Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München

A young woman works at a textil factory, where she secretly hides her daughter. After defending a young co- worker from the supervisor, she puts herself in danger.

Young Romanian Adrian works as a hustler in Zurich's underground in order to get his sister Ioana out of Romania and to Zurich, where they can both have a better future.

In 2024 a private organization plans to send a group of four people to Mars. Paul Leeming and Pauls Irbins are both shortlisted candidates fort the planet's first human settlement. The mission is going to be a one-way trip.

When they learn of an outbreak of a dangerous virus shortly before their long-awaited return to Earth, a teenager and his mother struggle to decide whether to land or return to space aboard their confined spaceship.

On his birthday, Julian opens a card from his father with a 500 euro note. He then leaves the apartment to meet his girlfriend. As they greet each other, he is overpowered by three masked people, tied up and thrown into a trunk. He is blindfolded and tied to a chair.

Young Lotta joins her dad on a therapeutic painting class that he originally booked for her depressive mom. What was supposed to be a last-ditch effort to save the parents' broken marriage now becomes an ultimate test for the father-daughter relationship. In the end, there's not only a marriage at stake, but also the bond between father and daughter.

Two children fleeing from a recon helicopter. They flee to a village and, without knowing it, bring the horror with them.

In Germany and Russia, people drink the same amount of pure alcohol: ten liters per capita per year. Two Germans and two Russians are “functioning” young alcoholics. All four are trying to stop drinking. Drinking, however, is so woven into our everyday lives that we no longer even notice it: As long as we function, we drink. And as long as we drink, we function. How can we break out of this vicious circle?

During the day, 18-year-old Elaha argues with her mother about cleaning up, at night she works at the club to move in with her friend Ina. She also uses her quick wit to answer endless questions about her origins.

Liv Mehlmann wants to throw an unforgettable birthday party for her daughter Alicia (14). But when she sends a message to the "Holy Moms" chat group that the precocious Rosie will also attend the party, the helicopter moms freak out. Rosie is not a good influence, she's got to go, immediately. Liv becomes a tool for social exclusion and ends up being marginalized herself. Teenagers don't have it easy. But mothers, whose social status is wavering, get their just deserts, too.

Two young girls escaping to New York. One is filming, the other one is looking for some opportunities. A city of thousand streets and the very question where you want to go.

A neurotic waitress with a phobia of coins struggles with visions of the microscopic world of dirt and germs. As she fights to control her darkest fears, reality falls apart piece by piece.

An elderly couple, Monika and Werner, lives in an apartment in Munich. One day they get a notice of termination due to the intended occupation by owner. The new landlord, a young mother, wants to move into the premises with her family.

Under the influence of a strange idol figure, a single woman's peaceful pet kitten becomes a deadly beast.

"I need help!". Vera turns to her best friend, Annelie: Diagnosis code F32.2 - a severe depression. What does a sentence such as this mean for one's own life, as well as for their friendship? How can they continue to be there for each other? Memories, stories and shared activities shall provide comfort in a situation, in which even the doctors' and specialists' explanations only enhance a feeling of helplessness. Together the two friends search for images and words that might help to come to terms with this strange, "fucked up" feeling.

Amar is a creature of habit — quiet, solitary, and most at home among his matchboxes. So when a shy colleague at the match factory works up the courage to ask him out, his instinct isn’t to say yes. It isn’t even to say no. Instead, he decides to play matchmaker — steering her toward the charming regular at the village pub. A tidy solution. Except, of course, it isn’t.