Beth Serlin

Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf parents yet when her love for playing music grows strong she must decide to continue doing something she cannot share with her parents.

A family of a German linguist lives with an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea.

While playing at a lake, Nina is attacked by a gang of thugs and pushed under water - according to the doctor's diagnosis, the eleven-year-old is physically perfectly healthy, but has suffered severe trauma. After her parents Claire and Daniel have consulted several psychologists, dolphin therapy seems to be the only promising method of treatment. The whole family flies to a therapy center in Florida. Nina actually makes contact with the dolphin Domino, a notorious loner. When Nina observes how Domino is lured into the open sea by fishermen at night, the sick girl surpasses herself.

Since his wife died ten years ago, Karl has been raising his daughter Nic alone. This has left its mark on the 13-year-old schoolgirl: Nic stands out from the girls her age with her short haircut and tomboyish style of dress. In her ice hockey team, which Karl coaches, she easily outplays her male teammates with the odd body check. But everything changes when editor-in-chief Sonja moves in next door and Karl unceremoniously turns the two apartments into a shared flat following an accident. Sonja observes the father-daughter relationship between Karl and Nic and interferes in their upbringing, especially when she realizes that Nic would also like to be a woman and that not everything revolves around ice hockey.

For Thomas, a top chef, cooking is a science. But his routine between pans and spices is interrupted when he meets Nick, a son he never imagined he would have. Hailing from Australia, Nick is going to cause a lot of trouble in the restaurant with his koala friend.