Edgar Selge

At first glance, Leyla and Tristan are a happy couple. When they travel to a mysterious island, a game of identities begins that changes everything – their perception, their sexuality, their entire selves. But not only their relationship threatens to break up. They may even never be who they used to be again …

Enero de 1990. Alemania está a punto de ser reunificada. El régimen moribundo de la RDA se vuelve contra su propio líder: el exjefe de Estado Erich Honecker quien enfrenta cargos de traición. Abandonado a su suerte, encontrará refugio en casa de un pastor protestante con quien confrontará moral y política.

The consequences of the climate catastrophe are dramatic in 2034. Drought and floods destroy the livelihoods of millions of people. After the third storm tide in a row, the headquarters of the International Court of Justice in The Hague was evacuated. In a provisional interim building in Berlin, the climate catastrophe becomes the subject of legal proceedings. Two lawyers represent 31 countries of the global South, which are doomed to destruction without the support of the international community.

François is a literary scholar and drinker. His relationships with women are limited to one year, his life is sufficiently happy. Until the day when charismatic Muslim politician Mohamed Ben Abbes becomes president in France, introduces patriarchy and polygamy and loses his job. In his growing loneliness, Rector Rediger's offer to resume his teaching at the Sorbonne reaches him on one condition: he must convert to Islam.

La vida de Katja se derrumba cuando su marido y su hijo mueren en un atentado. La policía detiene enseguida a unos sospechosos -dos jóvenes relacionados con el movimiento neonazi-y Katja se ve inmersa en un complicado proceso judicial. Danilo, abogado y mejor amigo de su marido, lleva el caso y hará todo lo posible para darle el apoyo necesario a Katja, quien cegada por el dolor, solo tiene un objetivo: por encima de todo, quiere que se haga justicia.

Para Johannes y Lydia Klare, su fe en Dios es lo primero. Juntos lideran una pequeña comunidad en Stuttgart, con éxito. La gente los escucha, se están acercando más y más a ellos. Incluso hay planes para hacer que la comunidad financiada por los donantes sea mucho más grande gracias a las generosas contribuciones de Volker. En primer lugar, la pareja tiene puntos bastante diferentes, más urgentes para atender. Cuando un día observan a Simon, el vagabundo sin hogar de la calle, que va y viene en crisis relacionadas con las drogas, se lo llevan un rato. Juntos quieren ayudarlo de nuevo en el camino correcto. Pero no son solo las drogas las que causan conflictos. La homosexualidad de Simon también presenta a los dos con un gran desafío, ya que no es tan fácil unirse con su fe.

In 1916, the officer of the German secret service Elsbeth Schragmüller trains the end-of-career exotic dancer Mata Hari as secret agent. Schragmüller has finally an ear directly in the influential circles of Paris, while Mata Hari can uphold her mundane life despite lack of engagements. Both have great hope for this intelligence mission.

Inspired by true events, this is a story about what happens when two outsiders from opposite corners of the world are thrown together: Brazil and Germany. Marten Brueckling, a retired music teacher from Germany, has inherited an original sheet of music from Bachs son. Marten has to collect the sheet in person in the beautiful Baroque city of Ouro Preto in the heart of Brazil. But Brazil is not for beginners: Funny circumstances drives hm to teach music to the kids of a juvenile detention center. Bachs music and Brazilian instruments mix perfectly. One of the kids is Fernando, a lovable, abandoned boy, who lived on the streets. But Marten discovers that they have more in common as he thought.

After getting his cancer diagnosis, Holm decides to die in Switzerland. With a last big appearance he wants to say goodbye to his family. Holm invites family members and close friends to a dinner to review his successful life. But the evening is not a wistful-emotional family reunion, but a settlement with the head of the family. Old wounds break open, long kept secrets come to light, the different views of the people, the others and the life leads to hard argument and to many a surprise.

West Germany, 1987. The politician Uwe Barschel (1944-87), member of the Christian Democratic Union party and Minister-President of the Schleswig-Holstein region, is found dead in very sinister circumstances. Reporter David Burger pledges to find the truth behind one of the most important political scandals in German history, investigating countless speculations and conspiracy theories as he fights his own personal demons.

Melanie and Walter seem to be happily married but then strange incidents begin to occur. Their house is broken into but nothing is missing. Someone is observing them and Walter is even pursued and harassed by a young man. The situation escalates when they find out that the daughter of their former housekeeper has died.

