischer Arbeiter in den Thyssen-Stahlwerken. Die gleichnamige Dokumentation entstand aus Aufnahmen, die Wallraff während seiner Arbeitszeit mit versteckter Kamera machte. Ergänzt werden sie durch nachträglich geführte Interviews mit…

With actors Elisabeth Volkmann and Alexander Grill Vittorio pretends to be gay so he can chaperone a rich man’s daughter on vacation in Germany. Unfortunately his driver really is gay and Vittorio has a problem. Links: IMDB

With actors Bilge Bingül, Bülent Akil available on VHS in Germany Erol, Ahmed and Leyla live at home with their Turkish father and German mother. While Ahmed and Leyla have become German citizens, Erol chose Turkish citizenship. Twenty years old and the eldest of the three, Erol dropped out of school years ago and now…

With actors Julia Hummer, Sabine Timoteo Available on DVD in Germany Ein Mann fährt von Paris nach Berlin. Er sucht dort seine Frau. In einer Psychiatrie in Spandau findet er sie und nimmt sie wieder mit, zurück nach Paris. Jedes Jahr fährt die Frau nach Berlin und sucht ihre Tochter, die dort 1989 im Alter…

Der zweite Kurzfilm des erfolgreichen deutsch-türkischen Regisseurs Fatih Akin handelt von einem jungen Hamburger Türken namens Musa. Seine Sommerferien verbringt Musa im Haus seiner Mutter in einer kleinen Stadt am Schwarzen Meer. Die Tage im Süden hat er sich allerdings anders vorgestellt: Tagsüber wird er von seiner Mutter zum Unkrautzupfen im Garten verdonnert, und abends…

Produced by Bernd Burgemeister, Dieter Graber, Harald Wigankow With actors Ioannis Tsialas, Toni Osmani, Barbara Rudnik, Günther Maria Halmer available on DVD in Germany Christian Wagner’s Ghetto-Kids is a tale of two brothers from a family of Greek migrants living in a poor foreigner’s quarter in Munich. The story begins with the two youngest brothers…

Die Türkei ist ein Land der unerwarteten Vielfalt und Kontraste. Wer einen Eindruck von diesem Land, seinen Menschen, Tieren und Landschaften erhalten will, der die übliche Touristenperspektive vermeidet, für den bietet sich die 28stündige Busfahrt auf der 2200km langen Strecke von Istanbul nach Van an. Ein Intensivkurs in türkischer Realität! In der Türkei sind Busse…

With actors Semra Uysal and Yüksel Topcugürler Links: Film Portal

With actors Daniel Brühl and Katrin Saß available on DVD with English subtitles in the US Goodbye Lenin! is a mixture of history, comedy and drama that works quite well, even when dealing with such heavy material such as the Cold War, a coma in the family and the loss of a person’s (and even…

With actors Svetozar Cvetkovic and Anita Mancic available on VHS with English subtitles in the US GORILLA BATHES AT NOON examines the Soviet Union’s collapse through the goofball misadventures of a Russian soldier left stranded in East Berlin after the fall of the wall. Links: IMDB, Film Portal Genre(s): Comedy;

With actors Rudolf Prack and Sonja Ziemann Der ehemalige Gutsbesitzer Lüdersen zieht mit seiner Tochter in die Lüneburger Heide. Er ist ein fanatischer Jäger und beginnt zu wildern. Eines Tages wird ein Gendarm erschossen. Der Verdacht fällt auf Lüdersen. Links: IMDB, Film Portal, Filmdatenbank Genre(s): Drama, Melodrama; Gangster, Crime, and Detective;

With actors Nazmi Qirix and Newroz Baz Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his release a week…

With actors Jörg Altmeyer and Jutta Altmeyer Available on DVD This is not only a sequel to the “Second Heimat”, but also a chronicle of a very decisive decade for Germany (1989 to 200). The main couple of the mini-series released in 1992, Hermann Simon and Clarissa Lichtblau (played by the same actors), reunite after…

With actors Marliese Assmann and Eva Maria Bayerwaltes available on DVD with English subtitles in the US The series (11 episodes) tells the story of the village Schabbach, on the Hunsrueck in Germany through the years 1919-1982. Central person is Maria, who we see growing from a 17 year old girl to an old woman,…

With actors Rade Radovic and Mustafa Nadarevic Nikola, formerly successful musician, returns to his family in Stuttgart. His parents Anica and Vlado have lived in Germany for 35 years, but want to realize their dream of an own hotel in their native country Croatia. As Vlado is a hard and ambitious father, his relationship to…

