After a pensioner's apartment has been vacated, she moves into an emergency shelter. There she meets a refugee, who is about to be deported. Although the two could not be more different, they become friends and dream to live free from oppression and structural violence. In this desolate reality of life, in which the days are restless, dark and cold, present politics is reflected.
Eric Kabongo
Isa
Kathrin Becker
Eva
After a pensioner's apartment has been vacated, she moves into an emergency shelter. There she meets a refugee, who is about to be deported. Although the two could not be more different, they become friends and dream to live free from oppression and structural violence. In this desolate reality of life, in which the days are restless, dark and cold, present politics is reflected.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.
South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an independent investigation to prove his claim, but when the evidence still appears to be inconclusive, Polsky is forced to engage in a relationship with the enemy in order to obtain irrefutable proof.
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
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.
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.