Stephan Konken

At the end of a quarry, in a godforsaken place called Rotzloch, a new life begins for four young men.

Speedy, merciless and with plenty of black humor Gasman shows the picture of a man searching for his inner soul.

Speedy, merciless and with plenty of black humor Gasman shows the picture of a man searching for his inner soul.

For Marko, life mainly consists of frozen pizzas and back pain. For almost 30 years, the widower has been hauling frozen goods for the company "Eisland" to the front doors of his mostly older customers. When Marko has to take early retirement due to illness, his life gets into imbalance. Thereby Marko has only one goal: his studying son should have it better one day. Lawyer or judge, that would be something. The main thing is no work where you have to wear a name tag. The decease of an old female customer unexpectedly opens up a whole new business model for Marko. Unfortunately, he reckoned without the nosy neighbors. To make matters worse, his own son also finds out about it. Marko's house of cards threatens to collapse. Then he meets his idol Roland Kaiser at the bar.

For Marko, life mainly consists of frozen pizzas and back pain. For almost 30 years, the widower has been hauling frozen goods for the company "Eisland" to the front doors of his mostly older customers. When Marko has to take early retirement due to illness, his life gets into imbalance. Thereby Marko has only one goal: his studying son should have it better one day. Lawyer or judge, that would be something. The main thing is no work where you have to wear a name tag. The decease of an old female customer unexpectedly opens up a whole new business model for Marko. Unfortunately, he reckoned without the nosy neighbors. To make matters worse, his own son also finds out about it. Marko's house of cards threatens to collapse. Then he meets his idol Roland Kaiser at the bar.

How do you become who you are? Through the slights one experiences, believes freelance journalist and author Dirk Gieselmann. One late evening, he is alone in his apartment. His camera is set up in front of him, with which he records himself. In doing so, he first introduces himself personally and announces that he will call three people. In the telephone calls that follow, he confronts his interlocutors with long-ago encounters, experienced ruthlessness and the accusation that they drove him out of the paradise of childhood. That evening, he wants to know what the reasons were for the slights and hopes to be able to make sense of them. He realizes that his childhood has finally come to an end and remembers the world of thoughts that surrounded him when he was a little boy. Then he receives an unexpected call from his family.

Марлен — женщина, страдающая от ужасных снов в отдалённой деревне. Когда Мона, дочь Марлен, следует за ней, она натыкается на семейную тайну — старое проклятие, которое угрожает её жизни.

Time as punishment — of juvenile inmates and bodies that become heavy in prescribed spaces.

В эпицентре сюжета этой трогательной драмы оказывается 25-летняя девушка, которая живет со своим отцом и сестрой в уединенной деревне в горах черноморского региона Турции. Сибэл немая, но она общается, используя родовой свистящий язык. Отвергнутая односельчанами, наша героиня безжалостно охотится на волка, который, как говорят, бродит в соседнем лесу, разжигая страхи и фантазии среди деревенских женщин. В лесу девушка пересекает путь с беглецом. Раненый, угрожающий и уязвимый, он первый, кто по-новому взглянул на немую красавицу.

A wild genre mix between a boxer film, urban western, road movie and music video, set at end of the summer holidays in a drab neighborhood in the outskirts of Hamburg suburbia. Young boxing talent Mauser is preparing for a pivotal competition when his father kills his step-mother and flees. Trying to find his father, Mauser embarks on a journey through the world of music, psychedelia, violence, love and a biblical thunderstorm. And what is with the Native American? "Once upon a time in Indian country" is a story that radiates both, heat and poetry.

A wild genre mix between a boxer film, urban western, road movie and music video, set at end of the summer holidays in a drab neighborhood in the outskirts of Hamburg suburbia. Young boxing talent Mauser is preparing for a pivotal competition when his father kills his step-mother and flees. Trying to find his father, Mauser embarks on a journey through the world of music, psychedelia, violence, love and a biblical thunderstorm. And what is with the Native American? "Once upon a time in Indian country" is a story that radiates both, heat and poetry.

"Jürgen - Heute wird gelebt" is about two lonely middle age men that crush together, searching for the woman of their dreams, on the way to Poland.

Основанный на романе Антона Чехова «Вишневый сад», фильм рассказывает о блудном сыне, который возвращается спустя 12 лет. Его появление в семейном доме сельской местности Азербайджана существенно меняет их образ жизни.

Lotte is impulsive, rough around the edges and leads a colourful life on the streets of Berlin, stumbling from man to man, flat to flat and bar to bar. A brief encounter with a young girl, Greta, turns her life upside down. Lotte realises she will not be able to run away this time.

The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.

Despite the threat of war in the fall of 1939, the Germans decide to launch a sea expedition in search of evidence for Pangaea. Although the multi national geologists embark enthusiastically on their research mission, the growing political tension between their countries soon affects their work. With Britain and France declaring war on Germany, the civilian scientists now find themselves mere pawns in a global power struggle.

Группу русских солдат отправляют в Северную Германию в конце Второй мировой войны, где они занимают детский дом в непосредственной близости от большой немецкой части. Несмотря на все разногласия здесь формируется дружба между немецким сиротой и бездетным советским капитаном.

Группу русских солдат отправляют в Северную Германию в конце Второй мировой войны, где они занимают детский дом в непосредственной близости от большой немецкой части. Несмотря на все разногласия здесь формируется дружба между немецким сиротой и бездетным советским капитаном.

A middle class young man rebels against his father’s brutish authority and seeks a rough romance with a woman of ethnic minority. Yuce’s moral tale draws from the example of today’s Turkish youth and the timeless shadow of fathers over sons.

