Sophie Rois

Wunderkind, scandalous author, traitor to the fatherland, fury of the theater, feminist, fashion-lover, communist, pessimist, language terrorist, rebel, enfant terrible, nest fouler, brilliant, vulnerable artist, Nobel laureate. This film about Elfriede Jelinek, who in 2004 became the first Austrian author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, focuses on her artistic approach to language. The montage of archive material with voiceovers and interviews, some of them recently recorded, is told from Jelinek’s point of view.

Anna is 60 and her acting heyday is now behind her. She lives on her own but has a friend and confidant in her downstairs neighbour Michel, who is also single. Reluctantly, Anna accepts a job as a language coach for 17-year-old Adrian who has a speech impediment and is something of a misfit. She recognises him as the boy who recently snatched her handbag in the street.

Judge Praetorius-Camusot’s legal routines are interrupted when the ghost of a member of the Paris Commune turns up at an event celebrating German-French relations. An anarchic comedy about the origins of German criminal law and much, much more.

Ida es nueva en la ciudad y le cuesta mucho hacer amigos. Un día, su extraña maestra de clase, la señorita Cornfield, anuncia que todos en la clase pronto tendrán un animal mágico que los acompañará. Ida escoge al zorro Rabbat. Benni, al igual que Ida también una forastera, escoge a la tortuga Henrietta como nueva compañera. Pero esos animales son algo muy especial: no solo tienen habilidades mágicas, ¡también pueden hablar y desarrollar su propio carácter!

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.

La historia del austriaco Franz Jägerstätter, objetor de conciencia, que se negó a luchar para los nazis durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y acabó siendo ejecutado por ellos en 1943, para ser declarado mártir y beatificado por la Iglesia.

Anna Bronsky (Nina Hoss) es una profesora que enseña violín en en el conservatorio. Aunque el resto del consejo escolar no está de acuerdo, Anna lucha para que un alumno entre en el centro, ya que cree que tiene un gran talento. A partir de entonces volcará todos sus esfuerzos y su tiempo en él, llegando a desatender a su propia familia.

Phoebe Phaidon works as a climatologist at an institute of cybernetics which is about to be shut down. So there has to be a solution in the form of a successful evaluation. The strategy consultants now work against the student movement in a virtual reality. Turmoils start.

Stefan Gabriel is an active father always looking at life positively. While he tries to give back to society, his daughters Jessica (12) and Sabrina (15) struggle with their own problems. Jessica is often mistaken for a boy and has to deal with her many ticks. She would happily swap places with Sabrina, who, despite her illness, appears to have her life completely under control. But the more Sabrina’s health worsens, the worse Jessica’s ticks become. The girls need a plan and fast. They come across a special ritual in an old book, which could be their rescue. But the girls first have to find a boy to sleep with Sabrina. They don’t have much time left and Jessica puts all she has got into implementing the life-saving plan, no matter how crazy it may be.

Maximilian (August Zirner) es un psicoterapeuta popular, pero como tal, no solo lucha con sus propias preocupaciones y problemas, sino también con los de sus muchos pacientes.

Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1992-2017. The end of the GDR gave rise to new artistic freedoms in reunited Berlin. Shortly after the fall of the Wall, rebel director Frank Castorf was appointed artistic director of the Volksbühne. His way of working altered the public’s perception of this theater. The chronological history of the Castorf era between 1992 and 2017 is told here in excerpts from the productions and in a series of conversations conducted on the long sofa in the theater's foyer.

Documentary about human hair, including its political significance.

After several strokes of fate ends a rage eruption of the otherwise so quiet power engineering technician Felix Grünler with a criminal complaint for assault. A grateful affair for his sister-in-law Karin, who forges an intrigue to gain the inheritance of her mother-in-law. She succeeds in having Felix admitted to psychiatry as incompetent. He is determined not to get into therapy. For doctors, this confirms the picture of the labile patient. But in the other patients Felix gives his consistent anti-attitude in the long run benevolent recognition.

Un niño de 11 años llega a un colegio de chicos que se ve inmerso en una competición de gamberradas con el colegio de chicas. Debido a una de estas bromas, las chicas se mudarán al colegio masculino.