Witnesses about to testify at the Nuremberg War Trials needed a safe place to wait. All under one roof, each with their own secrets. And the countess assigned to take care of them. What was her secret?

Louise, de sesenta años, es obligada a jubilarse antes de tiempo y decide usar el tiempo libre del que ahora dispone en quedarse embarazada y tener un bebé. Mientras, Frans, también de sesenta años y dueño de una galería, decide reiniciar su carrera encontrando a la próxima promesa de la escena del arte contemporáneo. Mientras ambos luchan por redefinirse, corregir errores del pasado y recobrar el tiempo perdido, sus mundos colisionan.

Documental sobre Otto Weidt, un héroe que salvó a docenas de judíos de los campos de concentración nazis. Dueño de una fábrica de cepillos y escobas en Berlin, Otto usó sus habilidades como estafador para burlar a los nazis y salvar a su personal, la mayoría de ellos judíos y ciegos. (FILMAFFINITY)

La joven Helen Memel de 18 años tiene predilección por usar verduras para la masturbación y opina que la higiene corporal está sobrevalorada. Provoca a los demás pronunciando las palabras que ellos ni en sueños se atreverían a enunciar. Los padres de Helen están divorciados y nada la haría más feliz que verlos juntos de nuevo. Solamente con su mejor amiga Corinna se siente arropada, pues juntas rompen muchos tabúes sociales. Un día, al depilarse en la zona íntima, se lastima accidentalmente y tiene que ingresar al hospital. El médico encargado del caso, Prof. Notz, la considera un caso excepcional y causa revuelo en el hospital por su desparpajo y su sinceridad.

Presentación, en toda su complejidad, del lado más luminoso de la personalidad del rey Luis II de Baviera, su juventud, su fe en la música y el arte para alcanzar una mejor vida.

Hanna Forster is still waiting eagerly for the return of her husband Karl, who has been in Russian captivity for seven years. Hanna brought the family and joinery on her own through the war and post-war years. When Karl finally returns, Hanna is overjoyed, but luck does not last long. Heavily injured and traumatized, Karl finds it difficult to get used to everyday and family life again. To prevent the bankruptcy of the joinery, Hanna makes a momentous decision.

One day Little Red Cap’s mother tells her that her grandmother is sick, and sends her to her house to bring her a piece of cake, a bottle of wine and medicine. To arrive at her grandmother’s house the girl must cross the woods, and there she meets a bad old wolf.

In 1914 on a family estate, Oda helps a wounded anarchist, and as their illicit friendship deepens, a family turmoil erupts as the war closes in.

The Swiss President, called by all only "big hangover", is in trouble: the election is coming and according to surveys his chances are not very good. From a meeting with the Spanish royal couple, he hopes media attention and a popularity boost. He does not suspect that his closest confidant Pfiff, of all people, is intriguing against him in order to come to power himself. But he does not even shy away from misusing his family for his own purposes. Soon, the president has to fight not only for his political position, but also for his marriage.

During the Cold War, Ulrich and Heike Molitor's attempt to escape from the GDR with their children hidden in the car ends in a prison conviction and both kids going to adoption unless they accept to leave daughter Rebecca behind to that fate and choose 'exulsion' with son Klaus. When the kids near adulthood, Klaus is frustrated that his parents only wine about his lost sister. Meanwhile, the time is ripening for the Berlin wall to come down. Rebecca's adoptive pa resists his wife's bitching to leave the Stasi.

1965. Rachel Brener es una de las tres jóvenes agentes del Mossad que han capturado a "The Surgon of Trevlinca", un monstruo nazi que nunca fue juzgado en Israel y que cometió suicidio. Israel, 35 años más tarde... el nazi sigue aparentemente vivo.

Wolfang Zenker es un vendedor ambulante de ropa femenina, de mediana edad, que está en un aprieto: su joven competidor a muerte amenaza con robarle sus mejores clientes ya que Zenker ha perdido el carnet de conducir. Agobiado ante la perspectiva de quedar rezagado, decide cancelar las vacaciones de su hijo y emplearlo en contra de su voluntad como conductor. Las cosas van de mal en peor: el banco le persigue, Hacienda da con él, su mujer le deja, su hijo le informa de su homosexualidad ¡y se enamora del adversario de su padre! La familia y el enemigo se reúnen en un clamoroso enfrentamiento final en el que volarán los malos entendidos y las balas.

