Axel Werner

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)

For Connie, things have been going to plan for many years, both professionally and in her private life. That is, until the son of the CEO takes over the business, forcing new demands on the workforce. In future, English is to be the business language. English? Fluently? Not wanting to lose her job, Connie immediately signs up for an intensive English language course in Ireland. But the perfectionist is totally unprepared for her teacher Gillian, the warm-hearted, yet slightly chaotic and young-looking woman, who sees her main job as funeral director as a vocation. Connie also has her problems with her co-student, Max, a Tom Jones imitator, who is currently in Ireland to visit his 16-year-old daughter, Amy. Much to Connie's displeasure, the bon vivant is not interested in rules and regulations. Connie soon realizes that she is missing something more in her perfect life than speaking perfect English. But can she leave her life behind and risk taking the plunge into the great unknown?

신문사에서 일하는 파비안과 교수가 되기 위해 학위논문을 쓰고 있는 라부데, 그리고 유명한 스타가 되고 싶은 배우 코르넬리아. 세 사람의 이야기는 바이마르 공화국의 마지막 시대를 무대로 퇴폐와 방종의 광란 속에 몸을 내맡긴다. (제26회 부산국제영화제)

A communist kangaroo moves in with an artist in Berlin.

아홉 살 베니가 사랑을 찾아가는 거친 여정. 길들지 않은 그녀의 에너지는 주변에 있는 모든 사람을 절망에 빠뜨린다. 베니는 끝없이 집으로 돌아가고 싶다. 그러나 베니의 소망은 허락되지 않는다.

전염병이 전 세계를 뒤덮은 가운데, 독일에서 안전지역은 단 두 곳뿐이다. 그 중 감염자를 즉시 사살하는 도시, 바이마르에 사는 ‘비비’는 동생을 구하지 못했던 죄책감에 고통받다 무작정 다른 도시로 가는 기차에 오른다. 그곳에서 우연히 ‘에바’와 마주치게 된 ‘비비’는 그녀와 함께 언제 나타날지 모르는 좀비 떼를 피해 도망치게 되는데…

Three pensioners who live as subtenants on tiny pensions find themselves wanting to escape the sadness and mundanity of their everyday lives in old-age and poverty. They relish the thought that they could experience one last adrenalin-fuelled thrill during the twilight of their lives. With that motivation in mind, they set about commencing preparations for a big heist. Early Birds is a tragic comedy, a short film about poverty in old age, dignity and death.

The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each win.

임무 수행 중 잔혹한 마피아들의 손에 사랑하는 아내를 잃은 특수요원 ‘닉’. 그러던 어느 날, 하나뿐인 딸 ‘레니’마저 사라지고 만다. 갑자기 사라진 딸의 행방을 조사하던 닉은 그 배후에 다른 음모가 있다는 것을 알아차리고 모든 수단을 총동원해 딸을 찾는 비공식 임무에 돌입한다. 한편, 레니는 닉의 정보원이었던 ‘이드리스’의 도움으로 이스탄불에 도착하지만, 평소 닉에게 원한을 갖고 있던 무자비한 러시아 마피아들의 손에 붙잡히고 만다. 범죄조직에게 딸이 납치된 것을 알게 된 닉은 목숨을 건 추격을 시작하는데…

Bella is a single mother business and mother trapped in the normal everyday insanity. Nevertheless, she is happy. But from now on, everything gets out of hand. The house, in which the elderly-shared apartment of Bella's father and their own physiotherapy practice are located, is to be sold and renovated. Bella would not be Bella if she was not determined and would fight with all her might against the injustice and sale of the house. But as she juggles with family, her practice, PR campaigns, demos and squatters, Bella needs to realize that even her power is not endless.

Marie is a successful designer and has a loving husband and two children. But fate offers more. When she meets the fiancée of their friend Dom, the two women fall for each other. This comes out and life gets out of control. Can there be a long-term solution?

To save his deathly ill dog, the unemployed Rolf bets the little money that he has on a horse and hopes for the best. Sometimes even outsiders get a chance.

A well-placed site manager and father slips into a midlife crisis and recalls promptly to a former lover. Satirical comedy that finds compelling cinematic narrative technique for the feeling of comprehensive alienation and emotional state of emergency worded precisely in images that make over room poetics, dramaturgy and color perspectivization experience the world of heroes transparent. The fact that the terseness is sometimes applied a little thick, weight to a minimum.

독일 최고의 유명 배우가 나치의 선전가 요제프 괴벨스로부터 제3제국 지도자 히틀러의 연설 준비를 도와달라는 의뢰를 받는다.

The mechanic Kobja wants to start a new life in New Zealand. But the necessary money for the overflight is missing.

A 16 years old boy from Germany runs away from a boring birthday party and follows a few graffiti artists to the station. When police arrives he escapes in a train and gets over the border to the Czech Republic. There he meets a wild Czech girl and falls in love with her. Together they try to go to Berlin without having money. A fine road movie about two young people trying to find their way.

A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. His father however is a member of the "Stasi", the secret state police. The father not only hinders his son's relationship with the girl, but he arranges for his son, after finishing school, to become a Stasi spy himself.

After 50 years, Marek remembers his dangerous adventure as a five-year-old, when he and his friend Itzek left a Polish transit camp one night in 1942 – a few days before their evacuation to Auschwitz – to go get the toys they forgot at the ghetto. Based on Becker's personal memories and his 1980 short story "The Wall."

A surrealist tale set in the East German village of Stalina.

A small town shortly before the end of the GDR: 15-year-old Ulla lives with her mother in a dilapidated old building where not even the electricity works properly. Economy of scarcity and national bankruptcy are visible everywhere. Only higher party comrades live in the lap of luxury. When Ulla meets Winfried after a summer bathing trip, the two fall in love. Winfried is the son of an influential general director and owns things from West Germany that others only dream of: a computer, a games console, a walkman. On an excursion with her biology class, the high school student discovers that a dacha is being built in the middle of the nature reserve and the creek has been dammed. Winfried's father turns out to be the culprit, but the mayor is on his side. Ulla rebels against this environmental destruction connected to political corruption and organizes a protest. Her activism not only endangers her own future, but also her first great love.

A story about massive robbery from the safe of German railways set in 1946.

In a king's kingdom there is a forest so dangerous that every man who goes into it is never heard from again. Iron Hans, who is responsible for the deaths, is found at the bottom of a lake and locked up in the king's palace

A story spanning three generations, from 1871 to 1945. When Gustav Wengler, a farmer’s son, returns from the Franco-German war in 1871, he goes to work for a precision mechanics and optical company, where he soon becomes a master craftsman. Wengler loyally promises the owner on his deathbed that his sons and grandsons will also stand by the company.

A Western set in the US around the turn of the century. Atkins leaves the city to return to the valley where he formerly lived. There he meets Native Americans who learn to trust him. They ask Atkins to buy weapons for them. On his journey Atkins meets Morris, whose interest in mineral resources puts Atkins loyalty to the Native Americans to the test.

A tale about the evil queen who gets swapped with a simple and nice woman.