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A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Daniah De Villiers

The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Enea Sala

Two sisters go diving at a beautiful, remote location. One of the sisters is struck by a rock, leaving her trapped 28 meters below. With dangerously...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Louisa Krause

A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Goodman

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arash Marandi

An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Holger Andersson

Oleg is a young gifted paramedic. His wife Katya works as a nurse at the hospital emergency department. She loves Oleg, but is fed up with him caring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aleksandr Yatsenko

Zenia is an industrious Ukrainian migrant worker in Poland who makes house calls as a masseur to the needy and aspirational residents of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alec Utgoff

On the outskirts of the capital of Chad, determined single mother Amina works tirelessly to provide for herself and her 15-year old daughter Maria....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Achouackh Abakar Souleymane

Vampire sisters Silvania and Daka try to rescue their baby brother, a half-vampire, from the clutches of the evil vampire queen Antanasia, who wants...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Stipe Erceg

Alma’s family has been producing quality olive oil in the Baix Maestrat area of Spain’s Castellón for generations. Yet changing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Castillo

In 2015, thirty year old refugee Francis, the sole survivor of a boat that illegally crossed the Mediterranean, is drawn into Berlin's seedy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Welket Bungué

On a winter’s day, Nena gathers her family to celebrate her birthday. Il paradiso del pavone is a small journey into the intimacy and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dominique Sanda

At age 19, Stratos committed a crime of passion. He spent half his life in prison, where underground boss Leonidas took him under his wing. One day...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Vangelis Mourikis

This anti-coming-of-age film follows Generation Y characters as they chase the desire for radical self-realisation.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lisa-Marie Koroll

Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing

After three unsuccessful attempts at the Olympics, the 30-year-old Aljona Savchenko finally wants to win a gold medal with a new partner in four...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Aljona Savchenko

Through a magical coincidence, the ambitious career woman Rebecca and the lively musical actress Maja switch bodies and have to find their way in...

Genre: Music

Cast: Julia Müller

In this prequel to the TV series, the individual fates of the members of the later "Red Bracelets" and how they came together are told.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tim Oliver Schultz

"Die Unbeugsamen" ("The Indomitable") is the story of women's struggle against sexual discrimination and for inclusion in the democratic process in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carola von Braun-Stütze