Rike Eckermann

Berlin at the end of the 19th Century. Alexander Hoffmann is an ambitious PhD student of Ethnology. When a delegation of the Herero and Nama tribes travels to Berlin during a ‘Colonial Exhibition’, he takes a special interest in their young female translator Kezia Kambazembi as subject for his studies.

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.

Ben wakes up from an artificial coma after a failed mission. The personal protector has to deal with the fact that he could not prevent the death of a little girl. In order to recover, the BKA officer takes a break from the police service and drives to the Baltic Sea with his girlfriend Marion. He spent happy days there as a child. The first visit to his parents in years is at the same time the return to the place of painful memories, because back then his best friend Timmi was killed in a mysterious accident. To his astonishment, he now learns that Timmi, now an adult, is alive and lying in a hospital as a coma patient. Together with Marion, a doctor who specializes in this diseases, Ben wants to reach Timmi with the help of MRI technology. Perhaps the trauma can be resolved if the cause can be brought to light. Unlike Ben, however, neither Timmi's father nor the village cop Nolting seem interested in it. A web of guilt, lies and deception has to be unraveled to clue to the puzzle.

A estrela de cinema Daniel (Daniel Brühl) parece levar a vida perfeita: ele mora em um apartamento chique em Berlim-Prenzlauer Berg, tem uma linda esposa e uma babá que cuida dos filhos. Quando está a caminho de Londres para um teste para um papel em um filme de super-herói, o ator alemão-espanhol faz uma parada rápida em seu pub favorito. Parece o lugar perfeito para Daniel relaxar um pouco antes da audição: está quieto lá, não há fãs esperando por ele e ele pode passar por seus diálogos em paz. No entanto, ele não contou com Bruno (Peter Kurth). O homem estranho não apenas conhece todos os filmes do ator, mas também conhece muitos detalhes de sua vida privada. Quanto mais a conversa dura quanto mais medo Daniel tem do homem estranho. O que ele não sabe: Bruno se sente isolado da vida e quer vingança. E Daniel é a vítima perfeita...

Film by Jan Bonny, also known as "Endlich Leben".

Sarah and her parents celebrate her confirmation. But instead of eating the lobster on her plate, Sarah hides it under the table. When her father finds the lobster there, he draws the consequences.

SHH is the story of friendship being put to the test. On the night of a school party, four girlfriends are waiting to be questioned by the school's principal. The bond between the girls appears to be strong and unbreakable. One of them however seems to be under more pressure than the rest.

Nos últimos instantes da Segunda Guerra Mundial, um indivíduo de 19 anos esfarrapado e faminto rouba a farda de uma capitão. Representando um oficial, ele consegue reunir um grupo de desertores que começa a matar e saquear através do caminho em uma Alemanha nazista.

Bodo is standing on the top of a roof and ready to jump, when suddenly his phone is ringing...

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.

Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal breakdown.

The former bank robber Wanja is released from a long prison sentence. As her feelings of loneliness escalate, Wanja sets out to find work and hereby a new identity. Against all odds she lands an internship at a horse race track. In the stable she gets to know the troubled teenager Emma, and a strong friendship develops between the two women. When Emma slips deeper into her own drug abuse, Wanja decides to rescue her.

East Germany. Summer, late 70's. Three years after her boyfriend Wassilij's apparent death, Nelly Senff decides to escape from behind the Berlin wall with her son Alexej, leaving her traumatic memories and past behind. Pretending to marry a West German, she crosses the border to start a new life in the West. But soon her past starts to haunt her as the Allied Secret Service begin to question Wassilij's mysterious disappearance. Is he still alive? Was he a spy? Plagued by her past and fraught with paranoia, Nelly is forced to choose between discovering the truth about her former lover and her hopes for a better tomorrow.

While on a GPS treasure hunt in the Palatinate forest four teenagers come across an old US military radio tower station. Back in the days of the Cold War it was part of a secret military program that produced horrific side effects, but has long since abandoned. Until now, when the station is mysteriously powered up again.

Master painter Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Ms. Wellinek and her husband, and the German-Russian Jew Yevgenia have many things to live on: food, drink, an apartment. What they do not have is work. They all discover the yearning for a chance to start all over again and bring themselves back to life.