Stephan Konken

At the end of a quarry, in a godforsaken place called Rotzloch, a new life begins for four young men.

Speedy, merciless and with plenty of black humor Gasman shows the picture of a man searching for his inner soul.

Speedy, merciless and with plenty of black humor Gasman shows the picture of a man searching for his inner soul.

For Marko, life mainly consists of frozen pizzas and back pain. For almost 30 years, the widower has been hauling frozen goods for the company "Eisland" to the front doors of his mostly older customers. When Marko has to take early retirement due to illness, his life gets into imbalance. Thereby Marko has only one goal: his studying son should have it better one day. Lawyer or judge, that would be something. The main thing is no work where you have to wear a name tag. The decease of an old female customer unexpectedly opens up a whole new business model for Marko. Unfortunately, he reckoned without the nosy neighbors. To make matters worse, his own son also finds out about it. Marko's house of cards threatens to collapse. Then he meets his idol Roland Kaiser at the bar.

For Marko, life mainly consists of frozen pizzas and back pain. For almost 30 years, the widower has been hauling frozen goods for the company "Eisland" to the front doors of his mostly older customers. When Marko has to take early retirement due to illness, his life gets into imbalance. Thereby Marko has only one goal: his studying son should have it better one day. Lawyer or judge, that would be something. The main thing is no work where you have to wear a name tag. The decease of an old female customer unexpectedly opens up a whole new business model for Marko. Unfortunately, he reckoned without the nosy neighbors. To make matters worse, his own son also finds out about it. Marko's house of cards threatens to collapse. Then he meets his idol Roland Kaiser at the bar.

How do you become who you are? Through the slights one experiences, believes freelance journalist and author Dirk Gieselmann. One late evening, he is alone in his apartment. His camera is set up in front of him, with which he records himself. In doing so, he first introduces himself personally and announces that he will call three people. In the telephone calls that follow, he confronts his interlocutors with long-ago encounters, experienced ruthlessness and the accusation that they drove him out of the paradise of childhood. That evening, he wants to know what the reasons were for the slights and hopes to be able to make sense of them. He realizes that his childhood has finally come to an end and remembers the world of thoughts that surrounded him when he was a little boy. Then he receives an unexpected call from his family.

Mona’s days are filled with concern for her mother, a woman broken by her belief that her nightmares are real. In search of answers, Mona arrives in a village where she encounters an old family curse in a strange hotel.

Time as punishment — of juvenile inmates and bodies that become heavy in prescribed spaces.

25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area.

A wild genre mix between a boxer film, urban western, road movie and music video, set at end of the summer holidays in a drab neighborhood in the outskirts of Hamburg suburbia. Young boxing talent Mauser is preparing for a pivotal competition when his father kills his step-mother and flees. Trying to find his father, Mauser embarks on a journey through the world of music, psychedelia, violence, love and a biblical thunderstorm. And what is with the Native American? "Once upon a time in Indian country" is a story that radiates both, heat and poetry.

A wild genre mix between a boxer film, urban western, road movie and music video, set at end of the summer holidays in a drab neighborhood in the outskirts of Hamburg suburbia. Young boxing talent Mauser is preparing for a pivotal competition when his father kills his step-mother and flees. Trying to find his father, Mauser embarks on a journey through the world of music, psychedelia, violence, love and a biblical thunderstorm. And what is with the Native American? "Once upon a time in Indian country" is a story that radiates both, heat and poetry.

"Jürgen - Heute wird gelebt" is about two lonely middle age men that crush together, searching for the woman of their dreams, on the way to Poland.

Inspired by Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, the film follows a prodigal son who returns after 12 years. His reappearance at the family home in rural Azerbaijan significantly alters their way of life.

Lotte is impulsive, rough around the edges and leads a colourful life on the streets of Berlin, stumbling from man to man, flat to flat and bar to bar. A brief encounter with a young girl, Greta, turns her life upside down. Lotte realises she will not be able to run away this time.

Viviane Amsalem se separó hace años de Elisha, su marido, y ahora quiere un divorcio legal para no convertirse en una marginada social. Los matrimonios civiles todavía no existen en Israel; tan solo manda la ley religiosa, que estipula que únicamente el marido puede conceder el divorcio. Sin embargo, Elisha, no está dispuesto a aceptarlo. Viviane tendrá que luchar ante el Tribunal Rabínico para lograr lo que ella considera un derecho. Así se verá inmersa en un proceso de varios años en el que la tragedia competirá con lo absurdo y absolutamente todo se pondrá en tela de juicio.

Despite the threat of war in the fall of 1939, the Germans decide to launch a sea expedition in search of evidence for Pangaea. Although the multi national geologists embark enthusiastically on their research mission, the growing political tension between their countries soon affects their work. With Britain and France declaring war on Germany, the civilian scientists now find themselves mere pawns in a global power struggle.

Alemania, costa del mar Báltico, mayo de 1945, unos días antes del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una pequeña patrulla soviética llega a una casa aislada donde una anciana baronesa da refugio a un grupo de niñas huérfanas y a un niño que está decidido a continuar con la lucha.

Alemania, costa del mar Báltico, mayo de 1945, unos días antes del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una pequeña patrulla soviética llega a una casa aislada donde una anciana baronesa da refugio a un grupo de niñas huérfanas y a un niño que está decidido a continuar con la lucha.

A middle class young man rebels against his father’s brutish authority and seeks a rough romance with a woman of ethnic minority. Yuce’s moral tale draws from the example of today’s Turkish youth and the timeless shadow of fathers over sons.

