Angela Schanelec

The film follows Sophie, a young Berlin photographer who swaps apartments with a student in Marseille. Alone, she takes photos, then spends an evening in a café with a young mechanic, captivated by the lightness of not knowing anything about him. Her love for the husband of her best friend Hanna remains undeclared. Sophie remains on the outside, yearns to leave, and decides to travel to Marseille for a second time.

A film about several persons shown in different constellations talking to each other about their inner feelings, relationship problems, future plans, and so on. As the original title ("My slow life") indicates, it is a very slow film with hardly any action at all, more a sequence of still photographs than a movie - even the camera hardly ever moves. Rather, the camera looks for, and finds, beautiful views of silence and peace, thus reflecting what the persons shown are looking for.

Nineteen-year-old Agnes returns to the summer house where she grew up to find that Konstantin, the boy she still loves, has become a self-obsessed writer. Given that his mother, is a narcissistic actress and his dying uncle cares little for anyone else, Konstantin is in good company. (variety.com)

13 short movies about Germany in the year 2009.

Mimmi is a very lonely girl not knowing what to do with her life. On the search for friends and boy-friends she strays lonely in different cities. Also Paris seems to be a place where nobody is interested in her... (imdb)

Amidst the impersonal hubbub of Paris' Orly Airport, strangers meet, secrets are revealed, and sudden intimacies develop in this beautifully observed mosaic of lives in transit.

Nadine is obsessed by a memory linked to a haunting tune she can no longer sing -- until she hears someone else singing and everything falls back into place again. A melancholy observation of two young couples having difficulties trusting one another. They are full of skepticism and searching for a purpose in life. (KG)

Protagonist is the fairly unsuccessful free-lance photographer Christian. A sober, surly and melancholy personality who is not very happy in his relationship with Ariane. He is attracted to Ariane's sister Isabel (a striking role by film-maker Angela Schanelec herself).... (filmfestivalrotterdam.com)

Influenced by the ethos of legendary French director Robert Bresson, The Dreamed Path is a riddle of a film and one of the year's most exacting and precise works. In mid-80s Greece, two young lovers, Theres and Kenneth, sing on street corners to finance their travel while a revolution sputters in the background. Thirty years on in Berlin, a successful couple, Ariane and David, negotiate a painful split; David begins seeing Kenneth--now homeless-- outside his apartment window. (imdb)

A story told in the off about the growing discomfort towards the new roommate Valentin. The camera pans through the empty room, over the shadows on the wall and the wallpaper, the yellow scarf and the postcard from Italy with the sunflowers.

After a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life. (imdb)

Abandoned at birth in the Greek mountains on a stormy night, Jon is taken in and adopted, without having known his father or mother. As a young man, he meets Iro, a warden in the prison where he is incarcerated after a deadly tragic accident. (imdb)