Rike Eckermann

Berlin at the end of the 19th Century. Alexander Hoffmann is an ambitious PhD student of Ethnology. When a delegation of the Herero and Nama tribes travels to Berlin during a ‘Colonial Exhibition’, he takes a special interest in their young female translator Kezia Kambazembi as subject for his studies.

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.

Ben wakes up from an artificial coma after a failed mission. The personal protector has to deal with the fact that he could not prevent the death of a little girl. In order to recover, the BKA officer takes a break from the police service and drives to the Baltic Sea with his girlfriend Marion. He spent happy days there as a child. The first visit to his parents in years is at the same time the return to the place of painful memories, because back then his best friend Timmi was killed in a mysterious accident. To his astonishment, he now learns that Timmi, now an adult, is alive and lying in a hospital as a coma patient. Together with Marion, a doctor who specializes in this diseases, Ben wants to reach Timmi with the help of MRI technology. Perhaps the trauma can be resolved if the cause can be brought to light. Unlike Ben, however, neither Timmi's father nor the village cop Nolting seem interested in it. A web of guilt, lies and deception has to be unraveled to clue to the puzzle.

Berlin, the Prenzlauer Berg district. Daniel is a movie star accustomed to success. His loft apartment is stylish and so is his wife, and the nanny has the children under control. Everything is tip-top, bilingual and ready for him to jet off to an audition in London where a role in an American superhero film awaits the celebrated German-Spanish actor. Popping into the local bar on the corner, he finds Bruno sitting there. As transpires by the minute, Bruno has been waiting for this moment for a long time. And so this eternally overlooked man – one of reunification's losers and a victim of the gentrification of what was once East Berlin – takes his revenge. With Daniel as his target...

Film by Jan Bonny, also known as "Endlich Leben".

Sarah and her parents celebrate her confirmation. But instead of eating the lobster on her plate, Sarah hides it under the table. When her father finds the lobster there, he draws the consequences.

SHH is the story of friendship being put to the test. On the night of a school party, four girlfriends are waiting to be questioned by the school's principal. The bond between the girls appears to be strong and unbreakable. One of them however seems to be under more pressure than the rest.

1945년 4월, 전쟁이 막 끝나갈 즈음 젊은 병사 헤롤트는 탈영을 하다 걸려 총살당할 위기를 간신히 모면한다. 전쟁은 끝나가지만 후방의 군기는 망가질 대로 망가져 온갖 약탈과 범죄를 일삼고 있던 상황. 낮에는 숲에서 쉬고 밤에는 농가에 몰래 숨어들어 먹을 걸 훔치다 걸리면 바로 처형되는 위기 속에서 우연히 나치 간부의 군복을 발견한다. 한 벌의 군복으로 가짜지만 대위가 된 헤롤트는 히틀러의 직속 명령이라는 거짓 임무를 내세워 헤롤트 기동 부대를 만들어 권력을 키워간다. 어느새 헤롤트는 탈영병으로 쫓기던 신세에서 자신을 쫓던 나치 장교와 같은 괴물로 변해가기 시작하는데...

Bodo is standing on the top of a roof and ready to jump, when suddenly his phone is ringing...

Anja and Frank are enjoying their family vacation sailing on the Baltic Sea. Anja leaves their two young children alone on the boat for just a moment and when she returns, they are nowhere to be found.

Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal breakdown.

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.

사랑하는 연인 바실리와 아들 알렉시를 키우며 행복한 나날을 보내던 넬리는 바실리가 모스크바에서 교통사고로 사망하면서 커다란 혼란을 겪게 된다. 3년 후, 넬리는 알렉시와 동독 국경을 넘어 서독으로 향한다. 정식 이주를 위해 수용소에서 심사를 받지만, 하나같이 이어지는 바실리에 대한 질문에 넬리는 점점 지쳐간다. 결국, 넬리는 자신에게 호감을 보이는 미국 심사관 존과 정사를 나누고 그를 닦달해 까맣게 몰랐던 사실을 알게 된다. 비밀경찰 정보원으로 활동하던 바실리가 마음을 바꾸고, 서독 비밀 정보국과 공모해서 교통사고와 사망을 위장한 채 어딘가에서 살고 있을 수도 있다는 것이다…

1982년 독일의 어떤 미군기지에서 전자파를 이용, 날씨를 변화하는 실험이 행해지고있었고, 어마어마한 전자파가 송출되는 타워가 설치되고 실험이 시작되자 인근에 거주하던 28명의 사람들이 죽는 사고때문에 실험에 대한 모든것이 폐쇄된다...

Master painter Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Ms. Wellinek and her husband, and the German-Russian Jew Yevgenia have many things to live on: food, drink, an apartment. What they do not have is work. They all discover the yearning for a chance to start all over again and bring themselves back to life.