Christian Kuchenbuch

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.

Em 1998, Khatun Syuryuchi, de 16 anos, foi forçado a se casar com um primo e enviado para a Turquia. Um ano depois, a garota voltou a Berlim e pediu aos pais que a levassem de volta. Eles concordaram, mas, sob as rígidas leis muçulmanas, obrigavam a filha a não sair sozinha de casa, a ajudar a mãe e, como sempre, obedecer implicitamente ao pai e aos irmãos. Incapaz de suportar a pressão, ela fugiu para o centro de ajuda de jovens mães, começou a estudar como eletricista, foi a bailes e fez sexo por amor. Seis anos depois, o irmão mais novo disparou três balas na cabeça de Hatun, que ela havia deixado de cobrir com um lenço.

A jovem Linda encontra-se em um jogo de vida ou morte em uma ilha isolada por uma tempestade. Ela precisa fazer uma autópsia para encontrar pistas escondidas em um cadáver e ajudar o legista Paul Herzfeld (Moritz Bleibtreu) a encontrar sua filha desaparecida.

The retired Chief superintendent Jakob Franck who often had to inform relatives as a "death messenger", now hopes to lead a life beyond the dead.

The day begins like a nightmare: Sybille Thalheim wakes up in a strange hotel room with a bloodstained knife in her hand.

A história entrelaçada de três mulheres que acabam em uma clínica psiquiátrica em busca de proteção e segurança.

The turbulent relationship between Oskar and Alex ends in a big blaze, Alex has set fire in Oskar's apartment. So Oskar decides that everything shall be different with the next one and he makes a deal with fun-loving Masha: sleeping together but no making love. They both drift through Berlin and through their lives, sometimes playful, sometimes obsessively. And even Masha has her issues. While trying to build up a "normal" relationship, both Masha and Oskar reach their limits. - Written by Claudia Romdhane

A 13-year-old Indian boy is found unconscious after being attacked in the jungle by the evil spirit Fayu Ujmu. A shaman attempts to ritually tame the spirit and advises the boy’s father to capture it. This story is based on a Chachi Indian legend; it was shot with indigenous inhabitants of the jungle community of Loma Linda, on the Rio Cayapas.

A gay man's return to his family in East Germany begins a series of tragic events.

In East Berlin in the late 70s, two boys meet one evening in a disco: Thomas, who is from a working class family and is doing an apprenticeship, and Michael, a 16-year-old school pupil from an educated middle-class family. They both miss the tram home and walk together instead, ending up at Michael’s house where they discuss God and the world into the early hours. Following this encounter the two boys enter into an unusual friendship, united by their mutual desire to get away from the phoniness, the limitations and the restrictions of their parents and of society.

Actor Ernst Stein, having abdicated from the stage in 1968 in protest of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, has long since retreated from the world around him. In a remote house encircled by an overgrown garden, he lives in a world of dreams and memories. Suddenly, in 1989, an out-of-kilter society sends forth its progeny. Young people, tramps and characters of all sorts take refuge with Stein for a short span, carrying the turmoil of the times into his house.