Ziegler Film

The days pass slowly for Lia amid the vineyards of a rural Georgian village. Still in the prime of life, her beauty is overlooked even by her husband Sandro, who runs the local car repair shop. Things change when Megi, the comely star of a film being shot nearby, happens upon the scene to get her car repaired. Lia knows a rival when she sees one - although she's also aware she doesn't stand a chance against a mini-skirt. Megi, however, has a few tricks up her sleeve too - she knows what a Cinderella needs to rid herself of the pumpkin.

It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, 57 East-Berliners try their luck through a tunnel into West Berlin. Just before the last few reach the other side, the East German border guards notice the escape and open fire. Remarkably, all the refugees and their escape agents make it out of the tunnel unscathed, but one border guard is dead: 21-year-old officer Egon Schultz.

In a rural Catholic village, young Gosia tends cattle and lives an innocent, sheltered life. One summer day, while bathing in the river, she is unknowingly observed by a mysterious painter. When he later reveals his portrait of her, Gosia’s initial shame gives way to curiosity, drawing her into an awakening of desire and a confrontation with temptation.

Klara is going to die today unless she kills her husband instead. The Calendar Killer has given her that impossible choice. When Jules starts his night shift at a telephone safety helpline for lonely women on their way home, Klara's call reaches him. He soon becomes her last hope for survival and races against time to save her.

Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism.

After a failed marriage, a professionally successful optician committed to non-binding affairs with married men. When her initially charming lovers turn out to be a flop one by one, she remembers her ex-husband.

The mechanic Kobja wants to start a new life in New Zealand. But the necessary money for the overflight is missing.

Sonja, an attractive blonde, picks up a man with a foreign accent in a bar. He quotes the Persian poet Hafiz to her and tells her he's a writer working on an erotic story about a man and woman who meet in a bar. She invites him to go home with her for the next part of the story - and everything goes wrong.

A group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and discussions trying to find some meaning in their comfortable and indolent life. Adaptation of the play by Maxim Gorky.

A plot of land, a house by the lake, its changing inhabitants. This one plot of land reflects 70 years of German history from Weimar, the Nazis, the war, the Soviet occupation and reconstruction to the fall of the GDR.

Sex, violence, and family secrets in the German countryside.

Lena is a cheerful student who firmly believes in happiness and the good in people. As part of a social project, she is sent by the office as a writing coach to Hugo Drowak, who has long since lost his luck and lives alone in a run-down tower block.

Two women escape to the mountains where they enjoy each others company, apparently disappointed with their male partners.

In 2002, Milla Weber’s infant son was abducted in Juárez. Desperate, she founded the “Finders” to locate missing people along the US–Mexico border. Years later, on a night search, she spots one of her son’s kidnappers and teams with outlaw James Díaz. As they unravel a child-smuggling ring turned organ-trafficking network, Milla and Díaz become the criminals’ next targets.

A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre as he goes from battlefield warrior to France's beloved King Henri IV. Director Jo Baier's epic is a classically entertaining adventure, albeit one with more than a little bloodshed and frequent bawdy sexual interludes. In late 16th-century France, Catholics and Protestant Huguenots were at war. Seemingly seeking peace, the French dowager queen, Catherine de Medici summons Henry to her court to have him marry her daughter, uniting the two warring factions. However, the Catholics slaughter the Protestant wedding guests in what became known as the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre and Henry-now married-must use all his guile to both stay alive and maneuver for the throne. [Written by Palm Springs International Film Festival]

A coroner finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.

A once celebrated, still famous actress lives an "unreachable" and secluded life in a villa in Berlin's Grunewald forest. One day, a young man uses a trick to break into her voluntary isolation, and a subtle game develops between the two, in which each slips into different roles to deceive the other. Soon, the boundaries between appearance and reality blur.

The somewhat awkward student Judith is pursued by bankruptcies, bad luck and mishaps. The failed baby sitting with her sister Rebecca ends with a ruined apartment and the destroyed paintings of her father. In addition, she also loses her job and her friend Holger. In this chaos, she does not notice that the charming neighbor Leo is madly in love with her. But Leo proves to be a true guardian angel and brings a desperate Judith a fairytale surprise. - Heike Makatsch and Dominic Raacke play the leading roles in this enchanting and sensitive love comedy about a modern Cinderella.

A German Film Award winning short feature.