Nina Hoss

Henrik Ibsen's renowned stage drama from 1891 is reimagined in an epic and emotional way.

The Haunted Shanley Hotel in Napanoch, NY is one of the most haunted locations on East Coast of the United States. This hotel has a rich history filled with ties to the Mafia, the Spanish Flu, Prohibition, being a Bordello and much more. Some of the guests who have stayed at this famous hotel have never left and are eager to have their voices heard from beyond the grave.

In some deep financial trouble and hot on the heels of loan sharks, Es stumbles upon a real beauty, Aika, who's out cold and hanging onto a sparkly diamond. The twist? Aika can't remember a thing and begs Es to help her out. She promises a reward in return. With a bit of help from a Vet who's a buddy of Es, they figure out something wild: Aika's memory only comes back right before she's about to kick the bucket, like a whole-life flashback. To help Aika remember her past, Es faces an extraordinary dilemma; he must somehow bring her to the brink of death, yet simultaneously ensure she remains alive.

Anna Bronsky is a violin teacher at the Conservatoire. Against the advice of her colleagues, she imposes the admission of a pupil, in whom she sees a great talent. With a lot of involvement, she prepares Alexander for the end-of-year exam and neglects her young son Jonas, who is also a violinist and ice hockey fan. She moves away more and more from her husband, so fond of him, the French "luthier" Philippe Bronsky. At the approach of audition, Anna pushes Alexander towards performances more and more exceptional. The decisive day, an accident occurs, heavy consequence. —brahamdali

After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out her gentile husband, who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis. In the aftermath of WWII, Nelly, a Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, horribly disfigured from a bullet wound in her face, undergoes a series of facial reconstruction surgeries and decides to find her husband Johnny who works at the Phoenix club in Berlin. Undoubtedly, Nelly is stunning, yet, her new self is beyond recognition, so Johnny, the man who may have betrayed her to the Nazis, will never imagine that the woman in front of him who bears an uncomfortable and unsettling resemblance to his late wife, is indeed her. Without delay, and with the intention to collect the deceased's inheritance, Nelly will go along with Johnny's plot and she will impersonate the dead woman, giving the performance of a lifetime before friends and relatives in a complex game of deceit, duplicity, and ultimately, seduction. In the end, during this masquerade, as the fragile and broken Nelly tries to find out whether Johnny betrayed her or not, she will have to dig deep into her wounded psyche and inevitably choose between revenge and forgiveness.

The dishonorably discharged Afghanistan veteran Thomas returns to his home village of Jerichow. Ali, a local Turkish-German businessman, owner of a snack-bar chain, hires him as a driver. That's when Thomas meets Laura, his Turkish boss's young and attractive wife. A classic love triangle is born, unfolding in desolate northeast Germany, where thick forests suddenly end on cliffs overlooking the Baltic Sea. Caught between guilt and freedom, between passion and reason, the protagonists have no hopes for fulfillment of their dreams. —Warsaw Film Festival