Movies: Kida Khodr Ramadan

Turkish director Ali Vatansever weighs the human cost of politically motivated urban renewal in his achingly resonant second feature, about a young couple forced to compromise their ideals and work for the very industry encroaching on their Istanbul ...

Grim, recently retired 'iron judge' Ernst Blessing lives alone with his dog since his only daughter left angrily 18 years ago. Suddenly he's informed she died in a car crash, which landed her husband, Turkish Kurd Baran Amedi, in hospital. Loner Erns...

Jacky (30), who lives in Berlin, falls into a deep void after the death of her mother and losing her job. Unable to succeed in her attempt to commit suicide, she decides to hire a hitman. Unbeknownst to her, she meets Çello (33), the killer assigned ...

Daniel no longer wants to know anything about his job at the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. After a tragic accident during a surveillance operation in the neo-Nazi scene, he tries to resign. Instead of pursuing his request, he is hous...

Frederick Schopner, a young management consultant, has been invited to participate in a special kind of team-building event. He and his colleagues will be chased across an outdoor obstacle course while being assessed on leadership qualities and their...

Mario, a young dancer living in a small village has to face the loss of his beloved best friend Lenz, victim of an attack in a gay club....

A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease....

A surfeit of misfortune and a traumatic childhood lead Rocco, in times of isolation and ignorance, to rid himself of his possessions and tidy up the various stages of his life....

Police officers Kessel and Driller are supposed to be on the lookout for an internationally wanted war criminal. But Kessel is a junkie, gets into a fight with a young dealer and runs the man over. His colleague Driller covers all the tracks, but can...

Four men’s destinies slam into each other and intertwine on four balmy summer nights. Old wounds are reopened, new ones appear, unexpectedly there is a new closeness. And, when the sun rises over the city and the striking garbage men, finally ensure ...

Pregnant Martha decides to put her child up for adoption....

14-year-old Leila is only supposed to have her tonsils operated on, a routine procedure. But when she wakes up from the anesthesia, she is suddenly blind. While the doctors are completely at a loss to explain how this could have happened, Leila's fat...

How Murat Kurnaz ended up in Guantanamo Bay is a mysterious story. 5 YEARS investigates the psychological aspect of this endless and unjustified "imprisonment" where Kurnaz had to endure never ending physical and psychological torture....

The patriarch and devout father Abdullah has been living in Zurich with his wife Emine and their children for years. Their eldest son Kadir and their daughter Elif are doing well in the Western world. The youngest son, Burak, is gradually becoming ra...

Two digital natives, an analogue stranger and two bike cops. A bearded oriental, a mysterious bag, an evil eye. Mario and Yunus are certain: they have discovered a real terrorist. You have to put a stop to it to save thousands of lives. But what if t...

Luks Glück is a tragicomedy about the dubious happiness of a Turkish family between Hamburg and Istanbul, whose life by a lottery win out of joint....

Paul, Julia and Lilly are a happy family, until Julia dies unexpectedly. For the sake of his daughter, Paul wants to function and suppress his grief. Lilly keeps challenging him with her imagination and her very own view of Mum's death....

Lawyer Dimitrios Schulze works in the Jungbusch district of Mannheim and helps anyone who has problems with the police and justice system. He also supports his mother and sister in the grocery store. While district police officer Sultan Cakmak shows ...

Roger has his own clear world. He loves his apartment. Roger works as a janitor in a house about to be demolished. Leftover GDR supporters, failed geniuses, artistic neo-Nazis live there....

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