Uwe Preuss

GDR, August 1989: Hanna and Andreas became a target of the secret police and had to give up their plans for their future studies and desired professions. Instead, they face arbitrariness, mistrust and reprisals. Their only chance for a self-determined life lies in fleeing across the Baltic Sea. Fifty kilometres of water separate them from freedom - and only a thin connecting rope around their wrists saves them from absolute loneliness.

Claudia Voss, honorary mayoress, is presented with a fait accompli when her Southern German district decides to build a refugee centre in her town. Some of the population are fuming and resistance grows, but there are equal amounts of willingness to help and empathy. Unexpectedly, the committed wife and mother attracts the attention of right-wing circles and faces attempts to intimidate her. The more Claudia Voss tries to mediate, the stronger the hostility becomes. A gripping contemporary thriller which paints a nuanced picture of the challenges brought by an increasingly polarized political reality. No exception, but instead a widespread, alarming phenomenon in today’s democratic societies.

The cabaret artist Marc-Uwe and the kangaroo are faced with a problem: Lisbeth, the mother of Maria has taken a wrong turn somewhere and is now denying the climate crisis on the Internet. How can she be brought to her senses? The two make a bet with each other: If they don't manage to bring Maria's mother to her senses, they will lose their apartment. So Marc-Uwe and the marsupial embark on a trip to the Conspiracy Convention in Bielefeld and shortly thereafter become part of a tangible conspiracy led by conspiracy guru Adam Krieger and his followers. As the two flatmates talk their heads off, it's no longer just about their apartment for Marc-Uwe and the kangaroo, it's more than that: it's a matter of life and death! Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Matured through two years in prison, Babtou is looking forward to a new beginning with his buddy Dennis. A free man in a free world! But of all things, his welcome party where all the boys from the block are gathered ends in a police operation. Babtou has his hands cuffed again and is confronted with dramatic news. He will soon be deported to his “home country” of Senegal. To prevent a deportation, Babtou and Dennis are willing to do anything, including marriage.

Everyone needs a favorite person. So Jule and Darius want to try again together. A joint trip to the country should help. However, Jule gets cold feet and as a precaution invites a few friends over. The excursion gets into trouble. The five friends are the classic elephant in a china shop and demonstrate how the search for this one favorite person shouldn't be approached.

13-year-old Jessy can hardly remember that her father Miro used to be an important part of her life. His unexpected return after seven years in prison and his intrusion into the safe space she and her mother have built severely disrupts their symbiotic relationship. Forced to deal with this stranger to her, Jessy increasingly trusts Miro. She learns to open up and set new boundaries. Then she meets Max, who strengthens her urge for freedom. Stirred up by new relationships and feelings, she begins to listen to herself and enjoys a sense of independence. (attention Berlin)

At a time when everything is interrelated, the sum of the parts can add up to a catastrophic whole. Places don't matter anymore, it can happen anywhere and on November 11th it hits a luxury hotel on the coast, in the pretty holy pond. The story is like an unpredictable sum of parts that make a fatal mixture. And since everything is interrelated, none of the characters can claim that they were not to blame for the catastrophe.

코소보 출신의 중년 남성 자퍼는 독일에서 제약 기술자로 근무하고 있다. 어느 날 그의 집 앞에 죽은 쥐 한 마리가 내걸리는 의문의 사건이 발생하는데, 자퍼는 이것이 자신의 소수민족 배경을 혐오한 회사 동료 중 누군가의 소행일 것이라 의심하기 시작한다. 자퍼의 불안 증세는 시간이 흐를수록 점점 더 심해지고, 그의 독일인 아내 노라는 그런 남편의 모습에 지쳐간다.

부자의 꿈을 안고 도시로 온 청년. 하지만 티끌 모아 태산의 길은 너무 힘이 들어, 편법과 사기의 길로 직진한다. 때마침 뜻이 통하는 사람을 만나 부동산 사기에 뛰어드는데, 돈 벌기가 이렇게 쉬울 줄이야. 그렇다면 판을 더 키워봐?

