Stephan Konken

At the end of a quarry, in a godforsaken place called Rotzloch, a new life begins for four young men.

Speedy, merciless and with plenty of black humor Gasman shows the picture of a man searching for his inner soul.

Speedy, merciless and with plenty of black humor Gasman shows the picture of a man searching for his inner soul.

For Marko, life mainly consists of frozen pizzas and back pain. For almost 30 years, the widower has been hauling frozen goods for the company "Eisland" to the front doors of his mostly older customers. When Marko has to take early retirement due to illness, his life gets into imbalance. Thereby Marko has only one goal: his studying son should have it better one day. Lawyer or judge, that would be something. The main thing is no work where you have to wear a name tag. The decease of an old female customer unexpectedly opens up a whole new business model for Marko. Unfortunately, he reckoned without the nosy neighbors. To make matters worse, his own son also finds out about it. Marko's house of cards threatens to collapse. Then he meets his idol Roland Kaiser at the bar.

For Marko, life mainly consists of frozen pizzas and back pain. For almost 30 years, the widower has been hauling frozen goods for the company "Eisland" to the front doors of his mostly older customers. When Marko has to take early retirement due to illness, his life gets into imbalance. Thereby Marko has only one goal: his studying son should have it better one day. Lawyer or judge, that would be something. The main thing is no work where you have to wear a name tag. The decease of an old female customer unexpectedly opens up a whole new business model for Marko. Unfortunately, he reckoned without the nosy neighbors. To make matters worse, his own son also finds out about it. Marko's house of cards threatens to collapse. Then he meets his idol Roland Kaiser at the bar.

How do you become who you are? Through the slights one experiences, believes freelance journalist and author Dirk Gieselmann. One late evening, he is alone in his apartment. His camera is set up in front of him, with which he records himself. In doing so, he first introduces himself personally and announces that he will call three people. In the telephone calls that follow, he confronts his interlocutors with long-ago encounters, experienced ruthlessness and the accusation that they drove him out of the paradise of childhood. That evening, he wants to know what the reasons were for the slights and hopes to be able to make sense of them. He realizes that his childhood has finally come to an end and remembers the world of thoughts that surrounded him when he was a little boy. Then he receives an unexpected call from his family.

마를레네는 기이한 악몽으로 계속 시달리던 중, 우연히 발견한 오래된 신문의 한 호텔 광고를 통해 악몽 속의 공간이 실재 한다는 사실을 알게 된다. 미지의 힘에 이끌리듯, 마을로 향한 그녀는 악몽의 실체를 알게 된 후 혼미와 무감각 상태에 빠져 병원에 입원한다. 엄마의 상태를 걱정하던 딸 모나는 직접 마을을 찾아가고, 레트로 풍의 호텔 주인 부부의 환대를 받지만 호텔은 어딘가 불안한 기운으로 가득하다. 그리고 모나 역시 악몽에 시달리면서 숨겨진 죽음의 실체에 가까워진다.

Time as punishment — of juvenile inmates and bodies that become heavy in prescribed spaces.

터키 흑해 지역의 고립된 마을에 사는 시벨은 말을 하지 못한다. 대신 그녀는 조상 대대로 내려오는 휘파람 언어를 이용해 소통한다. 세상과 어울리지 못하는 그녀는 늑대를 사냥하기 위해 매일 산에 오르고, 어느 날 도망자를 만나게 된다. 그 도망자는 시벨이 그녀 자신을 보는 새로운 눈을 갖게 한다.

A wild genre mix between a boxer film, urban western, road movie and music video, set at end of the summer holidays in a drab neighborhood in the outskirts of Hamburg suburbia. Young boxing talent Mauser is preparing for a pivotal competition when his father kills his step-mother and flees. Trying to find his father, Mauser embarks on a journey through the world of music, psychedelia, violence, love and a biblical thunderstorm. And what is with the Native American? "Once upon a time in Indian country" is a story that radiates both, heat and poetry.

A wild genre mix between a boxer film, urban western, road movie and music video, set at end of the summer holidays in a drab neighborhood in the outskirts of Hamburg suburbia. Young boxing talent Mauser is preparing for a pivotal competition when his father kills his step-mother and flees. Trying to find his father, Mauser embarks on a journey through the world of music, psychedelia, violence, love and a biblical thunderstorm. And what is with the Native American? "Once upon a time in Indian country" is a story that radiates both, heat and poetry.

"Jürgen - Heute wird gelebt" is about two lonely middle age men that crush together, searching for the woman of their dreams, on the way to Poland.

Inspired by Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, the film follows a prodigal son who returns after 12 years. His reappearance at the family home in rural Azerbaijan significantly alters their way of life.

Lotte is impulsive, rough around the edges and leads a colourful life on the streets of Berlin, stumbling from man to man, flat to flat and bar to bar. A brief encounter with a young girl, Greta, turns her life upside down. Lotte realises she will not be able to run away this time.

The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.

Despite the threat of war in the fall of 1939, the Germans decide to launch a sea expedition in search of evidence for Pangaea. Although the multi national geologists embark enthusiastically on their research mission, the growing political tension between their countries soon affects their work. With Britain and France declaring war on Germany, the civilian scientists now find themselves mere pawns in a global power struggle.

Germany, Baltic Sea coast, May 1945, a few days before the end of World War II. A small Soviet patrol arrives at an isolated house where an elderly baroness gives shelter to a group of orphan girls and a boy who is determined to continue the fight.

Germany, Baltic Sea coast, May 1945, a few days before the end of World War II. A small Soviet patrol arrives at an isolated house where an elderly baroness gives shelter to a group of orphan girls and a boy who is determined to continue the fight.

