Ghosts (Gespenster), Germany 2005

Director: Christian Petzold
Screenplay: Christian Petzold and Harun Farocki
Cast: Julia Hummer, Sabine Timoteo, Marianne Basler, Aurélien Recoing, Benno Fürmann 

"The filmmaker Jacques Rivette once wrote that the only justification for art is that it attempts to make people a little less blind, a little less deaf and a little less dumb. In this sense, cinema is like the other arts; one knows that leaves blow in the wind but suddenly, one sees it..."
http://www.signandsight.com/features/375.html

Françoise keeps going back to Berlin. Each time, she hopes to somehow find her daughter who was stolen there years ago. Her compassionate husband Pierre has once again come to patiently stand by her. Nina is a vulnerable girl, alone in the world except for the social workers at the home for problem teenagers. She finds an ally in reckless Toni, a tough young woman who grabs what she wants to survive. Together they experience a fleeting moment of intimacy, an instant of happiness. During her desperate search across the city, Françoise comes across Nina. The resemblance is uncanny. She has the same scar on her ankle...
http://www.gespenster-der-film.de/html/synopsis_en.html