Also Wano, carpet-seller, will receive his second, secret life, as light-footed dead-angel for the Turkish politician, as charming terrorist, as loner and successful lover. He prepared the “liquidation” of the Turkish consuls in Rotterdam, and executed them. He lures him with the picture of the Turkish sultan Abdul Hamid The Bloody, which he has bought…

With actors Megan Gay and Lguidmila Isvetkova Four cities, four cases of theft, four instalments of a Champions’ League game and football fever everywhere… The interwoven episodes of this film kick off in Moscow, where Galatasaray Istanbul and Deportivo La Coruña meet for the Champions’ League final. Kate, a young English art dealer, is mugged…

With actors Ingrid Domann and Dagmar Hessenland Herbert ist Mitte vierzig, Bauingenieur – und bereit seit Monaten arbeitslos. Auf Drängen seiner Frau nimmt er einen Job an, für den er weit überqualifiziert ist. Nachdem er diese frustrierende Stelle aufgegeben hat, verbringt er seine Morgen damit, in aller Frühe durch die verlassenen Straßen Frankfurts zu streifen…

With actors Tunç Okan, Tuncel Kurtiz, Björn Gedda The film is about a handful of Turkish people from rural areas who are driven to Stockholm where they will find a job. They are deceived by the driver and left all alone trapped in the bus in an open area in Stockholm. The rest of the…

Produced by Irene Von Alberti With actors Isaach DeBankole, Eva Mattes, Hanno Friedrich, Barnaby Metschurat Available on DVD in Germany and the US In August 1989, this case stirred the population of an entire city. A west African applicant for asylum had his ticket checked during a tram journey in Stuttgart and took flight. When…

With actors Nicola Zarbo, Otto Sander, Brigitte Tilg, and Ida Di Benedetto. Werner Schroeter’s Swiss/West German coproduction follows Nicola (Zarbo), an Italian immigrant who comes to West Germany looking for work. Despite his language difficulties, Nicola is quick to settle in and falls in love with a German girl, Brigitte (Tilg). When Brigitte leaves him,…

With actors Nino Manfredi, Johnny Dorelli, Anna Karina A comic but poignant portrait of an Italian immigrant working odd jobs in prosperous Switzerland and trying desperately to fit in. Though his work becomes increasingly degrading, he tenaciously refuses to give up and go home. This hapless Everyman is eternally rejected yet ever-hopeful. Links: IMDB Genre(s):…

Produced by Mweze Ngangura With actors Gerard Essomba, Herbert Flack, Jean-Louis Daulne, Dominique Mesa not available on DVD or VHS in US Congolese filmmaker Mweze Ngangura, who made the 1987 La Vie Est Belle with Benoit Lamy, directed this Belgian-French-Congolese comedy about a Congolese king in contemporary Brussels. The title refers to “identity pieces” worn…

With actors Peter Lohmeyer, Nina Petri Available on DVD in Germany Jan ist Koch aus Leidenschaft – doch anstatt große Karriere zu machen, arbeitet er in der Kölner Kneipe seines Jugendfreundes Rudi. Als Rudi ihn eines Tages mit einem Haufen Schulden sitzen lässt, um nach Spanien zu ziehen, beschließt Jan, ihm zu folgen, um ihn…

With actors Emilio Perez, Fernando Pena Cuevas, Mario Zaragoza, Luis Escutia Die elternlosen Brüder Juan und Jorge verdienen sich in Mexico City als Straßensänger ihren Lebensunterhalt. Obwohl Juan der jüngere von beiden ist, hat er das Sagen. Er kann lesen und schreiben, er hat Pläne und er träumt von einem besseren Leben. Als Jorge diesen…

With actors Necmettin Çobanoglu, Emin Sivas, Yaman Okay limited availability on VHS (US) and DVD (Germany) Xavier Koller’s fact-based drama chronicles the hardships suffered by a family of Turkish farmers who sell all of their worldly possessions in order to fund an escape to the greener pastures of Switzerland. En route, they fall prey to…

