GDR, August 1989: Hanna and Andreas became a target of the secret police and had to give up their plans for their future studies and desired professions. Instead, they face arbitrariness, mistrust and reprisals. Their only chance for a self-determined life lies in fleeing across the Baltic Sea. Fifty kilometres of water separate them from freedom - and only a thin connecting rope around their wrists saves them from absolute loneliness.
When mobile nurse Esma finds one of her patients dead, the strictly timed schedule of her day is thrown off balance. Between professional ethics and family obligations, she is faced with a difficult decision.
After shooting stuffed animals into pieces YouTubers and wanna-be-hunters Mike and Herman cross path with their opportunity of becoming big game hunters: An ice bear and rabbit on a date.
A grotesque on beastly humans and human beasts in the age of the internet.
“Those freaking 33 percent, where were they?” Lovis asks herself as she discovers a clearly right radical slogan on the regional train. She starts counting: “One, two, Nazi. One, two, Nazi.” In anger, she exits the train at the next stop. Stranded on the platform, she is confronted with the question: What now?
In 1975 the Mannheim housing complex Collini Center was build as an utopia for social coresidence. In 2020 the building and its 1200 residents have become a gated community, threatened by demolition. Social isolation, islamophobia and loss of cultural meeting places - an artistic examination of prepandemic Germany in 2020.
Emil is unable to cry. Lively moments of joy and sadness do not occur to him. But as even the disgruntled neighbor sheds a tear in the cinema, he decides to finally learn how to do it. He braces himself against an icy storm and gets into a nasty fight with his girlfriend Ida. But no matter what he does - crying just won’t work for him. Only when he starts to talk to his father whom he meets with every week to eat cake in his car, he gets overwhelmed by his emotions.
