Lilith Stangenberg

Beate is an ambitious executive working at Europa, a mysterious corporation looking to expand into the Balkans region. Seemingly promoting philanthropy and investment in underdeveloped areas, Europa actually needs to buy off lands from locals in a remote valley in Southern Albania using Beate as the main negotiator for the ambiguous mission. But things don’t go as planned when she is challenged by Jetnor, a stubborn and spiritual farmer who refuses to leave the land of his ancestors.

По приказу императора Нерона философ Сенека вскрывает себе вены; в ожидании смерти он рассуждает обо всём подряд.

A snack bar owner smokes with his Muslim neighbor in the stairwell of their apartment building at night. Her husband is his good friend. They draw closer to one another as the nights go on and look out over the city to the dark satellites, the brutalist concrete buildings on the outskirts of the city - relics of the GDR past. A security guard watches over Objekt 95, a satellite town with a residential complex which many foreigners call home. While on patrol at night, he gets to know a young Ukrainian woman who fled her home country when the war broke out. He wants to protect her, while his friend, the “old security guard”, radios to him from an abandoned Russian barrack night after night. A woman from the train cleaning service drinks in a train station bar after her night shift. There, she meets a hairdresser. The two of them become friends and spend many nights together in the station. Every night, her desire grows even greater for this woman who is exactly as lonely as she is.

1928 год. Советский фабричный рабочий Левушка исполняет роль Троцкого в фильме Сергея Эйзенштейна «Октябрь». Но его мечты о новой актерской жизни разбиваются вдребезги, когда настоящий Троцкий впадает в немилость Сталину и все сцены с Левушкой вырезаются из фильма. Он решает бежать в Голливуд и по пути застревает на одном из курортов Северной Германии, где влюбляется в эксцентричную молодую вампиршу.

Анна — актриса с эксцентричным характером и экстравагантной внешностью. Из-за этого страдает репутация, предложений становится все меньше. Однажды Анна соглашается на необычную работу — давать уроки по технике речи юноше из приюта. Она знает, что парень — вор, однако это не мешает их сближению. За встречами, общими разговорами, прогулками и обедами приходит влюбленность. Она кружит голову и заставляет совершать безумные поступки. Так, без гроша в кармане они покидают Западный Берлин и отправляются во Францию к морю…

Швейцария, XIII век. Чтобы защитить свою деревню от жестокости тевтонских рыцарей, молодая повитуха Кристина заключает сделку с самим дьяволом. Но все имеет свою цену: на деревню нападает полчище пауков, и Кристина из спасительницы становится изгоем. Хватит ли ей духа побороть зло, если все вокруг желают ей смерти?

Even after burial Orphea wants to embrace her beloved Eurydike, deceased from food poisoning on January 22nd. She passionately descends into the apocalyptic underworld in a quest of nine extraordinary songs, but maybe the wandering Eurydike no longer needs any love?

От стыда за провал экспедиции в Аид Орфей становится Эвридико, Эвридике приходится стать Орфеей – и это только начало невероятных видеоприключений из самого причудливого и обольстительно несерьёзного киноэксперимента года.

Cын Астрид исчез. Cпустя неделю подросток вернулся домой безо всяких объяснений. И она сама, и учителя подозревают, что это может быть связано с потерей отца. Очень медленно жизнь возвращается в нормальное русло. Изменились представления Астрид об искусстве. Дома матери-одиночке всё труднее мириться с тем, что сын ведёт самостоятельную жизнь. А потом он попадает в больницу с заражением крови. Астрид переживает нервный срыв, её мучают угрызения совести, беспокойство за сына, сознание собственной никчёмности.

A road movie about a dropout who leaves himself completely to chance. A parable about freedom, self-determination and the poetry of an undefined life.

Wanting to start a new life, 40-year-old Heli has found an institution in which she can put her younger, mentally disabled sister. Her three egocentric brothers have agreed to the plan and come to share their sister's final weekend at the house where they all grew up on the outskirts of Berlin. They find that the "baby of the litter" has turned into an unpredictable "monster". The fallout brings them closer together than they'd expected.

Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1992-2017. The end of the GDR gave rise to new artistic freedoms in reunited Berlin. Shortly after the fall of the Wall, rebel director Frank Castorf was appointed artistic director of the Volksbühne. His way of working altered the public’s perception of this theater. The chronological history of the Castorf era between 1992 and 2017 is told here in excerpts from the productions and in a series of conversations conducted on the long sofa in the theater's foyer.

Ulli Lommel was an obsessive and productive filmmaker of the Fassbinder era. He died in December 2017 leaving behind his 64th film, an angry but not entirely gloomy satire about the state of his adopted country, the USA.

Docu-fiction hybrid about Ulli Lommel and Andy Warhol.

Офицера полиции Франца Эберхофера будят среди ночи, и он узнаёт, что его начальник Баршль был убит. Орудием убийства стал нож Франца, поэтому он становится главным подозреваемым в убийстве ненавистного босса.

An anarchist young woman breaks the tacit contract with civilization and fearlessly decides on a life without hypocrisy or an obligatory safety net.

It is the late 1950s. Flourishing under the economic miracle, Germany grows increasingly apathetic about confronting the horrors of its recent past. Nevertheless, Fritz Bauer doggedly devotes his energies to bringing the Third Reich to justice. One day Bauer receives a letter from Argentina, written by a man who is certain that his daughter is dating the son of Adolph Eichmann. Excited by the promising lead, and mistrustful of a corrupt judiciary system where Nazis still lurk, Bauer journeys to Jerusalem to seek alliance with Mossad, the Israeli secret service. To do so is treason — yet committing treason is the only way Bauer can serve his country.

A drama set during the failed coup against President Mikhail Gorbachev.

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?

Six intertwined people struggle with their own sincerity, and, in so doing, unravel their secrets and the lies they live.

The two friends Nora and Isabel, both disabled, try to lead normal lives. Strangely enough, it is their family, well-meaning friends and care workers who appear not to want normality at all. When Nora decides to marry her immigrant lover Amadou, her family does everything in its power to stop her.

A nightmare wakens Luca on his wedding night and confronts him with dark childhood memories. At the worst moment he struggles against his deepest fears as on the first day after his wedding his marriage is already challenged.

Ретроспектива событий 21 июля 2001 года на саммите большой восьмёрки в Генуе, когда группа мирно протестующих активистов была жестоко избита и арестована полицией с применением самых жутких издевательств и пыток. Правозащитная организация Международная Амнистия позднее назовёт эти события самым грубым нарушением прав человека в Западной Европе со времен Второй мировой войны.

Andreas is a journalist covering a story on Larissa, a patient with tuberculosis. At the hospital he meets a nurse called Yvonne. The encounter with the two women moves Andreas more than he wishes to admit. A short film about luck and its inevitable slipping away.

Jakob, a soldier mistreated by the king finds in a well a mysterious blue light which turns out to be a stroke of genius. He merely wants to teach the king a lesson by asking him to temporarily stealing whatever the king values most. He doesn't expect to be brought the king's daughter...

A stubborn, atmospheric and brutal view of the great love between father and daughter.

Two teenagers' lives are brought together through internet webcams. Anton's desire is awakened after discovering Lenny's personal video blog on YouTube. Away from the screen, Anton wanders through the big city, wondering whether his virtual meeting with Lenny has a place in the real world.

Olga is a russian girl working as a prostitute in Germany, but one day - as she wishes - she’ll head towards Tirana for a better life...