Bernhard Schütz

The new Federal Minister of the Interior and Community (Lena Dörrie) is used to mastering big challenges. But a murder at the Conference of Interior Ministers is something else. Especially at the back of the Bavarian beyond, without any cell phone reception, isolated from the outside world. To make matters worse: The 16 interior ministers of the federal states (including Jan Böhmermann, Henny Reents, Christoph Zrenner) are of no help in clarifying the matter.

한동안 연기 활동을 하지 않은 배우 아나, 골칫덩이로 여겨지는 고아 아드리안. 서로를 만나게 된 두 사람은 함께 저녁을 먹고, 거리를 거닐며 담배를 나눠 피우는 사이로 발전한다. <와일드 Wild>(2016)로 사랑의 범위를 확장하는 시도를 했던 니콜레트 크레비츠 감독의 신작이다.

Judge Praetorius-Camusot’s legal routines are interrupted when the ghost of a member of the Paris Commune turns up at an event celebrating German-French relations. An anarchic comedy about the origins of German criminal law and much, much more.

VINCENT, a struggling art-thief and failed artist, stole Malewitsch’s legendary abstract painting the „Black Square”. The sale and handover to a Russian Oligarch and his designated art expert MARTHA is set to take place on a cruise ship. When Vincent and his younger partner NILS realise that their principal accomplice will not show-up to provide the boarding tickets and fake ID’s, they desperately overbear two men in order to sneak their way onto the ship. To their horror they quickly learn that their victims are part of the cruise ship’s entertainment act. Desperate not to blow their cover, Vincent and Nils take on their roles as David Bowie and Elvis Presley doubles with varying degrees of success. Despite his best efforts, Vincent’s talents hardly convince the passengers and it does not take long until various crew members discover their true identities and the value of their loot. A wild goose chase for the “Black Square” breaks loose in the belly of the cruise ship…

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.

The first chapter of a pseudo western series, a meditation on mediated violence. Donald Duck, his wife Daisy Duck, their daughter Bonkers, Nancy Reagan, Andy Warhol, John Wayne, Mini, Heidi, Poncho, and the Cartwrights abuse, torture, and kill each other.

철의 장막이 무너지고 동독과 서독을 나누던 베를린 장벽이 사라진 1989년. 동독에 거주하는 재단사 아담과 웨이트리스 에블린은 평온한 삶을 살아가는 커플이다. 여름 휴가를 준비 중이던 두 사람이지만, 아담의 바람기를 의심한 에블린은 친구들과 헝가리로 휴가를 떠나버리고, 그런 에블린을 찾아가던 아담은 한 여성이 서쪽으로 이주하는 걸 몰래 돕는다. 그리고 두 사람에게도 선택의 순간이 찾아온다. 미래를 위해 고향을 떠나 서쪽으로 갈 것인가, 그대로 머물 것인가. 잉고 슐츠의 동명 원작을 각색한 은 냉전 시대의 마지막을 살아낸 평범한 독일사람의 초상을 담는다. 영화는 두 사람이 이주를 결심하는 명확한 극적 동기나 심리적 갈등을 제시하지 않는다. 대신 집과 정원, 나른하고 평화로운 시골길 등 다양한 공간 속의 두 사람을 반복적으로 보여주면서, 역사 정치적 의미보다는 사적인 역사의 저장고로서의 고향을 떠나야 하는 상황을 시각적으로 강조한다. 은 올해 베니스영화제 비평가주간에서 처음으로 공개되었다. (박진형/2018년 제23회 부산국제영화제)

Based on a true story, EXTREME NUMBER is the story of a young refugee from Chechnya who comes to Berlin, Germany in 2004 and is thrown into prison. He enlists the help of a translator to escape and joins a terrorist group that gives him a very special order. Authentic war documentation is embedded into the film as the Chechen protagonist’s flashback. This is real coverage of war, shot by a Chechen rebel from 1994-2000 in Chechnya. Real and fictional levels of the story blend together as a whole.

Docu-fiction hybrid about Ulli Lommel and Andy Warhol.

The Kingdom of Lichterwald is facing financial ruin and only by marrying a wealthy bride can Prince Augustin hope to prevent worse. He decides to marry no less than the Emperor's daughter, Victoria.

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.

Documentation about Christoph Schlingensief's legendary election campaign. With his theater and art actions, as a filmmaker and opera director, Christoph Schlingensief (1960–2010) shaped cultural and political discourse in Germany over two decades. The party “Chance 2000” was Schlingensief's biggest, most public project up to that point. For the 1998 general election Schlingensief organized an “election campaign circus“ in Berlin and founded the party Chance2000. This is an ecstatic piece of political education and a tale of a party’s life and survival.

