Merz Akademie

The pasty grey, which surrounds Pavel's caravan resembles the life inside of it: the 71-old Russian spends the evening of his life in a dismal and monotonous way between marram grasses and sleepy seaports. But at one point Pavel makes a decision: He picks up the telephone receiver, calls his old friend Jack and starts walking – just straight ahead to California.

Adrift in space, an astronaut reflects on the life events that led to his dire situation.

Sonja has a settled life with a nice apartment and her own café. But when her older sister Kim comes back into her life after almost six years of silence, events take a turn for the worse. An anonymous threat forces the two of them to confront their dark past. The sisters soon realize that someone knows about their secret. A dangerous game of cat and mouse begins. How far will the sisters go to keep their secret?

Two soldiers, the only survivors of a night-time ambush, make their way to an unknown location. Their journey takes them through forests and snow-covered fields. Haunted by flashbacks and nightmares, one of them finally comes to a shocking realization.

Two students decide to travel to Iceland in March 2020 with the aim of climbing Mount Baula. During the trip, the coronavirus pandemic comes to Europe and throws a spanner in the works. They are stranded and have to find a way home.

“ My grandma and I sit together in the kitchen and I assist her in making plum dumplings. In other words, I peel the potatoes and she does the rest. Part of this cerenomy are my grandma's stories, stories from the past, from her old home, Timisoara. I travel to her roots, search for traces in Romania to find out more about the country, culture and history of the Banat Swabians. A German minority that lived for centuries in what is now Romania and migrated back during Ceausescu's socialist dictatorship.“

Chris leads a supposedly perfect life. At a surprise party, he talks to his best friends about his successes in life, his training, the apartment he shares with his girlfriend, a family vacation and his career advancement. But precisely because his life seems so perfect, Chris can't talk about how he feels, because those same life successes seem to prohibit him from being dissatisfied in life. So Chris sits at the table with a mask of joy until it falls...