Vincent Assmann

Sauerland, autumn 1995: In the middle of the forest on the Wilzenberg, a walker finds the body of high school graduate Sonja Risse. However, the fact that the killer left a music box with the lullaby "Hush Little Baby" at the crime scene does not lead to a clear solving. 25 years later, the investigative journalist Stefanie Schneider, known as "Mütze", made a surprising discovery in Cologne. In a disused multi-storey car park, she films an undressed corpse of a man with a music box running next to it! When her colleague Jan Römer, who reported on the spectacular Sonja case as a young journalist in 1995, recognizes the melody from back then, he immediately believes there is a connection. He goes to Wilzenberg with his ambitious colleague to interview Sonja's mother Maria, her former teacher Waldheim and her best friends. The more the journalists compile, the clearer the contradictions and gaps that the investigators should have noticed at the time.

Isn’t the trajectory of a shared life determined in advance? Get married, have kids, be like everyone else… According to Dietrich Brüggemann, who competed in Vary six years ago, 30-somethings conceivably have it all, yet they fail in their attempts to achieve their set ideals. Nö delivers a critique of contemporary values, while also highlighting the struggle to find and nurture love.

Paul (12) leaves home with his best friend Max (12) on the first day of summer vacation. Following in the footsteps of Paul’s missing father, the boys venture into the forest of the Swabian Alb and into a mysterious cave. Children feel freer and more carefree in the forests and mountains than ever before in their lives. But the challenges of their adventure are much bigger than they thought.

Un solitario conductor de tren encuentra un sujetador en su tren y recorre toda la vía buscando a su propietaria para devolvérselo.

On a cold, wintry night, Lena shows up on the doorstep of the Rossberg family mansion. She claims her car has broken down, but her arrival is intentional. Lena is in pursuit of Anselm Rossberg, an aged Auschwitz guard who lives with his daughter, Maria. Anselm and Maria both deny Anselm's past, but Lena is determined to get him to confess, even as her own weapon is turned on her and she is forced into a moral dilemma.

A look at one of Chicago’s more troubled South Side neighborhoods from the point of view of two young boxers and their families.

Crowley is 11 years old and lives together with his father on a ranch in Colorado. At first glance Crowley is a little cowboy, but he is 'not quite there yet' as he says himself. A real cowboy takes on responsibility and is able to stand on his own two feet. Crowley helps out on the ranch wherever he can: he helps branding animals, catching cattle, that got lost in the large canyons and repairing the fences. It's not an easy life. But nonetheless, he wants to take over the ranch when he's all grown up so he can finally say: I am a real cowboy!

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.

Maria se encuentra atrapada entre dos mundos. En el colegio, esta chica de 14 años tiene los típicos intereses de una adolescente, pero cuando está en su casa debe seguir los dictados de la Sociedad de San Pío XII y su tradicional interpretación del catolicismo. Todo lo que Maria piensa y hace debe ser examinado ante Dios.

While on a GPS treasure hunt in the Palatinate forest four teenagers come across an old US military radio tower station. Back in the days of the Cold War it was part of a secret military program that produced horrific side effects, but has long since abandoned. Until now, when the station is mysteriously powered up again.

Un estudiante de derecho comienza un apasionado romance con su casera. Poco después, descubre que ella podría haber asesinado al inquilino anterior.

El joven kazako Iskander Orynbekov se dedica a lo que muchos de sus conterráneos, chatarra caída del espacio. Los habitantes de Kazajstán que viven muy cerca del cosmódromo Baikonur han sabido sacarle provecho a los restos de las naves y satélites que caen a la tierra cuando éstos son enviados al espacio, pero Iskander, a diferencia de ellos, utiliza un método sofisticado que le da ventaja: a través de la radio espía las conversaciones que tienen lugar en la plataforma de lanzamiento, de manera que conoce con exactitud el punto donde caerán los restos de metal.

An independent tragicomedy, Run If You Can is the debut feature for director Brüggemann who, along with his sister, also wrote the compelling screenplay. Forced to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, Ben is deeply desperate, despite his humor and vivaciousness. When he meets Christian, his new assistant, Ben treats him like every other helper he’s had. Things suddenly change when Christian meets Annika, “the cello player” whom Ben has been observing from his window for years. The three become close friends, putting Annika in the middle of an emotional, and somehow dangerous, ménage à trois. While conquering Annika is nothing very serious for career-focused Christian, Ben’s love for Annika reminds him of his past and forces him to face his most remote fears. A character-driven story, Run If You Can owes much of its power to the actors’ performances, especially Robert Gwisdek’s outstanding interpretation of Ben.

An allegorical comedy centered on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water shortage, go on a sex strike that threatens the young couple's first night of love.

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