Mifti is a teenager as beautiful as she is reckless. Mentally unstable, fed up with her dysfunctional family, oblivious to the youthful world, and aware of the sexual magnetism she gives off with her peculiar appearance, she wanders through the dark path of several bohemian adults with questionable lifestyles.

A shoe theft in the ICE is the prelude to a wild kaleidoscope of relationships and dependencies between different urban people who relish as in a cobweb fidget.

한 때는 잘 나갔지만 허당 작렬의 크리스, 맥스, 피터는 은행에서 잘린 토비아스와 함께 은행에 복수를 결심한다. 나름 치밀하게 은행을 터는 복수 활극을 펼치지만 두뇌 가출의 계획은 개고생을 불러오고 경찰의 추적이 시작된다. 일망타진의 대참사를 앞두고 새로운 계획을 짜는데··· 핵사이다 반전을 목격하라! 배꼽 강탈의 복수 활극을 기대하라!

공부에 탁월한 재능을 가진 14살 소년은 많은 사람들의 기대를 받으며 대학에 입학해 평행 세계를 연구할 준비를 하고 있다. 하지만 소년의 어머니는 아들이 더 많은 성과를 거두기를 강요하고, 이 집착 속에서 소년은 점차 지쳐간다. 그런데 소년 앞에 한 남자가 나타나 지금까지 몰랐던 낯선 세계를 알려준다. 독특한 비주얼과 동화 같은 이야기 전개가 돋보이는 작품.

The senior investment banker Jochen Walther is at the peak of his career at the Deutche Bank. He just finished the deal of his life along with his personal assistant Tom Slezak, when during the celebrations he suddendly jumps from the roof of the bank's headquarters in Frankfurt. Was it suicide or even a murder?

A German businesswoman falls for an American pro wrestler she meets at the dog park, testing her lifelong obedience to her CEO/father.

In the young Federal Republic of Germany, which in the late 1950s in politics and justice is still interspersed with only superficially purified Nazi cliques, leads the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer a lonely fight against the coverup of Nazi crimes and the restorative policy of the government Adenauer - he is firmly convinced that only in this way can the young democracy be consolidated. Not only his attitude, but also his temperament make Bauer vulnerable, again and again resistance forms from politics, intelligence services and the judiciary against the lone fighter.

Simone Carstensen-Kleebach actually has everything one could wish for in life: a husband who supports her and with whom she has been married for almost 20 years, a daughter and great career success. But the pressure to be perfect in all these roles lends Simone more and more. When she meets Leon on vacation, it sparks. And although Simone never thought it possible to "do something like that," she gets involved in an affair with him. Back in Hamburg with the family, Simone suddenly receives compromising photos of Leon and himself. But who took the pictures and what does the sender want to achieve?

Violent youth gangs and a police force way out of its depth. When a police operation goes awry and two policemen die, the powder keg threatens to ignite as the SWAT team knows only one goal: revenge - irrespective of the law.

Katharina Bruckner, 50, has to deal with many serious cases in the youth welfare office. Even at home she is under stress: Her husband, a surgeon, she sees arm in arm with a younger. And her daughter, who has to go to Marrakech for work, quickly incurs her grandson. In this situation, school psychologist Schubert asks her for help: The city-renowned architect Bremer has appeared with him with her seven-year-old son because of its over-activity in school. The boy looks scared, claims that the Bremer is not his mother, suddenly seems to have disappeared.

독일 최고의 스파이였으나 지금은 정보부 소속 비밀조직의 수장인 군터 바흐만(필립 세이모어 호프만). 정보원을 미끼 삼아 더 큰 목표물을 제거하는 데 탁월한 재능을 가진 그의 앞에 흥미로운 먹잇감, ‘이사’가 나타난다. 인터폴 지명수배자인 이사는 아버지의 유산을 찾기 위해 함부르크로 밀항한 무슬림 청년. 본능적으로 이사를 쫓기 시작한 군터는 이사를 돕고 있는 인권 변호사 애너벨 리히터(레이첼 맥아덤스)와 유산을 관리하는 은행장 토마스 브루(윌렘 데포)의 존재를 알게 되고, 두 사람을 자신의 정보원으로 섭외하는 데 성공한다. 그리고는 이사를 이용해 테러리스트들의 자금줄로서 각국 정보부의 용의선상에 오른 닥터 압둘라를 체포할 은밀한 작전을 설계하는데...

