Inspired by the true story of Jewish high jumper Gretel Bergmann, BERLIN ‘36 replays a remarkable piece of forgotten Olympic history. Bergmann (award-winning actress Karoline Herfurth) was considered a top contender for the gold medal at the 1936 Summer Games in Nazi-controlled Berlin. With the Americans threatening an Olympic boycott if Jewish athletes were barred from competing, Bergmann is invited to training camp. But uncomfortable with a Jewish athlete on the Aryan team, the Nazis conspire to replace her with an unknown über-athlete (Sebastian Urzendowsky), who years later is revealed to be a man. BERLIN ‘36 is the exploration of a tenuous friendship between two outsiders who find themselves in unimaginable circumstances. Bergmann eventually escaped to the U.S., where she still lives, and was invited by the German Olympic Committee to be its guest at the Centennial Games in Atlanta.

“Villon's Wife,” set in the dark years of the early postwar era, is narrated by the wife of a writer who has been much celebrated but who has given himself over to drunkenness and debauchery. The story opens late on a winter night as the woman, asleep with her retarded son, hears her husband come home, drunk as usual. With uncharacteristic tenderness the husband asks if the child still has a fever. At this point a man and woman arrive at the front door and call for the writer, Mr. Otani. An argument ensues and the wife tries to intervene, but Otani pulls a knife...

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Beto, an elderly Indio, is looking after a luxurious empty house in Mexico until it is sold. His contact with the outside world is limited to the visits made by the owner and weekly sessions with Lupe, a prostitute he pays for companionship. For the most part, Beto lives like a recluse. Even a simple visit to the market has become a major ordeal. For Beto, television is the only window into the outside world and that world has become a very scary place for him. But when the house is sold he must leave. Despite his former boss’s efforts to find him a new job, Beto fears he can no longer manage to be in the general public.

For Nicholas life is perfect: loving parents, terrifc pals and no desire fro anything to change. Then an overheard conversation leads him to believe that his mother is pregnant. He imagines the worst: his parents will no longer have time for him. Maybe they'll even abandoen him. SOmething has to be done. Nicholas and his gang come up with all kinds of plans - plans that lead them into increasingly crazy adventures.
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A willful young boy follows his just as obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war. April 2003, three weeks after the fall of Saddam. A journey through Iraq, a troubled land where no one knows what lies ahead. On hearing the news that prisoners of war have been found alive in the South, a curious young boy Ahmed and his obstinate grandmother set out to uncover the fate of the boy's missing father, one of the many soldiers who never came home since the gulf war 1991. From the mountains of the North to the sands of Babylon, the pair hitch rides with strangers and cross paths with fellow pilgrims on an all too similar quest. As a grandmother struggles to accept an awful truth, Ahmed retraces the footsteps of a father he never knew. This is a journey that will not only connect them to the past, but will determine their lives forever.

1913 - 1914. A village in Protestant northen Germany, on the eve of World War I. The story of the children and teenagers of a church and school choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families: the Baron, the steward, the pastor, the doctor, teh midwife, the tenat farmers. Strange accidents occur and gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual. Who is behind it all?
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