Molly Monster es la única y querida hija de Popo y Etna Monster. Su vida transcurre en el entorno familiar, jugando con su mejor amigo Edison, un juguete de cuerda que tiene vida propia. Pero cuando su madre pone un huevo, que empollará el padre, Molly emprende un viaje que cambiará su lugar en la familia. El viaje la llevará lejos de casa, cruzando las Montañas Muy Muy Salvajes, hasta la isla del Huevo, donde se reunirá con papá y mamá y su nuevo hermanito minimonstruo.

En mayo de 1945, un grupo de soldados de infantería del ejército norteamericano entraron en la casa familiar del comandante de las SS Heinrich Himmler, incautando cientos de cartas privadas, documentos y fotografías. Este documental revela el contenido de dicho material. Vanessa Lapa, periodista y realizadora nacida en Bélgica, vive desde 1995 en Israel, donde ha realizado cientos de reportajes para la TV israelita. (FILMAFFINITY)

Antigua Alemania del Este a principios de los años ochenta. Paul eststafó a Georg para que le entregará a ela su novia Anna. Pero el pacto eos habian estipulado que Georg podía teneral de vuelta cuando el desee. Los años pasana, Anna y Paul tienen exito estan casados y con dos niños. Pero Georg aparece y el no ha olvidado el pacto.

A new film about Molly Monster and her best friend Edison. Christmas is approaching, and all the monsters in monster land are getting ready for the big day. One night, Molly and Edison find out about the mysterious Christmas monster. They set off on a journey to find him. Will they succeed? And will they make it back home in time for the celebrations?

Berlín. Época actual. Hanna y Simon son una pareja que viven juntos desde hace años. El amor, el trabajo, el sexo y la vida cotidiana se entremezclan en una combativa armonía. Son atractivos, modernos, maduros, sin niños, cultivados y con los pies en la tierra. Pero Hanna conoce a Adam. Y Adam conoce a Simon. E inesperadamente los tres se enamoran.

Early evening - a big city. Two teenagers shyly flirt with each other, a housewife sits down to watch her daily soap, nurses in a hospital gossip before the nightshift starts, a trendy couple drives through rush hour, so excited they can hardly wait to get home - a man with a rifle enters a building seeking revenge. In the blink of an eye seemingly unrelated events turn upside down what were once secure, happy, 'normal' lives. Behind fear, beyond the unexpected, there is love and hope.

On the escape of the violent Poles 1946, the child of Rosemarie get lost. And Rosemaries tries to find her daughter.

Alexander Kluge's News from Ideological Antiquity begins with Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein's ambitious but unrealized plan to combine Karl Marx's Capital and James Joyce's Ulysses. For over nine hours, the film expands in concentric circles as Kluge, his guests, interlocutors and monologists make associative links on a range of topics that starts from a filmic discussion of Eisenstein's notes.

Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuring every completed building against the rightness of his original idea. Soon Georg himself is forced to take stock of the achievements and mistakes he has made in his personal life. An intense drama in which the four members of the family travel to a mountain village to bury Georg's mother. They get stranded in bad weather. This unexpected isolation throws new light on the past and present life of the parents and the two almost-adult children.

Unites grotesque elements, tempo, quiet dream sequences, the thrill of a detective story, but above all, he manages to capture the temperature of an actor ensemble that throws itself into the world of Dostoyevsky with immense pleasure and passion.

A dog who was named after the Beatles album, inherits his master's fortune. His owner's two children, however, devise a plan to make off with his wealth.

'Clemence M. Schönborn"s first feature film is a typical Austrian black comedy, dealing with an easy-going forty-something, who likes playing games with others, which has serious consequences... Phyllis, in her early 40s, still lives together with her mother, whom she loves and hates at the same time. When she gets to know Henry, supporting actor of a soap opera, she pretends to love him, but sleeps with the show's lead actor Walter, whom she finally runs over with her car, which makes Henry the show's new star - and the new lover of the lead actress Doris. However, Phyllis isn't done with him...

