Alexander E. Fennon

Three childhood best friends make a pact to experience their first orgasm before the end of summer vacation. One friend experiences a series of unexpected medical and anatomical mishaps that constantly disrupt her plans. Another tries to find sexual satisfaction within her heterosexual relationship, but gets entangled in a fierce rivalry with a female classmate that unexpectedly shifts into a romantic affair. The third focuses her efforts on pursuing and winning over her school crush, a transgender classmate. As their individual quests progress, a series of secrets, miscommunications, and chaotic events threaten to tear their tight-knit group apart before they finally find resolution and mutual support.

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Ema & Death’s-Head deals with the precarious border between humanism and the protection of one’s own life in situations when one excludes the other. Marika Sándorfi is hiding a Jewish boy during the dramatic era of the First Slovak State on the Slovak-Hungarian border. Šimon Holan, the boy in hiding, has a special ability to survive thanks to dreaming and a child’s fantasy.

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Annika dreams of having a synthetic mermaid fin -- expensive fun for the supermarket cashier who longs for distraction from the worries of her everyday life.

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On December 24, in the middle of the supposedly quietest time of the year, anything is possible! And this is exactly what the episodic film "Schrille Nacht" tells in seven short stories.

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This rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family uncovers the story behind the family's phenomenal economic success. The film tells the dynasty’s incredible saga, from the confines of the Frankfurt ghetto to the halls of royal palaces, all the while emphasizing the importance they placed on family unity and the profound role Judaism played in their lives, later using their influence to assist oppressed Jews throughout Europe. A definitive work of documentary cinema with a thoroughly engaging narrative, The Rothschild Saga brings their mysterious and fascinating history to life.

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Perhaps they should never have met, but fate wanted otherwise. Monika and Joseph. She is a curator, he is an immigrant from Congo, a businessman with an unclear past and present. They meet during a police raid at a bar, when the first of many sparks flies between them. An understated love story, a melodrama without pathos, a fragile story about the ambiguous nature of love and the impossibility of overcoming it through reason.

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Three directors open their personal gates to hell and let us glimpse into the abyss of the human soul.

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Caroline Binder has a nice home, a working marriage, and a chronically-ill heart. Heart specialist Paul Hoffmann promises his patient healing through a new surgical method and keeps his promise. But Caroline cannot do with her new life, because the rhythm of this has been determined by her sick heart for the past 20 years. She feels betrayed about her identity and starts to look at how and why life is worth living.

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Reiterhof Wildenstein is a German television series that has been produced for Das Erste since 2019 on behalf of ARD-Degeto.

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When a young man finds a time machine device, his life spins out of control.

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Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a small tobacco shop, where he meets the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, who will become a valuable friend in times of chaos and uncertainty.

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Phaidros is based on Plato's eponymous dialogue and plays in an LBQT+ milieu of a present-day metropolis. The actor Emil is meant to embody the character of the poet Phaedrus in a battle of words with Werner Maria, who slips into the role of Socrates. When the borders between friendship and sexual initiation soon blur beyond the events on stage, too, the shrill, carnivalesque scenario turns into grotesque love triangles and quadrangles, which ultimately even cause a casualty.

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Franz Murer, the Butcher of Vilnius, a former Austrian SS officer, established, organized, and ruled the Vilnius ghetto in Lithuania during the World War II. Different survivors of the Shoah testify when he is judged in 1963, hoping to do justice, but, although the evidence is overwhelming, the desire to close this obscure chapter of history seems to surpass the desire for justice.

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Rachel, a Jewish-American woman, moves to Vienna, Austria to work for the IAEA. She befriends Yitzhak, an Ethiopian Jew and former refugee, who lives in her apartment complex. When confronted with their shared cultural history, Rachel must reconcile her past with Austria's Holocaust history and the current refugee crisis gripping Europe.

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Klaus has a new job. And it's brilliant. The best job in the world. There is just one small snag: after work.

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A man wanders through the wasteland, followed by dark clouds. He takes shelter in an abandoned trailer, where he discovers the corpse of a boy with strange wounds...

