66th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
31 OCTOBER → 9 NOVEMBER 2025
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM: Wim Wenders

W. Germany 1973 108 DigiBeta B&W
German journalist Philip has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the USA and he decides to return to Germany. At the airport he meets Lisa, an attractive German woman who has just left her husband, and her nine-year-old daughter Alice. Disappearing at the last minute before their departure, Lisa asks Philip to take Alice to Amsterdam. When Lisa fails to turn up in Amsterdam,Alice is finally persuaded to mention a grandmother. After further searching, Philip turns Alice over to the police, but is not displeased when she sneaks away and rejoins him, with new information about her grandmother.