2015년 가을, 시리아 내전으로 인해 전례 없는 숫자의 유럽 난민이 발생하자 난민에게 독일 국경을 열겠다는 메르켈 총리의 전격적 결정은 국내외에서 찬사와 지지를 얻었지만, 한편으로 엄청난 시위와 가혹한 비판에 직면해야 했다. 놀라운 역사적 결정의 막전막후를 다룬 로빈 알렉산더의 논픽션 책을 원작으로 한 이 영화는 당시 전 유럽의 지도자들과 메르켈 사이에 벌어진 긴박한 상황을 정치스릴러의 문법을 차용해 묘사한다. (평창국제평화영화제)

War correspondent Nathan Hold is confronted with attacks on his person after his picture of a dead refugee child is published. Gone underground in the solitude of the Italian Maremma, he evades questions of morality and ethics. Nathan returns to the roots of photography and falls in love with the interior designer Ewa, a clever and pretty young woman who opens up completely new sides of life for him. The medial flood of information accusing his brother Amon of being a con artist who scammed investors floats like the Sword of Damocles above everything. On the run from the law and from bounty hunters, Amon also goes underground and hides out in their parent’s former holiday home. During the sudden reunion of the two brothers, the past and present collide and an atmosphere of suspicion, mistrust and betrayal arises.

War correspondent Nathan Hold is confronted with attacks on his person after his picture of a dead refugee child is published. Gone underground in the solitude of the Italian Maremma, he evades questions of morality and ethics. Nathan returns to the roots of photography and falls in love with the interior designer Ewa, a clever and pretty young woman who opens up completely new sides of life for him. The medial flood of information accusing his brother Amon of being a con artist who scammed investors floats like the Sword of Damocles above everything. On the run from the law and from bounty hunters, Amon also goes underground and hides out in their parent’s former holiday home. During the sudden reunion of the two brothers, the past and present collide and an atmosphere of suspicion, mistrust and betrayal arises.

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his past in Nazi Germany as a member of a family of Jewish musicians and the strange history of the Jüdischer Kulturbund, a Jewish organization sponsored by Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels.

It's the summer of 1990, two teenagers in Germany fall in love - an innocent first love, shortly before the German reunification. Katja (16) is from West-Berlin, Thorben (17) from GDR. Their families are fighting over a house in Kleinmachnow (a suburb of East-Berlin), where Thorbens family has been living since the 70ies, but where Katjas father grew up. The family had to emigrate to West-Berlin in 1961, just before the Berlin Wall was built. Later, the house was dispossessed under GDR-rule. Now, Katjas father demands restitution. The conflict grows bitterer and threatens to tear apart both families. It is about old wounds and new prejudices. While being in the middle of Germanys swiftly progressing process of reunification, Katja and Thorben have to fight for their love.

It's double trouble when fate and an ill-executed diamond robbery throw Mel and Franny together in a race and chase against time.

Walter is a 60-year-old removal man for forced evictions. He recognizes in one of the tenants about to be evicted his estranged son, Jan. In order to help Jan, Walter has to confront not only his crooked boss but also his own past.

While investigating of a murder case, widowed police commissioner Lenders makes a confusing discovery; one of the victims comes from a different time. Did an implanted chip make this time travel possible? More victims follow. What is the motive behind the murders? And what is the connection between the victims? Can he use the chip to change his own life story?

전혀 다른 인생을 살고 있던 두 남자가 만나 버킷 리스트를 완성해나가는 감동 실화

One day she is sitting at his door. In her red wedding dress and worn-out sneakers. She does not speak his language, is actually too young for him and comes from a completely different world. She also loves different than him - and yet the two become a couple. Johnny, failed DJ and club owner from Hellersdorf, and Sophia, the Romni. Whether she really got away from her wedding, actually comes straight from Belgrade, truly loves him as she claims? Johnny does not know. And at some point he does not care. The supposed bride has conquered his heart. Then her family comes to visit ...

Max Bretschneider pretends to be a communist in order to conduct the last interview with Erich Honecker.

Full of anticipation, the young and ambitious Commissioner Carsten Lanner (Florian Lukas) is moving from Berlin Cloppenburg in Lower Saxony for a further education. However, he did not expect the outspoken chutzpah of the Berliners and, above all, the rude nature of his colleagues, who in no way received him with open arms. And so he slips more accidentally than wanted shortly after his arrival in Berlin in his first case.

