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Karo is 28, freshly separated from her boyfriend and, like every year, she is going on holiday with her mother Michaela. They travel to the Baltic Sea, and what starts as an annual trip soon turns out to be a journey into the past of two women who couldn't be more different.

An encounter between a young nurse and her patient of the same age, Frida, on the border of professional distance and the desire for closeness.

In the east of Ukraine lies Derzhprom, the House of State Industry. Built between 1925 and 1928, it was intended to embody the idea of Communism. Although it was a poster child for the avant-garde movement, now it seems almost forgotten. Derzhprom acts as a kind of time machine. Space becomes time here. The Building moves between classic, observational documentary and experimental cinema. With very little dialogue, it is rather a poem of moving images. Through the use of mixed materials, including archive films from the 1920s, it reflects on how past and present, movement and time are related to the static nature of architecture.

A quintet is an omnibus feature told from the perspective of five international up and coming filmmakers who are searching to find identity in the modern world.

The world as we know it no longer exists.

Emil, a minor employee in an engineering office, fights against the sale of his car.

A photo shoot and the model is unnerved. Back in the changing room, she makes a surprising discovery. Everything around her is edible - the chair, the TV, the walls.

Lui is fifteen. After a night of partying she is informed that her mother has tried to commit suicide. She visits her.

In the future. A hi-tech-lab. Scientist P is testing quantum-gynoid Q and sets off on a mission to an undiscovered nature. On the journey she discovers a ghostly remote effect between herself and the robot. Will she maintain in control, when nature starts changing?

A violent dance on ice between a mother and her son, damned forever to repeat the same cycle.

In a blur blue second in a fish tank, a girl and a boy have a crush on each other. What if their reality and dreams build up a highly complex cloud of wishes and boundaries?

A video cassette is inserted: A toddler in a paddling pool somewhere on the beach. Parents and grandparents scurry around. Pictures of Senem's first visit to Turkey, so she tells us. This is the beginning of a search for home. Through interviews with her parents and grandparents, the filmmaker takes us through the ups and downs of the life of three generations of Turkish guest workers in Germany. The stories are accompanied by images of everyday life in Turkey. Today the family has returned to their homeland, only Senem has remained in Germany. Where does she belong? Sober reflection meets poetic collage, trying to find peace in the space between here and there.

Whilst awaiting a long-distance friend, a lonely young woman navigates a Berlin neighborhood populated by talkative souls whose existences are often dominated by memories of their past lives.

Holger has been living separately from his wife Sigrid and their two daughters Silvia and Lara for some time. Every weekend he picks up 15-year-old Silvia at a party and brings her to the small terraced house in which he no longer lives. That evening, weeping Lara suddenly stands in the front door and tells her father that her rabbit Poldi, which Holger never wanted to buy, fell victim to a marten. Silvia insists on a proper funeral which Holger should attend and which will take place during the night for reasons of time. And so the four become a family again that night - for a brief moment.

In the body of a silent sunburned laborer, a mysterious creature is summoned into an old widow's life to help out on the farm. However, things take a turn when the creature starts to develop feelings of his own.

When Francesco and his daughter Elisa are stopped by a strict police officer, it is only the beginning of a collective magical journey through the darkness, accompanied by the ghosts of the past.

One city. One question. No answer. Short film's need some self-reflection, too.

A boy is taking care of his depressive mother. One day, school outsider Lulu approaches him and suggest that they should sleep with each other. As he spends more time with Lulu, he neglects his mother who sinks deeper into her depression.

Marie (30) meets her mother, Christiane, again for the first time after a few years. A restaurant seems like a good place for another approach, but it makes if everything way more complicated. The headwaiter, Gerd, knows the mother from the before and there seem to be mirrors everywhere. The ghost of the past mix in with the conflicts of the present and Marie will have to find her own way against all obstacles.