** This year's season of films gets underway with this 2013 drama from Hannover-based director Christian Schochow, starring Joerdis Triebel. East German Nelly Senff and her young son Alexej emigrate to West  Germany in the late 1970s, three years after Nelly's boyfriend Wassilij was killed in a car accident. In the west, she wants to […]

** The Hanseatic League, considered an ancient forerunner of the European Union, ruled the waves in the Renaissance. Based along the German-speaking Baltic and North Sea coasts, it had an important outpost in London, now almost forgotten. Located on the Thames near modern-day Cannon Street station, the Steelyard was a walled community that served as […]