18-year-old school boy Helmut falls in love with fellow pupil Britta. He starts working for a Peace movement to get to know Britta. Britta, however, suddenly moves to San Francisco to live with her father and whilst there, finds a new boyfriend. Helmut studies, literature and politics in his home town and have a relationship with another girl from his former school, now studying medicine at the same university but they break up after having an affair with her roommate. Helmut begins a lot of short affairs with different women but still searches for his first girl.

Mientras los ejércitos de Alemania y la Unión Soviética luchan encarnizadamente y el mundo espera con ansiedad el desenlace de la batalla de Stalingrado, un francotirador ruso, Vassili Zaitsev, persevera en la empresa de eliminar a sus enemigos uno por uno. Modesto y reservado, Vassili es un hombre corriente que simplemente cumple con su deber con una destreza extraordinaria. Danilov -el oficial encargado de la propaganda soviética- se da cuenta del enorme valor de este antiguo campesino, y convierte al sencillo pastor de los Urales en un héroe nacional

In the last house just behind the western borders of Russia, between Paris/Texas and Korleput/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cindy Sherman, Dogma 95 and Duma 2000, Frank Castorf directs his virst video production "Dämonen" ("Demons") as a sort of post-Soviet-panslavistic panopticon in his own dramaturgy based on Dostojewski's "Demons" and Camus' "The Posessed". All that in set designer Bert Neumann's industrial-designed bungalow (with swimming pool) built onto forbidding landscape.

Two young and attractive social workers/nuns bring fresh air into a city missionary station, but are also challenged by lust and money, offered by a millionaire.

Austria, años treinta. En el campo aparece el cadáver degollado de un viejo terrateniente despótico y a su lado una anciana desconocida que, supuestamente, es la autora del crimen. Para sorpresa de todos, en su testamento el hacendado divide la herencia entre siete de sus jornaleros, al parecer, con el objetivo de que se enfrenten por la tierra.

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.

Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling cigarettes in Germany during the weekend. One thing leads to another, and soon she finds herself pregnant. Then her life starts falling apart, when Andrzei tells her he already has a wife back in Poland and her baby dies shortly after its premature birth.

Nine persons sign up for a self-awareness course at an isolated country estate. Dr. Romero, a charismatic therapist, and his assistants confront the patients with their problems. Cut off from the rest of the world, the participants are increasingly drawn into the therapy's spell.

"The Devil's General" - A post war Germany pick up the involuntarily knowledge about the "black hole" of the 1950s.

Basada en el famoso cómic de König. En un hotel de Nueva York un tutor chantajea a una estudiante para ir a la cama con él, pero cuando éste se pone un condón, el condón le arranca el pene con los dientes y desaparece. El detective Mackaroni lleva el caso, pensando que la chica ha atacado al profesor. Va al hotel y acaba en una habitación con un gigoló, pero de repente están interrumpidos por el asalto del condón asesino.

A young student travels through Europe as a sleeping car attendant.

Comedy drama about one of life's perennial losers who finally strikes it lucky with a beautiful woman, but not before experiencing the usual seemingly endless pitfalls.

Die Brüder Kipp (Joachim Król) und Most (Horst Krause) machen sich auf den Weg, um das Gut ihrer Oma zu erben. Auf diesem Weg begegnen sie Viktor (Konstantin Kotljarov), einem desertierten russischen Soldaten, der die beiden kidnappt und Nadine (Sophie Rois), die sich ihnen freiwillig anschließt. Zwischendurch gibt es noch einen Zusammenstoß mit Straßenrowdies, was diesen allerdings nicht gerade gut bekommt. Auf ihrem Weg zum Erbe (oder was davon übrig bleibt) geraten die Protagonisten in manche scheinbar ausweglose Situation.

OSTKREUZ tells the episodic story of 15-year-old Elfie, who literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany.

A young customs officer is bored by his job and his situation at all. He tries to have some fun, but in a way that nobody else can enjoy. The situation changes when he decides to let his too long hair be cut.

American social psychologist, Ben Monroe investigates a local cult connected to a disturbing event. While he immerses himself into his work, his rebellious teenage daughter, Mazzy, gets involved with a mysterious local boy, who introduces her to the city’s underground party scene. As these two worlds head towards an intersection, Mazzy finds herself in great danger and Ben will need to race against the clock to save her.