Hendrik Massute

9-летний Роман следует за своей мамой Оксаной, которая нелегально уехала работать в Германию. Там она живет с Гертом, 62-летним вдовцом из Германии, страдающим диабетом. Герт пытается подружиться с мальчиком, но Роман борется за внимание матери. Внезапно Оксане становится плохо, и Роман остается наедине со своим соперником. Удивительно, но Герт оказывается хорошим товарищем по играм, пока не умирает от инсульта. Роман оказывается заперт вместе с трупом.

The ambitious scientist Franz Walter doesn't hesitate when he is promised a professorship at the university. He immediately accepts, pledges absolute loyalty to the system and agrees to work for the GDR's foreign intelligence service until he can take up his new position. Together with his colleague Dirk, he is sent on foreign assignments to West Germany. Franz soon has to use blackmail to get innocent people to talk. But his superiors go even further: GDR refugees and their relatives are targeted to be psychologically destroyed, forged letters, medical diagnoses, surveillance and wiretapping are on the agenda. However, this is more than Franz can bear: he feels powerless and increasingly isolates himself. When he then decides to steal secret documents for a later defection to the West, this results in an unfortunate chain reaction leading to his arrest and ultimately to his execution...

A lonely seamstress receives a strange request: to sew a cloak made only from the wings of moths. Her client soon disappears, but maybe she has one more chance to get it right this time. A philosophical fairy tale about humans and moths, both lost in the lights of the world.

The five-year-old Flo cannot understand the condition that her father is in. Her mother explains: "He is with us but also far away at the same time". This description sparks the child's creativity, as she begins to imagine her father embarking on a journey far away, into the vastness of space.

August 1942: Amidst the unimaginable suffering inflicted during the blockade of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht, an orchestra director was given an almost impossible task: to stage the premiere of Dimitri Shostakovitch's "Leningrad Symphony". The performance became a symbol of the brief triumph of culture over the barbarism of war.

All of a sudden, 16-year-old Martha vanishes. Her father Lothar, who for years has had no contact with her or his ex-wife, sets off unwilling to find her. He soon realises other young people are also vanishing from the city inexplicably. Lothar follows their trail across the country. He meets the occasional young person but the trail goes cold. In the next city he encounters militia groups and a reinforced police presence. Children are forbidden to be on the streets unless accompanied by adults. The world has changed...

Эсма, мать-одиночка, живет со своей двенадцатилетней дочерью Сарой в районе Сараево, который называется Грабавица. Жизнь здесь все еще восстанавливается после югославских войн 1990-х годов. Едва сводя концы с концами на нищенское пособие от правительства, Эсма устраивается официанткой в ночной клуб. Ей трудно работать по ночам, и она страдает, что вынуждена проводить мало времени с дочерью. Эсма не может забыть об ужасных событиях прошлого и начинает посещать занятия по групповой терапии в местном Женском Центре. Сара, зловредная девчонка-сорванец, забывает о любимом развлечении, футболе, когда начинает дружить с Самиром, который учится в ее классе.

A young refugee struggles with learning the German language while being existentially at the mercy of the bureaucratic system. Receiving an overwhelming amount of letters from the authorities triggers fears and war memories in him. Reality and imagination blur, raising the question of what is still "real" and what is "fictional" in his everyday life.