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Slowly, 12-year-old Anna and her deaf mum are starting to feel a bit cramped in their flat. It’s not just the lack of privacy that’s causing friction – Anna has just started secondary school and quickly realises what’s important now: brand-name clothes and a sense of belonging. In her debut, director and author Marie Luise Lehner stages a confrontation with classist structures, which Anna tackles with a mixture of shame and grit.

How do fatally ill patients face death? And how can you help them fill their remaining time with as much quality of life as possible? In his feature film debut, Philipp Döring explores these questions by following everyday routines at the palliative care unit at the Franziskus Hospital in Berlin. The film will be available for rental starting November 17, before which it is reserved for festival screening.

In 1970, Ghanaian filmmaker Nii Kwate Owoo managed to outsmart the directors of the British Museum and its security system to gain access to the museum’s secret underground vaults and film valuable African artifacts stowed away there. One day was enough to shoot this short film revealing the extent of the theft of African artifacts, stashed in plastic bags and wooden crates — and to make a case for their restitution.

Instead of telling the story of a shut down publishing house and its books, René Frölke's new film digs through its legacies. Each one becomes a fragment. The film drifts along these traces, in the wake of the music of its protagonist Tessa, in search of its own human history of knowledge and symbol production.

In 2019, a curator drew our attention to the fact that we have what is probably the last copy of Prem Kapoor's debut BADNAM BASTI in our archive. The film is considered India's first queer film. The artfully crafted musical melodrama, an adaptation of Kamleshwar's 1957 novella of the same name, revolves around a love triangle.

The gentle portrait of cinephile Maria Stadler is the debut film by one of Germany’s most successful filmmakers, Doris Dörrie, together with Wolfgang Berndt. Despite falling audience figures and high debts, Maria Stadler (born 1914) devoted her life to running her cinema in a small Bavarian town.

We are very happy to have the following films by indian master filmmaker Satyajit Ray now available as DCP with english subtitles: CHARULATA (The Lonely Wife), MAHANAGAR (The Big City), NAYAK (The Hero), KAPURUSH (The Coward), MAHAPURUSH (The Saint) und JAI BABA FELUNATH (The Elephant God). We do hold the screening rights for Germany, Austria and Swizerland.

The digital restoration of Techqua Ikachi, Land - My Life by Anka Schmid, Agnes Barmettler and James Danaqyumptewa celebrated its premiere at Berlinale Forum Special. The unique ethnographic document, a collage of film, photography and painting, tells the story of the Hopi in Arizona from their own perspective and way of thinking.