Barbara Auer

A couple with a criminal past have been living on the run with their 15-year-old daughter. When their money is stolen, they must return secretly from Portugal to their native Germany, a journey during which Jeanne’s teenage development coincides with the violent disintegration of the family cell.

In a rapidly disintegrating East Germany, sisters Margot and Lotte find themselves on opposing political sides. As Margot works to keep the GDR afloat, a presumed-dead third sister surfaces in the West. As the Berlin Wall crumbles and the sisters’ fates intertwine, the actions reverberate through a nation in the throes of transformation. From Walter Presents, in German with English subtitles.

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

Escaping her volatile ex-husband, Yella flees her hometown in former East Germany for a new life in the West. She finds a promising job with a business executive, with whom a romance soon blossoms. Just as Yella begins to realize her dreams, buried truths threaten to destroy her newfound happiness.

Jonathan also devotes himself to looking after his father Burghardt, who has cancer. But then Burghardt’s long-lost boyhood friend Ron appears on the scene and his health visibly improves. Jonathan discovers that, many years ago, his father and Ron were deeply in love. All at once, the façade of cherished family beliefs crumbles and long-repressed secrets come to light.

Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson star in this inspiring film based on the bestseller about Liesel, (Sophie Nélisse), a girl adopted by a German couple (Rush and Watson) who hide a Jew (Ben Schnetzer) from Hitler’s army. Soon Liesel discovers that words and imagination provide an escape from the events unfolding around her family in this extraordinary film.