A tall and a small masked man wearing police uniforms driving the local cop car rob 600.000 Euro from a money transport in Eifel town Monreal. Incompetent state inspector Melanie Marschall focuses local police detectives Killmer and Kati Biever, neither of which has an alibi, both had the car keys, even fitting masks where found at Killmer's home. The are suspended, needing to find the -obviously well-informed- real culprits, while precinct colleague Ralf is recruited to spy on them. While Kati's irresponsible grandmother loads further suspicion on them, the cop pair finds several townsfolk and Melanie Marschall in financial need, yet no conclusive clue until a murder raises crucial questions.

독일을 초현실적 세계로 그려내는 영화. 흥미로운 소재를 찾지 못하고 있는 여성 다큐멘터리 감독, 노부인의 굳은 살을 제거한 후 정성스레 간직하는 발 관리사, 독일제 자동차에 탑승을 거부하는 부유한 커플, 강제수용소 단체 방문에 관심이 없는 역사학과 학생, 숲에서 까마귀를 훈련시키는 남자. 모든 인물이 가족 관계나 우연의 일치로 얽혀 있는 이 영화에서 언뜻 보면 세상은 평화롭고 사람들은 행복한 듯 보인다. 하지만 그들의 어두운 면모가 밝혀지면서, 평화와 지옥은 바로 가까이에 있음이 드러난다. 독일의 향토영화 장르에 대한 아이러니한 대조를 드러내는 "핀스터월드"는 신랄한 비평과 블랙유머의 진수를 보여준다. (2014년 제16회 서울국제여성영화제)

Teacher Ines and journalist Boris have been happily married for 14 years. But Ines suffers from her childlessness. Then she is confronted with a chapter of her life that has displaced her for many years: In a new student she recognizes her daughter, who she had released after adoption for adoption. Since Boris knows nothing about it, Ines can only trust her best friend Simone. Against her advice, she also seeks in private the proximity to the unsuspecting student. In doing so, she finds herself in a conflict between her responsibility as a teacher and her growing motherly feelings.

At the beginning, everything looks like a normal job. But in the apartment of a cruelly murdered woman, Judith Kepler, a crime scene cleaner by trade, encounters her own past. The dead woman had done research and wanted to contact Judith. And she knew her closely guarded secret: Judith had been brought as a child under mysterious circumstances in a DDR children's home. Origin: unknown. Now, 25 years later, Judith has the evidence in her hands that she was swapped as a child. A stranger lived her life. Did this stranger also die of her - Judith's - death?

During an unannounced visit to Berlin, Jakob and Hanna let their three grown up children know that they are no longer able to support them financially. Karla, Arnolt and Sonni seem to live successful city lives; but, on closer inspection, they are in the middle of different life-crises, which have a common cause: lack of independence. After a big family quarrel and a painful revelation of life-lies, every single relative is made aware of how little he or she knows about the others – though still interdependent.

44세의 프랑크는 독일의 행복하고 일반적인 가정의 가정으로 아내 시몬과 두 딸과 함께 살고 있다. 어느 날 갑자기 병원에서 뇌종양이 진행 중이고 얼마남지 않았다는 통보를 받으면서 모든 생활은 바뀌게 된다. 가족의 지원을 받아서 아이패드를 이용하여 남은 생활 을 기록하려는 그에게 방사선 치료와 화학치료는 자신과의 싸움이 시작된다. 일상 속에서 자신의 병과 싸우려는 한 남자의 의지와 가족의 사랑이 돋보이는 영화. 2011년 칸영화제 주목할만한 시선부문 수상작. (EBS)

Gundula Glöckner is very worried about the salvation of her daughter Lena. Again and again, the young woman gets to the wrong men. To help her child's happiness, the resolute widow shortly sets out on a pilgrimage: in Padua she wants to pray for Lena at the tomb of St. Anthony. However, the illustrious Pilgrims on their way to Italy are struggling with a whole series of mishaps and complications. Especially the brash bus driver Benno brings the God-fearing Gundula again and again to the white heat - until she realizes that hides behind its rough shell a vulnerable core.

