German
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Toni Erdmann
Winfried Conradi (Peter Simonischek) loves to clown around much to the annoyance of everyone including his ex-wife, and even the postman. This suburban German ex-schoolteacher now semi-retired with just a few reluctant pupils learning piano left, his life revolves around his elderly dog and his equally old mother who lives next door. When both of…
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Center of My World
When German high-schooler Phil (Louis Hoffman) returns from summer camp he is greeted so enthusiastically by his mother Glass (Sabine Timoteo) and his best friend Kat (Svenja Jung) as if he’d been away for much longer than just three weeks. We soon discover however that both these women tend to act melodramatically over almost every…
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Desire Will Set You Free
We’re not sure if young American filmmaker Yony Leyser based in Berlin is aiming to be a modern day Christopher Isherwood with his first feature that sets out to show a slice of the contemporary edgy queer scene in Berlin, but he obviously used the great man of letters as his inspiration. Leyser’s improvised story…
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Liebmann
This debut feature from German filmmaker Jules Herrmann is rather a puzzling mixture of styles and techniques that ensure that this is no ordinary thriller. The story starts with the unannounced arrival of Antik Liebmann (Godehard Giese) a forty-something school teacher who turns up to spend the summer in a rented apartment in a small French town.…
