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A young man from the countryside goes to Berlin, where he is robbed by hoodlums. Completely penniless, he meets a prostitute with whom he falls in love, but the pimp wins. In a hopeless situation, he decides to take back what is his by force.
Jan 1981
Jakob, a young policeman from a remote village, has his world unhinged when a stranger in a dress emerges from the forest and begins killing villagers with a sword.
Feb 2014
After months of absence, guitarist Tom Schulze reappears in Berlin. He is met with a wave of rejection. A beating awaits him in his local pub, his pregnant girlfriend slams the door in his face and his best friend doesn't take kindly to him either. Tom is ready to take the fall for his past violent outbursts. He asks for a second chance. Slowly, he gets his life back under control. But when he seems to be on the verge of achieving his goal, he completely snaps...
Feb 2005
The story of the dog from the title, who in a frame narrative explains how he came to be transformed from an unemployed communist filmmaker into a canine with a philosophical bent. Unable to finance his new project, young Berlin-based director Julian tells foreign exchange student Camille that his job in the countryside is research for an upcoming film. When Camille offers to help, he is forced to uphold the lie. The plantation isn’t the proletarian idyll he had hoped for, but fortunately the reincarnation of Francis of Assisi provides spiritual insight and a new aim in life.
Jan 2017
While life in a provincial town in eastern Germany near the Polish border has virtually come to a standstill, a dynamic young entrepreneur, his wife, and a laconic, resigned dropout strive to make a new start. But their dreams of revitalizing the region with a train station bistro and spa business fade away in (self-)deception, hangovers, and small escapes.
Oct 1997
Kesse (Pascale Numan) loves nothing more than May (Sira-Anna Fasl) and skateboarding. Everything changes when Kesse accidentally pushes May's annoying little brother Pepe (Lasse Berg) off a wall to his death. Excluded from the skate crew, Kesse tries to navigate back to everyday life while May and her mother Sheila (Melika Foroutan) grieve and cut off contact. Kesse finds themself caught between the guilt that needs to go somewhere and the fear of no longer belonging.
Nov 2024
Lenz is a daydreamer. Charming, visionary and – as it is good manners for a thirty-year-old in Berlin – radically incapable of decision making. After an intense party night, Lenz wakes up next to Ira, completely deranged. Lenz is in love. As well as Ira. The summer of love begins: fooling through the nights of Berlin, beers at the canal, talks about sex and childhood. Everything is beautiful. Up until the moment when Ira asks this one question that changes everything: „Do you want to have kids?“ Now is the time for Lenz to do what he knows best, when things get tricky. He runs off. Anchorless, he stumbles through the summer and has to take up with the heroes of his daydreams, who keep examining him about his feelings. Meanwhile, his friend Kenn covers Lenz with affectionate incomprehension. When autumn arrives, Ira eventually confronts Lenz and he has to face the big “whatsoever”.
Jun 2018
Moritz had a nervous breakdown. His friend Paul persuades him to travel to the countryside. Paul wants to do some cosmetic repairs to the cottage of his girlfriend Hanna. He is convinced that physical work is the best treatment for Moritz.
Jan 2014
Three young men kill two policemen after a chaotic bank raid; a problem which forces the trio to make a desperate escape across the border to Poland.
Oct 1999
An ordinary day in Romania. Under a highway exit close to Bucharest, Lidia and Denisa are changing their clothes; warm pullovers and sneakers are exchanged for tight tops and heels. The two are then waiting for clients, an icy wind gusting around their ears.
Dec 2017
Perkus and Chase are slacking their lives away in a dusty living room. Finding a gas mask, the friends get torn apart by the question: Is this world outside really that bad?
A young couple is spending the day in bed. He asks her to marry him. She says no...
May 2008
The undercover investigator Robert is supposed to win the trust of a criminal through a fictitious relationship with Leni. However, the feelings are not just a game. It is the spied criminal, of all people, who makes him confront his contradictory feelings…
Jun 2023
Thirty years after the Yugoslavian war and the fall of communism, workers from the ex-YU countries find themselves again in the same "bus". But this time not over communist utopian ideals, but under capitalist reality. They are all seasonal workers on a road towards a better future and prosperity, their new Promised Land - Germany. And just when it seems that all the hope on this journey is gone, the Saviour appears to help them all.
Jan 2023
Representative Diethard has given up. There is nothing left for the 40-year-old on the German marriage market. So he chooses an exotic woman from the catalog, has her flown in and marries her. But everyday life with Beanboat is disappointing...
Dec 1981
What stops two people from being together? A third one. What stops one person from fighting for another? Nothing. Pedro lives in the suburbs, where he works with his father in a garage. Everyday he takes the bus downtown where he goes to school and meets his friends. It's summertime and they all go down to the river where they spend their free time or even their school time. Among joints, motorbike riding and swimming, everything seems to go well with this group of friends, until the moment when Pedro and his best friend find out that both of them like the same girl. Pedro finds himself inside a downward spiral, where everything around him seems to fall apart. Like a magnet attracts the iron, Pedro seems to attract problems, from the school until his relationship with his parents. This is the story of Pedro, who by having his head being pushed down so much learned how to breathe under water.
Feb 2000
Martin leaves his protective parents’ home and comes to Berlin as a law student with high hopes. He finds a tiny, run-down flat in a strange, dark apartment block, from which the previous tenant has disappeared without a trace. Having no luck with social contacts at the university, Martin quickly falls for his mysterious landlady Simone, who lives just next door behind a thin wall. Hoping to find trust and intimacy, Martin loses himself in the house’s disturbing world of sex and violence. Deep in the walls, Martin discovers the true horror of his first love.
Sep 2013
Hawk and his son Billy are old school rockabilly guys with an unbreakable bond. Until one day when Hawk finds out, that outside of their little rock 'n roll world, Billy leads a different life, which he didn't know about.
Jan 2007
On a bleak island where monolithic concrete buildings rise above the windswept horizon lies work-colony #191286. Piwonka is one of a handful of migrant workers who are forced to work here under harsh conditions. He has been estranged for two months from his beloved wife when a fatal incident at the main drilling-tower occurs. Piwonka has a recurring dream of his wife where it feels like she's trying to communicate with him, to warn him perhaps, or guide his way.
Mar 2014
Following an accident, Meral returns to live with her traditional parents where she is confined to her bed while recuperating. Nobody confronts her condition except herself. Her little sister Asiye is her biggest supporter.
Feb 2016