Heiko Pinkowski

Finn has some bad luck. First, the paddling trip with his father falls through, and then he is robbed on the train to Berlin. On top of that, neither the conductor nor the police believe that his backpack and ticket have disappeared. Luckily, he meets the adventurous Jola, who quickly hijacks a rickety tractor. An exciting journey to the sea begins, where a brazen gang of rockers, a real wolf and many other fist-pumping adventures await the two runaways.

Alma manages to obtain a job as a court painter with the bourgeois prince Philip, passionate about botany. When he sees a portrait of her sister, the beautiful Christine, he immediately falls in love. But the Baroness has plans for her own daughter. Fortunately the faithful Shaky is still here.

Orphea in Love, now, fuses many of these diverse forays for a singular piece of musical theatre cinema. Structurally a musical or operetta, it features famous opera tunes paired with modern classical ballet choreographies. Befittingly, the title might insinuate a version of Jacques Offenbach's 1858 Orphée aux enfers (we have that somewhere else in the programme, though!), but the story of young, multi-job hassled Nele, her dream of opera stardom, and her love for dancer Kolya feels in its razzmatazzy mix of realism and kitsch simultaneously closer to Flashdance (1983; Adrian Lyne) and the average Lady Gaga music video. Wow. WOW!

The twins Cosmo (André Lewski) and Carmen (Sandra Tirre) return to their former childhood home for the first time in 15 years. While Carmen attempts to come to grips with her childhood traumas, her efforts are met with resistance by her brother, who brings along his new girlfriend Marie (Hannah Prasse). After Carmen secretly watches the pair's unsuccessful sex attempt, she offers Marie couples therapy. However, due to their inability to speak openly with each other and the arrival of the mysterious new house resident Heins (Heiko Pinkowski), fateful events are set in motion that allow boundaries to be crossed and old wounds to reopen ...

Theater fun at the School of Magical Animals: The students want to perform a musical for the school's anniversary. Will the rehearsals end in chaos or will the class pull together? And what's up with the strange holes on the school grounds? With the help of the magical animals, the children learn what really matters: teamwork.

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!

Nowadays we associate Johannes Kepler with his famous laws of planetary motion. But the history of his discoveries is a drama of Shakespearian proportions - full of intrigue, passion, depravity and corruption.

Can Cleo turn back time? It seems that misfortune has been haunting her loved ones since she was born. A legendary treasure sounds like the solution to her problems, but Cleo will have to let go of the past.

Cyril, de 17 años, es divertido, inteligente y un buen chico completo. Solo su nariz algo demasiado grande estropea la imagen. En un viaje escolar a Berlín con Roxy, una deslumbrante nueva compañera de clase, Cyril no es el único que se enamora de ella. Benno, la clase Casanova también tiene el ojo puesto en la chica y hace una apuesta desagradable. Roxy está más interesada en el introvertido Rick, que no solo es tímido sino también lento. Cyril se apresura con sus habilidades de palabra hablada en ayuda de Rick y se enamora perdidamente del propio Roxy. Entonces, ¿de quién es el corazón valiente que conquistará a la bella dama?

The shy late twenties Torsten tile lives with his mother in a bleak Berlin slab. In the guise of his alter ego "Lux - Warrior of Light" he tries to make the world a little bit better. He distributes food to the homeless and helps out on his forays through the city wherever he can. A film crew accompanies him to make a documentary about the social engagement of the self-appointed real-life superhero. Jan, the director, is still looking for a donor. The resourceful producer Brandt shows interest, but on condition that he sees something spectacular.

Best friends Nini and Jameelah are both 14 years old and live in the same housing complex in Berlin. Jameelah's family is from Iraq and might be deported if their application for citizenship isn't approved, but right now, the girls try not to worry about these existential problems. They look forward to the Berlin summer and the school holidays.

In a single afternoon, the early retiree Hubert Lotzmann manages to dupe his sisters-in-law, to betray his autonomous daughter Bille to the police and to forget his wife Annemarie’s birthday. And when she finds out that he has sucked her beloved budgie into the vacuum cleaner and in the process ruined her longstanding Fuzzbuster 500 vacuum cleaner, Annemarie’s patience runs out and she kicks him out: she gives him exactly two hours till dinner – if he doesn’t return with the repaired appliance, he doesn’t need to bother returning at all!

Plum out of luck, Swabian farmer Huber’s farm goes under. Then his girlfriend Birgit takes over her father’s newly-acquired firm – in former East Germany. That's reason enough for Huber to bail on his debts and head out on a road trip through southwest Germany.

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?

A family reunion aboard a ship becomes a turning point in the life of 39-year-old engineer Markus. When his son Adam (4) gets a little cut after going to the bathroom with his grandmother Renate, Markus recalls for the first time what his mother did to him when he was a little boy. Markus and his wife Monika find themselves confronted with an ugly truth of the kind you wouldn’t think a mother capable of.