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Produced by Thierry De Coster, Michel Houdmont, Dominique Standaert With actors Jan Declein, Antjie de Boeck, Alexandra Vandernot, Kalomba Mbuyi, Ansou Diedhiou, Emile M’Penza available on DVD in the US and Germany A boy gets an early lesson in issues of politics, race, and violent activism in this drama from Belgium. Justin (Kalomba Mbuy) is…

With actors Hussi Kutlucan and Wiebke Inn English availability Gemeinsam mit anderen Flüchtlingen aus aller Welt kommt der Armenier Dudie an Bord eines Containerschiffs in Hamburg an. Nachdem seine Freundin sich auf eine Scheinehe mit einem deutschen Mann eingelassen hat, verlässt auch Dudie die bedrückende Umgebung des Schiffes und quartiert sich mit gefälschten Papieren in…

With actors Liselotte Pulver, Gunnar Möller, and Gustav Knuth Der Schriftsteller Andreas erinnert sich während einer Bahnfahrt an seine Jugendliebe. Einst reiste er als Austauschstudent mit dem Schiff nach Budapest, wo er sich in die Sekretärin Greta verliebte. Andreas musste am nächsten Tag weiter in die Puszta zu seinem Ferienort. Ein aufdringlicher Geigenspieler verhinderte aber,…

With actors Moritz Bleibtreu and Christiane Paul available on DVD with English subtitles in the US This film addresses cultural exoticism and stereotyping of one of the largest immigrant groups in Germany. After purchasing a ring with a depiction of the sun from a young German girl named Juli, which is supposed to symbolize light…

Sie sind als Kinder ausländischer Arbeitsmigranten in der Bundesrepublik aufgewachsen. Aber niemand will sie haben. Abgedrängt an den Rand unserer Gesellschaft, sind U-Bahnhöfe und die Gegend um den Münchner Hauptbahnhof zu ihrem Revier geworden: Achmed Danny James Dean, Hakan Jesse Elvis und Hakan Jimmy James Dean sind drei junge Türken, denen die Integration nicht gelingt,…

The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he’s been living for the past ten years. In a land and culture foreign to her, Zouina struggles against her mother-in-law’s tyrannical hand and her husband’s distrustful bitterness in…

Produced by Bruno Pesery With actors Katerina Golubeva, Richard Courcet, Vincent Dupont, Laurent Grevill, Alex Descas, Irina Grejbina, Tolsty, Line Renaud, Beatrice Dalle available on DVD (US) This French drama uses two plots that occasionally come together. The stories are set within the multiethnic neighborhoods of Paris. In the first, Daiga (Yekaterina Golubeva), a spunky…

With actors Martin Sperr and Angela Winkler Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people’s suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard. (Summary from imdb.com) Links: IMDB Theme(s): Exoticism or Orientalism; Migration and Mobility;

‘Jarmark Europa’ at Warsaw’s Dziesieciolecia Stadium, is one of Eastern Europe’s largest bazaars and a center for small trade that doesn’t appear on any tax declarations. The traders come from a variety of countries in the former Soviet Union. They transport their goods to Warsaw or other cities west of the ex- USSR in unmistakable…

Directed by Christian Petzold, Jerichow (2008) is a dark yet intriguing portrayal of a young German soldier’s struggle to cope with life after his mother’s death. At the beginning of the film, the young soldier Thomas (Benno Furmann) is unemployed and out of cash. He then obtains a seasonal job through the unemployment agency as…

With actors Luc Piyes and David Scheller available on DVD in Germany Ertan Ongun is a 25-year-old Turk living in Kiel, in Germany. His parents own a snack stand, but his real family has been the local Turkish gangs. His life – like those of his friends – is characterized by the daily fight for…

With actors Julia Mahnecke and Adnan Maral Johanna, a feisty 17-year-old German girl with dreams of becoming a fashion designer, discovers her biological father is Turkish. Without telling him of their relationship, she gets a job at his elegant restaurant and disaster follows. Links: IMDB, Filmportal Genre(s): Comedy;

Produced by Peer Raben With actors Hanna Schygulla, Lilith Ungerer, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Elga Sorbas available on DVD in the US and Germany Katzelmacher documents life in a seemingly lifeless Munich and the sudden arrival of a Greek worker, played by Fassbinder himself. The majority of the film consists of inert sequences in which the…

With actors Juliette Mayniel and Götz George At the end of WWII a soldier who had often been ordered to execute women and children deserts and tries to find a hiding place in his native village. Almost immediately the entire village is evacuated, except the deserter and a French girl who is a compulsive worker.…

