Cornelius Schwalm

A nearly finished construction site. The wiring is completed, the walls are painted, the final inspections are being done. The construction manager Thomas Zetzsche is proud of his achievement. The prestigious building he created is a modern dream come true. But suddenly that dream begins to crumble as more and more defects appear. Cables run into dead ends, the fire protection malfunctions and entire rooms go missing. Desperately Thomas is trying to fix the building until he finally accepts that the opening date has to be postponed. Now he must confront his own responsibility in this faulty system and draw the necessary consequences

The director of a theatre play about the holocaust takes some of his actors to Auschwitzt to get in the right mood...

The director of a theatre play about the holocaust takes some of his actors to Auschwitzt to get in the right mood...

The director of a theatre play about the holocaust takes some of his actors to Auschwitzt to get in the right mood...

The director of a theatre play about the holocaust takes some of his actors to Auschwitzt to get in the right mood...

Elisa and Anthea support each other through the difficulties of adolescence. But their innocent friendship soon turns into co-dependency and to maintain their cohesion, they develop a dangerous game with a camera. Eventually, their game turns them from victims into offenders.

Nos encontramos en la Thüringen, Alemania del Este, en verano de 1979. Dos familias idean un alocado plan: abandonar la República Democrática Alemana y viajar al Oeste en un globo construido por ellos mismos. La tarea no será sencilla y los protagonistas se tendrán que enfrentar no solo a los imprevistos de este difícil viaje, sino también a las autoridades del país que buscan desechar su plan.

Ferdi thinks he's ugly – but likes the fact Jona is interested in him. Maybe because she's blind. What Ferdi doesn't suspect: She's just pretending to be blind to be able to live cheaply in subsidized housing. How long can she maintain her charade? Can love, which is supposed to make you blind, even work out that way? Director Tom Lass takes a closer look, shooting with blind actors and old Berlin buddies, acting the lead himself – paying tribute to a way of life beyond our way of seeing the world.

Una semblanza del desencanto y del fin del amor a través de dos parejas, dos historias separadas por treinta años. Grecia, 1984. Kenneth, inglés, y Theres, alemana. Mochila al hombro, se ganan su sustento cantando en un parque. Cuando Kenneth tiene que partir porque su madre está en el hospital, algo difícil de recuperar se rompe. Treinta años más tarde, Ariane, actriz de televisión, deja a su marido tras una crisis matrimonial. En el Berlín de 2014, ambas historias confluirán.

True love never dies, the loving heart never stops beating ... for Kerstin’s ex Thomas, who she still hopes will come back some day. Instead of Thomas, her mother Charlotte shows up at her door, mid-50s and freshly single again, too. Charlotte moves in with Kerstin and her flatmates, one of who shows her how to use a modern dating app to meet new men. As mom starts dating again, her daughter refuses to let digital reality intrude on her romantic daydreams.

The summer holidays have just begun in Brandenburg, but ten-year-old Lea isn’t going to camp this year with her friends as she normally would. One afternoon she spots five boys lifting a large blue oil barrel over the fence of a paint factory and driving away with their loot on a bicycle trailer. Lea's curiosity is piqued. The next chance she gets, she follows the boys and discovers they built a raft on a small lake. The raft is the boys' property and under no circumstances girls are allowed in their gang. But Lea wants to be part of it very badly and takes them up on a dare. Soon summer is full of adventure.

Un importante historiador alemán del Holocausto, nieto de un criminal de guerra nazi, lucha contra la historia de su familia, su carrera y su odio hacia la gente en general. En el punto álgido de su crisis personal se encuentra una apasionada e histérica judía francesa con complejo teutónico. Su actitud poco convencional pone patas arriba su vida personal y profesional y lo ayuda a finalmente romper las barreras que se ha construido alrededor de su vida. (FILMAFFINITY)

The former bank robber Wanja is released from a long prison sentence. As her feelings of loneliness escalate, Wanja sets out to find work and hereby a new identity. Against all odds she lands an internship at a horse race track. In the stable she gets to know the troubled teenager Emma, and a strong friendship develops between the two women. When Emma slips deeper into her own drug abuse, Wanja decides to rescue her.