Produced by Uwe Dierks, Andrea Thilo, Thomas Grube With actors Simon Rattle, Royston Maldoom, Susannah Broughton, Marie Theinert, Martin Eisentraut, Olayinka Shitu, Volker Eisenach, Miriam Pech Available on DVD in Germany RHYTHM IS IT! records the first big educational project of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle. The orchestra ventured out of the…

With actors Ruth Niehaus and Hermann Schomberg Available in English In a small German village in the middle of large moors, there is an old legend of a young woman having sunk in the wetland after being raped by a Swedish intruder of the Thirty Years’ war. Now young Dorothee, falling in love with the…

With actors Hans-Jürgen Bäumler and Terence Hill Der Italiener Marcello arbeitet in einem österreichischen Stahlwerk, wo er immer wieder mit der Fremdenfeindlichkeit seiner Kollegen zu kämpfen hat. Der einzige Mensch, der ihm mit Respekt begegnet, ist die Bankangestellte Angelika. Aber noch bevor sich zwischen den beiden eine echte Beziehung entwickeln kann, schiebt der hasserfüllte Ganove…

With actors Navid Navid, Anna Böger, and Michael Niavarani. Mohsen Taheri (Navid), an Iranian-German butcher’s son is on his way to Poland to acquire sheep in a bid to save his father’s business. Along the way, he stops in a small town in eastern Germany where he falls for a local German woman, Ana (Böger)…

With actors Idil Üner and Daniel Krauss. The German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) graduation film of Verena S. Freytag, credited pseudonymously as Sülbiye Günar, originally aired on ZDF television and follows the travails of a young couple, Turkish-German Saniye (Üner) and her husband Tom (Krauss) as they try to solve their marital problems by getting…

Produced by Anja Föringer With actors Tanishta Chatterjee, Prashant Narayanan, Tilotama Shome, Irfan Khan, Tumpa Das, Sikandar Agarwal Available on DVD in Germany Indien vor der Unabhängigkeit. Eine Teppichfabrik bei Kalkutta. Hier beginnt die tragische Liebesgeschichte von Ravi und Masha, die von ihren Eltern als Kinderarbeiter an die Fabrik verkauft wurden. Dem kleinen Ravi ist…

color, Germany, Lars Becker, 77 Min, 1992 With actors Diego Wallraff, Christian Redl, and Alfred Kleinheinz. When incarcerated gangster Eddi (Wallraff) finds out his new friend Timbe (Kleinheinz), a deserter from an African country where he faces a death sentence, is being deported, they hatch a plan to stop his deportation that brings them face…

Links: IMDB, Filmportal Genre(s): Drama, Melodrama;

With actors Bastian Trost, Mehdi Nebbou Available on DVD in Germany Johannes, a new assistant at the university, is asked to provide reports on an Algerian colleague – who is suspected of being a sleeper. He refuses, but the seed of doubt has been planted. A fragile friendship which is overshadowed by professional and emotional…

With actors Senta Moira and Paul Outlaw available on DVD with English subtitles in the US A young black man is verbally harassed by an older woman on a streetcar, while the other passengers remain silent. He finally extracts his revenge. Links: IMDB

With actors Rudolf Prack and Gretl Schörg Der junge Maler Hans ist es leid, dass seine kapriziöse Freundin, Revuesängerin Malwine , immer mit anderen Männern flirtet. Als sie sich auf einem Maskenball wieder nicht um ihn kümmert, entschließt er sich, sie zu verlassen, zumal er dort die als Schwarzwaldmädel verkleideten Sekretärin Bärbel kennen gelernt hat,…

With actors Fatih Akin and Adam Bousdoukos. Fatih Akin’s first film, this short comedy won the Audience Award at the International Short Film Festival Hamburg in 1996. Kubilei, a young Turkish man in Hamburg, Germany, knows his dream woman will love three things: Marlboro, punk, and Robert de Niro. She also has to be Turkish…  …