Klara can hardly believe it when her friend Jens separates from her. For the cyber-agent at the BND, the relationship is completely unexpected and she is outraged when she learns that Jens already has a new girlfriend with Susie. Without further ado, she uses the advantages of her job, in which she has just been given extensive intelligence by the BND by her boss, Immert, in an attempt to sabotage their relationship.

갑작스럽게 시력을 잃게 된 청년 ‘살리’ 호텔리어를 꿈꾸지만 번번이 서류광탈! 자신의 꿈을 위해 시력의 비밀을 숨긴 채 유명 호텔에 지원하고 가까스로 실무 테스트 기회를 잡게 되지만, 험난한 관문들이 그를 기다리고 있는데… 좌충우돌 취업 도전기! 과연 ‘살리’는 모두에게 들키지 않고 호텔리어가 될 수 있을까?

Jonas (Benno Fürmann) and Marit (Maja Schöne) lead an unconventional relationship. They moved from Cologne to Berlin because Marit got a lucrative job there. This makes Jonas temporarily unemployed - but one has to take care of children and household.Talking together, being open and honest and making music together is the basis of this family, where everyone can make their own thing and feel at home at the same time, a family where parents see themselves as life-long companions of their children. This modern family code is put to the test when the couple meets a pioneering agreement after 14 years of relationship -both of them do not want to miss family as it is now , but they do not want to give up their sexual needs completely for the sake of domestic peace.

Sports writer Mark is baffled when he receives romantic text messages on his cell phone. What he does not know: His new number once belonged to the deceased boyfriend of Clara, who continues to send text messages in order to cope with the loss. When Mark's girlfriend discovers the texts, she is understandably upset. Along with his best friend David, Mark sets out to find the mysterious writer.

Alan, Jan and Liya, born in Kurdistan, raised in Stuttgart, want to grant their deceased mother her final wish: to be buried beside her husband, who died in the war, in their home village in Kurdistan. The clan objects, but the three set out anyway. A risky journey to a homeland wracked by strife.

The end of a summer, a sleepy fishing port on the Baltic Sea and the beginning of a great feeling that must not be: Shortly before the start of the new school year, the 18-year-old Christian falls in love with his new English teacher Stella Petersen. In a moment of unexpected lightness and freedom, in the dunes and seascape far away from the small town, Stella and Christian discover a shared longing and an attraction to each other, the intensity of which both overwhelmed. But soon after class has begun again, the secret relationship between the young teacher and her pupil threatens the scandal ...

오토(브렌단 글린슨)와 안나(엠마 톰슨) 부부는 군에 입대한 외아들이 전사했다는 소식을 듣고 절망한다. 그 이후 그들이 선택한 행동은 나치와 전쟁에 대한 반대이다. 두 사람은 나치에 맞서 싸워야 한다는 내용을 담은 우편엽서를 공공장소에 놓고 오는 방식으로 저항의 씨앗을 퍼뜨리려고 한다. 나치의 비밀경찰 게쉬타포는 이 사건을 이데올로기를 따지지 않는 노련한 형사 에스체리치(다니엘 브륄)에게 맡긴다. 하지만 엽서가 200장이 넘어가도록 에스체리치는 범인을 잡지 못하고 당국자들에게 두드려맞는 수모까지 당한다. 그러나 오토의 치명적 실수가 에스체리치를 기다리고 있는데...

한 여름밤 광란의 파티 그날 이후, 내 앞에 괴생명체가 나타났다! 10대 소녀 '티나'는 여름밤 광란의 파티에 초대된다. 화려한 조명과 몽환적인 음악에 취한 그녀는 풀 숲에서 기이한 형체를 목격하게 된다. 생물학 수업에서 접한 '배아'와 비슷한 형태를 띤 무언가가 그녀의 시선에 들어온 것. 잠시 환영을 봤다고 생각한 순간 예기치 않은 사고가 그녀를 덮친다. 하지만 곧 조금 전 겪은 모든 일들이 꿈이었다는 사실을 깨닫게 된다. 또다시 반복되는 일상 속 '티나'의 눈앞에 정체불명의 괴생명체가 보이기 시작하는데... 악몽인가, 현실인가? 그녀에게만 보이는 그것은 과연 무엇인가!

