Ingrid Caven

A transgender woman attempts to salvage her life, devastated by love, by confronting her tormented past. She seeks acceptance from former acquaintances and, crucially, from herself.

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe's artistic director (Swinton), an ambitious young dancer (Johnson), and a grieving psychotherapist (Ebersdorf). Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

A frozen product shop owner finds some relief from his monotonous life.

Train driver and single father Lionel and his student daughter Josephine share a flat. Upstairs lives Noe, for whom Josephine has a thing. Along the corridor, taxi driver Gabrielle has carried a torch for Lionel for years.

If you’re used to the lush Sirkian Technicolor of Fassbinder’s later films, this feature debut might come as something of a bracing shock. Its monochromatic minimalism and coolly detached subversion of gangster-film tropes are served up with an extra dose of nihilism, because, well, it’s Fassbinder.