The "Schwitzkasten" is a sleazy sauna located in a undistinguished neighborhood in Berlin, Germany where several persons are used to meet day by day, discussing their personal problems and feelings.

Bibí Blocksberg ha pasado demasiado tiempo pensando en la magia, y muy poco tiempo en sus estudios. Así que la obligan a pasar sus vacaciones de verano en el colegio de internos del castillo de Altenberg. Pronto, se hace amiga de Elea, una compañera que está en silla de ruedas. Cuando escucha la leyenda de los búhos azules y sus poderes milagrosos, decide ayudar a su amiga, aunque el código de las brujas prohíba expresamente intervenir en el destino humano. Pero Bibí no es la única que sabe de estos mágicos poderes, también lo sabe su archienemiga la bruja Rabia von Katzenstein.

Briton Robert Clayton's business flourished and when his son Donald reached the right age he became a partner. The Claytons have found irreplaceable help and a friend in the board of directors and authorized signatory Josef Chwostik. But gradually the authorized signatory is drawn into the private life of father and son. An orderly world - or so it seems. You make a career, maintain business relationships, win or lose a lover - and don't want to see the cracks and voids in the foundation of society.

Llegaron a una cárcel ficticia buscando una forma rápida de ganar dinero fácil. Ahora sólo buscan la manera de sobrevivir. Todo empezó como un experimento científico protagonizado durante dos semanas por veinte hombres que cobrarían por su colaboración 4.000 marcos. El proyecto consistía en estudiar el comportamiento agresivo en un ambiente carcelario simulado. A los participantes se les asigna el papel de guardianes (ocho) o prisioneros (doce). Los prisioneros deben obedecer las órdenes, y los guardias deben mantener el orden. Pero dar a un hombre un poco de poder puede tener consecuencias insospechadas.

In the summer of 1807, Clemens Brentano stumbles into the most extreme love affair of his life. The woman, who, aged barely 17-years-old, throws herself at him with such terrifying brutality, is called Auguste Bussmann.

Jakob Windisch ha escrito el best seller número uno de la novela. Puesto que él es muy tímido, nadie lo ha visto, excepto Uhu Zigeuner que es el director designado de la adaptación a película. Zigeuner está a la caza de la mujer de sus sueños, una mujer que también debería desempeñar el papel principal en la película. Mientras tanto, el despiadado productor de Reiter Oskar quiere comprar los derechos cinematográficos a todos los costos, y además está luchando por el amor de la bella Valerie. Estas y muchos más egos se reúnen cada noche en un restaurante llamado "Rossini", donde todos deben ir para que todo el mundo los vea.

Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), un admirado escritor noruego, que consiguió el premio Nobel en 1920, era considerado un héroe en su país. Sin embargo, tras el estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la invasión de Noruega por los nazis, Hamsun apoyó a Hitler e incluso mantuvo un encuentro con él. Desde entonces se le consideró un traidor a su patria y, terminada la guerra, fue desposeido de sus bienes. También su vida matrimonial con Marie (Ghita Norby), una escritora de cuentos infantiles, fue conflictiva. Tras su muerte, su obra cayó en el olvido hasta tal punto que no hay en toda Noruega una sola calle o plaza con su nombre.

Flat-dwelling urban family win a pig in a raffle, and decide to keep it. They lose their flat (no pets allowed) but eventually Rudi the pig makes good.

A crime drama directed by Rolf Silber.

A drama directed by Beat Lottaz.

Black comedy about a lucrative business. Grandmother, mother and daughter live together in a love-hate-relationship and run their business with divided responsibilities: via marriage ads they are looking for candidates. It’s the daughter that gets dressed and styled according to the new mission: no matter if vamp or tree-hugger she twists the men around her little finger until they clear their accounts from all the savings. The money ends up in coffee tins stored in grandma’s fridge. But where do the men end up when they discover the secret of the trio?

Film by Percy Adlon.

Follows two wealthy families in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. One of them is German, the other one Jewish.

Three actors portray scenes from the life of Sterling Hayden, with a particular focus on his appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Inspired by Hayden’s memoir “Wanderer.”

The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country.