Rosen und Reis

When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

A darkly comic psychological horror, which visits three women as they indulge their taste for recreational cruelty.

A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.

The story of a large jelly that complicates the sale of a man's deceased grandmother's fridge.

Faced with the injustices of this world, Margot has lost all hope in the future. Giving up on politics, she decides to entrust her fate to the Dardu, a legendary carp that supposedly predicts the future. But the lake's rules have changed: fishing is now forbidden.

One night, Pauline encounters Frank on a dating site. She impulsively decides to make him come to her place. But when she meets this strange young man in the flesh, Pauline is very disappointed. Not knowing how to get rid of him, she decides to have some fun by inventing a character for herself. Little by little, the lies will lead Pauline and Frank to a peculiar truth.

A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally chilling to the caustically observant to the casually romantic, but all have a cutting, wily view of the world.

Twenty-something Donna is jobless, single and broke. On a fateful day, reality turns itself upside down, and she is suddenly faced with one absurdity after another.

Still nursing wounds from a breakup, a woman is forced by her sister into a blind date that turns into a nightmare.

The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece.