Esther Bernstorff

From her childhood, Nadia felt responsible for her mentally disturbed and recently homeless mother, Irene. For a while Nadia had cut off all contact with Irene and tried to live her life, until Irene suddenly appears drunk at the wedding of her son, Mickey. Nadia sinks back into this quagmire of love and hate, responsibility, guilt and shame. She gathers her strength to find a home for her mother while at the same time she hides from her partner, Ian, the fact that the drunk woman at her brother's wedding was her mother. But no one can oppress Irene, let alone her daughter.

Alex, Fedja, Timo and Lara are four troubled teens for whom the upcoming Christmas eve isn't a time of peace and joy: Since they all have a history of escalating family conflicts, they'll be spending the holidays not at home, but in a psychiatric ward. The utterly different adolescents not only have to adjust to one another, but also have to confront themselves in exhausting therapy sessions. Yet thanks to the unorthodox psychiatrist Dr. Wolf, the sessions take a turn for the unexpected - and the four experience a Christmas which they will never forget.

¿Cómo debes pasar el tiempo si tus días están contados? Esta es la pregunta que enfrenta Linda, una mujer joven que sufre de un defecto cardíaco congénito. Contrariamente a las expectativas de sus médicos ha logrado sobrevivir para celebrar su trigésimo cumpleaños, pero con una operación que se avecina, Linda siente, sin embargo, una profunda necesidad de gastar lo que podría ser su último fin de semana con sus dos hermanas: Katharina, que es mayor, y Clara, que es más joven que ella. Linda debe utilizar su viaje, que comienza en la casa de fin de semana de su familia y termina en París, para examinar las formas en que su familia ha sido afectadas por la enfermedad; ella también debe tener en cuenta lo mucho que se puede esperar de ella y sus hermanas.

A teenage girl helps an escaped fugitive flee Germany into France, after extracting a promise that he will help her commit suicide.

Though she only knows his first name and that he ‘works in coal’, Molly, a young Irish woman, travels to a small Polish town to find the man with whom she had a memorable one-night stand several months before. Armed with nothing more than a postcard and her own tenacity, she sets about finding her past lover, despite her landlord’s admonishments that all the coal mines closed years ago.

A suburban German family which, at first glance, appears quite typical. There’s the hardworking parents with little time for their off-spring. Twelve-year-old Marcus and his annoying little sister, as children will do, both strive for the attention of their parents. One night, Marcus makes a terrible discovery that shatters his innocence and forever changes his relationship with his father.