Claus Bantzer

Trudi es la única que sabe que su marido Rudi está gravemente enfermo de cáncer. Siguiendo el consejo de su médico, deciden hacer un último viaje juntos. Trudi convence a su marido y van a visitar a sus hijos y nietos en Berlín. Sin embargo, éstos están demasiados inmersos en sus propias vidas para ocuparse de ellos. Tras ir al teatro a ver un espectáculo de danza Butoh, Trudi y Rudi deciden marcharse y pasar unos días en un hotel en la costa del mar Báltico.

Set on the deserted North Sea island of Langeness, a lonely woman begins an affair with a stranger; only after he is identified as a political fugitive and deported does she begin to learn about his true identity and his past.

Ironies abound in this extremely sad melodrama about Elif (Zuhal Olcay), a Turkish immigrant in Germany who has been sent to prison for murdering her abusive husband. At the time of her imprisonment, she has never ventured outside the Turkish community, and even there has had no friends because of the demands her husband placed on her. She speaks no German. Now, in a place which most people find to be hell on earth, she gains a never-before known taste of freedom among these strangers, who don't even speak her own language. Unfortunately, as a "guest worker," she is horrified to discover that she is soon to be transferred to the horrific prisons of Turkey and will stand trial there for her crime, which will be much less understandingly dealt with in her home country than it would have been in Germany. The false paradise she must say goodbye to is her German prison.

A cyclist decides to go for everything and win the 'Tour of Chile' Race, so he can finance the medical treatment for his ill mother with the prize. However, he must soon recognize that the sporting event is corrupted by commercial and marketing interests, in addition to the political goals of the military regime.

Viktor y Angelika son pareja desde hace tiempo, pero están más interesados en sus hobbies que en su vida conyugal. Él es profesor de veterinaria y ella estudia historia del arte. Todo cambia cuando Viktor conoce a Lotte.

Turna is brought from Turkey to Germany by her husband Dursun to start a new life. She soon realizes that he keeps her locked up in their flat every time he leaves for work in order to save her from immoral influences of the Western society. The dream of a better life becomes an inner fight between her culture and her freedom.

In the spring of 1980, Esther Jochmann, a young Austrian woman, flies to San Salvador. Her husband, a journalist, has been killed. She has to identify his corpse so that the authorities will allow it to be transferred to Europe. She learns that Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was also a victim of an assassination, had granted a taped interview to her husband. Padre Manuel hands the tape over to her. Esther accompanies the Padre and John, an American reporter, who are trying to find the murderers.

Los celos hacen que un marido espíe a su mujer y descubra que esta mantinetiene un romance con otro hombre. Con el paso del tiempo, entre el marido y el amante surge una relación que se transforma en amistad.

Ruby Dennis is an middle-aged man with an unfulfilled ambition as a singer. As he begins to pursue that ambition, his family falls apart.

La lucha de liberación por parte del ejército sandinista contra el régimen de Anastasio Somoza en Nicaragua. La película recoge algunos de los puntos culminantes de esa lucha en León, ciudad próxima a Managua, la capital del país, y primer territorio liberado. En su rodaje participaron algunos miembros del ejército sandinista, así como numerosos habitantes de León que colaboraron estrechamente con la guerrilla.