7월 15일, 왜 가슴에 노란색 별을 달게 하는 걸까? 우리는 더럽거나 이상한 사람들이 아닌데… 우리가 유대인인 걸 자랑스럽게 생각하라고 아빠가 말했지만 조금 창피하다. 7월 16일, 자고 있는데 갑자기 경찰이 오더니 우리 동네 유대인들을 모두 체포했다. 화장실도 없고, 먹을 것도 없는 이 경륜장에 얼마나 있어야 할까.. 집에 가고 싶다. 7월 21일, 드디어 냄새 나는 경륜장에서 나왔다. 새로 도착한 곳은 침대도 있고 먹을 것도 주지만 감옥처럼 생겼다. 그래도 아빠랑 있으니까 무섭지 않다. 7월 30일, 어른들만 다른 곳으로 데려가서 엄마, 아빠, 누나와 헤어졌다. 언제 다시 만날 수 있을까? 얼른 엄마, 아빠랑 집에 가서 쉬고 싶다.

Jürgen Stoll is not only a Filou and life artist, but the darling of many women. When the marriage swindler is given the choice, prison in the GDR or a career as "Romeo" in the FRG, he decides to go to the West. Stoll now plays in the big game of secret agents until he realizes that the Stasi still has very different plans with him.

For six young men, who could hardly be more different from one another, the fan club of the Eintracht Braunschweig football club is the center of their life and their friendship. 66/67 is the name of their club as well as the year in which Eintracht Braunschweig won the German Championship.

Berlin: Hauptstadt korrupter Populisten, zynischer Journalisten und fieser Gangster. Regisseur und Drehbuchautor Niki Stein hängt sich mit seiner Story weit aus dem Fenster: Im Hals einer Frauenleiche am Husumer Strand steckt ein Papier mit der Handynummer des Starreporters Kress (Ulrich Tukur). Die Kommissarin Nora Jaspers (Anja Kling) fährt in die Spreemetropole, um den Mann zu verhören, doch ein hoher LKA-Beamter (Walter Kreye) nimmt ihr den Fall weg. Gleichzeitig versucht Noras Vater, der Polizeipräsident Kolberg (Hanns Zischler), eine Law-and-Or­der-Partei zu etablieren…

To take care of his father’s estate, Ulrich Meinert has to go to a trailer park where his father used to live. He finds himself in a camping colony in eastern Germany which stirs up mixed feelings. Although he felt a lot of resentment towards his father, days go by without him taking care of any unsettled business. Instead, he starts to get involved with Anja, takes on one of his father’s old friends and settles into his father’s trailer. Against his own wishes, he starts to fill the void his father left behind ...

Unites grotesque elements, tempo, quiet dream sequences, the thrill of a detective story, but above all, he manages to capture the temperature of an actor ensemble that throws itself into the world of Dostoyevsky with immense pleasure and passion.

Life of Greta Bücking and Paul Markwart seems to be in perfect order. Both are happily married - until they find out that their spouse died in a plane crash. But increasingly compacted suspected that Lutz Bücking and Karin Markwart were not traveling on business, but on the way to their common love nest, is a cozy hotel on Amrum.

'Clemence M. Schönborn"s first feature film is a typical Austrian black comedy, dealing with an easy-going forty-something, who likes playing games with others, which has serious consequences... Phyllis, in her early 40s, still lives together with her mother, whom she loves and hates at the same time. When she gets to know Henry, supporting actor of a soap opera, she pretends to love him, but sleeps with the show's lead actor Walter, whom she finally runs over with her car, which makes Henry the show's new star - and the new lover of the lead actress Doris. However, Phyllis isn't done with him...

In October 1989, the part of the West Berlin borough of Kreuzberg called SO 36, had been largely shut off by the Wall from the rest of the city for 28 years. A lethargic sub-culture of students, artists, bohemians and barflys had flourished among crumbling buildings. Part of that microcosm is barkeeper Frank, semi-formally called 'Herr Lehmann' by friends and patrons. He hangs out drinking, sports utter disregard for anything beyond SO 36 and lazily pursues an affair with cook Katrin. His lifestyle is gradually disturbed, when his parents show up for a visit, things go awry with Katrin and his best friend Karl starts to act strange. Meanwhile, political turmoil mounts on the other side of the Wall.

A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story.

In the last house just behind the western borders of Russia, between Paris/Texas and Korleput/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cindy Sherman, Dogma 95 and Duma 2000, Frank Castorf directs his virst video production "Dämonen" ("Demons") as a sort of post-Soviet-panslavistic panopticon in his own dramaturgy based on Dostojewski's "Demons" and Camus' "The Posessed". All that in set designer Bert Neumann's industrial-designed bungalow (with swimming pool) built onto forbidding landscape.

Feature documentary about Christoph Schlingensief's political party/art project "Chance 2000".

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.

"The Devil's General" - A post war Germany pick up the involuntarily knowledge about the "black hole" of the 1950s.