The series opens with two fanfares as it were: the two most recent productions from an icon of American independent cinema, Jim Jarmusch, will be featured at the festival before their official theatre release dates. With PATERSON, a moving outsider portrait of a bus driver and closet poet, Jarmusch has literally managed to make a poem of a film. The cult director turns up the volume considerably for his documentary GIMME DANGER, which pays homage to Iggy Pop and his band "The Stooges". According to Jarmusch, they’re the greatest rock and roll band of all time, who were also far ahead of their own time. The comedy RADIO DREAMS is also about music and another "greatest" rock and roll band story. Hamid, a programmer at a radio station, wants to put on a joint performance there featuring Afghanistan’s first rock band together with "Metallica". In HOTEL DALLAS Patrick

Duffy aka Bobby Ewing travels to Romania to a full-size replica of the Southfork Ranch, in order to star in a bizarre version of "Dallas" there. While the heroine in the mockumentary JACQUELINE (ARGENTINE), a French whistle blower à la Snowden, goes into self-imposed exile in Argentina (with a camera team in tow), Paul, the hero of horror-comedy THE MASTER CLEANSE, withdraws to a camp for a "weekend of purification". In OTHER PEOPLE a "lost" son returns to his hometown to care for his sick mother and feels like a stranger in his own family. The teenagers in FROM NOWHERE are also strangers in their own country: they live in The Bronx and seem to go to school normally just like the other kids, although they’re undocumented immigrants. All in all, eight extraordinary productions await audiences in this exciting series.