Poster © Neue Visionen Filmverleih In 1949, Erika Mann accompanies her father Thomas on his first journey through Germany since the war. Frankfurt am Main is on the itinerary, as is Soviet-occupied Weimar. In between, they meet old acquaintances and new strangers, and receive news of the suicide of their son and brother, Klaus. The eloquent facial expressions of Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler reflect their incredulous horror, further emphasised by the grainy black-and-white imagery. Director Pawel Pawlikowski subjects ‘Vaterland’ to a rigorous analysis, using a mixture of true historical facts and fictional encounters.

Pawel Pawlikowski

Images ©Agata Grzybowska The career of director Pawel Pawlikowski, who was born in Warsaw in 1957 but grew up in Germany, Italy and the UK, has been something of a turbulent rollercoaster ride. Having won numerous awards for his documentaries, he hit a rough patch in 1998 with his first feature film, *The Stringer*. It was not until six years and three films later that he achieved his breakthrough in Europe with the coming-of-age romance *My Summer of Love*. His black-and-white drama about a doubting nun, “Ida”, was awarded the European Film Award and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2014.

Pauline Roenneberg

Image: ©Miik Pictures Born in Munich in 1984, Pauline Roenneberg graduated from the University of Film and Television with the documentary mini-series ‘Sooner or Later’. Having gained five years’ experience in the German film industry, including as director of two episodes of the Netflix series “Farm Rebellion”, Roenneberg has launched an initiative with two colleagues: “Angst essen Kino” calls for greater courage and a willingness to take risks in German filmmaking. “Kalter Hund” is Roenneberg’s first feature film produced by her own production company, Milk Pictures.

© ARD Now, Germany’s most successful series is indeed drawing to a close. From the very beginning (2016), “Berlin Babylon” was conceived by its creators – Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries and Hendrik Handloegten – on a grand scale in terms of content, ambition, production values and budget. With the eight final episodes of the fifth series, the show reaches its conclusion: the end of the Weimar Republic and, with it, the end of ‘Babylon’ in Berlin, with its drugs, sex and wild nights at the Moka Efti. Loosely based on Volker Kutscher’s novel *Märzgefallene*, in 1933 Detective Sergeant Charlotte Ritter finds herself dealing not only with Hitler’s appointment as Reich Chancellor, but also with a series of murders targeting soldiers from the First World War.

© Square Glade Games No climate crisis, no nuclear war, no apocalypse. Instead, the future in *Outbound* is simply beautiful, with nature thriving, a relaxed atmosphere and friendly people. The aim of the adventure isn’t to find out how this came about, but how best to play your part in it. Players have access to a VW E-Bus and countless stations where they can gather and build everything they need for sustainability, either in single-player mode or online with up to four friends.