Martin Heisler

In a dystopian 2054, three young rebels go on a journey to find traces of the long lost beauty of nature, hoping to discover what happened to their planet.

Colombia, 1990’s. A single mother attempts to keep her family together after her son is drafted by the army and assigned to the front in the country’s most dangerous war zone. To do this, she embarks on a journey against time in a society ruled by men, corruption and violence.

A house by the lake near Berlin: this is where former pop star Arthur Weyer, 75, and his wife Elsa, who is ten years his junior, spent many happy hours. But that is a long time ago. The couple separated four years ago - Arthur had fallen in love with a much younger woman. This relationship failed since Arthur fell ill with dementia. Despite all the bitterness, Elsa still feels responsible for Arthur and is looking for a place in a nursing home. In order to be able to finance this, the house on the lake has to be sold - but against Arthur's will. For clearing out and repairs, the two hire 45-year-old Sorin, who lives alone on a houseboat and works as a DJ. Sorin and Arthur get along great right away. First, there are violent arguments between Elsa and Sorin. But slowly Elsa and Sorin are getting closer. Suddenly things are brought up that have been repressed for years.

If there is such a thing as a family memory that carries forward over the course of history, then it determines the actions of every generation. The director tells the story of the women in her family, set amongst Walchensee, hippie dreams and the commune surrounding Rainer Langhans.

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.

Janik and Samuel are best friends and enjoy the end of high school. Their worlds are different: Janik has parents who always do everything right, while Samuel comes from a broken home. Samuel wants order, Janik wants chaos. A thoughtless moment puts the close bond between the two friends in jeopardy. As they set off on their long-planned trip to Istanbul, the boys are looking to save their friendship, enjoy their freedom and try out a new life.

Sascha trabaja hace varios años en “Queens”, uno de los muchos burdeles legales de Berlín. Maria es la chica nueva, independiente, inconformista y queer. Sascha se siente inmediatamente atraída por esa alteridad. Maria, a su vez, está fascinada por la absoluta calma con la que Sascha enfrenta la vida. En un ámbito en el que la feminidad se considera una mercancía, ellas experimentan juntas un único momento en el que la felicidad parece posible. Pero la relación comienza a desmoronarse debido a los miedos a mostrarse mutuamente su verdadero yo y a enfrentar sus propios abismos.

In the Texan “Hands on a Hardbody” competition, contestants stand around a new pickup truck for days, touching it with one hand. Whoever holds out the longest wins the truck.

La vida de Anfi es una batalla constante. Su trabajo en la construcción no le da el suficiente dinero para mantener a su familia y además se está hartando de él. Por si fuera poco tratar de sobrevivir, su agresivo carácter no ayuda a que las cosas sean un poco más sencillas. Para evitar ser expulsado de su casa, Andi debe reunir 5.000 Euros. Su mujer Sonja, la madre de su hoja Fiou, la más pequeña de los tres, quiere ayudar. Sin embargo, cuando Andie descubre que está dispuesta a emplear sus ahorros para ayudarle, éste entra en cólera. Recibe entonces un ultimátum: o paga la casa o dejará de ver a Fiou. Su único talento está en el boxeo, por lo que decide centrarse en entrenar para participar en un torneo amateur que le podría proporcionar el dinero que tanto necesita

Four girls living in the lonely vastness of the USA share one passion: The wild world of rodeo. Although they move about in the powerful imagery of the American prairie and the myths of the Wild West, they give it new resonance and break free of it. In a world which used to belong to their fathers and brothers, they prove that "you ride like a girl" is not an insult but a compliment.

It's the summer of 1990, two teenagers in Germany fall in love - an innocent first love, shortly before the German reunification. Katja (16) is from West-Berlin, Thorben (17) from GDR. Their families are fighting over a house in Kleinmachnow (a suburb of East-Berlin), where Thorbens family has been living since the 70ies, but where Katjas father grew up. The family had to emigrate to West-Berlin in 1961, just before the Berlin Wall was built. Later, the house was dispossessed under GDR-rule. Now, Katjas father demands restitution. The conflict grows bitterer and threatens to tear apart both families. It is about old wounds and new prejudices. While being in the middle of Germanys swiftly progressing process of reunification, Katja and Thorben have to fight for their love.

Astrid is in her late forties and has her life firmly under control. She has fallen in love with Paul, and their first weekend trip together takes them to Budapest for a few romantic days, just the two of them. But in the Hungarian capital things happen differently than they'd planned: They run into Julius, Astrid's first great love, whom she'd met at an artists' party in East Germany in 1986.

A portrait of Berlin’s most famous bouncers – Sven Marquardt, Frank Künster and Smiley Baldwin. The three men have been part and parcel of the capital’s club scene for more than 25 years – from the days after the fall of the Berlin Wall to the present day – but aren’t yet considering calling it a day even though life makes more demands on them as they turn 50.

Karl, a 17-year-old boy who spends most of his time collecting pictures and videos for his blog, finds a new purpose when he falls in love with his fellow student Doro.

A coming-of-age tale with a difference about the grumpy doctor Annebarbel Buschhaus donning her ice skates again at the age of 58 after an absence of 40 years. Back on the ice, she tries to revive long suppressed childhood dreams – and makes a new friend, Jolina Kuhn, Berlin’s youth figure skating champion. Through her new friend, Annebarbel begins to open up and break away from her dominant mother.

La historia de Morris Gentry, un joven de 13 años que acaba de llegar con su padre Curtis a Heidelberg, Alemania. Morris, que se ve a sí mismo como el próximo Notorious B.I.G., es un completo pez fuera del agua y a la vez, estrella de hip-hop en ciernes en el mundo EDM. Para complicar más su mundo, Morris se enamora perdidamente de la fresca y rebelde Katrin, una compañera de clase de 15 años. Morris decide contra todo pronóstico tomar el mundo del hip-hop y conseguir a la chica de sus sueños.

Documentary about the audition process at an acting school in Hannover, Germany.

Cem is mid 20's and is making its voluntary service in the retirement home. There he falls in love with Astrid, which helps as a dance therapist residents to renewed vigor. And Cem loves Berlin-Neukölln. There he grew up, and he wants his neighborhood defend: against Nazis, speculators and displacement. But how to do that anyway? Who are the real enemy here? And how does the fight? a compensation Cem looking at his other great passion, football. In one game he gets violently with Roman together. Roman threatens him. The next day the windows are smashed in the restaurant from Cems parents. An Accident? Cem swears revenge. But the battle is attracting larger circles. When Astrid gets suddenly targeted by novel, the conflict escalates dramatically. Suddenly a matter of life and death.

An android from the future sets out to find the Last King and record his voice for posterity - it's the most beautiful voice the world has ever heard. The year is 2020, and the King is about to sing.