Five Women Around Him

A Horrible Grandpa An introverted, shy young man struggles to find his place in society while dealing with its people and his surroundings, until an accident turns his life upside down. But will it be enough to bring about his transformation?

Riverbed Two young sisters go to great lengths to fulfill their mother's dying wish. Pursued by the grown-ups who want the conventional funeral procedures to start, the kids embark on a last journey with their mother to fathom the process of her death.

White Cube Visitors to the temples of modern art in global cities will be familiar with the white cube gallery space. But when one arises in the middle of a Congolese palm oil plantation, the effect is deeply disorienting. Furthermore, it draws attention to the often overlooked ties between colonialism and the art world, for example, through the multinationals that now proudly sponsor these Western museums. This Congolese arts center is part of artist Renzo Martens’s unorthodox plan to jump-start the local economy. Former workers at the plantation make sculptures that are reproduced in chocolate, and then exhibited in New York. The plantation workers, most of whom earn a dollar or less a day, use the profits from this successful exhibition to buy back the land confiscated from them by Unilever.

Rellstab's Nightingales The house, which recalls ghosts from the past and acts as a place of remembrance, is the main character of a fascinating ghost-story.

Life of the Artist A serial killer’s sequence of events of high aesthetic understanding, in a black-humor-filled tale resulting from Mauro Mingardi’s outlandish talent.

Nacha Regules Set during the centenary celebrations, it narrates the frustrated loves between a man from high society and a woman with a hectic romantic life.

Deborah Deborah vanished after her mother died. Her father Enrico is looking for her and finds clues in a strange village in Germany, where he soon finds out, that the town folk is living some ancient cult to get the dead back.

Tripping with Nils Frahm An illustration of Nils Frahm’s lauded ability as a composer and passionate live artist as well as the enchanting atmosphere of his already legendary Funkhaus shows.

Georgia, the Open Wound More than 10 years after the 2008 Georgian Russian War, wounds in the Caucasian country remain open. We travel to this beautiful country to get closer to its political, cultural and social realities, to learn a little more about that wound that still hurts.

Markus Specht Markus wants to go on a vacation with his one year old daughter. As he arrives he instantly falls in love with the female host of his Airbnb. As his daughter mysteriously vanishes, he has no urge to look for her.