Stephanie Schönfeld

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.

Com uma promissora carreira na polícia e um bebê a caminho, a vida de Marc (Hanno Koffler) parece estar no caminho certo, até o momento em que conhece Kay (Max Riemelt), um colega de quarto do campo de treinamento policial. Em meio aos exercícios de corrida, Marc experimenta uma sensação fácil e sem esforço nunca sentida antes, se apaixonar por um homem. Dividido entre sua família e sua paixão, sua vida sai do seu controle até ele perceber que não pode fazer todos felizes.

In an attempt to save their troubled relationship, Stefan (Wolfgang Menardi) and Claudia (Stephanie Schönfeld) go on a camping trip to the coast. They pick up Uli (Norman Schenk), a professional puppeteer who turns out to be quite entertaining. But when the puppet develops a life of its own, and Stefan seems to remember Uli from the past, they are already caught up in a mysterious and dangerous game.

Der Mond und andere Liebhaber narrates the story of Hanna, a woman who will not take lifes set-backs and knock-downs sitting down. Instead, she takes them in her stride, picks herself up and marches onward. This is a woman who continually draws new courage from her inexhaustible will to live. Whatever losses and uncertainties come her way, she remains true to herself.

At an elite private Border School four students form a clique to sneak out of school after hours to meet, drink and play. By trying to escape the golden cage which their wealthy parents have stuck them in, they search for the Extreme. In the course of time their excessive games grow more and more violent and soon they turn against the weakest of the group.

É verão em Berlim. A enfermeira Nike e sua melhor amiga, Katrin, têm por hábito observar a vida passar da sacada de seu apartamento, esperando que alguma coisa aconteça com elas. É quando o calor típico da estação põe em movimento suas vidas e a de todos ao redor. Max, o filho adolescente de Katrin, tenta em vão conquistar uma amiga de colégio. Nike entra em uma arriscada relação com o caminhoneiro Ronald. E Katrin tem um colapso mental após uma tentativa de estupro frustrada. Prêmio de melhor roteiro no Festival de San Sebástian de 2005.