Susanne Wuest

Paula is hoping to be up front, leading a glamorous life, with her own storyline, thrilling scenes, and lots of music — unlike her mother, who is stuck in the background as a Supporting Character with limited dialogue and a lack of emotion. That’s why Paula is attending the School for Main Characters, to prove she has what it takes to be a rousing lead. She’s at the top of her class in cliffhanging and can do slow motion and panicked screaming in her sleep, but so far she has failed to stir emotions.

The high-rise building block near the forest is famous for its carefully curated community. As a dog disappears and her daughter refuses to leave the bathroom, security officer Anna faces an absurd battle against the fear, that slowly spreads among the residents and shakes the utopia with a view.

The white, gray and black rooms of a common past and the separate present, the surrounding dreams and fantasies about one‘s own life and the lives of others: when Olga, Yvonne and Manon - three former best friends meet again after twenty years, the facades of their life contracts are removed layer by layer. But they separate again before the résumés collapse.

La dron de oficina Maria Barbizan lleva lo que parece una vida sin sentido. Se siente sola y en realidad no existe, ni en su trabajo ni en su familia. Un día, hace todo lo que todos hemos soñado: tira su cartera y su antigua vida a la basura y se une a un enigmático concurso para ganar... un automóvil. Encerrada en una habitación con cuatro extraños, cada uno más excéntrico que el anterior, debe superar una serie de desafíos: una "competencia para probar la esencia misma de la articulación mente-cuerpo", dirigida por Homunculus, un intrigante y curioso anfitrión.

La dron de oficina Maria Barbizan lleva lo que parece una vida sin sentido. Se siente sola y en realidad no existe, ni en su trabajo ni en su familia. Un día, hace todo lo que todos hemos soñado: tira su cartera y su antigua vida a la basura y se une a un enigmático concurso para ganar... un automóvil. Encerrada en una habitación con cuatro extraños, cada uno más excéntrico que el anterior, debe superar una serie de desafíos: una "competencia para probar la esencia misma de la articulación mente-cuerpo", dirigida por Homunculus, un intrigante y curioso anfitrión.

Como la mayoría de los solteros de su generación, Tim tiene un "problema": aparentemente no puede tener una relación. Pero cuando se enamora de su reflejo femenino, Ghost, de repente se encuentra al otro lado del infierno de las citas.

Police officer Harry Österreich is a first responder at a traffic accident. Despite his best efforts, an entire family dies at the scene. Harry is shaken by the experience and increasingly obsessed by the fate of the extinguished family.

When his wife leaves him, struggling Bulgarian photographer Zack sets out on a wild trip from London to Berlin. It is a journey that reveals the truth about his lost love - and ultimately to uncomfortable discoveries about himself.

En un restaurante, la camarera es tomada como rehén por un cliente habitual. Sin embargo, el secuestrador no exige nada y no quiere negociar con la policía. Poco a poco se van conociendo los motivos del secuestrador.

Out of the dark - this is true for this film both on the story level and in terms of production. A hard-boiled thriller with a high-concept twist set in Berlin, Man from Beirut follows a blind hitman, Momo, as he tries to survive after his emotions have compromised the outcome of his latest „cleaning job“: He encounters a young girl in the wrong place at the wrong moment, but can’t pull the trigger this time - and finds himself on the run alongside fellow hitman Kadir. To make it out of the Berlin night alive, the killer has to turn against an army of former friends and new foes.

For teenage twins Robert and Elena, a weekend can seem endless yet still fly by. Time almost stands still while discussing philosophy, lying in a blissful cornfield near a remote gas station. They are in their own little world, a twin world of twin games and twin love. A confined world where emotions rise, where pressure mounts into rage… The turmoil of adolescence.

Budapest, 1913. Después de pasar su infancia en un orfanato, Irisz Leiter (Juli Jakab) llega a la capital húngara con 20 años y la esperanza de trabajar en la antigua tienda de sombreros de sus padres. Pero el nuevo propietario del negocio la rechaza. Además, la joven tendrá que enfrentarse a su pasado cuando descubre a un hermano que nunca supo que tenía. Su empeño por encontrarlo le lleva a descubrir oscuros secretos mientras el país se prepara para el caos de la Gran Guerra.

En los Alpes Ötztal, hace más de 5.300 años, se estableció un clan neolítico, cuyo líder, Kelab, era el guardián del santuario sagrado, Tineka. Un día, mientras Kelab se marcha a cazar, el asentamiento es atacado y los miembros de la tribu brutalmente asesinados, incluyendo la esposa de Kelab y su hijo. El santuario es robado y el único superviviente es un bebé recién nacido. Cegado por el dolor, Kelab emprende un viaje para buscar venganza y no tiene otra opción que llevarse al niño con él.

18th century Vienna. Maria Theresia von Paradis, a gifted piano player and close friend of Mozart's, lost her eye-sight as a child. Desperate to cure their talented daughter, the Paradis entrust Maria to Dr. Mesmer, a forward-thinking-physician who gives her the care and attention that she requires. With the doctor's innovative techniques of magnetism, Maria slowly recovers her sight. But this miracle comes at a price as the woman progressively starts to lose her gift for music.

