Hildegard Schroedter

Emma, a French novelist aged 27, decide to go to Berlin and join a brothel to uncover the prostitution world, the subject of her new book. Such as gonzo journalism, Emma become a prostitute and her experience, which was supposed to last a few weeks, will last two years. Was writing her book an excuse for Emma to live a shameful fantasy ?

These young women are an odd couple. Julie is quick-witted and stubborn. She celebrates idleness and even voluntarily checks into a psychiatric clinic. Nurse Agnes, on the other hand, is always eager to do the right thing and to meet everyone's expectations of her, which is not always easy. When the two of them accidentally meet one day, odds are they won't get along. But they quickly feel attracted to one another, despite their enormous differences.

As novelist Jovana Fey attempts to check into the first hotel of her 3-week European book tour, she learns that her publisher has gone bankrupt. Penniless and stranded, she decides to continue the tour regardless.

When Ulja (12) is prevented from pursuing her passion, astronomy, she decides to take matters into her own hands. With a stolen hearse and a 13-year-old classmate as a driver, she makes her way across Eastern Europe to watch the impact of an asteroid. In doing so, she not only has to shake off her persecutors, but also her pragmatic view of friendship and family.

Aaron is academically gifted, loved, loving and free. Struggling financially to remain in university education, he is introduced to a mysteriously wealthy man who promises him the world. What Aaron gets instead is isolation, confusion and vilification.

Es el 60 cumpleaños de Lara, a quien no le faltan motivos para celebrarlo: su hijo Viktor va a dar el concierto de piano más importante de su carrera. Ella fue quien proyectó y guió su trayectoria musical, pero llevan varias semanas sin hablar y nada parece indicar que Lara será bienvenida en su debut como intérprete profesional. Sin pensárselo dos veces, compra todas las entradas que quedan a la venta y las distribuye entre cuantos se va encontrando. Pero cuanto más se esfuerza para que la velada sea un éxito, más se descontrola todo.

The shy late twenties Torsten tile lives with his mother in a bleak Berlin slab. In the guise of his alter ego "Lux - Warrior of Light" he tries to make the world a little bit better. He distributes food to the homeless and helps out on his forays through the city wherever he can. A film crew accompanies him to make a documentary about the social engagement of the self-appointed real-life superhero. Jan, the director, is still looking for a donor. The resourceful producer Brandt shows interest, but on condition that he sees something spectacular.

Ironically, the law enforcement officer of integrity Frank Koops is forced by his old colleague Simone Schmidt to take part in a bank robbery...

As a nun, Katharina von Bora lives the life destined for her until she comes into contact with a completely new world of thought in the early 20s through the writings of Martin Luther. She flees with some of her co-sisters and comes without legal status, without income and rejected by her family to Wittenberg, where she meets Martin Luther personally. Katharina decides to marry the reformer and, as his wife, becomes a respected housekeeper, an equal interlocutor and the mother of their children together.

Olaf intenta hacer realidad sus sueños y, por lo tanto, siempre se mete en problemas con su entorno. Encuentra su mayor obstáculo cuando su padre lo obliga a tener un hijo. Encontrar una mujer se vuelve difícil cuando Olaf se da cuenta de que tienen algo que él no tiene: sentimientos.

15 years ago the sea at the coast of Windholm just vanished. Now two young physicists try to find out, why it happened...

Nama, a teenager from Mali, has crossed desert and sea for his freedom. When Nama is injured in a fight, an old man named Willi lets him move into the house that he used to share with his son Stefan. The father and son have not spoken for years and the three men may have little in common, yet what binds them together is their search for a home where their wounds from present and past can heal.

Peter y Lisbeth son dos jóvenes pero desafortunados enamorados que viven en una comunidad rural rígida en el Bosque Negro. Ella viene de una familia rica de sopladores de vidrio; él es un pobre trabajador del carbón en el extremo inferior de la sociedad. Para hacerse rico y respetado, Peter hace un pacto con un diablo llamado Dutch Michael, que rasga su corazón y lo reemplaza con una piedra. Robado de todo calor y sentimiento, Peter se convierte en un emprendedor de corazón frío que rápidamente logra sus objetivos. Sin piedad se esfuerza por el dinero y el poder. Pero Lisbeth ya no reconoce a Peter como el hombre que una vez amó y se vuelve contra él.

