Piet Fuchs

200 years of Cologne Carnival! The most colourful and loudest festival in Cologne celebrates a big birthday. In February 1823, a few men from Cologne's upper class founded the so-called 'Festordnende Komitee' - the forerunner of today's 'Festkomitee Kölner Karneval'. This 'big bang' was a reaction to the old festival getting out of hand in orgies and violence. Carnival was in danger. A ban by the Prussian rulers was imminent. The new committee wanted to control the wild goings-on, establish rules and organise the celebrations.

Otto Waalkes plays a magician who strayed into the present from the 11th century and who absolutely wants to return to his time.

Tras un frustrante día de trabajo, Xhafer (Mišel Matičević) regresa a casa para darse cuenta de que alguien ha colgado una rata muerta encima de su puerta de entrada. La cuestión de quién lo ha hecho poco a poco se adueña de su mente, alterando su comportamiento tanto en casa como en el trabajo. Xhafer es un kosovar que vive en Alemania, por lo que esta acción sugiere tener connotaciones racistas tras de sí. Cuando su mujer le sugiere que tal vez el motivo de este acto no sea discriminante, sino una forma clara y concisa por parte de sus compañeros de decirle que él no les gusta, Xhafer se ofende, pero es incapaz de negar que tal vez tenga razón. Tras una serie de inesperados acontecimientos, se verá obligado a afrontar su identidad y el tipo de persona que realmente es.

Four troubled friends who despite the feeling that they live standardized lives share a flat under the sceptical looks of their neighbours.

Emmi would like to cancel her subscription to "Like" magazine via e-mail. But due to a typo, her messages land in Leo Leike’s inbox. When Emmi repeatedly sends mails to the wrong address, Leo decides to inform her of her mistake. This marks the beginning of an extraordinary e-mail exchange, which can only be held between two strangers. Treading the fine line between complete strangeness and noncommittal intimacy, the two are soon sharing their innermost secrets and longings – until they need to face the unavoidable question: Will their feelings, sent and received virtually, survive the test of a real-life encounter? And what will happen if they do?

Benjamin and his best friend Otto have to deal with the shrewd Zora Zack and to reach deep into their bag of tricks to save the Newtown Zoo.

A female doctor trusts her son to a friend because of an emergency. When she wants to pick up her son, her child and the acquaintance disappeared.

The life of 14-year-old Lilith is similar to that of a normal teenager, but there is a peculiarity: she is the daughter of the devil and lives with him in hell. Because she is totally bored there and also wants to have fun and explore the world, she makes a pact with her father: she is allowed to go to earth for a week - but she has to convert a good person to evil there. If she succeeds in this challenge, she may stay on earth forever, otherwise she'll be waving a hell of a boring job in the bookkeeping of the underworld.

Becker is a German ex-con trying to hold down a job as a night watchman, but a chance encounter with the man whose family Becker killed 18 years earlier sends his new life spiraling out of control.

A 50 Euro note changes its owners and pays all debts – a parable on actual financial dept-crisis and the theory of money circulation, realized as a hommage to early silent movies and filmed with a hand-cranked camera.

En el año 2011, Adolf Hitler se despierta en Berlín, sin memoria de nada sucedido tras el año 1945. Sin casa y sin recursos, Hitler comienza a reinterpretar la Alemania que ve en pleno siglo XXI desde su perspectiva nazi... Adaptación de la novela de Timur Vermes, que plantea la hipótesis, en formato de falso documental -similar a "Borat"-, de qué ocurriría si Hitler hubiera sobrevivido.

In Ethiopia, Frank Michalka has found a new home and left his criminal past behind. But happiness does not last long and the former offender must go back to Germany. Once there, he immediately falls back into old patterns and robbed a bank.

After an accident Herman learns that the suffers from a very rare illness which causes him that the emotion "fear" falls out whereby he is forced to try out all phobias to become normal again.

A man jumps around.

A man jumps around.

A man discovers stuff in the city.

A man discovers stuff in the city.

Anja lives with her parents in a small town somewhere in Germany. She is about to graduate, but the weekend is usually celebrated. When Anja runs home from a party one morning, she is hit by a car on the highway. Apparently not much has happened. After the first shock has subsided, everyone is relieved that the accident has gone so smoothly. First. But it is becoming increasingly clear that Anja is no longer the same. She sleeps badly, suffers from panic attacks and delusions. It's as if she's been followed by gloomy shadows since that party night.

Teenage Sascha has two dreams: to write a novel about her mother and to take revenge on her step-father who brutally murdered her. When she meets the newspaper editor Volker, he invites her to come to his and his son's place. A subtle love triangle begins which helps Sascha to find her personal way of growing up.

Two friends are making music and other stuff.

Two friends are making music and other stuff.

Two friends are making music and other stuff.

A woman discovers the man she has lived with for years is not who she thought he was...

Udo is invisible - no one ever seems to notice him. He makes the most of it, working as a department store detective and living off other people's lives as they never notice him tagging along. Until he meets the one woman who sees him.

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.

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.

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

Melanie conoce a Jenny y se enamora. Pero Jenny piensa que ella piensa en Miguel.

Un soltero hedonista, se enamora de un paciente mental escapado. Til Schweiger presenta un drama de comedia romántica "Barfuss" (Barefoot), su primer trabajo en solitario en casi una década. Punchy, tono anti-establishment, con Schweiger jugando un soltero hedonista - él es la oveja negra de su familia rica - que se enamora de una paciente mental suicida (Johanna Wokalek). Una historia de amor extravagante, extrañamente tierna se desarrolla como Nick lucha con responsabilidad por primera vez en su vida.

A short by Rainer Knepperges & Christian Mrasek.

A director tries to get his porno musical off the ground.

A director tries to get his porno musical off the ground.

A director tries to get his porno musical off the ground.

A director tries to get his porno musical off the ground.