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- A group of school friends meet real life in Germany after school is over. From failed love affairs to unpaid bills, growing up means learning that life is not as you imagined it.
- When a photo model gets replaced by a batch of new younger prettier girls, her life of riches melts in front of her eyes and she's forced to live like a homeless person in a parking lot of a high class hotel she once lived in.
- When a teen runaway has her money stolen on her way to Lyon, she ends up being helped by a group of criminals. Impregnated by one of them leads to an identity switch with a befriended homeless orphan for her benefits.
- While training for sculling championship at summer camp in Hungary in 1988 East German teenage twin sisters meet young guys vacationing from Hamburg. In the meeting of east and west the bond between sisters is tested.
- 16 year-old Georg is forced to leave his home in the West, which means saying goodbye to his two loves; his girlfriend, and his Taekwondo team, something that is all-important to him.
- Despite having lived in the East German countryside for several months, teenager Lars and his dad, Henrik, are still treated as unwelcome guests. Henrik is building a "marriage barn," a proposed bed-and-breakfast for newlywed Berliners.
- 19-year-old Johanna lives in the Brandenburg countryside - without prospects, without family support, without any recognition. So she decides to emulate her deceased father and make a career in the boxing ring.
- Cindy lives in Berlin-Schoenefeld. As she becomes acquainted with the businessmen near the international airport, she discovers the big wide world in front of her own door.
- Schmitke is an old German wind turbine engineer. One day, he is dispatched to the Czech side of the Ore Mountains to fix an old squeaking wind turbine. His colleague disappears and mysterious things begin to happen in the forest.
- A young man flees his parents' house, especially his neurotic mother, after a clod of initially unknown material hits the roof of his parents' house.
- The filmmaker, Simon Brückner, goes in search of his long-deceased father, one of the central figures of the German students' movement. A picture of a multi-faceted character emerges and a piece of German history is retold.
- Mia is fifteen and severely traumatized. After the death of her mother she moves to her aunt Cleo and is catapulted into the left cultural scene of Berlin.
- "None of the psycho-pharmaceutical drugs have a healing approach. They subdue symptoms." NICHT ALLES SCHLUCKEN highlights the eternal stigma of mental illness, the power of medicine and questions our perceptions of normality and mental health.
- BANDITS (2003) retraces the roots of the escapade of a group of Georgians in their twenties who hijacked an Aeroflot passenger plane on November 18, 1983 from Tbilisi.
- Peter, who is 50 years old and in the prime of his life moves into a nursing home in order to do nothing for the rest of his days. A roadmovie without a road, where a volunteer senior dedicated to passivity causes a wealth of incidents.
- Within the closed world of the nuclear power industry one of humanity's most compelling struggles has taken place. Germany was at the vanguard of the nuclear power industry but now the walls are coming down. It was the country's greatest scientific endeavour but now all are due to be decommissioned, thanks to popular fear and the power of democracy.
- Peter is in love with his best friend Johannes. While the cattle is driven back from their summer residence down into the valley, their two different concepts of life collide... COWS AND BELLS is a film about friendship and the courage to find happiness.
- Three different sisters, Iris, Anne and Marianne, get together to celebrate the birthday of their alcoholic mother Silvia.
- 7 Brothers 7 Brothers, born between 1929 and 1945 in Mülheim/Germany, are led into a silent setting. No questions asked, a vast conversation begins. Together they tell the story of their family from the mid thirties until now. Seven life-paths of a generation that has hardly been heard, crossing each other and revealing a unique view of German family life during and after the war. A complex universe unfolds, showing deep family relationships and brotherhood. The film offers the unusual experience of sharing the memories of seven brothers - and the more we listen the more we somehow become part of the narration. What the Hufschmidt family tells us is not only mirroring the most difficult period of German history but puts up an essential personal question: what is my family all about?
- 17 Years ago, Grace, a messenger from the outside world was sent to earth on a routine mission. Back then, she unintentionally caused the spiritual awakening of George W. Bush that finally led him straight into the White House. Today, Grace returns on urgent call trying to correct her tragic mistake. At the Oval Office the night is dark and quiet...
- Annually, everybody meets in Fall River, a small village in the south of Boston, Massachusetts, in order to raise the question: Who is the prettiest woman of the whole country? There are lots of beauty competitions but only one Ms. Senior Sweetheart contest: this pageant is the only one in the world for women aged 58 and up. Since 1978 the pageant has invited women from all over America to stay in Fall River for eleven days. Starting with dress rehearsals, noble dinners and performances the contest culminates in the ladies' ball and the coronation of the new beauty queen. The documentary accompanies three of the pageants on their way to the contest.
- In 1987, Suse's boyfriend Matthias flees the GDR with her best friend Susanne. The escape fails. They fall into the hands of the secret police, who try to break their will. It's not until sixteen years later that the three of them meet again. Before the reunion they visit the sites of their youth, their escape, and their imprisonment. They begin to recall their collective past - the only remnant that connects their lives today.
- Mentally ill people tell their stories of suffering
- Documentary about life under the former GDR flagship address behind the Berlin "Alex"
- Young children play their favorite classroom game: their chairs in a circle, Miriam whispers something in the ear of the child to her right, who whispers what she hears to the child on her right, and so on around the circle to the originator. She's whispered, "Paul never washes," about the boy to her left. As the whisper rounds the circle toward Paul, we wonder how badly it will hurt his feelings. It's left to the last girl in the circle to figure out the real meaning of the message.
- Eleven young people live in a city. It is midsummer. This is the starting point of the escalation of seemingly harmonious relationships. A post modern urban fairy tale about loneliness of dependency. About the question of what is greater. freedom or love.
- Berlin and Beirut were occupied, destructed, divided, reconstructed and today people still say "East and West" in both cities. Through the whole film Berlin and Beirut become one city. One space. A space where you feel the weight of the past and the lightness of life sharing with Myrna her stories, adventures and memories.