Known for Acting
SHAHAB comes to Istanbul from Tehran to discover the reasons surrounding the death of his brother, SHAHIN who was killed under suspicious circumstances in Turkey. His arrival in Istanbul causes a series of various confrontations that lead to the death of multiple individuals. This also draws and involves LEVENT chief of Istanbul’s Criminal Police, who has also lost his son, ERKAN in a clash with the smugglers. The confrontation between Shahab and Levent, together with the involvement of the CIA and AMIR the head of the ARAB mafia in Istanbul, turns the situation into a complex and intense conflict.
Jacky (30), who lives in Berlin, falls into a deep void after the death of her mother and losing her job. Unable to succeed in her attempt to commit suicide, she decides to hire a hitman. Unbeknownst to her, she meets Çello (33), the killer assigned to commit murder. Çello and Jacky fall in love with each other. The loving couple decides to go into hiding, but their happiness doesn’t last long. A major confrontation takes place at Madam Bora’s Pissoir Bar.
A priceless coin puts rival gangs across Europe at odds, forcing a retired safecracker to team up with a two-bit gangster for one last heist.
Insults, humiliation, violence, sexual assault - the world behind the camera and the scenes can be a nightmare for many theater and film professionals. Apparently there is a real climate of fear in some film and theater productions. Some directors, but also well-known actors, apparently abuse their power and treat those around them on set or on stage with contempt or even abuse. Individual cases have been known for years, including under #metoo. But are they really isolated cases? Or can directors and actors allow themselves anything because the system allows it? In their three-year research, the documentary filmmakers spoke to more than 200 film and theater professionals about the problems in their industry. How much responsibility do the alleged perpetrators bear for abuse of power and how much responsibility does the financiers, production companies, broadcasters and also the audience bear?
5 prisoners, a bank robbery, 6 hostages, adrenaline, chaos, unfinished business. Fast, unpredictable, merciless.
Amal, Omar, and their son Ahmad are a happy Arab family living in Germany. At the playground, they encounter a man named Franz. The situation gets out of hand when Franz insults and attacks Amal because of her headscarf. The case goes to court, but an incident during the hearing changes everything for the family.
Haulage dispatcher Freddy Sternthaler suddenly finds himself hopelessly involved in an absurd dispute in the art scene and experiences what is probably the worst night of his life on an odyssey through Vienna.
Momo, a young soccer player who ends up innocently behind bars. In Berlin jail he now has to assert himself and is put under pressure by his uncle, the clan leader Amar.
Since Ben has been living apart from his ex-wife Mira and his children, his life has fallen apart. But unexpectedly, he gets a second chance: when Mira, pregnant to the teeth, has to be hospitalized, his children live with him again. This time, everything will be fine - he thinks! But his son Oskar brings a small problem: he wears a dress that he doesn't want to take off.
