Ursina Lardi

Everyday dreamers imagine their attachments scattering to the breeze and becoming someone else in these tableaux of summertime Berlin. As Angela Schanelec threads serendipities—music, movement, tenderness—into ennui’s enervating haze, she outlines the pattern for her critically acclaimed cinema.

An acclaimed drama about a couple whose brand new home is disrupted when the husband tells his wife a secret that could end their 18-year marriage.

Germany, 1945. Five siblings, abandoned by their Nazi parents and succumbing to hunger, trek across their war-torn country in search of a safe haven.

When his nephew’s murdered body is found in a remote valley, a former human trafficker becomes the prime suspect in the police’s investigation.

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.