Ghosts

 The German director Christian Petzold, known for films such as Barbara, Undine and Afire, presents one of his earliest works for cinema, a personal exploration of memory and the inescapable traces of the past. In Gespenster (which literally translates as ‘ghosts’), the contemporary master of melodrama joins forces with Harun Farocki (Images of the World and The Inscription of War), giving rise to a film with two intertwined stories: that of Françoise, a woman who has never stopped searching for her daughter who was kidnapped years ago, and the story of Nina, an orphaned teenager who wanders the world trying to find a reason for being. In the midst of a spectral Berlin, chance - or, perhaps, destiny - will unite both searches. An encounter that will lead the two women to look directly at the trauma, with the desire to find reconciliation with their own past in each other.