In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, it’s the tale of a couple separated by politics, character flaws and unfortunate twists of fate — an impossible love story in impossible times

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A documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European Union integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of Putin supported Ukrainian President Viktor F. Yanukovich. Instead of EU integration for Ukraine, Yanukovich worked to strengthen ties with Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union.

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Part farce, part exploration of the complexity of love and desire, Heartbeats centers on two close friends, Francis and Marie, who find themselves fighting for the affections of the same striking young man.

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Hoffnung im Herz (Hope in my Heart: The May Ayim Story) - Directed by Maria Binder.

A moving documentary about the life and untimely death of Ghanaian-German poet, academic and political personality May Ayim. Ayim was one of the founders of the Black German Movement, and her research on the history of Afro-Germans, but also her political poetry, made her known in Germany and other countries.

Audre Lorde, The Berlin Years 1984 – 1992

Directed by Dagmar Schultz. German with English subtitles. (1 hour 19 minutes)

The film explores the period of the author’s life in which she helped ignite the Afro-German Movement and made lasting contributions to the German political and cultural scene before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lorde mentored and encouraged Black German women to write and publish as a way of asserting their identities, rights and culture in a society that isolated and silenced them, while she challenged white German women to acknowledge and constructively use their white privilege.