Paula Beer

Christian Petzold puts a unique spin on an ancient myth in this urban fairytale, combining legend, romance and architecture to magnetic effect. We dare you not to swoon at the chemistry between Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski, who prove themselves to be one of the greatest contemporary cinematic duos.

Stella Goldschlag (Paula Beer), a young German Jew, grows up in Berlin during the Nazi regime. After being forced to go into hiding, her life soon turns into a culpable tragedy when she is caught by the Gestapo. Tortured and threatened, Stella makes the crushing decision to save her parents and herself from deportation to Auschwitz by becoming a "grabber" and betraying other Jews in hiding.

In the shadow of WWI, a connection between a grieving German and a Frenchman laying flowers at her late fiancé’s grave propels a haunting romance.

A refugee escapes fascism by adopting a dead man's identity, leading him into an intriguing pursuit of the deceased's enigmatic wife.

Self-important novelist Leon holidays as a forest fire rages nearby, in Christian Petzold’s humorous take on finding meaning in our lives against a backdrop of existential peril.

When two German art students fall in love, the girl's father, who has a devastating secret, vows to end their relationship.

A mysterious stranger arrives in a snow capped Austrian mountain village claiming to be a travelling photographer from America, yet is in fact an embittered gunfighter on a mission of vengeance.

A young man possesses the rare talent of being able to identify every sound he hears. Aboard a French nuclear submarine, everything depends on him. His reputation for infallibility takes a knock after a mistake puts the lives of the whole crew in danger. His determination to win back his comrades' trust drags them into an even more dramatic situation.