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Ahti Ikonen is the captain of a large container ship. When pressed for time while moored in Savannah, he violates regulations by ordering his crew to help the local dockworkers unload the cargo. When a crew member dies as a result, Ahti has to accept responsibility.

Aaron lädt seine Freundin Lea und deren achtjährigen Sohn Tristan ein einen Ausflug in den Bergen zu machen. Doch was ein Neubeginn in ihrem Leben hätte werden können, verwandelt sich langsam in einen Dauerkampf.

Die Anfängerin: Directed by Alexandra Sell. With Ulrike Krumbiegel, Annekathrin Bürger, Maria Rogozina, Christine Errath. Annebärbel's life and feelings have become as frigid as a block of ice. At the age of 58, she stands as an unfriendly monument to former times. As a doctor, she shows little compassion, and as a wife, not much love. Only her domineering mother elicits human emotions from her. Negative ones at that. No matter what she does, it is never good enough for her mother. Even less so since her daughter took over her practice. But everything starts to change when Annebärbel's husband leaves her and she is forced to take stock of her life. In the process, she makes a journey deep into her past, and attempts to live her childhood dream, which she had to give up all these years ago due to her mother: figure skating. With wobbly, tentative legs, she steps into a world full of chilly magic: the skating rink. This is when she has to admit that people are part of the equation as well, and they haven't exactly been waiting for "Dr Horrid" to come stumbling in front of their blades. The misanthropic Annebärbel has to endure a wide array of interpersonal conflicts, before she finds, on the ice rink, the kind of warmth she didn't know she needed: she forms a warm friendship with a young woman who is a top athlete, a group of aged amateur skaters show her how to lust for life, and she meets the 1974 World Figure Skating Champion, Christine Stüber-Errath, from Berlin. And so it is the ice that makes Annebärbel open up, and begin to emancipate herself from her mother and her own icy ways.

Ein Geschenk der Götter: Directed by Oliver Haffner. With Katharina M. Schubert, Adam Bousdoukos, Paul Faßnacht, Katharina Hauter. An unemployed actress, 8 long term unemployed men and women come together in a training measure. The actress has to form a group out of a bunch of frustrated lone wolves and starts rehearsing the classic play 'Antigone' with them. This gives new impetus to the participants own private dramas.