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Twenty somethings Amir and Narges have found what feels like true love in their hometown by the coast of the Caspian sea. But in today's Iran that's far from enough to build a life together, and they are forced to keep the relationship secret. To win over Narges' upper class family and pay an appropriate dowry, Amir needs money, and he needs it fast. With his back against the wall, Amir finds work at a local fishery, where he is drawn into the dangerous but lucrative business of black market caviar smuggling. As Amir's values are compromised by the illegal underworld, Narges stalls for time and tries to delay the arranged marriage her parents are planning for her. Can their love, hopes and dreams survive the tightly knit web of tradition, corruption, and social hierarchy that continues to rule over the lives of a new generation in Iran?

Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years.

Lenz is a Kreuzberg layabout: funny, charming, imaginative, and incapable of making decisions. When he and Ira become a couple, the two spend a carefree summer together - until Ira makes it clear to Lenz that she wants a baby. She is approaching 40, after all. The thought of having a child frightens Lenz. He runs away and goes back to his old life: sleeping in, partying, and smoking in the kitchen with his friend Kenn. Lenz does miss Ira, though, and when the two happen to meet again, they share a night of passion - and Ira becomes pregnant. This is a romantic comedy full of dry humor and wonderfully surreal ideas.

After losing in love, Karl, a young author of a popular anonymous blog, decides to give readers control of his life. This fictional drama paints a portrait of a generation immersed in the virtual world.

A group of teenagers is involved in a rape. As offenders, accomplices and victims. The crime seems to have no consequences, but it quickly becomes clear that not everyone feels guilt and shame. Dealing with the dept destroys friendships and hopes. While the mother of the victim piece by piece finds out that her daughter was raped, one of the offenders confesses the incredible act to his parents. But they react differently than he hoped.

A young Mongolian boy turns grief into a source of power, after the death of his father.

Crime, passion and childhood innocence in an Iraqi tale.

Syrian construction workers build skyscrapers in Beirut while their homes are being bombed.

HELLO I AM DAVID! is a journey into the world of the outstanding pianist David Helfgott whose life inspired the OSCAR-winning film 'Shine'

Documentary about an experimental elementary school in Muenster, Germany.

Lucid, indignant, committed: for a growing fraction of today's youth, it is urgent to act. Against the deadly lifestyle of past generations which precipitated the climate crisis; against social inequalities and discrimination, against a globalized economy. ZDF journalist Aline Abboud gives a voice to young Europeans who are committed to moving the lines. In France, she meets Priscillia Ludosky, figure of the "yellow vests" movement, or Assa Traoré, anti-racist activist. In Poland, she talks to progressive, pro-LGBT activists like artist Daniel Rycharski. In Germany, she meets a pressure group which intends to influence the institutions in order to make their voice heard.

People of the Wasteland is a short-film of 24 minutes that focuses on the concept of war. It presents footage filmed and gathered during more than two years through a GoPro camera placed on the heads of different Syrian fighters in the enemy region. The film presents the violence and the horrors of war in a first-perspective point-of-view. The editing uses reality and experimental styles in order to reflect the absurdity of war. The location of the film is intentionally unclear, appearing only as the "wasteland", with the aim of making the concept of war a global concept, that not only affects Syrians but all humans.

When boxing prodigy Malcolm almost loses his fight on the way to the Golden Gloves, his coach Jessie intensifies the training drastically. But working hard doesn't seem to cut it anymore but just sending them on a downhill spiral.

Why does a country without access to the sea entertain a navy? Bolivia was defeated in all wars; and in the last, the War of the Pacific, it lost the remaining 400 kilometers of ocean coastline. Bolivia and the dream of the sea. It is the consistent presence of its absence. A country's dream of a future built on a Lost Horizon.

A team of reporters start their journey with 2 vans and drive passing various stops on their way to Tokyo. On their way they stop to explore the culture of the country they are passing through.