Markus Hering

Michael, an open-pit miner, refuses to accept the fact that coal is being phased out. He doesn’t want things to change. Working in an open-pit mine is more than just a job to him. He tries to convince his co-workers to join in his protest of the changes afoot, but by not being able to let go, he gets less and less support — even from his family.

When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further ado, nobody suspects this brazen young rebel to become one of the most important post-war German filmmakers. Despite early setbacks, many of his films breakout at the most renowned films festivals and polarise audience, critics and filmmakers alike. His radical views and self-exploitation, as well as his longing for love, have made him one of the most fascinating film directors of this time.

The fate of Nora, a supermarket cashier who lives happily with her boyfriend Aron, and that of Natan, a loving father who works as a night watchman, cross paths when misfortune turns their lives upside down.

Three women, three different stories, one room in a psychiatric clinic. A strong and tumultuous relationship erupts among them, evolving into an energetic, honest and erotic bond. This takes them to a point where their hopes may be fulfilled… in very different ways.

幼いころ両親を亡くした少女ハイジは、アルプスの山小屋に暮らす祖父アルムおんじのもとに引き取られる。無愛想で人嫌いのおんじは孫娘との同居に気乗りがしなかったが、いつしか天真爛漫なハイジに孤独を癒やされていく。ハイジもまたおんじの不器用な優しさに触れ、やがて2人は互いを家族として受け入れる。だがそんなある日、ハイジは大富豪の令嬢クララの話し相手として大都会のお屋敷に連れて行かれる。

The famous Hamburg psychiatrist Dr. Magnus Sorel is in a deep crisis. Not only that his Serbo-Croatian patient Masha has reported him for sexual assault. Magnus is also struggling with blackmail: a stranger has stolen his diaries, which reveal his innermost desires and abysses. The well-known psychotherapist is an obsessional neurotic who can only with difficulty hide his disgust from his fellow man. After a failed appearance on "Günther Jauch", Magnus tried to use force to bring the stolen diaries back into his possession. But he has to rethink in order to solve his problems.

Germany, 1967. Ruby & Martin, a young couple, are rehearsing their uprising. The price is high: expulsion from school, parental violence, and ultimately institutionalization. But they are ready to take on the cause of love.

Follows the lives of different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic few days before Christmas in Frankfurt, Germany.

A comedy about a crazy summer of young provincial guy in Berlin.

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 renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a local actor joins the crew as his understudy? Comic situations arise not only because of the well-known environment, but also from an inclination to authentically capture the various relationships.

At some point in the not-so-distant future, an unnamed European city has evolved into a bizarre dystopian metropolis, whose residents inhabit towering utopian high-rises and work, collectively, in a single compound.

Never at the sea.

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

In a small German town roams Ben, a boy with mental disorders. When several youths are murdered Ben becomes suspect.

After the dashing Bavarian Lena Mayerhofer catches her future husband having a fling with her bridesmaid, she flees to Berlin to take over her Aunt Käthe's long-established bakery. Her gay friend Donald is there to give her advice and support.

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in gas chambers.

レコードを聴きながら自殺──。1930年代、世界中でそんな現象を巻き起こし、呪われた「自殺の聖歌」として、発禁処分を受けるに至った曲があった。現在も多くのアーティストによって歌い継がれるシャンソンの名曲「暗い日曜日」である。その後、作曲者自らも死を選んでいる。今もなお、多くの謎を残すこの曲の誕生には、激しくも切ない愛の物語が隠されていた……。第二次世界大戦前夜のブタペスト。レストランのオーナー、その麗しき恋人、店のピアノ弾き、彼らは互いに愛を共有し合う関係を保っていた。しかし、ピアノ弾きが「暗い日曜日」を作曲したことから、運命の歯車が狂いはじめる。生きること、愛することが簡単ではなかった時代。危ういほどに美しい旋律は、”真実”までも葬り去ってしまうのか……。

Humourous interpretation of the poems and writings of Soviet dadaist Daniil Charms. These are organized into a sequence, suggesting a storyline, about a poor Russian poet who lives in Vienna, falls in love and has several bizarre adventures.

Georg works up at the highway. He collects the toll from the tourists; he collects the toll from the truck drivers. All of Europe has to go by him. Below, in the shadow of the mighty bridge, Georg lives with his parents in an old farmhouse with its empty stall. Georg makes a career for himself. And then, he falls in love with a young farm woman. He must decide between love and his job.