Meral Perin

The true story of a man who grew up surrounded by violence and absence of love. But despite everything he became a world-class networking master in his business life. He started from the bottom and was able to reach the top. His story show us that there is no obstacle that cannot be overcome in life.

Berlinale 2021. Nesta versão diferente de uma história de 11 de setembro, Asli e Saeed são um jovem casal pronto para começar suas vidas juntos como imigrantes na Alemanha. O futuro deles parece brilhante, mas ele toma uma decisão que mudará o mundo para sempre. Baseado em uma história verídica.

A group of actors are rehearsing an historic escape from Germany of 1939: The Cruise Liner St. Louis is on its way to Cuba, 900 Jewish refugees on board. Cuba denies access. On board: Paul, Elsa and their son. Do they have to return to Germany again and probably die? A group of today refugees from Africa, fleeing from war and death in Syria, enter the theatre. They are supposed to work here as extras. A culture clash begins and becomes a crossover story between escape 79 years ago and today.

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.

Armin Rohde experienced as a "good cop" Fredo Schulz a controversial Special Investigation operation in the drug depot Berlin-Neukölln. A covert investigator was shot and Schulz, the widowed police officer, widower and ex-alcoholic at the end of his career, is charged with the resolution of the tricky case. Together with his partner, Chief Inspector Milan Filipovic, he manages to win the young dealer Dakota as an informant. But soon the two investigators will not let go of the feeling that they have a leak in their own ranks.

The young law student Aylin knows exactly what she wants: Become a lawyer. To finance her studies, she works as an escort girl. Because she had to defend herself against a pushy businessman, now threatened five years in prison. From the police comes an offer that she embarks on in her distress: As a decoy Aylin can avert her punishment and even continue to study law. Drug investigator Jan and his boss Hannah use them on the smuggler Musab to arrest him in the act. How dangerous the clever Clan chief can be, but they both do not say.

Three loosely connected stories: The relationship between midwife Rosa and therapist Marcel is shaken to the core by a cancer diagnosis. Wandering aimlessly through life, waitress Motte is horrified to discover she’s pregnant – by her best friend Neo, who’s not even sure about his sexual orientation. Finally, cleaning lady Layla refuses to accept that her ex, Navid, has left her for a younger woman. Each situation escalates on one fateful night: A gun is fired, a woman dies, and a child is born. ‘Without you’ – an expression that can be formulated both negatively and positively: ‘I can’t live without you’ also means ‘life is much better with you’. Director Alexandre Powelz maximises this interpretation to its fullest potential. OHNE DICH is a film both about love and its bitter ingredients, and the equally sobering, yet comforting certainty that life goes on.

For the music historian Jakob collapses his well-ordered, quiet world, when he realizes that he can earn no more money with his original work. When he hears that a Türkpop label is looking for a summer hit, he sees his chance. Although this genre of music is completely alien to him, he decides to expand his knowledge in this area in order to find "the" summer hit and be able to pay his rent again. Out of necessity, the lover of Bach cantatas and dark concert halls exchanges his old Berlin apartment for an extended weekend for an apartment in Istanbul

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.

The movie revolves around three different couples who have to overcome familial and cultural obstacles to be with their ones they love. A man looking for a bride-for-hire also learns the hard way that expectations and reality do not always come together well.

Senay is a willful eleven year old girl in Hamburg who's Turkish father has just died. The only friend responding to the news about her father is a gay Turkish cabaret singer, Zeki. Together they travel through Europe in search of the orphan girl's mother, Cicek, who left at childbirth and whom Zeki represents as Senay's aunt.