A series of short vignettes set in a Berlin Mietskaserne (rental barracks for the poor), framed by Schönberg's atonal piece Pierrot Lunaire.
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Adriaan Adriaanse
Marian Batavier
Loraine Miller
José Teunissen
Annejet van der Zijl
Marek, a thirty year old introvert IT specialist, tries to fit into the crazy social life of his younger girlfriend Julka. After a nighttime fight they split and as Marek walks across a street, a car hits him…
Mike is a guy who once tried to be famous on the internet, but failed and decided to give it up. Almost 3 years later, his "influencer" personality haunts him with the guilt of not having done anything better with his life.
In a dystopian future, an Australian-Iraqi woman held captive in a chaotic and brutal British immigration detention centre takes up severe measures to survive and reconnect with her estranged family.
When Catarina finds out that she is pregnant, she questions the responsibility of bringing a child into this world.
Lebanon. Summer 2010. War is looming. Zeina and Toufic have been together for several years; but Toufic is preparing to leave the country...
A happy-go-lucky contestant goes onto a game show expecting rewards, but not all is as it seems.
An innocent child narrowly escapes destruction and death in Syria. What she leaves behind can never truly be left behind.
This Multi international award winning film is about a young man trapped in the routine of working life begins to question the path laid out in front of him. As reality starts to blur with dreamlike visions of freedom, he is forced to confront the dreams he left behind and the person he used to be. A surreal short film about routine, lost ambition, and the search for meaning.
Dad irons. Child tidies up. Mum breathes out.
An innocent man who was tortured meets his torturer years later and decides to kidnap him.
The story about two screenwriters who are stuck on their own work and want to finish it.
During the worst gig of his life, a piano player wrestling with failure, fatherhood, and marriage has a surreal encounter that suggests he's been playing the wrong song all along.
A sweet couple invite a third person over for the night, who brings a lustful energy to spice things up.
Carousel is a story of love, loss and the hope for redemption when a criminal escapes death and gets a second chance at life in more than one way.
After witnessing the murder of her husband and oldest son at the hands of a Confederate home guard unit, Jenny Brooks trains her remaining sons to avenge their family.
A man tries to kill himself in a motel room.
Inexplicably, an elderly man recuperates the vital energy he had lost many years ago and starts to live a third youth. But his grandson , suffering from a strange ailment, knows the truth: that man is not his grandpa anymore
A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.
A talented young singer and aspiring songwriter’s Christian faith and family ties are tested when she defies her worship-pastor father and pursues pop-music stardom in GRACE UNPLUGGED, a moving and inspiring new film that explores the true meaning of success.
Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his masculinity is thrown into question following a violent brawl.
An agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy and a disgraced former music manager cross paths in Chicago’s South Side and help each other face demons of their pasts.
A famous pianist at the twilight of his career meets a free-spirited music critic who soon becomes his rock as his mental state deteriorates.
Aspiring small-town musician Chito is determined to make it big. When a clip of him performing one of his songs goes viral, he seizes the opportunity and pushes to carve out a place for himself in the new wave of Mexican-American music... and ultimately gets caught in a game more dangerous than anticipated.
In 1950s Alabama, the owner of the Honeydripper juke joint finds his business dropping off and against his better judgment, hires a young electric guitarist in a last ditch effort to draw crowds during harvest time.
Their love of dance, and their friendship, is challenged for two high school girls when one is diagnosed with cancer.
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing.
Street dancer Skyler comes out of the shadow of her trained dancer sister, Tosha, & joins a dance competition with the Honey dance studio; the prize is a college scholarship.
The Mambo Kings tells the story of César and Nestor Castillo, brothers and aspiring musicians who flee from Cuba to America in search of the American Dream.
Vitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for him.
A young alcoholic ambient musician locks himself in his apartment on a dangerous seven day bender as he attempts to finish his upcoming album.
A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and becomes overbearing and possessive.
A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely new style of dance. Based on the story of ballroom dancer, Pierre Dulane.
A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.
In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.
