Atelier am Bollwerk

14-year-old Otto vanishes after writing goodbye letters to his classmates. Everyone thinks he's dead, but his classmate Léna spots him walking the streets one night.

Four grandmothers from Molenbeek take to the stage and turn the lives of their families... their neighborhood... and even the entire country upside down.

Centers on Vincent, an idealistic but constantly struggling thirty-something from Saint-Étienne who finds himself deeply in debt after a failed, well-intentioned attempt to "save the world". Feeling that society owes him damages for his ongoing struggles, Vincent concocts a seemingly perfect, noble, and completely non-violent plan to rob an armored truck without using any weapons.

Paris, 1835. Renowned composer Frédéric Chopin navigates high society, performing concerts, teaching for income while battling illness. He composes masterpieces, attends parties, pursues romance amid aristocratic and royal circles.

Robert dreams of a career in music, but civil war is tearing his country apart. When his parents are thrown into prison, he is left to look after his siblings, juggling daily life and determined to follow his dream.

While preparing for her daughter's wedding in Paris, Gloria remembers the ceremony years before in Guinea-Bissau which consecrated her father as an ancestor.

Follows a professor in his late 60s whose wife leaves him on the night he retires from teaching, forcing him to live by the lessons in love and literature he has been teaching his students.

A young Romanian woman living in France works for a French family and joins a theatre company who are adapting Octave Mirbeau's "The Diary of a Chambermaid."

Arthur and Maxime are a couple who dream of becoming parents. Facing societal judgment and legal barriers, they contemplate breaking the law to build their family. Their loved ones quickly step in to help—each bringing their own distinct convictions and ideas, though not all of them turn out to be helpful.

As supervisor Horn is welcoming his partner Léone into the hut he shares with engineer Cal, a man called Alboury appears outside. He is determined to stay there until they return the body of his brother to him, who was killed on the site.

A man serving life sentence takes an in-prison job caring for infirm prisoners suffering from memory losses. The start of the job was for his parole but it turns into a deep emotional and transformative relationship.

Hana works as an apprentice shepherdess, leading an isolated life in the Alps, far from the hustle and bustle of the world and the echoes of her native Lebanon. The arrival of Lisa, who has been sent to help her with the animals, forces he

Teenager Marouane is holidaying on west coast of France with his family. He is involved in an event which leads him to burying a body. Marouane has two more days to go before his holiday ends... what should he do?

Opened in 2016 in a Paris suburb, The House of Women is a place of refuge and rebuilding for those who have experienced violence. Here, doctors, psychologists and volunteers join forces to heal bodies and soothe souls.

Gabrielle, a fifty-year-old surgeon, is questioning herself about love, desire, aging, all against the backdrop of a hospital crisis, when a novelist arrives to watch her work for a book she's writing.

Guests: Directors of "BOJE" Andreas Cordes and Robert Köhler, producer of "Ijrain Maradona" Zorana Musikic After registration: LUCAS screen talk BOJE DE 2019. Dir: Andreas Cordes, Robert Köhler. 10 Min....

France/Netherlands/Sweden/Taiwan 2025–26. Dir. & screenplay: various. 59 min. Original version with German live voice-over. Recommended for ages 10+. Original version with German live voice-over Film series: 49th LUCAS Film Festival

September 1940. Henri Marre arrives in Vichy with his self-published book Notre Salut ("Our Salvation"), hoping to secure a place in Pétain's regime. But is he trying to save France from collapse, or himself from ruin?

In a Tokyo factory, a Chinese man tries to help Turkish girl Leyla during a document check. The Puig family gathers in 1978 Nantes for youngest son Jacques' wedding to Martine-a union of love amid childhood wounds.

Marius is the keeper of an abandoned cement works staying high above the quarter of l'Estaque in Marseilles. Jeannette is bringing up her two children alone with her poor checkout operator salary. Their meeting won't be without trouble, since besides material difficulties, both of them are wounded by life. They have to learn how to be happy again.

The film follows the 16th Karmapa and Ole Nydahl, tracing how timeless Buddhist wisdom reached the modern world amid exile and transformation.

In 1980s Secunderabad, a marginalized tribe battles discrimination and fights for citizenship under an unexpected leader's guidance, challenging systemic oppression.

a socially isolated 30-year-old man named Pétard finds emotional refuge solely in Nicoletta, his beloved but rapidly deteriorating old car. When Nicoletta's engine is on the verge of total failure and professional repairs seem impossible, an intrepid young female mechanic named Doris-Jeanne (nicknamed "DJ") steps in to help.

A story of love, family, and sisterhood based on Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.

In the 1960s, just after Mali gains its independence, a young socialist meets and falls in love with a woman trying to escape an arranged marriage.

Juliette holds a top position in finance. Her world collapses after she is assaulted by a colleague at a company event.

Explores how Annie Ernaux's writing is taught in schools and universities.