Vincent Assmann

Sauerland, autumn 1995: In the middle of the forest on the Wilzenberg, a walker finds the body of high school graduate Sonja Risse. However, the fact that the killer left a music box with the lullaby "Hush Little Baby" at the crime scene does not lead to a clear solving. 25 years later, the investigative journalist Stefanie Schneider, known as "Mütze", made a surprising discovery in Cologne. In a disused multi-storey car park, she films an undressed corpse of a man with a music box running next to it! When her colleague Jan Römer, who reported on the spectacular Sonja case as a young journalist in 1995, recognizes the melody from back then, he immediately believes there is a connection. He goes to Wilzenberg with his ambitious colleague to interview Sonja's mother Maria, her former teacher Waldheim and her best friends. The more the journalists compile, the clearer the contradictions and gaps that the investigators should have noticed at the time.

Isn’t the trajectory of a shared life determined in advance? Get married, have kids, be like everyone else… According to Dietrich Brüggemann, who competed in Vary six years ago, 30-somethings conceivably have it all, yet they fail in their attempts to achieve their set ideals. Nö delivers a critique of contemporary values, while also highlighting the struggle to find and nurture love.

Paul (12) leaves home with his best friend Max (12) on the first day of summer vacation. Following in the footsteps of Paul’s missing father, the boys venture into the forest of the Swabian Alb and into a mysterious cave. Children feel freer and more carefree in the forests and mountains than ever before in their lives. But the challenges of their adventure are much bigger than they thought.

비좁은 기찻길에 늘어선 빨랫줄, 은퇴를 앞둔 기관사 ‘눌란’은 기차에 딸려온 물건의 주인을 찾아주며 하루를 마무리하곤 한다. 여느 때와 다름없이 기차를 청소하던 날, 그가 기차 앞머리에서 발견한 것은...? 하늘색 레이스 브라...!

On a cold, wintry night, Lena shows up on the doorstep of the Rossberg family mansion. She claims her car has broken down, but her arrival is intentional. Lena is in pursuit of Anselm Rossberg, an aged Auschwitz guard who lives with his daughter, Maria. Anselm and Maria both deny Anselm's past, but Lena is determined to get him to confess, even as her own weapon is turned on her and she is forced into a moral dilemma.

시카고의 뒷골목 사우스사이드. 이 거친 곳에서 권투 선수의 꿈을 키우는 두 명의 청소년들과 그들을 훈련시키는 아버지들의 이야기이다. 한 명은 링 위에서 두각을 드러내지만, 다른 한 명은 강도 혐의로 8년간 징역을 살고 나왔다. 는 링 안팎으로 악전고투하는 두 명의 권투 선수와 아버지들의 시선을 따라가며 그들의 투지와 끈기를 들여다본다. (2021년 제18회 EBS 국제다큐영화제)

Crowley is 11 years old and lives together with his father on a ranch in Colorado. At first glance Crowley is a little cowboy, but he is 'not quite there yet' as he says himself. A real cowboy takes on responsibility and is able to stand on his own two feet. Crowley helps out on the ranch wherever he can: he helps branding animals, catching cattle, that got lost in the large canyons and repairing the fences. It's not an easy life. But nonetheless, he wants to take over the ranch when he's all grown up so he can finally say: I am a real cowboy!

An African-German Author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany.

엄격한 집안 속 순종적인 종교 생활을 이어가던 ‘마리아’. 어느 날 같은 수업을 듣는 밝은 성격의 '크리스찬'과 가까워지면서 그녀가 미처 알지 못했던 세상을 조금씩 알게 된다. 하지만 마리아는 무슨 이유에서인지 말문을 열지 않는 막냇동생을 돌봐야 하는 책임감과 하나씩 부풀어나는 욕심을 뿌리치며 다시금 신앙에 집중하며 마음을 다잡는다. 그렇게 그녀는 가족과 친구, 그리고 세상에서 멀어져만 가는 자신을 느끼며 외로운 싸움을 시작하게 되는데....

1982년 독일의 어떤 미군기지에서 전자파를 이용, 날씨를 변화하는 실험이 행해지고있었고, 어마어마한 전자파가 송출되는 타워가 설치되고 실험이 시작되자 인근에 거주하던 28명의 사람들이 죽는 사고때문에 실험에 대한 모든것이 폐쇄된다...

베를린에 있는 대학에 진학한 마틴은 운 좋게 저렴하고 낡은 아파트를 계약한다. 그는 얇은 벽을 사이에 두고 이웃해있는 집주인인 매혹적인 시몬을 처음 본 순간부터 단숨에 마음을 빼앗기고 육체적 관계를 탐닉하게 된다. 전 세입자가 흔적도 없이 사라졌다는 사실이 석연치 않았으나, 신비한 매력의 시몬에게 걷잡을 수 없이 빠져들어 그녀 주변에서 일어나는 미스터리한 일들을 망각하게 되는데…

“Whatever falls from heaven, you may keep.” So goes the unwritten law of the Kazakh steppes. A law avidly adhered to by the inhabitants of a small village, who collect the space debris that falls downrange from the nearby Baikonur space station. The last two youthful members of the village are the radio operator Iskander, known as Gagarin, and the spirited Nazira. While Nazira finds it increasing difficult to conceal her love for Iskander by means of her unconventional behaviour, Iskander is evidently not only crazy about Baikonur and the vastness of outer space, but also deeply smitten with the beautiful French astronaut Julie Mahé, whose journey to the stars he wistfully follows on television.

An independent tragicomedy, Run If You Can is the debut feature for director Brüggemann who, along with his sister, also wrote the compelling screenplay. Forced to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, Ben is deeply desperate, despite his humor and vivaciousness. When he meets Christian, his new assistant, Ben treats him like every other helper he’s had. Things suddenly change when Christian meets Annika, “the cello player” whom Ben has been observing from his window for years. The three become close friends, putting Annika in the middle of an emotional, and somehow dangerous, ménage à trois. While conquering Annika is nothing very serious for career-focused Christian, Ben’s love for Annika reminds him of his past and forces him to face his most remote fears. A character-driven story, Run If You Can owes much of its power to the actors’ performances, especially Robert Gwisdek’s outstanding interpretation of Ben.

An allegorical comedy centered on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water shortage, go on a sex strike that threatens the young couple's first night of love.

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