Elevator-phobic Buchmann is supposed to learn to ride an elevator on his own as part of a therapy program. But when an uninvited passenger joins him, Buchmann needs nerves as strong as elevator ropes.

Luz, a young cabdriver, drags herself into the brightly lit entrance of a run-down police station. A demonic entity follows her, determined to finally be close to the woman it loves.

Don't Bring A Dog shows a part of the New York underground music scene - rooted in the early eighties - existing apart from MTV and billboard charts. Music, interviews, sounds and pictures of the city blend into a collage. Don't Bring A Dog works like a time capsule of people and music in NY at a particular moment

"The dream is the best proof that we are not as firmly enclosed in our skin as we seem to be." - Christian Friedrich Hebbel

For 17-year-old Johanna, a vacation in the idyllic countryside of Piecht is anything but relaxing. While her mother dreams of an ecological alternative to city life, a real nightmare unfolds for Johanna when she confronts the far-right, close-knitted community and encounters brutal resistance.

Rosa, alone in her house in southern Italy which she built herself. Her children and grandchildren still live in Germany. This is not the way she thought it would be. Must she let go of her legacy?

Two young boys run away from their mother’s protection and slack line on the danger of war to play music with the instrument they always dreamt to have.

An annual battle of Dresden’s culture of commemoration and the question of authority to interpret history breaks out.

Four friends are sitting at a square in Cologne Finkenberg, looking for the right words and punctuation marks for a text message to a girl that will never be sent.