Cem is mid 20's and is making its voluntary service in the retirement home. There he falls in love with Astrid, which helps as a dance therapist residents to renewed vigor. And Cem loves Berlin-Neukölln. There he grew up, and he wants his neighborhood defend: against Nazis, speculators and displacement. But how to do that anyway? Who are the real enemy here? And how does the fight? a compensation Cem looking at his other great passion, football. In one game he gets violently with Roman together. Roman threatens him. The next day the windows are smashed in the restaurant from Cems parents. An Accident? Cem swears revenge. But the battle is attracting larger circles. When Astrid gets suddenly targeted by novel, the conflict escalates dramatically. Suddenly a matter of life and death.

German family Schroeder is spending their Christmas holidays on the Thai island, Phuket. Of all the things, deep within the sleazy tourist bars and alleys of Patong, the youngest son Felix falls in love with a gorgeous Thai girl Fai who in return appears to mutually attracted to him.

유대인 가수 넬리(니나 호스)는 나치 강제수용소에서 살아남았으나 얼굴에 입은 상처로 인해 성형수술을 받아 타인의 얼굴을 갖게 된다. 그녀는 아직도 사랑하는 남편 조니(로날드 제어펠드)가 일하는 바인 피닉스를 찾아가 그를 만나나 조니는 넬리를 알아보지 못한다. 마침 그는 나치정권에 의해 강제로 뺏긴 넬리의 유산을 되찾기 위해 그녀와 닮은 여인을 찾고 있었고 넬리는 자신을 숨기고 그의 계략에 참여하기로 한다. 한편 넬리를 구해준 레네는 자신과 함께 이스라엘로 가기로 한 넬리가 점점 조니에게 빠져들자 그가 그녀의 은신처를 나치정권에 밀고한 배신자이고 바로 그 전에 이혼절차를 밞은 사실을 알려준다. 독일 현대영화계의 주목받고 있는 감독 중 한 명인 크리스찬 펫졸드의 최근작으로 2차 세계대전 이후 독일을 배경으로 자신의 아이덴티티를 잃어버린 한 여인의 이야기를 다루고 있다.

A tragic comedy about an 18-year old girl growing up near the new Berlin airport's construction site

It is not out of love that Ines gives her boyhood friend Moritz the vow, not even because he is rich. On the contrary. For the financial expert the dreamy loser type is interesting as a low-income earner. The fictitious marriage with him brings a lot of tax savings for Ines. On paper, everything is perfectly sophisticated, except for the last place after the comma. Unfortunately, a conscientious financial officer moves into the same apartment building. In order not to be unmasked as unscrupulous tax evaders, Ines and Moritz must play him the newly in love couple - with unimaginable consequences.

독일과 폴란드의 국경 부근, 늑대 한 마리가 마을로 자주 출몰한다. 경찰 제이콥은 늑대의 뒤를 쫓다가 어둠 속에서 무언가를 감지한다. 사람으로 보이는 그것은 야수의 눈과 단단한 몸을 지닌, 사무라이 검을 휘두르는 드레스 차림의 남자이다. 살벌한 피의 세계가 서늘한 화면으로 표현되어 독특한 분위기를 자아내는 작품.

The promise of a better life is pivotal in ten-year-old Fee’s decision to travel from her home in Romania to Germany. But she falls victim to child traffickers and is forced to work as a prostitute in a Berlin sex club. She is freed, however, after a police raid. When commissioner Wegemann takes up this serious case of sexual abuse, there’s a shocking discovery: a respected judge is a customer of the crime ring – and the state attorney helping her is a good friend of the judge. Are the police capable of protecting the young girl? Who can be trusted in this quagmire of lies and corruption? This crime drama addresses serious flaws in our society and their weakest victims: children.

Swastikas were scratched into the windows of the University of Stuttgart and have caused considerable property damage. Far-right vandalism? The case is quickly closed, but the young Commissioner Bernau wants to enlighten the mysterious attack. He returns at night back to the crime scene and has an appearance that make his blood freeze! When he turns to the medium Morgana, he lifts the veil on a cruel mystery.

Marisa, a 20-year-old German girl, hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. She provokes, drinks, fights and her next tattoo will be a portrait of Adolf Hitler. But Marisa's convictions begin to crumble when she meets a young Afghan refugee, and she learns that the black and white principles of her gang are not the only way.