Anschi und Michael

The film tells different stories in a kind of parallel Germany about love, affection and hatred.

Set in a warm summer in 1990 in former East Germany, it follows a young woman who begins a relationship with a charismatic farmer who is twice her age.

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.

Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.