Filmförderungsanstalt (Germany)

Set in a rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about post-World War II Jewish identity. After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret perfromer, her face disfigured and reconstructed, returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out the gentile husband who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis. Without recognizing her, he enlists her to play his wife in a bizarre hall-of-shattered-mirrors story that's as richly metaphorical as it...

Manni is very possibly the most incompetent criminal ever. His very first day on the job and he inadvertently loses 200,000 marks just 20 minutes before he's due to deliver it to his bosses. Like any sane man, he calls his girlfriend--Lola will know what to do! Employing staples of pop sci-fi along with a variety of avant-garde techniques, running, red-haired riot grrrl Lola takes the narrative into her own hands, replaying events until she gets it...