Hanako San (2001)

a short film that's about brave women who overcome heartbreaking trials.

On the highways of the Ruhr region, the paths of four people cross as they try to fulfill their long-lost dreams. One of them is Georg, the coach of a Bundesliga soccer team that has to win that evening's cup match if he wants to keep his job. He is about to be sacked and realizes that the business and its mechanisms are beginning to turn against him. Dieter, the roving TV reporter, is on the hunt for spectacular pictures day and night. Although he loves his son, who lives with his ex-wife Rita, he takes too little care of him.

A short directed by Marcel Wohlfahrt.

A working man's life is changed after he breaks the routine.

After completing his prison sentence for killing a rival gang leader in self-defence, Benny Horowitz decides to go straight.

For a generation of young activists, the reality of war, imperialism, racism and the growing fragility of democratic liberalism was too much to handle. Force became a means to wrestle with this tension. As the discourse of a “country torn” finds its way into mainstream political analyses (for many the deep divisions in this country are not a new political reality), we should reflect on the writings of political dissidents and radicals. We should recognize the diversity of political analysis that is very much alive. The histories of armed struggle, if taken seriously, provide us with a means to think more critically about the center, and complicate its claims of moral and political right.

A young man comes back to his provincial home town to visit his dying uncle who is being attended to by a night nurse and novice nun. Before long, the young man develops a deep longing for the young, beautiful nun.

When his younger friends go up for adoption, threatening their extended family, an orphaned teen helps them discourage potential parents.

A woman who loses her loved ones in a road accident realises that it was orchestrated and decides to track down the person responsible for the tragedy.

A young couple travels to a guest house run by another couple. The allure of this place is that it can arouse the sexual fantasy of new couples through swapping partners between the guest couple and the couple who runs it.