CARE

Zsóka is a Hungarian mother living in Berlin. She returns for the summer vacation near Lake Balaton. During the holiday, she gets to know a woman from the village and her two boys. She suspects that the woman is emotionally and physically abusing the boys. She tries to establish a connection with her to convince herself that her suspicions are unfounded, but the situation becomes more and more obvious. During the usual visits from friends and trips to the beach her thoughts are preoccupied with the dilemma: what can she do, or rather, should she do anything at all? She becomes oppressed by her own passivity and the weight of responsibility that would come with concrete action. One upsetting night pushes her over the edge, and she files a report at the child protective services which starts an avalanche of events she can no longer control.

The Matriarch

Manga Bell – A good German

Duala Manga attended grammar school in Ulm with the very same Hermann Röhm around 20 years earlier. In the course of the Court Room drama, Rudolf Duala Manga Bell emerges as a perfect example of the “cultural uplift” that the German colonizers ostensibly had in mind when they subjugated the “protectorates”. However, his perfect German, his comprehensive knowledge of German customs and the German legal system and, last but not least, his outstanding intellect meant that he was by no means safe, but was targeted by the colonial administration and its representative Röhm. Against the historical backdrop, the painful story of this friendship, which ends in fatal betrayal through the process of unfriending, forms a metaphor for German behavior as a colonial power.

The story of Rudolf Duala Manga Bell, who loved German culture and whose persistent belief in justice ended in a German judicial murder, is still little known. It is time to tell the story of this special man.

Rukis first summer

9-year-old Sarah spends the summer holidays alone with her dad in Tunisia for the first time and rescues a chicken from the oven. Together they have an adventure in the desert and in the middle of an impenetrable sandstorm Sarah begins to see clearly for the first time.

Göggingen

Screenplay: Christoph Silber, Dörte Franke, Martin Lehwald
Director: Martin Lehwald

An emigrated German returns in 1947 as an officer in the U.S. Army and is assigned to oversee the denazification camp at Göggingen. There he befriends the wife of a high Nazi chargé, who uses him to escape with her husband.