Ulrike Müller

Twelve years after he fled, career criminal Trojan returns to Berlin. A valuable painting is set to be stolen in the city. But the meticulously planned heist soon runs out of control.

The undercover investigator Robert is supposed to win the trust of a criminal through a fictitious relationship with Leni. However, the feelings are not just a game. It is the spied criminal, of all people, who makes him confront his contradictory feelings…

How can cinema engage with complicity in crimes against humanity, extreme violence and state terror without conniving in it? De Facto finds answers to this question via two actors, a precisely compiled collage of texts and a deliberately reduced setting.

Eva is struggling to live happily with her autistic son Felix. The two are inseparable, but Felix's frequent outbursts of anger, the constant problems at school and his fear of strangers are almost impossible for Eva to cope with. One day when Felix accidentally seriously injured Eva, suddenly nothing is the same as it used to be.

After returning from a police mission in Afghanistan, Chief Inspector Harder is set to investigate a bog body found in a village called Friedland. The confrontation with Friedland's brutal history brings a grave guilt from Harder's own past to the surface and forces her to face the echo.

In this dystopian world set in the near future, everyone’s reputation is measured and visible. Your “Karma count” defines you, as Cee soon discovers. Victim of a sexual assault that goes viral on social media, the young graphic designer becomes more ostracised as she fights back.

Perhaps they should never have met, but fate wanted otherwise. Monika and Joseph. She is a curator, he is an immigrant from Congo, a businessman with an unclear past and present. They meet during a police raid at a bar, when the first of many sparks flies between them. An understated love story, a melodrama without pathos, a fragile story about the ambiguous nature of love and the impossibility of overcoming it through reason.

Situado em um futuro distante, uma astronauta, naufragada na Terra há muito dizimada, deve decidir o destino da população remanescente do deserto.

Rojda, nativa do Curdistão iraquiano e soldado do exército alemão, viaja para um campo de refugiados na Grécia onde consegue encontrar sua mãe, que tem más notícias sobre sua irmã Dilan.

Lisa está saindo do apartamento onde vive com Mara e Markus, e sua mudança significa o fim de uma era. À medida que caixas são deslocadas, paredes pintadas e armários construídos, os abismos começam a se abrir. Enquanto Lisa está ansiosa pela mudança, Mara enfrenta uma montanha-russa de emoções.

Uma etnóloga chega a uma ilha no sul da Dinamarca para estudar seus habitantes e registrar suas tradições. Suas casas estão prestes a ser demolidas para que possa ser construído um túnel até a Alemanha. Inesperadamente, ela conhece um atraente homem mais jovem, um operário contratado da Polônia.

In the life of TV presenter Lisa, everything revolves around her talk show, celebrities and the ratings. There is just as little room for love as there is for her mother Maria. When the 66-year-old loses her memory after a fall in her apartment and wakes up in the hospital, she can only remember that she has never been to New York and sets off immediately. Lisa goes in search of Maria with her makeup artist Fred. She struck gold on a cruise ship that was just leaving for New York. As stowaways, the three have no choice but to earn the passage. While Fred is hired as an assistant by the Greek on-board magician Costa, Lisa and Maria have to work in room service. The crossing soon takes surprising turns for mother and daughter: Maria falls in love with the charming dancer Otto, who supposedly knows her from before, and Lisa takes a liking to the widowed statistician Axel Staudach, who is traveling with his son Florian.

Encouraged by her father who hopes to save her from a life in the provinces, Jette is about to spend a year volunteering overseas. But love stands in the way of her father's plans, and she no longer knows what she wants.

Um garoto de 13 anos desaparece, sem deixar vestígios. Após uma semana, ele reaparece no pátio da escola, sujo e diferente. Sua mãe e seus professores podem apenas tentar adivinhar o que ele procurava: uma extrema proximidade com a natureza ou a morte, por causa da recente perda de seu pai. O comportamento do garoto invalida tudo aquilo que, até então, eles tomavam como certo.

Hamburg, St. Pauli, New Year's Eve. Oskar Wrobel runs a music club in an old hospital at the edge of the Reeperbahn. While fireworks go off in the streets of St. Pauli, he prepares the big final party - the club has to close. Thankfully there is no time to think about it because the chaos is breaking into his living room, all while hell break loose at the club. The film, based on the novel by Tino Hanekamp, was filmed with hundreds of extras attending a real-life three-night-long party.

Neste leitura livre da história bíblica, Lazzaro (Adriano Tardiolo) é um garoto pobre e pouco inteligente, mas extremamente bondoso. Ele é explorado pelos familiares, fazendo trabalhos forçados diariamente, além de colaborar com a marquesa, proprietária das terras onde vivem. No entanto, após uma tragédia, Lazzaro retorna à vida no século XXI. Ele não compreende mais a lógica deste mundo, mas pretende reencontrar a sua família e viver como antigamente.

Noruega, 1943: depois que uma fracassada missão de sabotagem aos nazistas deixar seus onze companheiros mortos, o combatente da resistência norueguesa Jan Baalsrud (Thomas Gullestad) se vê foragido da Gestapo pelos trechos árticos da Escandinávia. É uma jornada angustiante através do deserto implacável e congelado que se estenderá por meses e forçará Jan a tomar medidas extremas para sobreviver.

Theres e Kenneth são jovens quando se conhecem durante as férias de verão na Grécia. Eles se apaixonam, mas não podem fazer nada para impedir a separação iminente. Trinta anos depois, em outro país, outro casal: Ariane deixa o marido David porque já não o ama.

A father tries to rekindle his relationship with his son after years of absence and lack of communication. He takes him on a car ride across northern Norway, hoping it is not too late.