Mirko Talhammer is beyond himself when two strange guys show up in his noble insurance office and remind him where he really comes from: from a scrapyard in the provinces, where careers are not what counts, other things are more important: scrapping things, the family, and every once in a while, a nice fist fight. Mirko left all that behind, but his father messes things up big time when he dies and leaves his son the run down scrapyard - together with his brother Letscho. And Letscho is still ticked off that Mirko deserted the clan. But soon the brothers realize that the Talhammers only have a future if they can pull themselves together and fulfill their father's last wish: to rob a train like real professionals! The coup itself is like a suicide mission, but then Kercher, the Talhammer's biggest nemesis, gets wind of things...

The friends and amateur detectives Rico and Oskar experiencing their last adventure together. Here everything is really only one well, because now they live next door to. Ricos mother Tanya and Buhl are together, Oskar is with his father Lars pulled to Rico into the house. But dies as the grumpy Fitzke, the trouble begins. The stone Breeder inherited Rico his beloved stone-collection over which the boy also very pleased - but then he and his buddy note that Rico's favorite stone calf stone was stolen. The task now is to make the thieves apprehended. And because there are on the way to the Baltic Sea, Rico and Oskar must as soon as possible afterwards. Glad Tanja is flown by Buhl in the "snogging holiday" ...

Based on the book "Ich bin dann mal weg" by Hape Kerkeling where the author describes his journey on the Way of St. James, a pilgrimage route, and the people he encounters there.

Tobias and Flasche are childhood friends. However, their alcoholic friendship is doing more harm than good to Tobias, who realizes he should focus on his family and career. Everything changes when Tobias tells this to Flasche.

Tobias and Flasche are childhood friends. However, their alcoholic friendship is doing more harm than good to Tobias, who realizes he should focus on his family and career. Everything changes when Tobias tells this to Flasche.

Tobias and Flasche are childhood friends. However, their alcoholic friendship is doing more harm than good to Tobias, who realizes he should focus on his family and career. Everything changes when Tobias tells this to Flasche.

A dead girl, a suspicious suspect, a lost family, a dark secret. Two policemen and a young mother in search of the truth.

An African-German Author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany.

Anna, a young photojournalist from Berlin, travels to Serbia to make a photo documentary about refugees. Upon her arrival to Belgrade, Serbia's capital, Anna finds out that she can't go about her task the way she had planned. Through the cabdriver Dzeki, she meets the distrustful but interesting young refugee Maja who works at a nearby fast food restaurant. Miserable with her life in Serbia, Maja dreams of a new beginning somewhere abroad. In an attempt to successfully finish her project, Anna starts photographing Maja, secretly making a documentary about her. Blinded by the wish to change her life, Maja doesn't realize Anna's true intentions.

Sibylle, a pragmatic architect, mother and wife, witnesses a suicide of a woman her age while on vacation in Italy. Devastated by this incident, it causes the perception of her life and her family to change. Something inside of her has been set in motion that seems to endanger everything which she has defined herself by...

Once Upon a Time there lived a brave man, Michael, who was unaware what fear is. At the same time, Princess Elisabeth lived with her father, the king, in a makeshift tent city, because their castle was uninhabitable and haunted by ghosts, its treasure cursed. If he wants to know how to shudder, he should visit this Haunted Castle.

Robby screwed up. And because he is afraid of going home, he escapes head over heels into the wood. But there are living some dark 'friends', who are just waiting for such a young desperate boy who get lost in the wood! The Magician Stefan wants to have Robbies childhood and the bad-tempered robber-chief sneaks through the wood with his machete. No wonder that Robby is in big trouble very soon.

Robby screwed up. And because he is afraid of going home, he escapes head over heels into the wood. But there are living some dark 'friends', who are just waiting for such a young desperate boy who get lost in the wood! The Magician Stefan wants to have Robbies childhood and the bad-tempered robber-chief sneaks through the wood with his machete. No wonder that Robby is in big trouble very soon.

Robby screwed up. And because he is afraid of going home, he escapes head over heels into the wood. But there are living some dark 'friends', who are just waiting for such a young desperate boy who get lost in the wood! The Magician Stefan wants to have Robbies childhood and the bad-tempered robber-chief sneaks through the wood with his machete. No wonder that Robby is in big trouble very soon.

A youth in middle of self-discovery, offending with his father, just discovering his sexuality and hiding it again. A boy who's often lonely loses a loved one and is in love with the wrong one.

Un satélite de un medio de comunicación francés se estrella en la Puerta de Brandemburgo. 13 minutos después comienzan a caer satélites en toda La Tierra, las comunicaciones se colapsan.

Deep in the Bavarian countryside Kleist’s historical drama Michael Kohlhaas is being shot. But instead of shooting a huge epic with impressive costumes and extraordinary props, grown-up men in suits fight with imaginary weapons. What has happened? Young director Lehman is fighting for his film, although all funds have been canceled. He’s convinced that the actor’s play and the fantasy of the audience will be sufficient. He fights for his vision as much as Kleist’s Kohlhaas fights for his rights. This film has to be finished. Whatever may come. Even if he has to go too far.

