Peter Schneider

On a beautiful spring day, a small village full of eccentric characters wake up to hear Selma has had a premonition: she dreamt of a rare animal again – an okapi. All the village knows this means someone is about to die. Selma’s granddaughter, 11-year-old Luise, and her best friend Martin look on as fears of being the victim of the prophecy throw the village into a frenzy of confusion. But when the premonition comes true, it is young Luise’s world that is suddenly turned upside down. Ten years on from the event that changed her life, Luise lives a quiet life working in a bookstore, until the arrival of an unexpected guest enables her to rediscover how powerful and life-giving love can be.

It's 1989 in East Berlin: Suzie is kicked out of school shortly before she graduates from high school and has to defend herself as a worker in the cable factory. However, a randomly taken photo leads them to the fashion world of the GDR. The editor-in-chief Elsa Wilbrodt put them on the cover of Sibylle, the fashion magazine of the GDR. In the Berlin underground scene she made the acquaintance of the gay fashion designer Rudi and the photographer Coyote. Suzie must decide if she's brave enough to leave the old strands behind forever.

13 de agosto de 1961: Los pasajeros del tren interzonal de Múnich a Berlín Oriental aprenden tres horas y media antes de cruzar la frontera que se está construyendo el Muro en Berlín. Tienen 3 horas y media para tomar una decisión que les cambiará la vida: bajarse del tren o seguir adelante.

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

Durante su práctica, en una remota clínica siquiátrica de la región de Allgäu, la joven estudiante de psicología, Lea, se sumerge en un misterioso mundo de métodos terapéuticos poco ortodoxos y tradiciones demoníacas.

In Hamburg's Elbtunnel, a man is shot in the middle of a traffic jam in his car. The murder victim obviously belonged to a group trying to discover abandoned places first. The investigators suspect an act of revenge by a competitor.

After the death of their child, the Hradschek couple consoled themselves with gambling and shopping orgies. After the creditor increases the pressure on them, Ursel and Abel decide to kill him.

En su salvaje búsqueda de amor, la energía salvaje de Benni, de 9 años, lleva a todos a su alrededor a la desesperación.

Klaus works voluntary as a Santa Claus in a shopping mall. After an exhausting day, he considers to hang up his job. But then, he gets a call from the children's intensive care unit.

The real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR.

"Kruso" tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized tourism, the isolated island became a kind of artist colony every year and a place of longing for dropouts and alternatives. Due to its proximity to Denmark, Hiddensee was also the starting point for the flight across the Baltic Sea.

A shoe theft in the ICE is the prelude to a wild kaleidoscope of relationships and dependencies between different urban people who relish as in a cobweb fidget.

Paula Rom and her family live in the suburb of a small city - happily and approved by society. Their average and inconspicuous life changes totally, when her 15 years old son shoots ten of his classmates and kills himself afterwards. From that day nothing is how it used to be. The whole family has to struggle with the anger and sorrow of the people around them. They need to deal with the assassination and the circumstances, how it could come to the disaster out of nowhere.

Inge and Ludwig are full-time farmers in the Black Forest, with dairy cows and a dairy. Everything organic, all the highest quality. Despite the hard work, it is a fulfilling life. Would not it be the financial situation. As much as the two work, the debts devour them, the farm is endangered. Inge decides to look for a part-time job. When the opportunity arises to start with an escort service, she gets involved. And the plan works. But the relationship is put to the test when one of Inge's clients falls in love with her and the situation escalates.

Una gerente de un supermercado de Ahlbeck en la isla de Usedom, aparece muerta en el vecino centro turístico polaco de Swinemünde. La inspectora Julia Thiel y su colega polaco Marek lo investigan.

Un excampeón de boxeo de la Alemania del Este se ve forzado a trabajar haciendo encargos para un recolector de deudas. Pero su vida cambia cuando le es diagnosticada una enfermedad terminal.

Cuando un grupo de prisioneros es transferido al campo de concentración de Auschwitz, un niño judío de cuatro años aparece en el campo dentro de una maleta. Un grupo de prisioneros decide ocultar y proteger al niño. (FILMAFFINITY)

Cuatro amigos, Rico, Daniel, Paul y Mark, han crecido en la Alemania del Este (RDA), en los suburbios de Leipzig. Su entrada en la juventud coincide con la reunificación del país.

