"Hive" by Kosovan director Blerta Basholli is based on a true story: Fahrije's (Yllka Gashi) husband has been missing since a massacre in her village in Kosovo in 1999. Since then, she has done a poor job of keeping her two children and father-in-law alive with honey from her own beekeeping. When she receives an offer from the UN to get a driving licence and set up her own company, she jumps at the chance. Much to the displeasure of the old men in the village, who see this as a break with tradition.

Blerta Basholli

born in 1983 in Pristina, Kosovo, Blerta Basholli studied film at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York after finishing school. Her feature film debut "Hive" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah and was submitted to the Oscars as the Kosovar entry for Best Foreign Film. She thus joins the ranks of internationally successful female filmmakers from the former Yugoslavia, including the North Macedonian Tamara Kotevska ("Land of Honey") and the Bosnian Jasmila Zbanics ("Quo Vadis, Aida?").

A village that is slowly disappearing. A pub whose customers are dying off. Based on the novel by Dörte Hansen, director Lars Jessen's "Mittagsstunde" tells the story of the creeping demise of culture and the Low German language in the North German province. At the centre is Ingwer Feddersen (Charly Hübner), who takes a year off from his job at Kiel University to care for his parents in Brinkebüll. Their memories of their "village pub", once the boozy centre of the community, gradually reveal more than one family secret.

Lars Jessen

Director Lars Jessen, who was born in Kiel in 1969, already came up with a village pub in his feature film debut in 2005. "The Day Bobby Ewig Died" is also strongly influenced by his own biography. His cinema films also include the adaptation of Rocko Schamoni's Holstein Heimat novel "Dorfpunks" (2009) and the mockumentary "Fraktus" (2012). After detours into the TV film and series business - including four "Tatort" episodes - Jessen is now returning to the big screen with "Mittagsstunde", a film about a North German bar.

"A dream for me, a date for him." Writer Sylvain Tesson and wildlife photographer Vincent Munier are on the lookout. In the highlands of Tibet, they are on the lookout for one of the last snow leopards, a species known for its solitary nature and hunted for its grey patterned fur.
Documentary director Marie Amiguet accompanied them on their adventure and left it to Bad Seeds musician Warren Ellis to set their moving and evocative images to music. The sounds float congenially over yaks, bharats and owls, which Ellis' band colleague and friend sings in the finale: "We are not alone".