Wolfgang Rüter

Ivo works as a palliative home-care nurse. Every day, she visits families, couples and single people. They live in small flats and large houses. They all have different lives and deaths. They all have different ways of dealing with the time that remains. At home, Ivo’s teenage daughter has long since become independent. From morning to night, Ivo drives around in her old Skoda which she has made into her personal living space. Here, she eats her meals, works, sings, swears and dreams. One of her patients, Solveigh, has become a close friend. Ivo has also formed a relationship with Solveigh’s husband, Franz. Day after day, the two work together to care for Solveigh. And they sleep with each other. Solveigh’s strength is diminishing and she soon has to rely on support for the simplest tasks. She wants the final decision to be her own: she wants Ivo to help her die.

Kerstin is in great pain. Her daughter Juliane wants to help her die, but the law forbids it. Jessica Krummacher’s second feature describes the most important of events via tiny details that stay with us and get under our skin.

Na Alemanha, uma garota jovem é diagnosticada com um câncer logo após terminar o ensino médio. Para não passar os dias que lhe restam num hospital, ela decide aproveitar o tempo numa aventura com um companheiro inesperado de viagem.

A emocionante história da infância de Hape Kerkeling, o comediante mais amado da Alemanha. Em 1972, ele era um menino gorducho que crescia na segurança de sua família e de parentes que adoravam se divertir. À primeira vista, ele pode não parecer o cara mais popular, mas tem um talento peculiar para observar as pessoas à sua volta e fazer imitações hilariantes. No entanto, acontecimentos inesperados causam uma grande reviravolta em sua infância perfeita. Para sobreviver ao tumulto emocional, ele usa seus talentos cômicos para curar suas feridas e fazer as pessoas rirem junto com ele.

Hilla grows up in the 60s, her father is a worker and her mother a charwoman. But she wants a different future for herself, wants to study. After a violent incident she needs a strong shoulder. Who of her life will do?

Culture-Clash-Comedy about Turkish brides importet into Germany.

This documentary drama recreates some important situations from the political and private life of Konrad Adenauer, former and first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, between 1933 and 1967.

A look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann.

After their mother’s death, three siblings meet up in her apartment – and revert to their childhood family dynamics. They play concentration and enjoy eggnog with their chocolate pudding, making the regression a not entirely unpleasant one … As a blithe "preview" of her debut feature The Terrible Threesome, this short narrative by Hermine Huntgeburth, who grew up with nine brothers and sisters, is a droll portrait of family ties that is as cosy as it is eerie.