Anja Schneider

After her daughter's fatal accident at a busy intersection, Jenni is confronted with videos on the web of Mia dying. Instead of helping, passersby were filming with their cell phones. The horrific images won't let Jenni go. Horror and rage at the gawkers' pitiless curiosity take her completely captive. There is hardly any room for her grief; instead, she obsessively searches for the accident spectators in order to confront them with the consequences of their sensationalism. She finds what she's looking for – but her first encounters don't help her. No one seems aware of any wrongdoing, or capable of admitting it. Supported by a tough lawyer, Jenni decides to take action against the sensationalists.

Thomas Brasch was born as a German-Jewish emigrant in England in order to move to the young GDR with his family at the beginning of the 1950s. His father Horst is primarily interested in helping to build the new German state. But Thomas prefers to realize himself as a writer and in doing so discovers his potential as a poetic rebel. His very first play was banned and soon afterwards he lost his place at the film school. When the tanks of the Soviet Union roll through the Czech capital Prague in 1968, Brasch and his girlfriend Sanda and other students try to call for protest in the streets of Berlin - and fail. His own father betrays him to the Stasi and allows Thomas to go to prison. After being paroled, he continues to try his hand at poet writing about love, revolt and death. In the GDR, however, you don't want to have anything to do with someone like him.

Five houses, one bus stop, cows and nothing but fields. 24-year-old Christin lives on the farm of her long-term boyfriend Jan. The exciting post-reunification years that defined her childhood are long gone. Her relationship is loveless. She keeps the cherry liqueur close at hand. In the shimmering heat of summer, time seems to stand still – until 46-year-old wind energy engineer, Klaus, arrives.

With their two grown children gone, Anja and Michael Wagner move into their own apartment in the city center. Both are looking forward to their newfound freedom. But when Niklas, their youngest child, is kicked out of his roommate's apartment, he decides to move in with them and his girlfriend.

When Ulja (12) is prevented from pursuing her passion, astronomy, she decides to take matters into her own hands. With a stolen hearse and a 13-year-old classmate as a driver, she makes her way across Eastern Europe to watch the impact of an asteroid. In doing so, she not only has to shake off her persecutors, but also her pragmatic view of friendship and family.

Nora siempre está observando en silencio: en las fiestas, en el instituto, en la piscina y en los tejados. Nora suele vagabundear por los aburridos y monótonos bloques de viviendas con su hermana mayor y sus amigos, siempre observando. Las chicas que quieren ser delgadas y atractivas, los chicos que dicen cosas estúpidas para intentar provocar o porque están enamorados. Las despiadadas cámaras de móviles y los frágiles adolescentes que se diseccionan en ellas. Pero Nora tiene su propia forma de ver el mundo, y cuando conoce a Romy, se da cuenta de por qué. Ella oye música en el aire, el cuerpo de Nora está cambiando, como una mariposa a punto de escapar de su capullo. El primer amor de Nora marcará el comienzo de un verano de intensos cambios.

Four troubled friends who despite the feeling that they live standardized lives share a flat under the sceptical looks of their neighbours.

"Kruso" tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized tourism, the isolated island became a kind of artist colony every year and a place of longing for dropouts and alternatives. Due to its proximity to Denmark, Hiddensee was also the starting point for the flight across the Baltic Sea.

Maik, un muchacho de 14 años marginado por su clase, crece en el seno de una familia rica y disfuncional en Berlín. Durante las vacaciones veraniegas, su alcohólica madre ingresa en rehabilitación mientras su padre se ausenta con su joven ayudante por un presunto viaje de negocios. Maik está solo en casa, en su piscina, hasta que un nuevo compañero de clase llamado Tschick, joven inmigrante ruso, aparece con un coche robado. Juntos se lanzan a la carretera sin plan aparente.

Cuatro amigos, Rico, Daniel, Paul y Mark, han crecido en la Alemania del Este (RDA), en los suburbios de Leipzig. Su entrada en la juventud coincide con la reunificación del país.

All summer long, a group of people circumnavigate each other. A group of people who are so close and yet so alienated from one another. Their isolated holiday home is the site for a resurgence of smouldering conflicts and lifelong illusions that threaten to wreck the family’s fragile unity forever.