Thanks to the latest DNA technology, Bruno van Leeuwen finally has a proof in his hands, with which the rapist of the then nine-year-old Vicky can be convicted. Piet Martens, the neighbor of the girl's family, was the culprit. But despite the new evidence, he can not be brought to justice because the crime is now time barred. Martens leaves the police headquarters as a free man. Then Vicky falls on Martens and hits him with a bottle. The police separate the two and Martens' lawyer reports to Vicky about dangerous assault.

Kati has had her dream man at home for five years: attractive, loyal and professionally successful as a doctor. Unfortunately, "her" Felix now spends so much time at work in the hospital that Kati too often feels alone. When she met the good-looking, charming artist Mathias, it hit her like Felix did back then. Shortly before her last inhibitions fall, fate shuffles the cards in an unbelievable way: after a car accident, Kati wakes up in the past - exactly on the day five years ago when she accidentally met Felix

Cowboy has a vision. He wants to save the planet with his movement of Free Swingers. That's why he applies for a grant at The Central Agency, who then sends a representative named Fey of Sweden to approve Cowboy's proposal. She demands results and he de­cides to stage a charity bicycle rally featuring a roster of two-wheeled Berlin misfits. Meanwhile Cowboy's neighbor kills his mother's budgie and sets the Devil of Hermannplatz on him to sabotage his plans. Pretty bad timing considering that he also has to rescue his stubborn mother from a shady retirement home. Torn between Cowboy's budding crush on Fey of Sweden, his hot neighbor Angel and his innate drive towards chaos, the rally soon turns into a race against time. Soon his mother will be taken away from him and the rally racers are doing anything other than what they should: cycling.

A misanthropist ex-hacker is suspected of sabotaging a famous happiness-research facility. He is forced to prove his innocence and stumbles into a wild adventure, during which he involuntarily becomes an idealistic activist, has to deal with strange, possibly supernatural rabbits and his crazy family - and regains a little belief in happiness.

A un joven y ambicioso ejecutivo le encargan una misión: traer de vuelta al director de su empresa de un idílico y enigmático centro de “bienestar” situado en un área remota de los Alpes suizos. Pronto sospecha que los milagrosos tratamientos que allí tienen lugar no son lo que parecen. Su cordura se pone a prueba cuando empieza a desvelar los terroríficos secretos que allí se ocultan y es diagnosticado con la misma extraña enfermedad que mantiene a los pacientes a la espera de la cura.

Marthe is a girl with a special gift: she can cure illnesses. But the time she lives in is marked by superstition and godliness. When Marthe can not help the burgrave's wife from her village, the girl has to flee. Your path crosses that of Ritter Christian, who moves eastward into the Mark Meissen with a group of Frankish settlers. In the Middle Ages an unimaginably long and arduous way. Christian has a hard time avoiding the fascination of Marthe, but their diverse backgrounds make a relationship impossible and the settlers are afraid of the weird girl.

'Elisa' portrays the claustrophobic and extremely painful relationship between nine year old Elisa and her mother.

Es pleno verano y dos hermanos gemelos esperan pacientemente a que su madre regrese a casa tras una operación de cirugía plástica. Esta llega con la cara completamente vendada y mostrándose fría, distante y obsesiva. El cambio en su personalidad hará que los niños se pregunten si la mujer es realmente su madre o se trata de una impostora.

The tusk from a mammoth and a whale skeleton are found in a grotesque mix of bricks and destruction - a zoological museum has been blown up. Images of the bisected building with all the scattered remains of stuffed animals are broadcast worldwide along with the statement sent out by the underground group of artists who claim responsibility: "This is not entertainment. It is not a political statement. It is not even news... This is art!"

Two directors shoot a documentary about the controversial director and pugnacious actor Peter Kern. But he cannot be easily rammed into the classical form of a documentary.

After 20 years in prison, the former angel of death at Lainz hospital has been released, and she now works in the Prater amusement park, at a restaurant that specializes in roast knuckle of pork. Observing the guests and how they behave reawaken old emotions, and she poisons a pork knuckle to punish the happy people. The movie audience can use their remote control devices to decide who dies.

Basada en la historia real de Max Schmeling. Un héroe nacional en la década de 1930, cuando se convirtió en campeón mundial de peso pesado. Él perdió el favor del régimen nazi, cuando perdió ante un hombre negro, Joe Louis, y es enviado al frente con la esperanza de que sea asesinado en batalla.

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, alias Carlos, es un personaje clave en la historia del terrorismo internacional de los años 70 y 80. Considerado por algunos una figura de la extrema izquierda romántica, de hecho era un mercenario oportunista que trabajaba para los servicios secretos de cualquier potencia de Oriente Medio. Además, llegó a formar, al otro lado del Telón de Acero, una organización que estuvo activa durante los últimos años de la Guerra Fría

Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.

Una urbanización de las afueras de una gran ciudad, ordinaria, omnipresente… omplejos de apartamentos de gran altura, montones de hormigón, parcelas escasas de verde superficial. Entradas garabateadas con graffiti, porteros automáticos, miles de ventanas anónimas… De entra esta coexistencia uniforme surgen tres parejas cuyas vidas se cruzan en el transcurso de tres días, con consecuencias imprevisibles.

All sorts of trouble arise within a Viennese middle-class family, when they are visited by a bunch of Russian relatives.

Commissar Bruno van Leeuwen from Amsterdam might finally be able to solve a 30 year old case due to technological advances.