
The Woman in the Fifth
2011 | 85 min | Thriller
In Paris, a desperate writer becomes obsessed with a mysterious widow as reality around him begins to fracture.


2011 | 85 min | Thriller
In Paris, a desperate writer becomes obsessed with a mysterious widow as reality around him begins to fracture.

2015 | 98 min | Independent
HOMESICK is a sensitive and disturbing psychological portrait of a young female musician who falls into a vortex of self-imposed pressures - and threatens to cave in. After his highly acclaimed debut film "Heile Welt" Jakob M. Erwa returns with his second feature film, the impressionistic psychodrama HOMESICK, which is also his first Berlin film. "A masterclass in nerve-jangling suspense from the young Austrian writer-director Jakob M. Erwa, HOMESICK is a classy psycho-thriller which makes effective ...

2014 | 83 min | Drama
After playing a sexually charged game with her best friend, below the cliffs of Dubrovnik, a teenage girl doesn't return home. Dubrovnik, 1993, after the end of the Balkan War: Linda returns to Croatia with her father. Her new best friend Eta takes her to a forest above the city. Linda and Eta, two 14-year-old girls and best friends, retreat to a beach below the cliffs of Dubrovnik; the next morning, only one of them returns. They become obsessed with a sexually charged game of identity swapping. ...

2016 | 120 min | Thriller
Alia is fresh out of prison and has to undergo therapy and keep a video diary. But her therapist doesn't seem to have the best of intentions. Felix Charin, co-author for the series 4 Blocks, worked for six months in a youth detention center in Berlin to research his feature film debut THERAPIE. In this gripping psychothriller, the boundaries between normality and illness blur. Alia (Taneshia Abt) is released from prison after five years of juvenile detention. However, she must undergo a court-prescribed ...

2020 | 93 min | Drama
Rebekka (Sarah Mahita) grew up in a secluded village in the Black Forest. She is popular with everyone, has had a boyfriend for a long time and seems to lead a carefree life. But appearances are deceptive: since her older brother Dennis jumped to his death two years ago, the family idyll is nothing but a façade. A sensitively acted coming-of-age drama with mystery elements told in intoxicating imagery. After her 17-year-old brother's death, Rebekka falls into a deep depression but deals with ...

2006 | 92 min | Crime
Professional pick-pocketing, love, hate and rebellion merge in a volatile tale of crime and mother-daughter love by Maren-Kea Freese (ZOE). Shot in unassuming locales in Essen this gritty thriller boasts excellent performances by the leads Julia Richter and Alice Dwyer. When Kati's grandma dies, her mother Iris (Julia Richter) reappears on the scene after a long absence. Iris is barely twice as old as her 16-year-old daughter (Alice Dwyer) and leads an unsettled life – not as a glamorous fashion ...

1999 | 93 min | Drama
Walter is a man in his late 50s for whom reality is somehow slipping away. In GDR times he was the director of an industrial collective, but now his life's work is a ghostly ruin. Walter is stunned by a world that has discarded him - and an inner rampage has begun. With Hilmar Thate as Walter, Cornelia Schmaus as Sylvia, Henriette Heinze as Gina, and Dirk Borchardt as Rene. "Andreas Kleinert's calm yet powerful cinematography portrays not only the lack of perspective and stagnation of the dismantled ...

2024 | 91 min | Independent
An intense look behind the scenes unfolds in this nerve-wracking and surreal thriller that blurs the lines between reality and fiction. A female director, played by Tau Tau Menghan herself, is at the center of a mysterious plot in which script and reality merge. Seemingly innocuous props such as lollipops become keys to a dark world where every scene is a clue to a hidden secret. The film is captivating in its stylish use of color, intense visuals and nested narrative structure inspired by Tau ...

2023 | 72 min | Drama
MONOLITH, the latest work by director Julius Schultheiß, begins in the relaxed atmosphere of a Berlin clique. The film starts with overlapping dialogs reminiscent of Robert Altman's authentic narrative style. At the center of the plot is Samir (Thomas Halle), a character who is deliberately kept featureless - and keeps himself as such. In contrast to Schultheiß' debut film LOTTE (also on Sooner), MONOLITH shows a rougher, unembellished depiction of urban life. Over a 24-hour period, Samir's life ...