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Steffi Niederzoll
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NRLea is desperately searching for stability, a warm relationship and a reason for living. But she is floundering. Her life is meaningless, restless and aggressive. A brief encounter with Lukas develops into a closer relationship that takes her on a journey to a forgotten place, where the couple try to find out who they are, and recall a long-lost time.
Lea
2008
Ava, a 28-year-old Iranian woman with a sharp sense of humour, appears to be happy, living in exile in Germany, with her father. Secretly, her thoughts revolve around her sister, Shala, who was executed in Iran fighting for women’s rights, and the man responsible for her death: Judge Heydari. Ava deliberately befriends his children Ali and Hoda in Germany, with one goal in mind: to find out when Heydari visits them, in the hope that he will be arrested and stand trial for crimes against humanity.
Radical Hope
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7.8After seven years in prison, a female student in Tehran is hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defence against a rapist. For a pardon, she would have had to retract her testimony. This moving film reopens the case.
Seven Winters in Tehran
2023
5.8Theres and Kenneth are both young when they first meet whilst on holiday. They fall in love but are unable to prevent themselves from losing each other. Thirty years later, in another country, another couple: Ariane leaves her husband David because she no longer loves him. The paths they both take lead them to Kenneth and Theres.
The Dreamed Path
2017
NROne Long Summer tells the story of Vroni who, as the summer slowly unfolds, experiences her first love in a small Bavarian village. Apart from the daily monotony of farmhouse chores and shy conversations about boys and sex that she has with her friend Gerti, Vroni finds herself drawn, again and again, to the woods, to the caravan of Ales, the young Czech puppeteer.
One Long Summer
2006
A Russian women moving through a Cuban landscape. She's disconnected, inflexible, passive. Communication with her surroundings does not seem possible. Wandering through places, places without connections.
As Though the Landscape Passes By
2005
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NRLea is desperately searching for stability, a warm relationship and a reason for living. But she is floundering. Her life is meaningless, restless and aggressive. A brief encounter with Lukas develops into a closer relationship that takes her on a journey to a forgotten place, where the couple try to find out who they are, and recall a long-lost time.
Lea
2008
NRLea is desperately searching for stability, a warm relationship and a reason for living. But she is floundering. Her life is meaningless, restless and aggressive. A brief encounter with Lukas develops into a closer relationship that takes her on a journey to a forgotten place, where the couple try to find out who they are, and recall a long-lost time.
Lea
2008
Ava, a 28-year-old Iranian woman with a sharp sense of humour, appears to be happy, living in exile in Germany, with her father. Secretly, her thoughts revolve around her sister, Shala, who was executed in Iran fighting for women’s rights, and the man responsible for her death: Judge Heydari. Ava deliberately befriends his children Ali and Hoda in Germany, with one goal in mind: to find out when Heydari visits them, in the hope that he will be arrested and stand trial for crimes against humanity.
Radical Hope
—
Ava, a 28-year-old Iranian woman with a sharp sense of humour, appears to be happy, living in exile in Germany, with her father. Secretly, her thoughts revolve around her sister, Shala, who was executed in Iran fighting for women’s rights, and the man responsible for her death: Judge Heydari. Ava deliberately befriends his children Ali and Hoda in Germany, with one goal in mind: to find out when Heydari visits them, in the hope that he will be arrested and stand trial for crimes against humanity.
Radical Hope
—
7.8After seven years in prison, a female student in Tehran is hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defence against a rapist. For a pardon, she would have had to retract her testimony. This moving film reopens the case.
Seven Winters in Tehran
2023
7.8After seven years in prison, a female student in Tehran is hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defence against a rapist. For a pardon, she would have had to retract her testimony. This moving film reopens the case.
Seven Winters in Tehran
2023
NROne Long Summer tells the story of Vroni who, as the summer slowly unfolds, experiences her first love in a small Bavarian village. Apart from the daily monotony of farmhouse chores and shy conversations about boys and sex that she has with her friend Gerti, Vroni finds herself drawn, again and again, to the woods, to the caravan of Ales, the young Czech puppeteer.
One Long Summer
2006
NROne Long Summer tells the story of Vroni who, as the summer slowly unfolds, experiences her first love in a small Bavarian village. Apart from the daily monotony of farmhouse chores and shy conversations about boys and sex that she has with her friend Gerti, Vroni finds herself drawn, again and again, to the woods, to the caravan of Ales, the young Czech puppeteer.
One Long Summer
2006
A Russian women moving through a Cuban landscape. She's disconnected, inflexible, passive. Communication with her surroundings does not seem possible. Wandering through places, places without connections.
As Though the Landscape Passes By
2005
A Russian women moving through a Cuban landscape. She's disconnected, inflexible, passive. Communication with her surroundings does not seem possible. Wandering through places, places without connections.
As Though the Landscape Passes By
2005