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Vienna, the 1950s. A childhood captured on 8mm film, documented by thirteen-year-old Johanna.

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Two neighbors jump into an unexpected friendship outside their windows.

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After the death of his mother, shy Werner Schmidt finally starts looking for a partner. But on his dates, the electronics-enthusiastic, organized single man unfortunately only comes across as a bore - and consequently has no luck when it comes to love. The quiet man therefore relieves his stress at night by setting things on fire. He prefers to blow up luxury cars using his bomb-making skills and a remote-controlled car.

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German detective Sonja Schwarz decides against the offer to take over as head of the homicide division in Frankfurt. She moves with her husband Thomas to his hometown of Bolzano in South Tyrol. However, she hardly has a chance to get used to her beautiful new home. Instead, on her very first day, she finds herself involved in her first case involving a dead body and a car chase.

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Opera countertenor Alex Gottfarb is not alone – his inner self is crowded. Some other personae live within him – shy Alexander, sexy Sandra, teenager Lex and a seven-year-old prodigy Xandi. Each one of them has different ideas of what life should look like and yet they are all extremely dependent on each other. With the help of Helene, who loves him, Alex succeeds to get in touch with his cohabitants. Cascades of turbulent events and tragicomic misunderstandings accompany Alex’ struggle for identity, love and freedom.

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Tahir's life is marked by a daring double life. He is fascinated by the wearing of the niqab, a cloth covering the face worn by some Muslim women, and finally decides to put on the dress. He is surprised by his son but before he can explain the incident, his wife appears and start a fight. But if he had to choose between tolerance and traditions, what would he choose?

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Blond, half-long hair floats in a seepage pond. A well-to-do lady calls the police, and departmental inspector Franzi fishes out a scalp.

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1938. Austria has been annexed by Nazi Germany, and Switzerland has closed its borders for Jewish refugees - a death sentence for thousands. But not all Swiss officials observe this inhuman order.

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In 1818, when Joseph Mohr is assigned to be the new assistant priest in Oberndorf, a small Austrian town near Salzburg, the young man is full of ideas and ideals. His passion to bring the church closer to the common people sets him on a collision course with his new superior, Father Nostler. When Mohr organizes a church choir that includes outcasts from the local tavern and performs in German instead of Latin, Nostler threatens him with disciplinary action. Their relationship further deteriorates when Maria a regular tavern patron, surprisingly joins the performance of the all-male church choir. As Mohr's initial successes start to crumble and his efforts backfire on him, he loses all hope and faces a trial of faith. The night before Christmas, Mohr has to decide if he will accept defeat and leave Oberndorf or embrace the true significance of the Holy Night.

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In an occupied establishment - a kind of self-defined sub-cosmos of reality - there is a sensual search for lust and fulfillment taking place. Women and men dance, desire, interact; their perfectly choreographed body game becomes a symbiotic extension of an excessively hedonistic sub- conscious. Amidst it all: a mafia boss seeks to take control of the establishment and finds the meaning of life in the process. Perfect Garden is a fabulously hypnotic film, utopian and realistic all at once

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The discovery of a horse on the balcony of a neighbour’s apartment one winter’s night completely transforms the life of 10-year-old Mika, who embarks on a series of crazy adventures to save the horse before it’s too late.

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After breaking up with her boyfriend Daniel, Anna just wants to hole up somewhere and recover. But she should have had a closer look at the fineprint of her rental contract – for the old Viennese appartment it is a creature with never ending appetite, living off the youth of its residents. There is no escaping it anymore when Anna faces herself in the mirror as an old lady. Unless she deliveres a new victim…

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The film tells the story of a young woman who fights with all her might for her dream of owning her own business – and in the process finds true love.

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After reporter Sabrina Meyers witnesses a gruesome murder linked to the assault of a mentally disabled girl, she finds herself stalked by a killer while the police refuse to believe her story. As she uncovers a vengeful plot by the victim's family, the bodies begin to vanish, leaving her isolated and targeted. Will Sabrina expose the town's dark secret before she becomes the next victim of the bloodnight?

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SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.

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Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

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