Produced by Ralph E. Cotta With actors Cagdas Bozkurt, Necmettin Cobanoglu, Leroy Delmar, Sunay Girisken available on DVD in Germany Denied political asylum after leaving his native Turkey, a Kurdish teen named Baran (Cagdas Bozkurt) lands a job as a kebab delivery boy in Germany while attempting to elude the authorities and striking up a…

With actors David Kross Available on DVD in Germany An seinem 15. Geburtstag wird Michael Polischka mit seiner Mutter Miriam im schicken Berlin-Zehlendorf vor die Tür gesetzt, denn mit ihrem Sex-Appeal hat Miriam für ihren neureichen Liebhaber Dr. Peters auch ihr Wohnrecht verloren. Beide Polischkas müssen sich auf neue Verhältnisse einstellen. Doch während Miriam ganz…

With actors Florian Bartholomäi Available on DVD in Germany Der 16-jährige Georg lebt mit seinem geschiedenen Vater in Frankfurt am Main. Einen emotionalen Ausgleich zu persönlichen Konflikten findet der Junge im Sport: Georg ist leidenschaftlicher Teakwondo-Kämpfer. Als er mit seinem Vater nach Frankfurt/Oder ziehen muss, und ihm dadurch die ersehnte Chance geraubt wird, die hessische…

CRISS CROSS ‚ these are the existential things of life told as a European family story from the end of the 20th century by means of a documentary film. This is no TV-style reportage, no sociological analysis, but a film “looking life, and that means people, in the heart” (Robert Flaherty). The Villano family from…

With actors Horst Krause, Karim Günes, and Anna Unterberger. Aired on German television by ARD, Krüger aus Almanya is the story of Paul Krüger (Krause), a xenophobic widower who used to be a stone mason in the GDR.  He is forced to confront his prejudice when he travels to Anatolia to talk his granddaughter Annie…

With Ava Celik, Robert Alexander Baer, Natalia Wörner, and Siir Eloglu. Switched by accident at birth, Dominik Greve (Baer) and Ayse Güngör (Ava Celik) are reunited with their birth families for two weeks in an attempt to get to know each other. Stereotypes are drawn upon as cultures clash and the protagonists come to grow…

With actors Mehmet Kurtulus, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Adam Bousdoukos, Regula Grauwiller Available on DVD in Germany German-born Turk Faith Akin directed this German crime drama about three friends in Hamburg. Released from prison, Turk Gabriel (Mehmet Kurtulus) is ready for a new start on life. Greek Costa (Adam Bousdoukos) goes with Gabriel’s sister Ceyda (Idil Uner).…

In Lamerica (1994), Gianni Amelio challenges cultural and national essentialism by dismantling the imagined border that separates Italian identity from Albanian identity. The film is set in year 1991, where post-communist Albania is in poverty and thousands of Albanians are desperate to cross the border for a better life in Italy. But without an Italian…

Yilmaz Arslans Debütfilm erzählt von einer Gruppe junger Menschen, die in einem Reha-Zentrum für behinderte Jugendliche nach Nähe und Liebe suchen. Da gibt es ein an den Rollstuhl gefesseltes türkisches Mädchen, das von den Zwängen ihrer traditionell eingestellten Familie an einem selbstbestimmten Leben gehindert wird. Oder den Spastiker Martin, der sich in ein ebenfalls behindertes…

With actors Michel Jacot and Anne Graf Der Beginn der zwischen 1972 und 1981 entstandenen sechsteiligen Reihe von Sexfilmen, die mit allen Mitteln um Lokalkoloratur des Ruhrgebiets bemüht ist: Im Mittelpunkt des ersten Teils steht der “Kumpel” Lenz, dessen Frau Gisela, ein despotischer Chef mit Namen Adolf Eichel und ein letztlich wenig tragischer Arbeitsunfall. Lenz…

With actors Joachim Król and Nadja Uhl Viktor ist Mitte 40, sportlich, höflich, unscheinbar – auf den ersten Blick ein ganz und gar durchschnittlicher Typ. Tatsächlich aber ist Viktor ein eiskalter Profikiller, einer der Besten seines Fachs. Dann aber unterläuft ihm ein unerwarteter Fehler: Er verliebt sich, in Nina, die schlafend im Bett seines letzten…

Available on DVD in Germany Based on Jack-Alain Léger’s novel, this drama focuses on Paul and Daniel, two different brothers of North African origin, and their efforts to succeed in life. Paul has a university degree, but doesn’t find a job worthy its name. While he is madly in love with Myriam, his beloved brother…

On Crete, a wounded German paratrooper named Stroszek is sent to the quiet city of Kos with his wife Nora, a Greek nurse, and two other soldiers recovering from minor wounds. Billeted in a decaying fortress, they guard a munitions depot. There’s little to do: Becker, a classicist, translates inscriptions on ancient tablets found in…

