Let the Church Say Amen

Until he was 11, Detlef Kammrath (René Siodla) had a carefree childhood. But now his parents have decided to go their separate ways and divorce - a catastrophe for the boy. The court awards custody to his mother (Karin Schröder), but Detlef harshly rejects his mother's new partner (Gerd Grasse). He sees him as the person responsible for his unhappiness. Hoping to improve the family atmosphere, his mother forbids the boy from meeting his biological father; this leads to Detlef's absolute despair, and he becomes a "case" for child welfare services.

Elzan has been framed. He must prove his innocence before his family suffers the consequences. The victims keep falling, and a secret from the past is uncovered. Who is truly behind all this chaos?

Bela, a first-generation Filipina immigrant, must face her parents' prejudice regarding her sexual orientation.

A teenage Catholic school girl has been thinking ‘unnatural passions’ and feels she must confess. As she stumbles over her carefully prepared speech, choking on the words that do not ring true to her beliefs, she learns to own her desires.

"Oregano" is the story of a dysfunctional and very poor family, made up of four members: the mother, a former singer who failed in her career and expresses her frustration through anger and violence; the father, a former butcher who had to close his business after the 2001 crisis and was confined to a wheelchair; the youngest son, who does not finish elucidating his sexuality, escapes from reality building a universe of fantasies, but at the same time seeks to become independent; and the eldest daughter, who questions her identity and that of her family, realizing that she is the same age as her father. The family lives in a small house where individual conflict and frustrations are combined with group ones, which unleashes a chain of events that leads to the rupture of their traditional scheme.

Fighting to reunite with their children, 'Tough Love' chronicles the lives of two parents with cases in the United States child welfare system as they attempt to prove to the courts and the system that they deserve a second chance to be a parent and have a family.

Sent from Seoul to serve in a remote coastal village, a policewoman gets involved in the life of a mysterious teenage girl who is abused by both her father and her grandmother.

Vittorio, an American novelist teaching in Rome, meets the beautiful but damaged Bianca and they rapidly fall into an urgent, tempestuous affair. He's hesitant over their relationship since she seems to thrive on conflict and is constantly baiting him into physical altercation. Bianca gives Vittorio an exquisite leather belt as a gift; he knows immediately that she wants him to whip her with it. Driven by his craving for her, Vittorio complies to Bianca's desire. Their relationship escalates into a dark realm of S&M which becomes more and more self-destructive.

Angélique is a 60-year-old bar hostess. She still likes to party, she still likes men. At night, she makes them drink, in a cabaret by the French-German border. As time goes by, clients become rare. But Michel, her regular client, is still in love with her. One day, he asks Angélique to marry him.

Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any of Aria's needs. While her two older sisters are pampered, Aria is treated with cold indifference. Yet she yearns to love and to be loved. At school, Aria excels academically but is considered a misfit by everyone. She is misunderstood. Aria finds comfort in her cat - Dac and in her best friend - Angelica. Thrown out of both parents' homes, abandoned by all, even her best friend, Aria finally reaches the limit of what she can bear. She makes an unexpected decision in her life.

An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris.

Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance, she expresses interest in a suicide pact when she learns she has a terminal illness.