Movies: Manuela Biedermann

After more than 20 years, Sue returns from Switzerland to her home country Egypt because her mother Fairouz is in a hospital bed. Sue ran away from the eccentric aristocrat as a young adult. Now she feels compelled to meet her again....

Élise Lafontaine has a secret routine. Every morning and evening for many years, she has been waving at the express train that passes her house. One fateful day, she finds a letter from the train conductor in her garden and her lonely life is turned ...

Spring 1945, Heinrich Zwygart, Swiss ambassador to Germany flees bombed-out Berlin after eight years of service in the capital of the Reich. This is the end of a terrible mandate, during which he had to make fatal compromises to preserve the neutrali...

For years, Antonio, a bricklayer, has fudged the books and paid his employee Victor under the table, but Covid causes his system to collapse. While at first he still wants to blame the system for his misery, he finally has to realise that he can only...

When her husband loses his job, Julia's well-organized life is put to the test. Robert used to work in international finance. Now he stays at home and is in no hurry to look for work. An encounter with a strange homeless man helps Julia overcome her ...

The film takes us back in time, to a relatively recent yet forgotten period in history, when many women like Lina were forced to fold in the face of unfair and blinkered authorities. The victim of an administrative internment aimed at re-educating he...

The 27-year-old sculptor Constantin Brancusi walked from Bucharest to Paris in 1903 and 1904 as a preparation and prelude to becoming the most important sculptor of the twentieth century....

17-year old Sarah, filled with adolescent angst, is an extreme person who in her rehearsals with a theatre group is transformed until she is almost in a trance, and her performances at home or elsewhere verge on excess. A cold, intellectual father, a...

In the turmoil of German reunification, Patty loses her job, loses her friend Jelena and disappears into the historic forest of the Kyffhäuser mountains. When she reappears in the nearby town thirty years later, barely aged, Jelena follows her ghostl...

Forty-year-old Julia, a successful conductor, and her partner Georg are longing for a child when Dr. Vilfort, a fertility specialist with a private clinic, offers them hope with an experimental procedure. Julia becomes pregnant after successful treat...

After receiving the diagnosis of an incurable brain tumor, Claudia decides to undertake her last trip to Switzerland. There she can decide how and when to end her life thanks to the help of an assisted suicide association....

Despite his marginal and extrovert looks, Jérémie is a shy teenager who keeps a heavy secret: his homosexuality. While trying to find his way between his classmate and sexual fantasy Damien and his very generous but protective mother Gina, his life i...

For years now, giant talking newts have been used both for their labor and as laboratory animals. The Newt Congress takes place at a conference building surrounded by nature where participants have come together to optimize the exploitation of the an...

An obsessive mother, on the verge of a nervous breakdown. A father, carefully blotted out from all the family photos and a dreadful child-psychiatrist with unconventional methods - This is the summary of young Hazel's life, secretly attracted to boys...

Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affairs. One day Virginia gets a call from the Swedish Academy. Léo has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His estranged son Paul tries desperately to con...

Alex and his girlfriend Anna have a problem: Anna couldn't be more pregnant, and neither can find an affordable flat. The only one who can help is Anna's father, Commander Reiker, a sweet but screwy military man who owns an empty house. Reiker, howev...

When an amateur sexting video makes the rounds on social media, several involved individuals have to face the consequences. A film that takes on the subject of sexting and cyberbullying....

When an unmarried and childless funeral director searches for relatives of a man who died in solitude, she becomes aware of her own longing....

A young couple is overjoyed as they await their first child. After a routine examination, a possible disability is diagnosed....

The sports day of a primary school spirals out of control. A harmless argument between two children escalates into death threats between their fathers....