The former bank robber Wanja is released from a long prison sentence. As her feelings of loneliness escalate, Wanja sets out to find work and hereby a new identity. Against all odds she lands an internship at a horse race track. In the stable she gets to know the troubled teenager Emma, and a strong friendship develops between the two women. When Emma slips deeper into her own drug abuse, Wanja decides to rescue her.

A model family's happy life unexpectedly goes off the rails when the carefree Hedi, played by Laura Tonke, suddenly starts having panic attacks. First mental illness and then drug dependency – the happiness that these happy-go-lucky thirty-somethings once took for granted suddenly seems unattainable, and their world fragile and uncertain.

Berlín, siglo XIX, Romanticismo. El joven poeta trágico Heinrich aspira a vencer el carácter ineluctable de la muerte gracias al amor. Por esta razón intenta convencer a su prima Marie de que si se suicidan juntos conseguirán eludir el destino. El escepticismo y la falta de sensibilidad de Marie deprime a Heinrich. Sin embargo, Henriette, una joven casada, cuando se entera de que padece una enfermedad incurable, se muestra dispuesta a aceptar la propuesta del poeta. Relato libremente inspirado en el suicidio de Heinrich von Kleist, en 1811.

After his father committed suicide, Richard decides to stay in a youth center rather than staying with his mother. There, he finds a bizarre bunch of teenagers. Each of them experienced pain from early on, having their own desires and fighting for happiness with peculiar humor and fantasy. Richard doesn’t want to get involved with any of this – if it weren’t for her: Kyra.

A man travels to Berlin because his ex girlfriend is in a coma. He takes their son, Manuel. The father goes to the clinic often and Manuel feels out of place, so he prefers to ride his skateboard through the city in winter. The speechless and motionless body of the woman disturbs father and son, each one in his own way. The son faces the libidinous turbulences of becoming an adult, while the father suffers the physical discomforts of his age. A confrontation of different body images within an environment of emotional distance and the coldness of the city.

Berlín. Época actual. Hanna y Simon son una pareja que viven juntos desde hace años. El amor, el trabajo, el sexo y la vida cotidiana se entremezclan en una combativa armonía. Son atractivos, modernos, maduros, sin niños, cultivados y con los pies en la tierra. Pero Hanna conoce a Adam. Y Adam conoce a Simon. E inesperadamente los tres se enamoran.

A man and two women are trying their luck in the red room in the countryside. The older (but therefore not wiser) Fred, freshly divorced as a kisser who still desires his ex, meets the self-confident Lucy, who feels called to explore the soul of men in her novels. She lives with her intimate friend Sibil in a Vorpommern house in the countryside. Fred decides to move from Berlin to the two women and try a ménage-à-trois. They get to know each other and themselves.

Pink is a punk-poet. She's young, beautiful, succesful – but whom of her adorers should she marry? She makes a decision with the help of a calculator. Unfortunately, her first husband is a flop – so there are still two other possibilities...

María y Marquard son pintores y amantes, con una vida en común. Una vez que Marquard obtiene un importante premio, dotado con una considerable suma de dinero, su creatividad artística se desvanece. Mientras María trabaja en una serie de cuadros, Marquard visita a su amigo Gregor, un criador de caballos y filósofo, se acuesta con la angelical Angie y visita a su hija Lucía en varias ocasiones. Marquard y Lucía, que han comenzado una tierna y compasiva relación padre-hija, pasan dos días en un hotel de la costa, decidiendo no hablarse con palabras. Los sentimientos y la comunicación surgirá de un modo muy especial. María, que desconoce el paradero y el porqué de la ausencia de Marquard, se da cuenta por sí misma: su amor se ha terminado. Abruptamente, interrumpe su trabajo hasta el momento y comienza a pintar un nuevo cuadro, titulado "Lo visible y lo invisible".