Stefan Stabenow

The undercover investigator Robert is supposed to win the trust of a criminal through a fictitious relationship with Leni. However, the feelings are not just a game. It is the spied criminal, of all people, who makes him confront his contradictory feelings…

A former volunteer in the Kosovo war returns to Albania to pursue a career in the police force. In the country's chaotic and corrupt capital city, Tirana, the ex-soldier turned cop and ends up solving the crime he committed.

Agate – the older and well-off partner of Matiss and the mother of ten-year-old Paula dies unexpectedly. It becomes a devastating blow for Paula and a grand possibility for Matiss, a charming novice bailiff assistant and a cheating boyfriend, to “upgrade” his social status with Agates splendid house. Matiss and Paula are stuck together in order to find the only relative left – the missing brother of Agate. This journey leaves irreversible footprints on both of them.

In a hospital in Hamburg, an unidentified woman is disconnected from the life-support system. While the investigators search for the mysterious perpetrator, two more men are murdered.

Living in a crowded, multi-generational household in a small village in Kosovo, the quiet teenager Venera can rarely find privacy. However, when she befriends the rebellious Dorina, a new, liberating world opens up to her. Slowly, Venera begins to push against her conservative family’s expectations.

Martha and Betty have known each other for twenty years and they have decided to breakthrough. But while Martha realizes that her father has only faked his death wish in order to see the great love of his life again on Lake Maggiore, Betty mourns her stepfather Ernesto, who supposedly died years ago.

A look at the current state of the world, from the hand of six intellectuals and scientists who reflect on the present and postulate about the future.

Rudina sets off on a long journey with her unmarried pregnant sister, Elma, to meet their strict and traditional father in the Albanian village where they were born. As Rudina's car makes its way over the mountains, Elma comes up with a plan to enlist a former classmate to play the part of her husband.

Film by Jan Bonny, also known as "Endlich Leben".

Becky, Tommi and Maik form a right-wing terror cell that lives in the underground and is dreaming of country-wide attention. Entangled in a complex relationship of love, hate and friendship, they follow a path of destruction that leads to a series of violent crime. Their alleged values such as honor, pride and loyalty decline due to their increasing disorientation.

Katharina became a mother after an artificial insemination when she died in a traffic accident. Although her wife Ellen is the guardian of little Franz, she has custody - unlike in heterosexual marriages - without adoption but not. And not only the biological father of the child, also the parents of the deceased Katharina make claims.

'Gutland' comienza con la llegada de un forastero a la comunidad agrícola de Schandelsmillen. La temporada de cosecha está ya avanzada, pero Jens, un vagabundo alemán, está buscando trabajo. Allí es tomado por granjero y pronto seducido por Lucy, una madre soltera que le recoge en la cervecería del pueblo para llevarlo hasta su cama. Taciturno y solitario por naturaleza, Jens no se mezcla con los lugareños, y aún así ellos le toman por amigo al instante, llevándole a fiestas, regalándole una trompeta e invitándole a unirse a la banda del pueblo. Los primeros días de Jens en su nuevo hogar fluyen con una tranquilidad bucólica, pero con el tiempo comenzará a descubrir pistas sobre el lado oscuro de Schandelsmillen, justo cuando los aldeanos se van acercando poco a poco al también sombrío pasado de Jens.

Colombian girl, who studies law in France, arrives to Sarajevo in order to write a study about the War Crimes Tribunal. Unexpectedly she finds herself in the center of the intimate tragedy of her new friend, a native woman.

En una sociedad patriarcal, conviven tres generaciones de una familia georgiana bajo un mismo techo. Todos se sorprenden cuando Manana, de 52 años, decide mudarse de la casa de sus padres y vivir sola. Sin su familia y su marido, comienza un viaje hacia lo desconocido.

In the light of the current transformations within the global power structure, I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER traces the linkage of economic ascent and decline in seven paradigmatic episodes. India, Bolivia, China, USA, Italy, Thailand, Venezuela - each place contains fragments of another; each episode bears testament to the hopes and fears of its protagonists. By juxtaposing these local experiences in the face of global economy, the film questions the notion of rise and decay.

Fabian Groys, a renowned journalist for a political news magazine, enjoys great freedom, since the stories he uncovers make for good sales. When he loses a hot story about the German army, the editor saddles him with a young female intern. Fabian hates teamwork and sticks the intern with what seems a classic tabloid story about the suicide of a man who had himself torn to shreds by a lion at the zoo. But thanks to the intern’s dogged determination, signs emerge that the story Fabian was working on and the gory zoo story are actually interlinked. Is it pure coincidence? And if it isn’t, how can Fabian fight a nebulous enemy?

Tbilisi (Georgia), 1992: la era soviética ha finalizado y Georgia debe arreglárselas por sí sola. La guerra civil está arrasando en la provincia de Abkhazia. Para Natia y Eka, de catorce años de edad, la infancia está a punto de acabarse. Eka está creciendo sin su padre, rebelándose contra su preocupada madre y su hermana mayor. Por otro lado, el padre de Natia, un borracho iracundo, tiene aterrorizada a toda la familia. Las dos amigas tampoco pueden hallar la paz fuera de la familia –ni en la escuela, ni en la calle, ni en la cola para el pan. El caos, la inseguridad y el miedo a lo que el futuro depara domina la vida cotidiana. Un día, un admirador de Nadia le entregará una pistola con una bala. Un poco más tarde, otro admirador la raptará.

Architect Alexander Beck has just won an architecture prize. He wants to modernize GDR building blocks in Thuringia. Alex travels to the heart of rural Eastern Germany where he grew up and where people remember him as Alex from the Free German Youth, a pro-GDR youth organization.

Roland, un banquero influyente conoce por casualidad a Svenja en una exposición de arte contemporáneo. Este hombre poderoso se siente fuertemente atraído por la joven mujer, cuyo marido trabaja para él. Entre ellos nacerá una relación secreta, que se vuelve cada vez más seria.

Un padre y una madre deciden irse a vivir juntos y sus hijos adolescentes se enamoran.

Luis pays a visit to his father in the mountains. He has not seen him for several years. When he arrives at the remote holiday home he is more than surprised to encounter his father’s new family – about whom his father made no mention. Torn between his desire to be with his father and his anger and frustration over his father’s new-found happiness, Luis tries to provoke his father and break down his reserve.

Teacher Anne and policeman Georg are thought of as the perfect couple. However, appearances are deceptive: one of them is covered with scars and bruises. But which one is the abuser?

The film tells the story of a steel worker named Karger who is living in the Saxon town of Riesa. Personal as well as professional changes force him to turn his back on his home town that he had never left in his whole life and to enter unknown territory. On his way into the unknown, Karger has to bid many painful farewells. However, he faces them in his characteristic indifferent manner.

Armin (Constantin von Jascheroff) tiene dieciocho años, acaba de terminar el instituto y, agobiado por las buenas intenciones de su madre, las expectativas de su padre y el mortal aburrimiento de la vida en una zona residencial, empieza a enviar mensajes anónimos en los que se declara culpable de accidentes que presencia y delitos sobre los que lee. Al principio, es como un juego, pero pronto se convierte en una obsesión. Luego, ya no le basta con fingir que es culpable...

Johannes, a new assistant at the university, is asked to provide reports on an Algerian colleague - who is suspected of being a sleeper. He refuses, but the seed of doubt has been planted. A fragile friendship which is overshadowed by professional and emotional competition eventually leads to betrayal.