With actors Ayten Erten, Jürgen Prochnow, Aras Ören, and Aliki Georgouli. Shirin (Erten), a young Turkish woman, leaves Anatolia in search of Mahmud, to whom she was betrothed as a child, traveling first to Cologne, where she finds work and hopes to find him. Buoyed by the support of her colleagues, she begins to adapt…

With actors Gottfried Breitfuss, Nikolaus Dutsch, Constanze Engelbrecht A grim look at modern society as seen through the eyes of a West German returning to his homeland from West Africa. Links: IMDB, Film Portal

With actors Doğan İzci, Hasan Özdemir and Ozan Çelik. Aslan (İzci), a young Turkish boy, befriends a fighting dog named Sivas. His brother Şahin takes him to watch the dogfights, and one day, when Sivas is wounded and left for dead, Aslan convinces his brother to let him take Sivas home with them. Aslan cares for the…

The film Sleep Dealer wonderfully accentuates and mirrors labor realities taking place near the Mexican-American border. The futuristic sense of the film shows the possibilities of how maquilladora labor can be exploited. The journey of the main character to the “node center of Mexico,” Tijuana, shows the harsh reasons why people leave their hometown village…

With actors Moritz Bleibtreu, Barnaby Metschurat, Gigi Savoia, Patrycia Ziolkowska, and Antonella Attili. 20 years after Romano Amato (Savoia), his wife Rosa (Attili) move their family from Italy to Germany, the two sons Giancarlo (Bleibtreu) and Gigi (Metschurat) have a falling-out over their love for the same woman, their childhood friend Jo (Ziolkowska), leaving the…

With actors Hussi Kutlucan, Abdurrahman Selvitop Zur Zeit will der junge Kreuzberger Türke Süleyman nur eines: raus aus der Stadt! Seine Freundin hat ihn gerade verlassen und in seiner WG läuft es auch nicht besonders. Also reist Süleyman in die Türkei, seiner Heimat. In Istanbul wird er von seinem skurrilen Onkel überredet, einen mysteriösen Goldschatz…

With actors Hussi Kutlucan and Abdurrahman Selvitop. Sick of urban life and his family in Berlin, Süleyman (writer-director Kutlucan) travels to his hometown in Anatolia in search of adventure. Looking for excitement with his uncle, Arzuman (Selvitop), he fails to heed the warning of a shepherd and sets off on a search for hidden treasure.…

Produced by Claus Boje With actors Alexander Scheer, Alexander Beyer, Katharina Thalbach, Teresa Weissbach Available on DVD in Germany A “mufta” is a multifunctional table, a “Minetta” is a radio, mopeds are called “Swallows” and “Asthmakraut Halle” (a special asthma medication) is the only recreational drug available. The Soviet Union is big brother; the rest…

With actors Marcell Nagy Available on DVD in Germany Verfilmung des Romans von Imre Kertesz. Budapest 1944: Auch die Familie des 14-jährigen Juden György wird Opfer der Verfolgung durch die Nazis. Zunächst müssen sie den “Judenstern” tragen. Dann wird der Vater in ein “Arbeitslager” gebracht. György kommt in die Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, Buchenwald und Zeitz, wo…

With actors Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, and Birol Ünel. When Zinos Kazantsakis (Bousdoukos), chef at a struggling locals-only restaurant in Hamburg, is rendered unable to cook by  a back injury, he stirs things up by hiring a more talented chef Shayn Weiss (Ünel) who insists on revamping the menu to haute cuisine. Juggling the tax…

Aysun Bademsoy’s documentary focuses on the families of the victims of the serial murders of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) between 2000 and 2007, which German police and media originally ascribed to “foreign” criminal enterprises with explicitly racist imagery like the neologism Dönermorde, coined to mock the killings before the culprits were identified in 2011.…

With actors Wayne County, Manfred Finger, Judith Flex, Helga Goetze, Gerhard Helle City of Lost Souls is the latest work by cult director Rosa von Praunheim, known for his radical, controversial films that usually challenge both nongay and gay audiences. A group of Americans live in the midst of the lively artists’ set in Berlin.…