With actors Werner Eichhorn, Müsfik Kenter, Julia Lindig Gemeinsam mit einem Pakistani und einem Afrikaner haust der Asyl suchende Türke Deniz in einem Bauwagen an der nordfriesischen Küste. Eines Tages lernt Deniz die deutsche Fotografin Karin kennen. Sie lebt in einem heimeligen Bauernhaus auf einer nahe gelegenen Hallig. Obwohl keiner von ihnen die Sprache des…

With actors August Diehl and Herbert Knaup available on DVD in Germany To some it’s the end of the world. To others, the gateway to a new life: the river Oder between Poland and Germany. Vibrant with expectancy, it’s a magnet for people from all walks of life on their journey towards happiness, security, and…

With actors Rüdiger Vogler and Patrick Bauchau The director Friedrich Monroe has trouble with finishing a silent b&w movie about Lisbon. He calls his friend, the sound engineer Phillip Winter, for help. As Winter arrives Lisbon weeks later, Monroe is disappeared but has left the unfinished film. Winter decides to stay, because he is fascinated…

Produced by Martin Hagemann With actors Baki Davrak, Gandi Mukli, Erdal Yildiz, Michael Gerber available on DVD with English subtitles in the US and Germany When young Turkish talent Kutlug Ataman wanted to make a film about transvestites, the first location he had in mind was Istanbul. As he developed the script, his thought was…

With actors Nicole Seelig and Mišel Maticevic English availability “Lost Killers” follows a group of curious characters, stranded in the city of Mannheim, all of them struggling to survive and to fulfil their dreams. Branko and Merab are two hapless hitmen assigned to kill a businessman for reasons unknown. Absurd coincidences prevent them from carrying…

With actors René Vaziri and Sinan Bengier. A Turkish-German family is not only spoilt for choice but riven by it when young Luk wins the lottery. Things get harder, not easier, as entire family must decide what to do with the money. Links: IMDB, YouTube (Trailer) Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

Der erste lange Spielfilm von Thomas Arslan porträtiert eine Gruppe Jugendlicher im Essen der 1990er Jahre. Eine Clique, gespielt von Laiendarstellern, langweilt sich durchs Leben und steht einer Auseinandersetzung mit der eigenen Zukunft etwas hilflos gegenüber. Mit einem sehr eigenwilligen Rhythmus erzeugt der Film eine ausdrucksstarke Stimmung, die von Sprachlosigkeit und Stillstand geprägt ist. Links:…

TV-Dokumentation über die einzige türkische Damenfußball-Mannschaft Europas. Die Mädchen vom “BSC-Agrispor” sind zwischen 16 und 18 Jahre alt und in Berlin-Kreuzberg zu Hause. Der 45-Minuten-Film zeigt die jungen Frauen beim Training und bei Auswärtsspielen, zu Hause mit ihren Familien und an ihren Lehr- und Arbeitsstellen. Links: Film Portal

With actors Kathrin Angerer and Jutta Keil Links: IMDB, Filmportal Genre(s): Drama, Melodrama;

With actors Helge Schneider Showing in theaters in Germany Komödie von Dani Levy, die sich dem Dritten Reich und Adolf Hitler mit subversivem Humor nähert: Im Dezember 1944 ist der 2. Weltkrieg für die Deutschen so gut wie verloren. Mit einer flammenden Rede am Neujahrstag soll Adolf Hitler die Massen des kriegsmüden Volkes noch einmal…

English availability 1968 kam Cemal Yavuz aus dem kurdischen Teil der Türkei als Gastarbeiter nach Deutschland. Für ein Jahr arbeitete er in einer Fischfabrik in Hamburg, danach 15 Jahre in einer Werft. Sein Heimatdorf und seine Familie sah er immer nur zur Urlaubszeit. Nachdem er zwei seiner Söhne als seine Nachfolger nach Deutschland geholt hatte,…

Die Filmemacherin Hatice Ayten widmet sich in der Kurzdokumentation “Menschen auf der Treppe” zwei Orten, die für zahllose Türken zu einem Symbol der Migrationsbewegung geworden sind: den Istanbuler Bahnhöfen Sirkeci und Haydarpasa. Links: Film Portal, IMDB

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With actors Ernst Lubitsch and Ossi Oswalda. This early silent classic stars director Ernst Lubitsch as Sally Meyer, a young Jewish playboy in Berlin who devises a ruse to convince his wife that he is ill while he pursues erotic adventures in the Swiss Alps. In a twist, he ends up in the Bavarian Alps by mistake, donning…

