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During the First World War, the battle reaches the small village and changes the fate of an elderly woman and her 12-year-old friend.
Jan 2016
A nearly finished construction site. The wiring is completed, the walls are painted, the final inspections are being done. The construction manager Thomas Zetzsche is proud of his achievement. The prestigious building he created is a modern dream come true. But suddenly that dream begins to crumble as more and more defects appear. Cables run into dead ends, the fire protection malfunctions and entire rooms go missing. Desperately Thomas is trying to fix the building until he finally accepts that the opening date has to be postponed. Now he must confront his own responsibility in this faulty system and draw the necessary consequences
Jan 2022
True love never dies, the loving heart never stops beating ... for Kerstin’s ex Thomas, who she still hopes will come back some day. Instead of Thomas, her mother Charlotte shows up at her door, mid-50s and freshly single again, too. Charlotte moves in with Kerstin and her flatmates, one of who shows her how to use a modern dating app to meet new men. As mom starts dating again, her daughter refuses to let digital reality intrude on her romantic daydreams.
Apr 2017
Sometimes the decisions we are faced with take a completely unexpected turn. This is exactly what happens to Jürgen, a terminally ill man who is on his way to the last thrill of his life.
Nov 2009
Robin is eight when his mother Sabine becomes pregnant again. Because Sabine is overwhelmed with her child, new boyfriend and pregnancy, Robin has to go into care. When he returns home three months later, the situation has by no means improved. His mother's new boyfriend drinks, his little sister screams and the adults are constantly arguing. Then the woman from the youth welfare office turns up at the door, Robin is alone at home and his sister starts to cry...
Feb 2008
A newcomer to a mental health unit wants to help his fellow patients. But instead of seeking healing through self-recognition, he builds castles in the air and thus becomes a great threat to his fellow sufferers and ultimately to himself.
Jul 2022
Westfalia, 1873: Pillage and murder put the future existence of Hans' farm at stake. The farmer has to defend his remaining daughter and their goods against man and nature. A struggle of life and death begins.
Dec 2015
Sex is power, and Waseem, a Syrian gay-for-pay hustler seeking asylum in Cologne, wields it like a shield. Keeping his johns at an emotional arm’s length while satisfying their most carnal desires in order to eke out a living, he meets his match in Lars: a kind, affluent professional with a growing personal interest in Waseem. This gripping tale of transactional identity explores the tactical exchange of trust and intimacy in a partnership, and the divisions between immigrants and their host countries in contemporary Europe.
Jan 2019
25-year-old Ida lives in a symbiotic relationship with her unemployed and depressed mother Ildikó. Every day seems to be a weekend, as her mother has not worked for a long time and the apartment seems to be a vacation spot. After she finishes her studies, however, everything changes. Ida has to decide between her sense of responsibility for Ildikó and her own happiness when she receives an offer of her dream job. For this, she would have to move from the apartment they share to Fehmarn.
Jul 2021
Three friends, a cabin in the woods and an invisible bear. Erik is suicidal out of conviction. His friends Alex and Ben take him to a cabin in the woods to get him back on his feet. When an old hunting rifle turns up, events take an unexpected turn. A movie about friendship, trust and schnitzel rolls.
Dec 2014
Oliver has had an unsuccessful career in West Germany and returns to his East German home village. He now wants to sell the house where his mother died alone. His childhood friend Ronny helps him clean up the mess. But he can't admit his personal and professional failure to him either.
Mar 2006
During her internship in a remote clinic in the Allgäu region, the young psychology student Lea immerses herself in a mysterious world of unorthodox therapy methods and demonic traditions.
May 2021
A laundromat at night. A woman asks a stranger to try on her husband's shirt, fearing that it has shrunk. As she asks him to rehearse the reunion between her and her husband, the clumsy rehearsal creates a rapprochement between the two unknowns.
Nov 2020
The overworked and exhausted architect Leon longs for a shoulder to lean on. His confident girlfriend Jenni, however, is angry he's always working and doesn't have time for their relationship. Unexpectedly, Leon's 3D-architecture program produces a digital copy of Jenni. And the digital Jenni helps him get better without asking for anything... Stuck between his strong girlfriend and her always-friendly copy, Leon is looking for a possible relationship.
Jan 2017
While a married man waits in his lover's posh stairwell to pick her up for a date, his manifested guilty conscience, a dark shadow, plays its games with him.
May 2016
A traffic light stops on red. More and more people gather in front of it and wait. As no one wants to take the first step, those waiting are forced to join forces.
Aug 2023
When the grieving student Patricia finally wanted to contact her deceased grandmother via the Ouija board at the scene of the accident, an uninvited guest asked to enter.
Sep 2020
At a Babelsberg studio, two German actors try to outdo each other with their Hollywood experiences. At a chic Düsseldorf café, two expatriate French women envy each other’s respective life. At a construction site somewhere in North Rhine-Westphalia, a foreman informs the supervising archaeologist that he as ordered the concrete without her approval. In a trendy Café in Ehrenfeld, Cologne, a recently departed meets a friend of his ex to obtain a box with things he’d left behind. A Dutch business consultant desperately tries to sell his inflated services to a Bulgarian arms contractor at Brussels Airport. On a rooftop in the Belgian Eifel, the owner and the future heir of a family workshop quietly discuss the recent passing of the family’s grandfather.
Aug 2024
The regular life of chimney sweep Marvin is shaken up. A new woman, a forbidden love. The ghosts he calls haunt him, in dreams, in delusions, during the day. And even his deceased father will not give him peace. A sooty story above the rooftops of Cologne.
Sep 2012
After Arthur tries to take his own life, a time of awkward conversations and quiet moments begins for the group of friends. But as if that wasn't enough, they also have to bring a giant rabbit down to earth.
Jan 2023