Breathlessly energetic Berlin-set hip-hop epic »Status Yo!« employs performers and locations from local music scene to tell an ambitious story of one eventful night in the German capital. With just 24 hours in which to organize the biggest party the city’s ever seen, Yan Eq, Jamie, Sera and others must deal with their love lives,…

With actors Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck. After they are harried and…

With actors Denis Moschitto and Marie Zielcke Links: IMDB, Film Portal Genre(s): Comedy;

color, Turkey, Özer Kiziltan, 96 Min, 2006 With actors Erkan Can, Meray Ülgen, and Güven Kiraç. A tale of the corruption of religious authority, “Takva” (the Arabic word for “fear of god”) follows humble and devout Sufi Muharrem (Can), who receives a promotion from the Sheikh (Ülgen) of his religious order to become the rent collector…

Der Film zeigt in Anlehnung an das Gladbecker Geiseldrama zwei Verbrecher auf der Flucht. Verfolgt von der Polizei und umringt von der Presse quälen sie in einer ostdeutschen Kleinstadt Asylanten. Aus den Geschehnissen versuchen nicht nur westdeutsche Neo-Nazis, sondern auch Lokalpolitiker Vorteile zu ziehen. Mit “Terror 2000” beschließt Christoph Schlingensief seine Deutschlandtrilogie, zu der außerdem…

With actors Tahar Rahim, Hindi Zahra, Makram Khoury, and Simon Akbarian. In Fatih Akin’s monumental epic chronicling one man’s experience of the Armenian genocide and its aftermath, Nazaret Manoogian (Rahim) is spared from execution by an Ottoman soldier. Nazaret henceforth ceases to speak, and spends the rest of his life trying to find his twin…

Ali Samadi Ahadi’s documentary tells the story of Iran’s Green movement and the brutal repression of protests after the disputed presidential elections of 2009. Links: IMDB, YouTube (Trailer) Genre(s): Documentary

Based in a London suburb Mahmud Nasir lives with his pretty wife, Saamiya, and two children, Rashid and Nabi. His son plans to marry Uzma, the step-daughter of Egyptian-born Arshad Al-Masri, a so-called ‘Hate Cleric’ from Waziristan, Pakistan. Mahmud, who is not exactly a devout Muslim, he drinks alcohol, and does not pray five times,…

Commissioned by the People’s Tribunal ‘Unraveling the NSU Complex’, this documentary report by the research agency Forensic Architecture casts severe doubt on the official narrative around the neo-Nazi murder of Halit Yozgat, who was shot to death at his parents’ Kassel internet cafe apparently in the presence of Andreas Temme, an agent of the Verfassungsschutz…

With actors Cheyenne Rushing, Özay Fecht Available on DVD in Germany Kathleen Mulligan, eine gebürtige Amerikanerin, studiert in Hannover Islamwissenschaft. Eines Tages verliebt sie sich in den Iraner Hamid. Sie heiratet ihn und zieht mit ihm in den Iran, wo sie zum Islam konvertiert. Dann aber wird Kathleen durch eine Vergewaltigung schwanger. Nachdem sie Schwangerschaft…

With actors Marius Müller-Westernhagen and Guido Gagliardi Theo is having some bad luck. His barely paid-for truck has been stolen, and credit collectors are after him. The chase leads him across Europe. Links: IMDB, Film Portal Genre(s): Comedy;

Dokumentarfilm über eine in Deutschland lebende türkische Mutter und ihre 24 Jahre alte Tochter. Obwohl Tochter Meral seit ihrem sechsten Lebensjahr in Deutschland lebt, betrachtet sie noch immer die Türkei als ihre Heimat – ein Land, das sie gleichsam nur von Urlaubsreisen kennt. Trotzdem ist sie froh, in Deutschland zu leben. Mit 17 wurde sie…

With actors Elfie Fiegert and Paul Bildt Das fünfjährige Mischlingskind Toxi taucht plötzlich bei der wohlhabenden Familie Rose auf. Das anscheinend ausgesetzte Mädchen erobert die Herzen aller. Nur Schwiegersohn Theodor Jenrich hat ernste Bedenken und wünscht, dass Toxi in ein Heim gebracht wird. (Summary from filmdb.de) Links: IMDB Genre(s): Drama, Melodrama;

