유명 독일인 지휘자 에두아드는 이스라엘인과 팔레스타인인으로 구성된 오케스트라를 꾸려 보자는 제안에 직접 오디션을 진행한다. 그의 가르침을 받고 싶어하는 이/팔 젊은 음악가들은 열정적으로 오디션에 참여하고 각국 인원 반반으로 구성된 오케스트라가 만들어진다. 연습하는 하루하루가 긴장의 연속이지만 에두아르는 음악으로 모든 구성원이 하나가 되도록 노력하고, 단원들도 점점 변화하며 서로를 존중하기 시작한다.
The focus is on a family - or what one might think of it today: a wide variety of characters and interests collide when people grow together into a family, in a time when everyone just wants to become something, but nobody knows how to be someone anymore.
Marie thinks to return to her job one year after the birth of her daughter Nora. Her husband Holger is already looking forward to two-month parental leave in which he wants to be totally there for her daughter. Her daughter? They rush into an emotional hell without warning. The youth welfare office informs them that their child has been swapped in the clinic. Sandra, the other mother with the exchanged and actually biological child of theirs, is a single-parent student. While Sandra outwardly comparatively seems to handle it with ease, Marie is completely overwhelmed. Sandra's life situation leads to a dispute with Holger, because Marie can not accept that "her" daughter should grow up with a poor single parent. When the press also gets wind of the matter, there is no turning back: The children must be exchanged.
For almost 30 years, bookseller Jordan has lived and worked in a neighborhood in Berlin that has become a social hotbed. As Jordan witnesses a teenager brutally beating up an older man, he intervenes and files a complaint - with unimaginable consequences ...
Director Dror Zahavi ("Everything for my father", "My life - Marcel Reich-Ranicki") succeeded after a screenplay by Jürgen Werner ("Tatort - With a steady hand", "Schimanski - layer in the pit", also with Götz George) an atmospherically tightly staged and outstandingly played portrait of a so-called problem district. Here nothing is glossed over, but instead the reality shown and the powerlessness of our judicial system mercilessly layed bare. A highlight of 2010!
Ben is a young editor for a famous german music magazine in the mid 90's. His life is falling apart after his girlfriend breaks up with him. From now on he decides to go solo...
Relative Evil (aka Ball in the House) - When JJ (Jonathan Tucker) returns home from rehab, he is greeted by a conniving family who are plotting to cash in on a life insurance policy before his 18th birthday
Katja and Johann are two teenagers who are the best of friends. They spend most of their time in a ruined fort, fantasizing about an ideal world. Their relationship becomes threatened when Johann is taken ill with leukemia, and Katja's mother is undecided on whether to stay with her husband or leave with her lover.
뇌종양 진단을 받은 마틴과 골수암 말기의 루디는 같은 병실에 입원한다. 시한부 판결을 받아 삶이 얼마 남지 않았다는 공통점 외에는 전혀 다른 성격의 두 남자. 단 한번도 바다를 보지 못한 루디를 위해 마틴은 그와 함께 바다로 향하는 생애 마지막 여행을 시작한다. 하지만, 여행을 위해 그들이 훔친 차는 100만 마르크가 들어있는 악당들의 스포츠카였던 것. 뜻밖의 돈을 얻게 된 이들은 천국의 문턱에서 그들이 평소 하고 싶었던 소원을 이야기한다. 하지만 행복도 잠시, 악당과 경찰의 추격 속에 그들의 여행은 위태롭게 흘러 가는데…