Wolfgang Rüter

Ivo works as a palliative home-care nurse. Every day, she visits families, couples and single people. They live in small flats and large houses. They all have different lives and deaths. They all have different ways of dealing with the time that remains. At home, Ivo’s teenage daughter has long since become independent. From morning to night, Ivo drives around in her old Skoda which she has made into her personal living space. Here, she eats her meals, works, sings, swears and dreams. One of her patients, Solveigh, has become a close friend. Ivo has also formed a relationship with Solveigh’s husband, Franz. Day after day, the two work together to care for Solveigh. And they sleep with each other. Solveigh’s strength is diminishing and she soon has to rely on support for the simplest tasks. She wants the final decision to be her own: she wants Ivo to help her die.

Kerstin is in great pain. Her daughter Juliane wants to help her die, but the law forbids it. Jessica Krummacher’s second feature describes the most important of events via tiny details that stay with us and get under our skin.

Basado en una historia real. Steffi, de 16 años, acaba de graduarse de la escuela secundaria y está ansiosa por su viaje de estudios a París, donde le ha prometido a su novio Fabián la noche romántica que lo ha hecho esperar desde que comenzaron a salir. Su plan de por vida para unirse a las fuerzas policiales ya está establecido, lo que significa que su vida adulta está a la vuelta de la esquina. En un chequeo médico de rutina, justo antes del viaje a París, Steffi y sus padres se enfrentan a un diagnóstico demoledor: un cáncer incurable con una esperanza de vida de menos de un año. Mientras que su madre Eva inmediatamente intenta proteger a Steffi sin poder hacer nada, por no hablar de un viaje escolar a París y su padre Frank, un sacerdote protestante, cuestiona todo en lo que él alguna vez creyó, pero Steffi está decidida a deshacerse de su destino condenado.

Hans-Peter (Julius Weckauf) es un niño regordete de nueve años que crece en un entorno familiar seguro y armónico en la Alemania de 1972. Sin embargo, los problemas aparecen cuando su madre, que era una mujer alegre y vital, cae en una depresión tras sufrir una operación. El padre trabaja sin descanso y le deja a menudo al cuidado de sus abuelos, dos personas de gran corazón y con una fuerte personalidad. Gracias a su amor y dedicación, Peter logra sobrevivir al caos emocional de su interior, utilizando su sentido del humor para aliviar sus penas y hacer que la gente se ría con él.

Hilla grows up in the 60s, her father is a worker and her mother a charwoman. But she wants a different future for herself, wants to study. After a violent incident she needs a strong shoulder. Who of her life will do?

Culture-Clash-Comedy about Turkish brides importet into Germany.

This documentary drama recreates some important situations from the political and private life of Konrad Adenauer, former and first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, between 1933 and 1967.

A look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann.

After their mother’s death, three siblings meet up in her apartment – and revert to their childhood family dynamics. They play concentration and enjoy eggnog with their chocolate pudding, making the regression a not entirely unpleasant one … As a blithe "preview" of her debut feature The Terrible Threesome, this short narrative by Hermine Huntgeburth, who grew up with nine brothers and sisters, is a droll portrait of family ties that is as cosy as it is eerie.