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With actors Frank Rogowski and Paul Beer. Premier German auteur Christian Petzold’s adaptation of the 1942 Anna Seghers’s novel follows Georg (Rogowski), a young Jewish man who flees the Nazis to France with the identity and papers of a dead author, only to meet and fall in love a woman searching for her missing husband…

With actors Hannah Nortman and Emil Tchouk Artjom and his daughter Katja try to enter Italy illegally to join their wife and mother, Sveta, who emigrated to Italy a while ago, and found a job with the last of Trieste coachmen driving a horse-driven carriage. Artjom, Katja and a group of other refugees are caught,…

With actors Alexander Scheer and Uwe Bohm. Director Fatih Akin’s film is an adaptation of Wolfgang Herrndorf’s 2010 novel Tschick (Why We Took the Car), widely considered unfilmable. The film follows two teenagers (Alexander Scheer, Uwe Bohm) who steal a car and take a road trip through Eastern Germany, discovering the country and themselves in a touching and comical…

With actors Josefine Preuß, Elyas M’Barek, Anna Stieblich, and Adnan Maral. Based on, but not occurring in the same timeline as, the hit German culture-clash sitcom of the same name, “Türkisch für Anfänger” finds Lena Schneider (Preuß) and Cem Öztürk (M’Barek) stuck together on an island after their plane crashes. Like in the series, however,…

With actors Krystyna Janda and Matthias Habich In Danzig lernt der Kunsthistoriker Alexander die Restauratorin Aleksandra kennen. Eines Abends haben sie eine Idee: Sie wollen eine Stiftung gründen, die es Vertriebenen aus Deutschland und Polen ermöglicht, sich in ihrer Heimat bestatten zu lassen. Doch was als Geste der Versöhnung gedacht war, stößt nicht überall auf…

In einer zum Bordell umgestalteten Wohnung arbeiten fünf Frauen unterschiedlicher Altersstufen freiwillig als Prostituierte für einen sadistischen Zuhälter. Jeder Schritt der Frauen wird von dem Mann überwacht, eine Privatsphäre gibt es praktisch nicht. Versuche, sich der Knechtschaft zu widersetzen, werden grausam bestraft. Um jegliche Gefahr einer gemeinsamen “Rebellion” im Keim zu ersticken, spielt der Zuhälter…

With actors Laia Costa and Frederick Lau. Shot in a single take, Victoria follows the title character, an adventurous young Spanish woman who moves to Berlin after failing in her career aspirations as a concert pianist. There, she becomes entangled in the criminal schemes of four men who enlist her help as a getaway driver in…

Available on DVD Komiker Tom Gerhardt bringt seine populäre Kunstfigur, einen Kölner Proll mit Bommelmütze und Vorliebe für abmontierte Auspuffe, auf die Leinwand. Tommy hat alle Hände voll zu tun, mit seinem Kumpel Mario in so ziemlich jede Peinlichkeit und Zwickmühle zu geraten, die eine Woche in Köln-Kalk so bereitzuhalten scheint. Trotz der enthusiastischen Sichtung…

With actors Narges Rashidi, Marlene Metternich, Benno Fürmann, and Jascha Baum. Young Can (Baum) lives with his sister Segvi (Metternich) and his mother Elmas (Rashidi). Struggling to make ends meet, Elmas works in a brothel but keeps it from her son. When Can finds out, it drives him and his mother apart, and throws their…

With actors Josef Hader and Barbara Sukowa. This European coproduction chronicles the exile of Stefan Zweig, the Austrian Jewish author who fled Austria to Brazil in 1936. In South America, Zweig (Josef Hader) struggles to carve out his own nuanced perspective on Germany and the war, independently of the polarization of the political extremes. At the same…

