Rike Eckermann

Berlin at the end of the 19th Century. Alexander Hoffmann is an ambitious PhD student of Ethnology. When a delegation of the Herero and Nama tribes travels to Berlin during a ‘Colonial Exhibition’, he takes a special interest in their young female translator Kezia Kambazembi as subject for his studies.

Isn’t the trajectory of a shared life determined in advance? Get married, have kids, be like everyone else… According to Dietrich Brüggemann, who competed in Vary six years ago, 30-somethings conceivably have it all, yet they fail in their attempts to achieve their set ideals. Nö delivers a critique of contemporary values, while also highlighting the struggle to find and nurture love.

Ben wakes up from an artificial coma after a failed mission. The personal protector has to deal with the fact that he could not prevent the death of a little girl. In order to recover, the BKA officer takes a break from the police service and drives to the Baltic Sea with his girlfriend Marion. He spent happy days there as a child. The first visit to his parents in years is at the same time the return to the place of painful memories, because back then his best friend Timmi was killed in a mysterious accident. To his astonishment, he now learns that Timmi, now an adult, is alive and lying in a hospital as a coma patient. Together with Marion, a doctor who specializes in this diseases, Ben wants to reach Timmi with the help of MRI technology. Perhaps the trauma can be resolved if the cause can be brought to light. Unlike Ben, however, neither Timmi's father nor the village cop Nolting seem interested in it. A web of guilt, lies and deception has to be unraveled to clue to the puzzle.

Narra la historia del encuentro entre un famoso actor y un vecino de lo más peculiar. Sus conversaciones tienen lugar en el único escenario de un bar de barrio donde comparten confidencias y abordan temas como la gentrificación y la desigualdad social en Berlín.

Film by Jan Bonny, also known as "Endlich Leben".

Sarah and her parents celebrate her confirmation. But instead of eating the lobster on her plate, Sarah hides it under the table. When her father finds the lobster there, he draws the consequences.

SHH is the story of friendship being put to the test. On the night of a school party, four girlfriends are waiting to be questioned by the school's principal. The bond between the girls appears to be strong and unbreakable. One of them however seems to be under more pressure than the rest.

Desesperado, hambriento, aterido de hipotermia y huido de su pelotón, el soldado raso Willi Herold encuentra un uniforme de capitán y decide cambiar su identidad. A partir de entonces actúa como un alto rango en una misión secreta encomendada por el mismísimo Führer. Su suplantación le conducirá a los placeres y los infiernos de su nueva personalidad proactiva, hasta formar un grupo de soldados perdidos que actuarán a sus órdenes sembrando el horror entre la población inocente, actuando con impunidad en su viaje a la degradación moral, el mesianismo nazi y la perversión de la barbarie.

Bodo is standing on the top of a roof and ready to jump, when suddenly his phone is ringing...

Anja y Frank están disfrutando de sus vacaciones en familia navegando en el Mar Báltico. Anja deja a sus dos hijos pequeños solos en el bote por un momento y cuando regresa, no están por ningún lado.

Berlín Oriental, otoño de 1989. Wilhelm Powileit cumple 90 años, pero afronta con estoica indiferencia la fiesta organizada por este motivo en su honor. Exiliado durante el nazismo y acérrimo militante de la causa comunista toda su vida, el anciano recibe un homenaje tardío al que acuden familia, vecinos y antiguos camaradas. A pesar de la aparente alegría de la celebración, todos son conscientes de que el régimen comunista se desmorona sin remedio. Y un nieto de Wilhelm acaba de huir a Alemania Occidental.

The former bank robber Wanja is released from a long prison sentence. As her feelings of loneliness escalate, Wanja sets out to find work and hereby a new identity. Against all odds she lands an internship at a horse race track. In the stable she gets to know the troubled teenager Emma, and a strong friendship develops between the two women. When Emma slips deeper into her own drug abuse, Wanja decides to rescue her.

Empezar de cero, comenzar una vida nueva y dejar el pasado y la tristeza atrás. Eso pretendieron en los años setenta Nelly Senff (Jordis Triebel) y su hijo Alexei (Tristan Globel) cuando escaparon de Berlín Oriental para buscar un futuro en la Alemania del Oeste, supuestamente más hedonista y menos represiva.

While on a GPS treasure hunt in the Palatinate forest four teenagers come across an old US military radio tower station. Back in the days of the Cold War it was part of a secret military program that produced horrific side effects, but has long since abandoned. Until now, when the station is mysteriously powered up again.

Master painter Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Ms. Wellinek and her husband, and the German-Russian Jew Yevgenia have many things to live on: food, drink, an apartment. What they do not have is work. They all discover the yearning for a chance to start all over again and bring themselves back to life.