Family

A simple worker gets caught up in the maelstrom of real estate sharks, evictions and clan crime, where humanity often gives way to greed.

In her documentary, Mračnikar formulates a political urgency in a personal way: What happens when your mother tongue is taken away from you?

When a mother and her daughter take a vacation at the Baltic Sea, it quickly turns into a journey into the past that opens up old wounds.

The Ukranian grandson of filmmaker Leonid Burlaka draws a rich picture of Soviet history with archive footage of his grandfather.

This documentary shows the consequences of the 2008 war for displaced Georgians in a refugee settlement and their struggle to find a new home.

Caught between German stuffiness and Argentinian religiosity, Madi discovers her own sexuality.

A family visit and a broken tooth raises universal questions about identity, origins and life choices.

A creeping, almost invisible toxic waste catastrophe is taking place on Somalia's coast.

In the vast emptiness of the Patagonian steppe, 13-year-old Mora embarks on a journey with an old, indigenous Mapuche gaucho.

Somewhere in the Monchique mountains of Portugal, the Fridayhappiness Associação balances sustainable living with their economic lifeline.

A poignant tale of lost innocence, young Dib navigates the tumultuous landscape of 1950s Damascus following his father's death.

About the missing and the found. About the silent and the roaring. About cuddling and sneezing. Six stories about fathers.

A parasitic fungus infects humanity. It triggers visions and also enables communication with the dead.

When Germany surrenders in 1945, two reckless teenagers put their families' escape on the line to save their friendship.

Baby photos, Christmas snapshots, school enrollment photos, wedding photos - our lives are an endless succession of photogenic moments.

A feverish Schlingensief documentary by Bettina Böhler, a renowned editor, portraying this exceptional artist in his full range.

When Ava's father Gunter, a classic macho dude, shows up at her door, worlds collide.

Authentic, haphazard and unromantic, three residents of a high-rise housing estate search for love, friendship and sexuality.

Self-determination, women's rights, taboos: ME TIME focuses on child-free life and expectations of mothers.

A powerful film about the struggle of a naive boy with good intentions in the harsh environment of Irans drug stronghold on the Island of Hormuz.

What sounds like a case study from "The Drama of the Gifted Child" is the true story of the son of famed psychologist Alice Miller.

Tischa Thomas is a 47-year-old bodybuilder who has undergone a remarkable transformation. She challenges conventional notions of femininity.

The Bundeswehr is looking for him, his girlfriend Kerstin breaks up with him, and unexpectedly his older brother Max shows up

Authentic, honest drama about a family threatened by the downward spiral of depression, alcoholism and jealousy.

After the success of his series "Ebersberg", director Manuel Weiss takes a father-daughter duo into the gloomy depths of the German forest.

Compassionate mumblecore-style drama about a young woman's struggles with the expectations placed on her by her partner and friends.

This documentary follows full-contact athlete Lukas Kroiss on his cinematic path to the K1 European Championship title.

Noah (12) arrives in Berlin to visit his father and gets caught up in adventures at the Carnival of Cultures.

Contemporary witnesses from several European countries provide impressive insights into how the Iron Curtain shaped life across the continent.

Survivors can also be victims in countries where injustice was the norm. Their compelling testimonies are featured in this insightful documentary.

This film sensitively shows how two war orphans, in the face of an inhumane policy of conquest and the loss of their home, support each other.

Isolated from the outside world a mother lives with her daughter in a remote house. The mother is training her daughter to be a survival specialist.

A magical film about the mysteries of childhood and an old custom: In the village of MANSFELD, the ritual banishment of the old takes place every year

DEADLOCK hints at what German film could have become without all the state subsidized funding of navel-gazing and art for art's sake.

Ghadir, Mohamad and their five children never wanted to leave their homeland Syria. Now they are in Germany. The new beginning is not easy.

To pay for his children's education, Sierra Leonean farmer Alimamy is taking a gamble: he wants to sell the entire cassava harvest at the next market.

Through Skype and online chat rooms, a Vietnamese couple, Bay and Tam, create their own virtual version of Vietnam in their Munich apartment.

9 LIVES portrays the fate of young people who decided at the age of 11, 12 or 13 to leave home and to live on the streets.

A political and sociological look at the transformation and gentrification of Berlin through teenage eyes.

Growing up in a rural idyll on his father's farm, teenager Johannes searches for his place in life.

On 3 summer afternoons, a family meets up a beautiful house in an upscale Berlin neighborhood. They come together but ultimately drift further apart.

Jealousy and biting jokes about old wounds start slowly, but build until bald-face confessions and hand-to-hand scuffles take over.

Based on a true story: The film examines the German justice system and its structural bias.

A young woman ventures into the deadly beauty of the Chernobyl exclusion zone to save her father from prison.

Karen, a young math teacher, is involved in a traffic accident for which she is not to blame. The accident causes the death of a girl on a scooter.

A delightfully absurd Berlin comedy about bicycle messengers, new age esoterica, and saving the world.

This moving portrait of a maternity hospital in Vienna provides a fascinating insight into the drama, pain, and beauty of being born into this world.

1956: 13-year-old Johanna, a polio sufferer, uses her camera to document family life, her coming of age and what really happens behind closed doors.

Anja Salomonowitz portrays three women from her family who as children lived through WWII but whose memories of that time diverge.