Available on DVD Romuald Karmakars Dokumentarfilm porträtiert einen deutschen Ex-Fremdenlegionär sowie einen englischer Söldner. Der 53-jährige Günter Aschenbrenner wurde in der französischen Fremdenlegion ausgebildet, errichtete Raketenstartbasen in Libyen und im Kongo und war in Guyana selbst Ausbilder für Fremdenlegionäre. Er berichtet offen, ausführlich und nicht frei von Stolz über seine Kampferfahrung in Afrika. Der jüngere…

I spent more than two years documenting the lives of Ali, Kais, Ertan and Alban on camera. During this time, their world was full of disappointments and conflict, but it also yielded incredible successes. It all began with a visit to the Youth Centre “Klingelputz” – a well-known meeting place for young migrants in the…

With actors Dietmar Bär and Ralf Richter Available on DVD Die chaotische Bauarbeiter-Clique um den Polier Horst nimmt ihren Arbeitsalltag ziemlich gelassen. Sei es der geizige Boss oder ein toter polnischer Schwarzarbeiter, der nicht in sein “Grab” unter dem Rohbau passen will: Nach dem Motto “Was nicht passt, wird passend gemacht” lösen Horst und seine…

With actors Hans-Joachim Grubel and Grit Hornig Links: IMDB, Film Portal

With actors Isolde Fischer and Can Sengül Paula Hartnagel works as a cleaning woman, leading an ordinary life. She loves life but, being a dreamer, she lives in a world of her own. When Paula believes to have found the man of her dreams in Mustafa, a Turkish security guard, her quite ordinary life suddenly…

With actors Günther Kaufmann Available on DVD 1878 irgendwo im Westen der Vereinigten Staaten. In einem Herrenhaus, das einem Mausoleum gleicht, residiert die Familie Nicholson: der Gutsbesitzer Ben Nicholson (Ron Randell), seine nymphoman veranlagte zweite Frau Katherine (Katrin Schaake), die beiden Söhne aus erster Ehe, der homosexuelle Frank (Ulli Lommel) und der geisteskranke Davy (Harry…

Produced by Christoph Müller; Sven Burgemeister; Silke Bacher With actors Mike Adler, Florian Renner, Elyas M’Barek, Jacob Matschenz, Gerald Alexander Held Um Respekt vor dem Einzelnen und um Anerkennung innerhalb eines sehr speziellen Kollektivs geht es in Florian Gaags Spielfilmdebüt. Das Low-Budget- Projekt mit dem Anspruch, die Realität der Graffiti-Szene authentisch darzustellen, erzählt die Geschichte…

English availability Der Dokumentarfilm porträtiert türkische Migranten und Migrantinnen aus den Bereichen Politik und Kultur, die Themen wie Integration und Ausgrenzung, Identität und Kultur bewusst und offensiv in ihrer Arbeit thematisieren. Der ehemalige Bundestagsabgeordnete der Grünen, Cem Özdemir, zum Beispiel betrachtet es als Selbstverständlichkeit, sich aus seinem “multikulturellen” Hintergrund ein ganz eigenes Lebenskonzept zu schaffen.…

Produced by Eric Fellner With actors Naveen Andrews, Sarita Choudhury, Ronny Jhutti, Ravi Kapoor Available on VHS in the US and on DVD/VHS in the UK This slapstick romp chronicles the ups and downs of a London-based country western band made up of young Pakistani immigrants as they try to make it out of the…

color, Germany, Simon Verhoeven, 116 Min, 2016 With actors Erik Kabongo and Elyas M’Barek. A wealthy Munich family decides to take in a Nigerian refugee, Diallo (Erik Kabongo), but their open hearts have not prepared them for the reality of Germany’s intolerance. This highly topical comedy attempts to bring both levity and insight to the pressing nexus of…

English availability Fatih Akin, einer der erfolgreichsten Regisseure des deutsch-türkischen Kinos, begibt sich in diesem Dokumentarfilm auf eine sehr persönliche Suche nach seinen familiären und kulturellen Wurzeln. Akin beobachtet den privaten wie auch den Arbeitsalltag seiner Eltern und lässt sie von ihren Erfahrungen in der “neuen Heimat” berichten. Er reist außerdem von Hamburg-Altona, wo er…