A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the point of view of the confused border guards.

Karin Lossow es exfiscal. Su hija, Julia Thiel, trabaja como comisaria en la isla báltica de Usedom. Juntas, investigan los crímenes que ha habido en la isla.

Verano de 1788 en Rudolstadt, una pequeña ciudad rural de Alemania. La hermosa Caroline von Beulwitz está infelizmente casada, deseando amar y vivir plenamente. Charlotte von Lengefeld, su tímida hermana, sueña con encontrar un marido. Las dos son un solo corazón y una sola alma, hasta que él entra en sus vidas: Friedrich Schiller, el poeta que escribió "The Robbers", que se convirtió en una sensación de la noche a la mañana, y adalid de los ideales republicanos protorrevolucionarios. Durante el cálido verano, las dos mujeres compiten por él.

Short film about family relations.

Each year in June, Bavarian housewife Elke Richter visits family in Halle, in the GDR. There she meets family friend Gregor Pohl, a married carpenter, and they begin having an affair. After her family stops the annual visits due to the husband's promotion in the communist regime, the adulterous couple arranges to meet on other holidays. After Gorbachev's Glasnost leads to the fall of the Iron Curtain, everything changes, and Gregor chooses to emigrate to Canada.

Two misfit males, one man-child, one boy, find each other, building a small cabin in the woods to create a new life. Their daily struggle for survival creates a strong bond between them until the hut is destroyed and one of the boys carted off. The former psychiatric patient is told that his friend was just a figment of his imagination, but this provokes him to fight back and prove the boy's existence.

David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller, the real author introduces himself and begins to take over David's life.

Martin Karow es Dj Ickarus, un disc-jockey y productor de electro en la cresta de la ola. Sus noches transcurren en clubs de techno alrededor del mundo y sus días de aeropuerto en aeropuerto. Le acompaña Mathilde, su manager y novia. Ambos se encuentran en plena producción del próximo álbum de Ickarus cuando, tras una de sus actuaciones, Martin acaba en los servicios de urgencia de un hospital psiquiátrico berlinés debido a los excesos con las drogas. Durante los días que deberá pasar internado, continúa trabajando en su disco, pero su situación personal comienza a resultar demasiado frustrante. La compañía discográfica no parece demasiado interesada en publicar su trabajo y, tras escaparse del hospital, se entrega a un orgiástico fin de semana en compañía de una de sus fans. La espiral autodestructiva en la Martin se ha situado parece no tener fin y, de nuevo, ingresará en el hospital, esta vez por propia voluntad.

Alemania, década de los 70: violentos atentados terroristas sacuden los cimientos de la todavía frágil democracia alemana. Los hijos radicalizados de la generación nazi, dirigidos por Andreas Baader (Moritz Bleibtreu), Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck) y Gudrun Ensslin (Johanna Wokalek) libran una guerra mortal contra lo que consideran el nuevo rostro del fascismo: el imperialismo americano respaldado por el gobierno alemán. Su objetivo es crear una sociedad más humana pero, al emplear medios inhumanos, no sólo provocan terror y muerte, sino que ellos mismos se vuelven inhumanos. El hombre encargado de darles caza, el jefe de la policía alemana Horst Herold (Bruno Ganz), en el fondo los comprende. Y, aunque triunfa en su implacable persecución de los jóvenes terroristas, sabe que no representan más que la punta del iceberg.

Lulu, the daughter of musician Hermann Simon, is looking for something she feels is missing from her life. She delves into the past and is transported to the lives of her ancestors via dreamlike sequences that show the hopes and realities of her female relations over the course of an entire century. Heimat Fragments is an intoxicating trip into the lives of venerable characters from different periods in Lulu's family history, from long-forgotten scenes of war to every day family life on the farm. This gripping film shows fragments of the lives that shaped her own. Her gaze into the past does not simply signal the end of her youth, it means the beginning of a newly gained freedom.

Making of documentary from the 50th Anniversary.

Based on the story by Jeremas Gotthelf, this horror film direct by Mark M. Rissi features the hallucinations of a woman after a drug raid gone.