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EXIT is a film about two women who left the ultra-orthodox community. One is Heidi Moses, daughter of the chairman of United Torah Judaism party. Heidi grew up in the ultra-orthodox neighbourhood Bnei Brak and was forced to marry at the age of 17. Always wanting to escape the religious life, she had the courage to get a divorce when she was 24 years old and managed to take her two kids with her. Today she is a lesbian living a secular life in Tel Aviv and fighting for women’s rights especially within the ultra-orthodox community. Heidi meets Sarah. She grew up in the U.S. and turned religious at the age of 18 when she met her future husband and moved to Israel. They had six children and lived a very strong dedicated religious life until she felt that she was living the wrong life. She got a divorce at a Rabbinical court in 2012. Since then she is fighting to see her children more than once a week and outside the rabbinical day care center. The film portrays the two women who are very different but have one thing in common: having to deal with the consequences from leaving the ultra-orthodox community.

“Dear Me” is a portrait documentary about people in various lifesituations, who wrote to themselves the letter they have always wished to receive. Aspirations, hopes and dreams become visible in a reality that is often quite differently. “Write yourself the letter which you always wished to receive.” After spreading the word, director Luise Makarov received over a hundred letters. In DEAR ME Luise Makarov is portraying people in various life situations, who wrote to themselves this letter. In their words she discovers aspirations, hopes and dreams, that are becoming visible in a reality that is often quite differently. Anne is a young mother, who found herself in a struggle after giving birth to her daughter Gilda. Before she became a mother she was an independent woman just starting to establish herself as an artist. But since Gilda is born, she put her life on hold, traveling with her husbands job instead and feeling very stuck with her own life. Renate is an old lady, who has written herself a letter from her mother. Her mother is dead now, but Renate is still suffering to cope with a remark her mother made when she was still a teenager. Andre is a typical Berlin-artist: without money, living just for his art. Things are starting to turn for him, when he gets a big chance to be a curator. But despite money problems he is suffering as well from a missed chance to bond with the girl he loves. Detlef lives a withdrawn life. During the day he goes to church, but at night he is challenging himself by touring through different Karaoke Joints in Berlin. He is over 60 now, but wrote himself a letter from Anita, a girl who rejected him when he was just 17 years old.

Ute Strub ist 83 Jahre alt. Eine zierliche, sich geschmeidig bewegende Frau. Sie ist ausgebildete Krankengymnastin und Pädagogin und immer noch als Dozentin tätig. Menschen, die sich mit der Pikler-Pädagogik beschäftigen, kennen sie gut. Ute Strub hatte bereits in den 70er Jahren die ungarische Kinderärztin Emmi Pikler kennengelernt und war von deren Werk so angetan, dass sie sich unermüdlich für die Verbreitung des PiklerAnsatzes in Deutschland und in vielen anderen Ländern einsetzte. Sie war die Herausgeberin der Bücher von Emmi Pikler in Deutschland und engagierte sich vielfältig für das Wohl der Kinder und der, sich um sie kümmernden Erwachsenen . Ute Strub gründete 2010 in Berlin das Strandgut - einen Spielraum ohne herkömmliche Spielzeuge, in dem die Kinder in ihrem Sinne frei spielen dürfen. Die außergewöhnliche und zugleich einfache Gestaltung dieses Ortes zeigt neue Wege, wie man den Forschungsdrang und das selbstständige Spielen der Kinder begleiten und unterstützen kann. Ute Strub ist der Ansicht, dass das Spielen ein besonderes Merkmal des Menschseins ist. Beim Spielen sei der Mensch ganz bei der Sache, im Hier und Jetzt. Und wenn man im Hier und Jetzt ist, dürfe Freude, Kreativität und echte Lebendigkeit entstehen, genau wie bei Kindern, die von Natur aus daran interessiert sind, was sie gerade tun. Die Lust zu spielen gehe leider oft während den Schuljahren verloren. Was Ute in ihren Seminaren tut ist, die Erwachsenen dazu zu ermutigen, ihren Spieltrieb wieder zu wecken. Der Film ist ein einfühlsames Portrait, das die Persönlichkeit Ute Strubs vorstellt und ihr Lebenswerk durch das Spielen der Kinder und Erwachsenen erzählt. Die Möglichkeit, sich zu entfalten, ist bei Menschen immer vorhanden, sie müssen nur dafür bereit sein. Ute Strub kann das aus eigener Erfahrung bestätigen.

A young woman meets on her escape with a child the delivery man Bruno (Lars Rudolph), who takes the two on his way to Berlin. She secretly took the boy on a trip, in order to force her boyfriend and father of the child, to admit to their relationship. Bruno senses her outcastness in life and presumes to the idea, that she could be somebody, who understands him. At a rest stop, he tries clumsily to get closer to Alma but she rebuffs him. In doing so, she unwittingly injures him in such a way that he drops all his inhibitions. Whereas Bruno until now was acting covertly in the hope of establishing contact, he now wants to take for himself what has been denied him.

Where to go if not to work? One morning, on a parking place somewhere in Germany, a man decides not to leave his car, but to flee into the woods. Hunted by the longing to break out and on the search for something real, natural, he starts a fantastic journey through the forest. A surrealistic film of six episodes about a man daring to step out of society to find less of "nature" but more of himself.

What do you see? A question asked by the science-fiction therapy session guiding the transformation of Alexander, a middle-aged white man, seeking to cure his identity crisis. Through virtual reality he enters a space where he is faced with his under conscious views of woman. In this non narrative short film the game challenges the spectator to think for him/herself and to join in on its audio visual journey.

A bizarre encounter between two misfits trying to fight their loneliness.