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A triptych examines the nature of one unforgettable city as it's shaped by the disparate people who live, work (and even run amok) inside one enormous, constantly evolving, densely populated megalopolis, the ravishing and inimitable Tokyo.

Charlotte is a doctor in Brussels. She is married to the architect Max and has a young son. She rents an apartment to meet men, while maintaining an intimate marriage and family life.

In the spring of 1945 a train deporting hundreds of Jewish prisoners gets stranded near a small German village occupied by the Red Army. Condemned to each other and in a context of deep mistrust, desperation and revenge, an unexpected friendship emerges between Russian sniper Vera, village girl Winnie and Jewish-Dutch woman Simone.

Hanna Leitner, wants to escape the bourgeois corset and her husband Anton, who sexually harasses her. She goes into therapy with Otto Gross and follows him to Monte Verità, where she discovers the fascination of photography.

Meis is fifteen, lives in the back of beyond and aspires to a grand and stirring life, but all that happens is the passing of the time, waiting for the next car to run into the front of the house.

"Abu Nawas" is a trendy café and popular hangout for artists, communists and gay Iraqi exiles in London, it's close to the Salafist Mosque. When Nasseer, a fanatic religious youth and nephew of poet Taufiq, attacks his uncle's friends he sets into action a course of events that will turn everyone's life upside down.

A middle aged farmer, living with his old and bedridden father, tries to find truth in life.

Cobain (15) tries to get his pregnant mother Mia to quit her self-destructive lifestyle. When she refuses to clean up her act, Cobain takes over.

In the summer of 1989, a teenage girl finds herself facing adulthood as she deals with her handicapped father's suicide attempt - while also falling in love for the first time in her life.

A shop assistant in a record shop falls in love with a young writer, who loves classical music but can not find a publisher who publishes his first novel.

Marie, constantly filmed and photographed by her father, grows up in post-WW2 Germany. When her mother dies the now single father lacks empathy, ignoring the needs of Marie and her older brother. Problems escalate in her teenage years.

Marriage counselor Luisa is happily married to Richard, but also has an affair with Leopold, Richard's boss. Luisa can't decide which man to choose, until she wakes up one morning and meets a second Luisa, calling herself Ann.

Mr. Gay Syria follows two gay Syrian refugees who are trying to rebuild their lives. Husein is a barber in Istanbul, living a double life between his conservative family and his gay identity. Mahmoud is the founder of Syria's LGBTI movement and is a refugee in Berlin. What brings them together is a dream: to participate in an international beauty contest as an escape from their trapped lives and an answer to their invisibility. Will the dream come true or will the refugee crisis and the harsh consequences of being gay in the Muslim world shatter it to pieces?

Probation Officer Benno finds in Hotte a real challenge. Shit gets his authority on petty criminals anyway, but Hotte is by far the most cunning rogue ever to enter his office. When Hotte is also given custody of his 2 children Dennis and Jenny, Benno sees red. Under no circumstances may Hotte move with the adolescents to a shared apartment and take over their education. Initially interested only the child support, but slowly he finds pleasure in living together with his children and a permanent residence. And while Hotte makes a sincere effort to rearrange his life, Benno develops an unimaginable energy to prevent just that .

Karl is finally getting out of jail, but none of his family are there to meet him. Feeling betrayed after sacrificing himself to protect their finances, he joins the gang of an old man planning a robbery.

Tracing the emigrations of his family over more than half a century, this riveting 3D documentary epic from acclaimed expatriate Iraqi filmmaker Samir pays moving homage to the frustrated democratic dreams of a people successively plagued by the horrors of dictatorship, war, and foreign occupation.

On the day of her wedding, Franziska found out that her fiancé was having an affair with another woman. Now she believes all men are unfaithful. She proves this over and over again as a successful trustee.

"ES HÄTTE SCHLIMMER KOMMEN KÖNNEN - MARIO ADORF" portrays the film star Mario Adorf and his passion for acting, the stage, the cinema, singing and writing. Together with the director Dominik Wessely, the film comes closer to Mario Adorf as a person and highlights important stations of his private life and his international career. When Mario Adorf begins to talk about his life, over 60 years of theatre and film history come to life. A dialogue with him is not only a retrospective, but also an intensive exchange of ideas about film and theatre and his view of the world, love and aging.

A train stops due to a power failure. The young passengers bridge the time by telling each other their dreams for the future. How they see the year 2020 for instance.

Two equal stories complement each other in a free meditation on the topic of violence.

Juri and Paula, acquaintances at a self-service laundromat, share candid conversations ranging from humor to philosophy as they go about their laundering routines.