At the age of 19, Raja was deported to Nazi Germany and was forced to do labor on a Bavarian farm. This documentary is her story.

We accompany a Roma family in Macedonia in their laborious everyday life, marked by deprivation, humiliation and racism.

In the face of an unfathomable tragedy, a young couple manages to focus on love and the good in life.

Sophie and Wolfram meet in the hospital and set off together on their final journey. Both are terminally ill with cancer.

A director and his partner are forced into a long distance relationship thanks to strict European visa laws between Italy and Lebanon.

From an early age, Sebastian had to be self-reliant. This film follows him through three stages of his life on the path to discovering his true self.

Panoptic is a letter from a daughter to her deceased father in an attempt to reconcile with Lebanon’s turbulent past.

Lászlo, an aging film director, is in a creative crisis. His latest project has been cancelled so he joins his son's band on their tour to Japan.

“What the hell is happening to my country?” After Trump was elected, filmmaker Susanne Brandstaetter investigates the growing divide in the USA.

A German Mumblecore tragicomedy set in a Brandenburg mansion. Three couples, six people, love, deceit, and the question: what's next?

While growing up, filmmaker Michael Stock was sexually abused by his own father. Two decades later he confronts his family.

An unconventional portrait of a man whose life motto reminds us of the poets of romanticism: The genius writes its own rules.

A film about the absurdities of being a mom today.

This film is the personal story of three generations of a family: grandmother, father and daughter - doctor, psychoanalyst and filmmaker.

Three brothers embark on a search for traces left by their deceased brother, Jakob, who committed suicide.

Filmmaker Christine Moderbacher joins her father to help construct a school in Nigeria and examines her role as "foreign helper".

Winner of the Bronze Student Oscar.

Akin Sipal explores his family history and the role language and literature play in it.

In Veit Helm's fairy-tale feature debut, shy Anton struggles to prevent the closure of his family's dilapidated indoor swimming pool.

There are only 50 metres between the Fröbel School and the Model School - but the pupils are separated by worlds.

When the elderly and lonely Hanna causes an accident in Germany in which a young man from Kosovo dies, she tries to track down his family.

The director is drawn into the conflict-ridden marriage of her parents by an inheritance issue.

Denny lives in in the city, boozes and dances through the night, and sleeps with one girl after another.

When Mareks cousin comes to live with him and his family, his life is uprooted.

Filmmaker Melanie Gärtner looks closely at the fate of one family to illuminate the social structures that lead to flight and migration.

The walk through the financially battered city of Athens, destination unknown, is a bittersweet confrontation with the Greek economic crisis.

Yagub, a carpenter, earns most of his money from the coffins he makes. He also has to look after his son, who has a disability.

Angelika Levi explores her German Christian-Jewish family heritage through the archives of photographs, audio tapes and films collected by her mother.

Karin Jurschick examins the reasons for her late mother's suicide.

This is both a documentary and an attempt at self-therapy for Lebanese director Bassem Fayad and his dog 'Zen'.

LOTTE, with her snappy, big city attitude, is impulsive and rough around the edges. No wonder she's constantly clashing with everybody.

Siblings Emilie and Jacob cannot help feeling a deep love for each other. After being apart for many years, they meet in the mountains.

ZOE perfectly encapsulated the lives of drifters in Berlin at the turn of the millennium.

Adoption gave the same last name to six children from very different backgrounds. But what does it mean to integrate race and class into one family?

Years ago Anton disappeared. Out of the blue he invited his family and friends to a party. But everyone's joyful expectation soon fades.

Oskar and Leo are four-year-old twins. Oskar has been deaf since birth while Leo's hearing is perfect.

BEHIND FORTUNE by Malte Wirtz (FULL PAULA) is a story about a father attempts to get in touch with his estranged son at any cost.

A personal take on Turkish history by director Ufuk Emiroğlu. It's a mosaic of a film, which moves freely between documentary, fiction and animation.

A man and woman fall in love and are expecting a child. A few months before the birth, the pregnant woman leaves her partner and breaks off contact.

A home in the German countryside, clean and proper. Against this bucolic setting a grandmother talks about the Siberian labor camps and starts to cry.

A car valet pretends to be a golden boy to charm a beautiful socialite.

The filmmaker portrays an elderly woman who has not given up the fight for living independently. A film about everyday life and aging.

Berlin-based Israeli filmmaker Tali Tiller embarks on an emotional search for traces of her grandmother in Lodz, Poland.

In this celebration of childhood, a 10-year-old girl struggles to find her place in a 'boys' world.

A journey through Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann's own family's history and at the same time, the story of Central Europe's Jews and of a region.

After a plane crash Martin goes on a search for traces from the Dolomites over Brazil to the ocean floor.

Ferdi thinks he's ugly. And he really wants a girlfriend. But he can't, because he's ugly. But one day he meets Jonah and Jonah is blind.

Hans is a bike messenger from Berlin-Kreuzberg, going about with his daily life, trying to escape from the truth in supposed ordinariness.

In the short drama STILL LIFE two sisters try to encourage their mother not to give up after the death of their father.

The terminally ill Parvis K. flees Iran across the Mediterranean Sea to Spain to reconcile himself with his daughter Nasrin, who lives in Europe.

Surprisingly, her Russian relatives arrive on Tatyana's birthday.