Baviera, Alemania, años cincuenta. El repentino regreso de la joven Kathrin al pequeño pueblo donde nació despierta los sentimientos de culpa y los fantasmas personales de sus habitantes, perseguidos por oscuros recuerdos relacionados con un asesinato múltiple ocurrido dos años antes en la granja Tannöd, un horrendo crimen que no ha sido resuelto.

Baviera, Alemania, años cincuenta. El repentino regreso de la joven Kathrin al pequeño pueblo donde nació despierta los sentimientos de culpa y los fantasmas personales de sus habitantes, perseguidos por oscuros recuerdos relacionados con un asesinato múltiple ocurrido dos años antes en la granja Tannöd, un horrendo crimen que no ha sido resuelto.

Desde que la biosfera se colapsó en la Tierra, la mayoría de personas viven en estaciones espaciales cada vez más llenas. La única esperanza para escapar de este caos es RHER, un planeta paradisíaco que se encuentra a 5 años luz de distancia. La historia del film sucede en el viejo buque espacial Kassandra, en su camino hacia la estación 42. La joven médico Laura es la única despierta a bordo, el resto de la tripulación se encuentra durmiendo en estado de hibernación. Laura estará 4 meses así, durante sus patrullas diarias por la nave, la chica empezará a creer que no se encuentra sola a bordo. Una misión de descubrimiento en la oscura y fría bodega de carga acaba en catástrofe. Ahora toda la tripulación ha despertado, y un juego del gato y el ratón empezará donde nada es lo que parece ¿Qué ocultan los extraños contenedores de carga y que ó quien se encuentra junto a ellos a bordo?

As young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, him to material wealth on Oslo's west side, her to an average family on the east side. In contrast to her younger brother, Yanne remembers their journey to Norway, but she has no idea where he might be now.

Narra la vida del legendario y tembile Genghis Khan desde su esclavitud hasta que conquistó la mitad del mundo, incluyendo Rusia en 1206. Una superproducción de corte épico que fue seleccionada por Kazajstán como candidata al Oscar a la mejor película de habla no inglesa.

En el Belgrado de la posguerra conviven las las viejas y las nuevas formas de corrupción, al tiempo que el abismo entre ricos y pobres es cada vez más profundo. La reciente guerra, tan cruel e implacable ha desencadenado en la ciudad una especie de desierto moral y existencial. En ese contexto, la situación de la familia Mladen es muy dramática: a su hijo Nemanja le diagnostican una grave afección cardíaca, y los médicos insisten en que sea operado en el extranjero. Conseguir el dinero necesario es casi imposible. Sin embargo, cuando la familia está ya al borde de la desesperación, el padre conoce a un hombre dispuesto a proporcionarle esa cantidad a cambio de que mate a su rival en los negocios.

Humble and introvert Muharrem lives in a solitary and meager existence of a prayer and sexual abstinence adhering strictly to the most severe Islamic doctrines.His extraordinary devotion attracts the attention of the leader of a rich and powerful Istanbul religious group and he offers him an administrative post as a rent collector for their numerous properties. Muharrem's new job throws him into the modern outside world he has successfully avoided for so long. He soon witnesses conflict attitude toward alcohol consumption and goodwill.He notices that he himself has become proud, domineering and even dishonest.To make matters worse, Muharrem's inner peace is unnerved by the tormenting image of seductive woman who tempts him in his dreams,both night and day.With the balance of his devotion now upset,his fear of God begins to eat away at his senses.

The young girls Kate and Echo live in their own land of make believe. When one of them stumbles across the real world, their friendship faces a serious challenge.

1986 - The protest movement against the construction of the nuclear power plant in Brokdorf is on its last legs. Only one rural commune remains: the "Alternative Wohnkollektiv Regenbogen". For them, it could go on and on with endless consensus discussions, shearing sheep and naked communal bathing. One day, the lowland communards are joined by two city dwellers, Hanne and her son Niels. While Hanne gets used to scream therapy and raising vegetables surprisingly quickly - and even more quickly to the tantra games with commune guru Peter - Niels has less and less desire for the dogmatic commune rules. Out of defiance, he joins the violent nuclear power plant resistance, thus upsetting the tranquil chaos of the commune. The big bang, however, comes when a reactor explodes in distant Chernobyl. Exactly on the day Bobby Ewing dies, the petroleum prince from "Dallas" and series favorite of the commune.

An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.

The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the 90's. The fast changing city around them makes them wish to break with all traditions and live the day the get married (only civil marriage) like it is an ordinary day.

Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic cannibal family who want to turn them into sausages.

Lisboa, 1989: Un pobre diablo de mediana edad vive en el cuarto de una pensión barata y familiar, en el casco antiguo de la ciudad. Atormentado por una enfermedad y por vicisitudes de orden diverso, el idiota, que se alimenta de Schubert y quizás de una vaga cinefilia como forma de resistencia frente a la miseria, es puesto de patitas en la calle tras un intento frustrado de atentar contra la virtud de la hija de la dueña de la pensión. Solo y privado de recursos, se ve confrontado con la dureza del espacio urbano y es internado en un hospicio, de donde saldrá con la firme determinación propia del hombre libre, y con una misión “rica y extraña” que le ha sido encomendada por un viejo amigo, enfermo mental como él: “!Ve y dales trabajo!”.

Laura lives in the country with her considerably older husband. When Nuno, her brother who study in Lisbon, pays a visit, he realizes that his sister does not have a happy life. He initiates a friendship with a worker on the farm. The circumstances turn Laura and Nuno against each other... Portrays the repressed sexuality and homosexual desire in a rural setting and elliptically and delicately the small farming community that serves as the backdrop for the impossible relationships pursued by Laura and her brother.