A comical road movie about friendship and happiness with unique protagonists. Bomber is a small man. And he has just lost his job as a courier. He decides to rip off his boss and keep the money from his last delivery trip to Paris. Europe is a beautiful blind French girl living in Paris. When she finds out she is pregnant from a one-night stand, she decides to travel to Berlin to find the father. - MUBI

Alemania /// Sven vive con su madre Edeltraut, quien sufre de demencia. Él comparte su vida, el apartamento e inclusive la cama con ella. Durante el día Sven trabaja en un banco, mientras Daniel cuida de Edeltraut, la lleva de paseo, de compras, además de mantener el orden en el apartamento. Un día, mientras Daniel limpia las ventanas, Edeltraut lo deja encerrado en el balcón y sale a la calle. Los dos hombres salen a buscarla, pero lo que encuentran no es únicamente a la madre de Sven, también descubren la ternura y sensibilidad que existe entre ellos.

The summer break is over and the twins returned to Lindenhof. That has now changed a lot. Because Mrs Theobald had to travel, Mademoiselle Bertoux has taken the lead.

In a driving school, three women of different ages meet for the so-called idiot test. There is a close friendship between the women. Annette, Katja and Isabel unite dislike for the macho driving instructor Marius, but also enthusiasm for Erik, who also has to undergo retraining. The three ladies have to recognize the problems in their lives and get a grip on them.

Constanza, año 1410. Marie, hija del burgués más rico de toda la ciudad, está en vísperas de casarse con un prestigioso abogado, hijo de un conde. Aunque el compromiso colma de orgullo al padre de la joven, ansioso por ennoblecerse, a Marie no le acaba de convencer su prometido, al que sólo ha visto dos veces. Sus recelos se ven trágicamente confirmados la víspera de la boda cuando, tras firmar el contrato nupcial, irrumpe en la casa un desconocido que asegura que Marie se ha acostado con otros hombres a cambio de regalos, como una vil ramera. A partir de ese momento, la vida de la muchacha dará un inesperado y terrible vuelco. Sola, arruinada y con su reputación perdida, no tendrá más opción para sobrevivir que asociarse con una prostituta y echarse a los caminos...

Four stories dealing with the dialectics of enlightenment, with the randomness of love, birth and death. Aleks participates in an experiment facing civil war in former Yugoslavia. Sarah tries to escape loneliness by investigating a murder. Bastian has to deal with his father's decision to die. Anna dances with a foreign man. How destructive is the unlimited search for insight? Should one lie in order to protect a loved one, who'll be destroyed by truth?

When a salon refuses to hire her because of her plump figure, irrepressible hair stylist Kathi plots revenge by opening her own beauty parlor next door. But when she faces a cash-flow problem, Kathi resorts to some creative means of raising capital.

Tobias B's life is not crowned with success. A short man with no work and no friends and no smile on his face. One evening he comes across Betty B. The huge chanteuse of the Band: Betty B. & the The's.

A nudist site in eastern Germany is sold to Dieter Lohe, a conservative textile manufacturer from Bavaria. He visits his new property with his daughter Natalie, and plans to use the property as a hunting ground.

After the death of his wife, successful author Seefeld has retreated to a lighthouse on the Irish coast. His nervous publisher is waiting in vain for a new bestseller and sends a spy: psychologist Carolin is to find out what Seefeld is up to. She disguises herself as an ornithologist - and the outcome is immediately clear to all connoisseurs of schmaltz.

The lonely bank-employee Phillip follows a strict pattern of somewhat compulsive actions keeping his encounters with strangers to a minimum. When his home one day is robbed of all content and he later meets the enchanting blind cellist Lina, he finds, however, he needs to start improvising and taking chances.

Music teacher Carlo, an easygoing old rock'n'roller, meets doctor Ellen in hospital. She is completely stressed out, so that even son Franz often falls by the wayside. A short time later, Carlo makes an unforgivable mistake: fed up with the pupils' never-ending paltry questions, he advises Franz, whose anger at his mother is slowly boiling over, that he should simply report her to the Youth Welfare Office.

Una mujer millonaria aparece muerta en un lujoso apartamento. La policía sospecha de inmediato de su marido, un hombre de negocios sin escrúpulos con un hermano gemelo, hecho que complica el caso.

Throughout his whole life the boy – tortured by his mother’s disdain – has been struglling for love. Katharina, the girl next door, raises new hope. For her, he cultivates a garden.

Rosa von Praunheim, the director of the film, parodies himself and his time as a professor at the Film School in Potsdam Babelsberg, where he taught for six years.

Despite having lived in the East German countryside for several months, teenager Lars and his dad, Henrik, are still treated as unwelcome guests. Henrik is building a “marriage barn,” a proposed bed-and-breakfast for newlywed Berliners.

Alleinerziehende Mutter Leslie geht aus lauter Verzweiflung eine Scheinehe mit Koofi ein, der seinen Job als Computerfachmann aufgrund einer Flaute in der Branche verloren hat und damit auch seine Blue Card. Ein Beamter der Ausländerbehörde jedoch schöpft verdacht. Nun müssen Koofi und Leslie alles daran legen, eine glaubwürdige Ehe vorzuspielen.

Documentary about refugees in Berlin

Continuation of The School of the Magical Animals