This made-for-TV documentary film for the series Denk ich an Deutschland (“I think of Germany”) follows Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin and his parents (Mustafa Enver Akin and Cem Akin), as they visit the village the Akin family comes from. The elder Akins were part of a wave of so-called “Gastarbeiter” (“guest workers) who were recruited by the West German…

With actors Devid Striesow and Jonas Nay. Director Burhan Qurbani’s drama presents a fictionalized version of the events of the 1992 Rostock-Lichtenhagen riots, in which xenophobic mobs attacked migrant living quarters while thousands of onlookers cheered them. The film’s nuanced characterizations present a complex picture of the participants in the riots, illustrating how the moral fabric…

color, Germany/Turkey, Martina Priessner, 88 Min, 2010 Four Turkish-Germans born who grew up in Germany and now live in Istanbul share their different stories and divergent paths that all brought them back to their ancestral homeland: one through deportation, two forced by their parents, and only one, Ciğdem, who came to Turkey of his own…

With actors Benno Fürmann and Nina Hoss. Smug, reckless car salesman Phillip Gerber (Fürmann) runs over a young boy in a tragic moment of carelessness, and flees the scene. He follows the boy’s condition until learning of his passing, but doesn’t tell the boy’s grieving and vengeful mother, Laura Reiser (Hoss). Links: IMDB, YouTube (Trailer)…

With actors Necmettin Çobanoglu and Füsun Demirel Yilmaz Arslan directed this Turkish-German-Swiss drama which begins in a German city where a woman arrives at an apartment building to visit her friend Hulya (Yelda Reynaud), only to learn that Hulya has returned to Turkey with her aunt and uncle because of an unspecified illness. There are…

With actors Ayse Romey, Uwe Bohm, Sener Sen, Ilhan Emerli Jan (Bohm) joins a judo class and, on a bet, pursues his Turkish-German classmate Yasemin (Romey) romantically. Yasemin is uninterested and has her own problems, first and foremost the strict opposition of her father Yunuf (Sen) to her wishes to go to college. As her…

Der 26-jährige Bosnier Dejan lebt als Kriegsflüchtling in Köln. Traumatisiert von den furchtbaren Ereignissen in seiner Heimat, wird er von Halluzinationen und Wahnvorstellungen gequält. Auch als er die 20-jährige, aus behüteten Verhältnissen stammende Anna kennen lernt und sich in sie verliebt, kommt sein Seelenleben nicht zur Ruhe. Um Frieden zu bekommen, muss Dejan einen Weg…

With actors Herbert Grönemeyer, Aysun Bademsoy and Meray Ülgen. In this early made-for-TV engagement with migration and multiculturalism, a young Turkish-German woman, Ayshe (Bademsoy), meets and falls in love with Bernd (Grönemeyer), but is at odds with her father (Ülgen) over not just her love for a German man but over her preference for Germany…

Available on DVD with English subtitles The movie consist of 13 separate episodes each handling a period between 1960 and 1970. The length of these periods varies from one day to some years. It tells the story of a group of people in Munich (mostly music and film students). Every episode focuses on a different…

With actors Arzu Bazman and Fatih Alas Während eines Urlaubs in der Türkei verliebt sich die 19-jährige Deutschtürkin Deniz in den Türken Umut. Beim Versuch, illegal nach Deutschland einzureisen, um seiner Freundin näher zu sein, wird Umut verhaftet. Nach einer geglückten Flucht stellt er einen Asylantrag, der ihm ein vorläufiges Bleiberecht beschert. Deniz’ liberale Eltern…

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With actors Ronald Zehrfeld and Mohamad Mohsen. Ronald Zehrfeld and Mohamad Mohsen star as Jesper, a German soldier in Afghanistan, and his interpreter Tarik, whose friendship is tested by the bitter realities of the conflict in Afghanistan and by the demands of their respective cultures. When Tarik’s sister is threatened, Jesper is caught between his duties…