Enrico Boetcher

When Marilyn Monroe died, she conspired with the Gods to be reunited with JFK in the afterlife. Director Richard Newton’s perspective on the love triangle between JFK, Jackie O., and Marilyn Monroe. When Mary Lynne (Monroe) overdoses on a bowl of Phenobarbital Cheerios, Johnny (JFK) and Jackie hop the Greyhound and head for Tijuana. They meet the philosophical Plato, who takes them on a festive romp through the circus like atmosphere of Tijuana. Along the way, he introduces them to the Greek Gods and a succession of unusual erotic acts, each of which culminates in a slo-mo re-enactment of the Zapruder film.

This modern variation on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Girl with the Matchsticks" begins Christmas in a home for the disabled. The four wheelchair users Aga, Ringo, the White Giant and Spasski are fed up with the same old boredom and decide to celebrate their own "party". They requisition the collected donations and set off to explore Munich at night. There, all doors are initially closed to the wheelchair gang, but then the friends meet an angel in the form of a lighter saleswoman who grants them three wishes. None of the runaways take them seriously until the first wish is actually fulfilled unexpectedly.

A quiet, offbeat German dramedy about self-reinvention and the messy ways we try to escape ourselves. When a middle-aged woman decides to shed her old life and adopt the name “Harry,” her transformation unsettles family, friends, and lovers who can’t quite keep up. Blurring gender identity, midlife crisis, and dark humour, the film plays like a bittersweet character study — deadpan, gently absurd, and tinged with melancholy.