Laurenz Laufenberg

Four episodes which talk about power, authority, and love.

Clara is studying for a Ph.D in philosophy in Berlin. In this middle-class male academic environment, she feels pushed to one side. She returns to her childhood village in former East Germany for her mother's birthday, and becomes aware that a distance has grown between her and her family.

When Marie’s boyfriend proposes to her in front of his entire family, she doesn't know what to say and flees to the countryside to think it over alone. But her thoughts accompany her. They sit around her in flesh and blood: Her mother pesters her with baby names, exboyfriends climb down trees and a woman in a sari narrates her life in poems. Her would-be fiancé eventually joins her, clashing his own luggage of thoughts with hers. But what if you show your thoughts to each other? How much honesty can a relationship take? In her first feature, director Zora Rux, an apprentice of Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson, tells a surrealistic story of the search for one’s true self in poetic tableaus.

Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England's throne.

An unhappily in-love car mechanic living in a small village finds himself at a crossroads; the apparent senselessness of life saddens him, and his only friend, the local butcher, is not much help.

Il y a trente ans, Vicky, alors âgée de 9 ans, subissait un viol. Les nouvelles technologies d’analyse ADN rendant aujourd’hui les anciennes preuves exploitables, Bruno van Leeuwen rouvre l’enquête et prouve la culpabilité de Piet Martens, un voisin de la famille. Mais celui-ci ne sera jamais puni car le crime vient tout juste d’être prescrit. C’est donc en homme libre qu’il quitte le poste de police. Vicky, sous le choc, perd le contrôle : elle le frappe violemment avec une bouteille et se retrouve sur le banc des accusés. Elle a maintenant un casier judiciaire qui met sa carrière de professeure en péril. Ses parents sont furieux car ils craignent que leur fille, qui a mis des années à s’en sortir, ne replonge. Vicky, elle, semble insensible. Elle s’endurcit et commence à accepter son sort. Mais lorsque Piet Martens disparaît sans laisser de traces, Bruno van Leeuwen comprend que ce calme était trompeur…