A French teacher makes a startling discovery while on a trip to Buchenwald.

Berlín, 1940. Cuando a Otto y Anna Quangel, un matrimonio de clase obrera, les comunican que su único hijo ha muerto en el campo de batalla, ambos emprenden una campaña nada menos que en contra de Hitler, el nazismo y la guerra, pero pronto comenzarán a ser perseguidos por la Gestapo

Mohammed, an 18-year old refugee, lives with his chaotic older brother Lakhdar in a rundown apartment in Berlin. Several years after his family fled the war in Lebanon and moved to Berlin, the sensitive young man still needs to set foot in the harsh male environment, trying to find his place between his brother and his german motorcycle workshop colleagues.

For Pastor Judith Ehrmann, her job as an emergency counselor is more than just part of her job: giving people assistance is a vocation for them. But when a classmate of her son dies in a car accident, that's unusual. Judith begins to doubt: herself, her job - but also her family. For all at once everything seems to indicate that her own husband and son were involved in the accident and now want to cover this up. The emotionally intense drama of award-winning director Aelrun Goette raises fundamental themes without giving easy answers.

A few people decide to found their own little state n the middle of Germany, near Berlin...

La novela de 550 páginas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, narrada por la muerte, cuenta la historia de Liesel Memminger desde el momento en que es acogida con nueve años por una familia trabajadora alemana en el barrio obrero justo después de haber robado su primer libro.

A young financial auditor, promoted to his first serious position, soon finds himself following in the fatal footsteps of his predecessor.

At the beginning, everything looks like a normal job. But in the apartment of a cruelly murdered woman, Judith Kepler, a crime scene cleaner by trade, encounters her own past. The dead woman had done research and wanted to contact Judith. And she knew her closely guarded secret: Judith had been brought as a child under mysterious circumstances in a DDR children's home. Origin: unknown. Now, 25 years later, Judith has the evidence in her hands that she was swapped as a child. A stranger lived her life. Did this stranger also die of her - Judith's - death?

Alice y Lisette, dos jóvenes de 16 años, son arrebatadas de sus familias por los nazis para ser enviadas a Alemania. Allí son adoctrinadas en una campo donde aprenden a obedecer.

Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.

At sunrise five people meet on a high rise rooftop in order to leap to their deaths.

En un caluroso día de verano, se encuentra una bicicleta en un campo de trigo, en una escena exacta a la de un crimen cometido hace 23 años que no se pudo resolver. Esta vez es Sinikka, de 13 años de edad, la que ha desaparecido. Mientras que el investigador del caso sin resolver y un joven colega inician la investigación, para los padres de Sinikka comienza un período de agonía e incertidumbre.

Gonger es un niño asesinado en las marismas que regresa del más allá para matar a los descendientes de sus verdugos. Ahora, éstos están en la mansión de sus antepasados tratando de que presencias de otra dimensión se manifiesten. Secuela de "Gonger, el mal viene del pasado".

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

El gonger es el fantasma de un niño asesinado y que hace 40 años que se aparece a los descendientes de sus asesinos, que ahora es un grupo de jóvenes que viven en el pueblo y que cada vez tienen más miedo. Cuando uno de ellos decide poner a la venta la casa de sus abuelos se da cuenta que la leyenda del gonger tiene que ver con la muerte de sus padres cuando era pequeño, hecho que le ha marcado para siempre.

Alexandra is spending the weekend at her parents' house. As she arrives at the familiar apartment, nobody's home. Yet successively, the mother, a friend of the family and the father get in. The rooms, which were quite in the beginning, slowly fill up with noises, conversations and activity. Alexandra withdraws from the social world of the family structure repeatedly. Finally, the mother, the father and the friend go to the movies together. Alexandra is left behind by herself.

El capitán Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe) es un oficial extremadamente competente de la Stasi, la todopoderosa policía secreta del régimen comunista de la antigua República Democrática Alemana. Pero, cuando en 1984 le encomiendan que espíe a la pareja formada por el prestigioso escritor Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) y la popular actriz Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedenk), no sabe hasta qué punto esa misión va a influir en su propia vida...