With actors Miroslaw Baka and Horst-Günter Marx Available on DVD This is the story of Sylvia, who looses her stepchildren on a shopping trip in Poland. For fear of loosing her husband’s love, too, she is unable to tell him what has happened and returns home, pretending everything is fine. Upon realising his children are…

With actors Senay Orak, Muhammed Al and Berîvan Eminoglu. Two young Kurdish siblings living in Diyarbakir in Turkish Kurdistan, Gülîstan (Orak) and Firat (Al), are placed into the care of their activist aunt Yakbun (Eminoglu) after their parents are murdered in front of them by paramilitary gunmen. When Yakbun herself goes missing, the two children…

With Anna Maria Mühe, Albrecht Schuch, and Sebastian Urzendowsky. A dramatized account of the serial murders of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) between 2000 and 2007 comes to life in this German-language, in-house production from Netflix. The three-part miniseries introduces the three core members of the NSU, Beate Zschäpe, Uwe Mundlos, and Uwe Böhnhardt (Mühe,…

With actors Gruschenka Stevens and Tim Bergmann Seit drei Tagen wartet die attraktive Berliner Fotografin Cora auf den Anruf ihres Traummannes Daniel Hoffmann – mit diesem hatte sie Mittwochs eine wunderbare Nacht verbracht. Jetzt ist es Samstagabend und das Telefon steht noch immer still. Coras bester Freund Big Jim und ihre beste Freundin Jo raten…

With actors Jeremy Irons and Eugene Lipinski A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families.…

With actors Craig Robinson and Markees Christmas. When his father (Craig Robinson), a widower and soccer coach, moves to Germany for a job, 13-year-old Morris (Markees Christmas) must adapt to life in a totally new environment. He tries to fit in at his new school, but faces social rejection from his peers. As his father,…

In ihrem Dokumentarfilm porträtiert Aysun Bademsoy fünf junge Türkinnen aus Berlin Kreuzberg, die bislang der erfolgreichen türkischen Frauenfußballmannschaft “BSC-Agrispor” angehörten. Bis vor kurzem noch knüpften die Freundinnen an den sportlichen Erfolg große Hoffnungen auf eine unabhängige Zukunft. Links: Film Portal, IMDB

With actors Esme Madra and Riza Akin. Nefesim Kisilene Kadar, director Emine Emel Balcı’s debut feature, follows Serap (Madra), a young Turkish girl who is forced to abandon her unsatisfying life working at a clothing factory and living with her sister and brother-in-law, moving in with her truck driver father (Akin), who needs more help…

color, Germany, Sigrid Klausmann-Sittler, 87 Min, 2017 Documentary filmmaker Sigrid Klausmann travels around the world to tell the different stories of children seeking education. Spanning five continents, the film takes us through the disparate, arduous, and sometimes perilous routes young people take in navigating their disparate circumstances, including crime, exploitation, and war, on the way to…

DVD In 1937, the non-orthodox Jewish German lawyer Walter Redlich, aware of the growing danger posed by the Nazi movement in Germany and how it would jeopardize the Jews in his country, moves alone to Nairobi, Kenya, to administrate a farm. His only friend is the also Jewish German Süßkind and his African cook Owuor.…

Kurz-Dokumentarfilm My best friend when I was 17, was a girl called Andrea Wolf. She died in 1998, when she was shot as a Kurdish terrorist in Eastern Anatolia. There was a warrant out for her in Germany, as she was suspected of having participated in terrorist activities, for example the complete destruction of the…

With actors Alexandru Papadopol and nca-Ioana Androne Occident is a Romanian film released in 2002, and directed by Cristian Mungiu. It stars Alexandru Papadopol as a 29-year old man named Luci and Anca Androne as his wife Sorina. The film is a tragicomedy about young people who move to the West when they can not…

Der dreizehnjährige Ömer will Staatsanwalt oder Schneider werden. Er lebt mit seiner Familie in der alten Handels- und Pilgerstadt Urfa in Südostanatolien nahe der syrischen Grenze. Vormittags geht er zur Schule und paukt englisch, nachmittags arbeitet er in der Schneiderei seines Vaters im „Gümrük Han“, einer 500 Jahre alten ehemaligen Karawanserei mitten im Basar von…

With actors Stathis Papadopoulos, Giannis Stankoglou, Theodora Tzimou Available on DVD in the US An Albanian immigrant hijacks a Greek passenger bus in hopes of gaining safe passage back to his home country in director Constantine Giannaris’ tense account of the headline-making 1999 hostage situation that quickly spiraled into disaster. An armed Albanian man wanders…