CINEPHILES FILMS

FILMS

SOMEHOW

Year: 2022
Country: Germany/Belgium/France/Spain/Morocco
Duration:
103 Minutes 

Painfully close, raw and truthful: SOMEHOW takes us on Alex’ run from himself; from his almost forgotten childhood trauma. „Don’t become like my father“ - a credo that will drive him beyond the borders of the continent, but also to the edge of reason.
A mysterious woman jumps in his car at a gas station. She becomes his nonjudgemental companion. A turbulent journey through Europe starts: drugs, ecstasy, loose contacts, foreign places - they experience a surreal time in a state of intoxication, in the middle of nowhere.

AMEL?

Year: 2022
Country: Germany/France
Duration:
101 Minutes 

Where is Amel? Where did she go? When did she leave and why? Coming back from a long journey, Thomas realizes that his girlfriend disappeared without any trace. No message was left and also her friends are clueless.
On his search for answers, he meets a strange detective that points him in the right direction. Thomas has to complete a crazy run from Germany to Paris. A wild journey through his own emotions starts. Will he find Amel?

FATHER AND JAUST

Year: 2023
Country: Germany
Duration:
36 Minutes 

Regular beatings, nights locked in the cellar. Alex's childhood in the Westphalian province was marked by his father's constant violence. Images of classic masculinity, harshness, no room for compassion or vulnerability.
The only moments of peace: family vacations on Norderney. It is to this very place that Alex now travels with his father 30 years later in this documentary, to finally understand: Dad, why all this?

YALLA BABY!

Year: 2018
Country: 
Germany/Israel/Palestine
Duration:
44 Minutes 

A documentary on the encounter of two cultures, on ten German and Palestinian teenagers, who meet in Jenin, Palestine and their dreams and on the burning desire to finally set eyes on the sea.
In summer 2016, in cooperation with Cinema Jenin e.V., Victoria Schmidt, Alexander Peiler together with 4 German teenagers fly to Jenin, Palestine. Here they work together with 6 Palestinian teenagers in a theatre workshop. They retell an old Palestinian tale, travel the West Bank, get to know the others foreign culture and overcome walls that seemed far too high before.

SEEING MARIE AGAIN

Year: 2013
Country: 
Germany
Duration:
51 Minutes 

A film about the wish and the search for freedom. The never ending desire for the feeling of finding the one perfect moment and the question, what price you are willing to pay to reach it.