A middle class young man rebels against his father’s brutish authority and seeks a rough romance with a woman of ethnic minority. Yuce’s moral tale draws from the example of today’s Turkish youth and the timeless shadow of fathers over sons.

안드레아 마리아 셴켈 장편소설 원작. 2차 세계대전을 끝낸 독일 어느 한적한 시골 마을 탄뇌드에서 탄뇌드 농장의 일가족이 참혹하게 살해 당한다. 평화로웠던 탄뇌드 마을은 살인사건 후 마을사람 사이에서 미묘한 일들이 계속해서 일어난다.

안드레아 마리아 셴켈 장편소설 원작. 2차 세계대전을 끝낸 독일 어느 한적한 시골 마을 탄뇌드에서 탄뇌드 농장의 일가족이 참혹하게 살해 당한다. 평화로웠던 탄뇌드 마을은 살인사건 후 마을사람 사이에서 미묘한 일들이 계속해서 일어난다.

밀폐된 우주선 이곳에 다른 누군가 있다! 유토피아로 가는 마지막 우주선, 누군가 우리의 목숨을 노린다! 지구 종말 이후, 인류의 마지막 희망은 새로운 행성 ‘레아’로 떠나는 것. 레아로 갈 차비를 마련하기 위해 의사 ‘라우라’는 우주선 카산드라호에 지원한다. 함께 탑승한 선원들은 모두 동면 상태에 들어가고, 라우라만이 우주선을 지키며 깨어 있길 4개월 째. 어느 날, 화물칸 근처에서 괴상한 소리와 함께 누군가의 침입 흔적이 발견된다. 두려움에 라우라는 다급히 함장 라크르와를 깨우고 화물칸 곳곳을 탐색한다. 아무도 없다고 안심하려던 찰나, 함장이 갑자기 추락하여 목숨을 잃는 사고가 발생하고, 라우라와 선원들은 큰 충격과 공포에 휩싸이게 되는데…! 탈출구도, 도망칠 곳도 없다! 남은 방법은 단 하나, 놈과의 정면 승부 뿐…!

As young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, him to material wealth on Oslo's west side, her to an average family on the east side. In contrast to her younger brother, Yanne remembers their journey to Norway, but she has no idea where he might be now.

세력 다툼이 끊이지 않았던 12세기 몽골. 여기 훗날 인류의 영웅이자 대륙의 지배자로 불리게 되는 대 몽골 제국의 창시자, 테무진이 태어난다. 계속되는 투쟁과 혼란 속에서 일찍이 아버지를 잃은 소년 테무진은 어린 시절 결혼을 약속한 보르테를 다시 만나게 되면서 남자로서 갖추어야 할 의무와 소중한 것을 지키는 방법을 깨달아간다. 몇 년 후, 적에 의해 사랑하는 여인 보르테가 납치되는 아픔을 겪고 적의 아이를 배속에 품고 돌아온 그녀를 지켜보던 그는 모든 이들의 진정한 평화를 위해 몽골의 혼란을 끝내기로 마음먹고 진정한 칸으로 다시 태어나기로 결심하는데…

Mladen and Marija are an ordinary and happy married couple of the "middle class" of the society in which they live as tenants. Mladen works as a civil engineer in a state company, and Marija is an English teacher in primary school. The couple finds joy in their only son, Nemanja. They discover that Nemanja has a rare heart disease and healing is possible with an operation in a foreign medical center, which costs €26,000.

Humble and introvert Muharrem lives in a solitary and meager existence of a prayer and sexual abstinence adhering strictly to the most severe Islamic doctrines.His extraordinary devotion attracts the attention of the leader of a rich and powerful Istanbul religious group and he offers him an administrative post as a rent collector for their numerous properties. Muharrem's new job throws him into the modern outside world he has successfully avoided for so long. He soon witnesses conflict attitude toward alcohol consumption and goodwill.He notices that he himself has become proud, domineering and even dishonest.To make matters worse, Muharrem's inner peace is unnerved by the tormenting image of seductive woman who tempts him in his dreams,both night and day.With the balance of his devotion now upset,his fear of God begins to eat away at his senses.

The young girls Kate and Echo live in their own land of make believe. When one of them stumbles across the real world, their friendship faces a serious challenge.

1986 - The protest movement against the construction of the nuclear power plant in Brokdorf is on its last legs. Only one rural commune remains: the "Alternative Wohnkollektiv Regenbogen". For them, it could go on and on with endless consensus discussions, shearing sheep and naked communal bathing. One day, the lowland communards are joined by two city dwellers, Hanne and her son Niels. While Hanne gets used to scream therapy and raising vegetables surprisingly quickly - and even more quickly to the tantra games with commune guru Peter - Niels has less and less desire for the dogmatic commune rules. Out of defiance, he joins the violent nuclear power plant resistance, thus upsetting the tranquil chaos of the commune. The big bang, however, comes when a reactor explodes in distant Chernobyl. Exactly on the day Bobby Ewing dies, the petroleum prince from "Dallas" and series favorite of the commune.

An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.

The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the 90's. The fast changing city around them makes them wish to break with all traditions and live the day the get married (only civil marriage) like it is an ordinary day.

Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic cannibal family who want to turn them into sausages.

Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.

Laura lives in the country with her considerably older husband. When Nuno, her brother who study in Lisbon, pays a visit, he realizes that his sister does not have a happy life. He initiates a friendship with a worker on the farm. The circumstances turn Laura and Nuno against each other... Portrays the repressed sexuality and homosexual desire in a rural setting and elliptically and delicately the small farming community that serves as the backdrop for the impossible relationships pursued by Laura and her brother.