Jamilah Bagdach

Yak, a troubled pop musician, receives shocking news. His father, who’d rushed back to his home country of Syria decades ago, and whom Yak had nearly forgotten about, is in a coma in a Cologne hospital. There’s another surprise: Yak has a 15-year-old half-sister named Latifa, who speaks only Arabic. Circumstances compel him to travel across Germany with her.

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Berlin, post-Corona. Anton is getting his life off the ground: apprenticeship, his own place with his girlfriend, no drugs, nothing dodgy. But then Anton gets a “yellow letter” in which he’s accused of a serious breach of the peace and resisting arrest. It all happened two years ago and the images come flooding back: the 1st May demo, his arrest. Anton has to get reinvolved in the life he was hoping to put behind him. The naive, good-natured boy feels burning hatred when he realizes he’s not the culprit, but the victim.

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Hazal is 17 and lives in Berlin. Her biggest wish: to be given a chance. For her 18th birthday she wants to escape the everyday grind and party with her friends. But an incident changes everything. Hazal is forced to flee.

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A former investigator searches for a missing refugee child and gets caught up in a maelstrom of ignorance, excessive demands, exploitation - and a willingness to help. A ten-year-old boy runs in front of former investigator Judith Volkmann's car at night in Berlin. What is the child doing alone on the street at this time of night? But the little boy runs off.

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Cara drags her sister Mari, a cashier, into a never-ending conflict, while an enigmatic stranger quietly helps herself to goods in the supermarket unnoticed.

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