Na dia 9 de abril de 1940, os soldados alemães chegam à cidade de Oslo. O rei da Noruega enfrenta um dilema que vai mudar seu país para sempre. O filme narra os três dias extremamente dramáticos vividos na Noruega em Abril de 1940, quando o rei norueguês recebeu um ultimato impensável dos militares alemães: rendição ou morte. O rei deve tomar uma decisão que pode mudar a história de seu país para sempre. Selecionado entre os 9 semifinalistas (e representante da Noruega) para o Oscar 2017 de Melhor Filme Estrangeiro. Título provisório no Brasil: A Negativa do Rei.

Adolf Hitler desperta no mesmo local em que ficava o seu bunker há 70 anos, mas vira um fenômeno da mídia ao ser confundido com um comediante.

A model family's happy life unexpectedly goes off the rails when the carefree Hedi, played by Laura Tonke, suddenly starts having panic attacks. First mental illness and then drug dependency – the happiness that these happy-go-lucky thirty-somethings once took for granted suddenly seems unattainable, and their world fragile and uncertain.

Fabian Groys, a renowned journalist for a political news magazine, enjoys great freedom, since the stories he uncovers make for good sales. When he loses a hot story about the German army, the editor saddles him with a young female intern. Fabian hates teamwork and sticks the intern with what seems a classic tabloid story about the suicide of a man who had himself torn to shreds by a lion at the zoo. But thanks to the intern’s dogged determination, signs emerge that the story Fabian was working on and the gory zoo story are actually interlinked. Is it pure coincidence? And if it isn’t, how can Fabian fight a nebulous enemy?

Agnes, a teacher from the Hessian provinces, has come to Berlin to identify a dead girl who might be Lydia, her runaway daughter. It turns out not to be Lydia, but Agnes stays in the city anyway. Still frantically looking, she comes a young stray called Ines who no longer leaves her side...

Baseado no livro homônimo de Charlotte Roche, que conta a história de Helen Memel, uma jovem de 18 anos que é internada pós umas mal sucedida depilação íntima. A situação curiosa expõe a vida dela, que não aceita a separação dos pais, e acaba se envolvendo com um enfermeiro do hospital.

Canadá, verão de 1898. Um grupo de colonos alemães viaja para o extremo norte, em vagões cobertos, com cavalos de carga e seus poucos pertences no reboque. Os sete viajantes partiram de Ashcroft, a estação ferroviária final. Junto com o seu lí­der, o extravagante empresário Wilhelm Laser, eles esperam encontrar sua fortuna nos garimpos recentemente descobertos de Dawson, mas não têm idéia das tensões e perigos que estão í frente em sua jornada de 2500 km. Antes da longa incerteza, o tempo frio e o cansaço começam a cobrar seu preço e os conflitos vão aumentando. A viagem leva estes homens e mulheres cada vez mais fundo, rumo a um deserto ameaçador.

Marisa, a 20-year-old German girl, hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. She provokes, drinks, fights and her next tattoo will be a portrait of Adolf Hitler. But Marisa's convictions begin to crumble when she meets a young Afghan refugee, and she learns that the black and white principles of her gang are not the only way.

Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness programme. His work is fulfilling. Vera, however, feels increasingly lost in Yaounde’s ex-pat community. She can’t bear the separation from her 14-year-old daughter, Helen, who is attending boarding school in Germany. Ebbo must give up his life in Africa or he risks losing the woman he loves. But his fear of returning to a land now remote to him increases with each passing day. Years later. Alex Nzila, a young French doctor of Congolese origin, travels to Cameroon to evaluate a development project. It’s been a long time since he set foot on this continent, but, instead of finding new prospects, he encounters a destructive, lost man. Like a phantom, Ebbo slips away from his evaluator.

Umay é uma jovem mulher de descendência turca que sai de Istambul em busca de uma vida independente na Alemanha. Sua luta contra a resistência de sua família cria uma situação que chega a colocar vidas sob ameaça. O filme mostra os conflitos entre tradições e valores culturais mais recentes, contrapõe regras tribais a direitos humanos atualmente consagrados, e apresenta o choque de conceitos comunitários de honra contra o amor entre membros de uma mesma família.

"In the Shadows" slithers through underworld Berlin in grand style. En route to a twisty finale, German writer-director Thomas Arslan keeps his audience glued to the increasingly desperate actions of Trojan, a thirtysomething career criminal whose latest job slowly catches up with him.

Despite having lived in the East German countryside for several months, teenager Lars and his dad, Henrik, are still treated as unwelcome guests. Henrik is building a “marriage barn,” a proposed bed-and-breakfast for newlywed Berliners.

Melanie Straub lives aimlessly into the day, or more accurately: into a Saturday. She′s alone at home, surrounded by the emptiness of her new life.

Adaptação da obra de Anton Tchekhov, 'A Gaivota'. Numa bela casa à beira do lago, uma família se entrega ao ócio. Porém, a paz e a confraternização não estão ali. Enquanto Konstantin escreve e Alex espera a morte e a atriz Irene lamenta e Agnes busca a verdade, paira no ar a solidão de cada um e a angústia, em contraponto à beleza do local.

Max and Moritz are two young brothers living an adventurous life of petty crime in Hamburg, Germany. After the two boys steal a car and get into an accident, with the adolescent daughter of a Hamburg Senator sitting in the passenger seat, the two scoundrels are packed up and sent to a boot camp. This military-style camp is run by Axel and Henry, two former East German soldiers who still strongly believe in Communism but are secretly gay lovers. Max and Moritz steal another car...a red Ferrari owned by small-town pimp Murder-Hanne. The nationalistic sadist teaches the boys a painful lesson, but Max and Moritz wouldn’t be Max and Moritz if they let this weekend-fascist get them down... and when they acquire the key to their military school’s ordinance depot, things start to change.