The Vanishing

A detective show with no detective: Hans-Christian Schmid's serial thriller does away with the classic dogged inspector and casts Julia Jentsch as desperate mother Michelle, who can't believe her 20-year-old daughter Janine disappeared and sets out to find her herself. There's never any crime in Forstenau, their little town on the Czech border – but the more Michelle finds out about Janine and her crowd, the more she has to wonder how much her daughter's disappearance was her own fault. And will Janine be the only victim? (Filmfest München)