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family life

documentary

Heroines Hatun

Sherry Hormann: Only one woman

DEADLY BATTLE OF INDEPENDENCE: The German documentary drama Nur eine Frau depicts Hatun Sürücü's fateful struggle for independence and ends with his brother's honor killing.
Pinar Ciftci -
documentary

Powerless against the intoxication

Felix van Groeningen, Peter Hedges: Beautiful Boy / Ben is Back

: Two American films remind us of how hard drug addiction hits the relatives.
Alexander Huser -
literature

An accident, a cut, a photographer

Cameron Bloom & Bradley Trevor Greive: Penguin Bloom. The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family

: Without these three elements, the book Penguin Bloom would never have come into being. The book's main characters would certainly also have preferred that the story had never been created.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

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