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A Nobel Prize-winning chemist wants to spend his honeymoon in Mauritius, where he meets his childhood sweetheart, who works here as a hotel manager. Their 20-year-old daughter works as an entertainer and the man has no idea that he is the father. When the young woman is put in danger by a love-struck German doctor, he has to act.
A quiet, offbeat German dramedy about self-reinvention and the messy ways we try to escape ourselves. When a middle-aged woman decides to shed her old life and adopt the name “Harry,” her transformation unsettles family, friends, and lovers who can’t quite keep up. Blurring gender identity, midlife crisis, and dark humour, the film plays like a bittersweet character study — deadpan, gently absurd, and tinged with melancholy.
Christian Lukas, 22, is on the run. He took part in a drug study and together with his girlfriend Anna discovered the death of a fellow participant. However instead of investigating, the doctors covered up the incident. When Anna also starts showing signs of the deadly side effects Christian breaks out of the test center to get help. But neither police nor doctors believe his story since Christian suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Only his sister Alice stands by him despite her also having serious doubts - until suddenly unknown pursuers show up. But what is the real story behind Christian's escape? Does the girl in danger really exist at all? Where is the line between psychosis and reality? Nocebo - a perception thriller.
Young songwriter Julika Stetten feels burned out. Listless and unmotivated, she nevertheless feels compelled to meet the deadlines for the project she is currently working on. In search of a place that offers her the peace and quiet she so desperately needs to complete her work, she remembers her father's country house. He had bought the house near Lake Chiemsee at auction over 20 years ago. It had been uninhabited ever since. Fascinated, she listens to the stories of the caretaker Georg as she takes possession of the house. She is determined to stay in this very place and continue her work.
Marie, together with her mother Carla and grandma Ruth, runs a family-owned hotel on the Staffelsee. However, as Ruth fears that her granddaughter, who prefers to change her car tires rather than make herself beautiful in front of the mirror, gets drowsy at some point, she secretly makes a personal announcement in Marie's name. Without a photo of her beautiful granddaughter, nobody can even get married even in times of the internet. Ruth hires the professional photographer Niklas, who succeeds in the miracle: Marie is kissing awake. In the role of a modern Cinderella Mira Bartuschek discovers her femininity and Kai Schumann as her photographer the motif of his life.