Bavaria, Germany, 1950s. The sudden return of the young Kathrin to the small village where she was born stirs up the feelings of guilt and personal ghosts of its inhabitants, haunted by dark memories related to a multiple murder that happened two years earlier at the Tannöd farm, a hideous crime that remains unsolved.

Bavaria, Germany, 1950s. The sudden return of the young Kathrin to the small village where she was born stirs up the feelings of guilt and personal ghosts of its inhabitants, haunted by dark memories related to a multiple murder that happened two years earlier at the Tannöd farm, a hideous crime that remains unsolved.

Год 2267. Земля стала необитаемой из-за экологической катастрофы, а выжившие живут в переполненных космических станциях на орбите Земли. Молодой доктор Лора Портман одна из них. Она надеется на лучшее будущее далекой планеты Рея. Но чтобы попасть на нее — нужны деньги. Лаура подписывает контракт и устраивается в корпорацию «Койпер» для работы на старом грузовом корабле «Кассандра», который проделает путь к станции № 42 и обратно за 8 лет. Полет полностью автоматический, во время которого члены экипажа проводят большую часть в состоянии глубокого сна, пока один дежурит 8,5 месяцев. Из-за террористической угрозы на корабле присутствует дополнительно Самуэль Деккер, ответственный за безопасность. К концу своей смены, Лора Портман слышит необычный шум из грузового отсека. Она поднимает членов экипажа, чтобы исследовать холодные грузовые трюмы корабля. После первых смертей, все начинают не доверять друг другу. Лаура и Самуэль раскрывают истинное содержание груза и назначение корабля…

As young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, him to material wealth on Oslo's west side, her to an average family on the east side. In contrast to her younger brother, Yanne remembers their journey to Norway, but she has no idea where he might be now.

«Не презирай слабого детеныша — он может оказаться сыном тигра», — гласит монгольская пословица. Мальчик Тэмуджин, которому предстоит стать Чингисханом, повелителем половины мира, прошел через голод, унижения, рабство. На него охотились, его пытали и предавали. Он выжил, хотя казалось, что это невозможно. Его сила, ум и воля к жизни были несравнимы с возможностями обычного человека. Его поддерживала любовь Борте, первой и любимой жены, которую у него никто не смог отнять…

Mladen and Marija are an ordinary and happy married couple of the "middle class" of the society in which they live as tenants. Mladen works as a civil engineer in a state company, and Marija is an English teacher in primary school. The couple finds joy in their only son, Nemanja. They discover that Nemanja has a rare heart disease and healing is possible with an operation in a foreign medical center, which costs €26,000.

Фильм показывает жизнь одной из стамбульских суфийских общин изнутри и повествует о благочестивом человеке, мусульманине, члене религиозного ордена, который сталкивается, вероятно, впервые в своей жизни, с властью и деньгами. Мухаррем — скромный дервиш, ведущий жизнь смирения и послушания, работает в лавке, где продают хозяйственные сумки. Он регулярно посещает зикр и встречи дервишей в одном из стамбульских медресе. Однажды Шейх, глава ордена, приближает его к себе и возлагает на него тяжелейшую мирскую задачу — работу с финансами. Главный герой, по сути, становится мытарем — сборщиком податей, и мир вокруг него меняется. Его наивная добродушность сталкивается с другой реальностью, которая была постоянно рядом, но от которой он был абстрагирован. Человека заставили взглянуть на вещи с другой стороны, изменили его мир и он… не выдержал. Крах моральных ценностей привёл к краху личности, которая не смогла подстроиться к внезапной, непонятной и нежеланной «успешности».

The young girls Kate and Echo live in their own land of make believe. When one of them stumbles across the real world, their friendship faces a serious challenge.

1986 - The protest movement against the construction of the nuclear power plant in Brokdorf is on its last legs. Only one rural commune remains: the "Alternative Wohnkollektiv Regenbogen". For them, it could go on and on with endless consensus discussions, shearing sheep and naked communal bathing. One day, the lowland communards are joined by two city dwellers, Hanne and her son Niels. While Hanne gets used to scream therapy and raising vegetables surprisingly quickly - and even more quickly to the tantra games with commune guru Peter - Niels has less and less desire for the dogmatic commune rules. Out of defiance, he joins the violent nuclear power plant resistance, thus upsetting the tranquil chaos of the commune. The big bang, however, comes when a reactor explodes in distant Chernobyl. Exactly on the day Bobby Ewing dies, the petroleum prince from "Dallas" and series favorite of the commune.

Фильм повествует о жителях района Фонтеньяс в Лиссабоне, основная масса которых — беженцы из Кабо Верде. Главная героиня — Ванда Дуарте, в прямом смысле — героиня на героине, как и многие из её родственников, друзей и соседей. Жизнь их проходит в бедности и печали. Под звуки падающих стен и крыш домов Фонтеньяса.

Сгусток немецкого юмора, пошлости, жестокости, сентиментальности, выраженный в профессионально сработанной сатире.

The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the 90's. The fast changing city around them makes them wish to break with all traditions and live the day the get married (only civil marriage) like it is an ordinary day.

Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic cannibal family who want to turn them into sausages.

Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.

Laura lives in the country with her considerably older husband. When Nuno, her brother who study in Lisbon, pays a visit, he realizes that his sister does not have a happy life. He initiates a friendship with a worker on the farm. The circumstances turn Laura and Nuno against each other... Portrays the repressed sexuality and homosexual desire in a rural setting and elliptically and delicately the small farming community that serves as the backdrop for the impossible relationships pursued by Laura and her brother.