Juliane Maier

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.

Isn’t the trajectory of a shared life determined in advance? Get married, have kids, be like everyone else… According to Dietrich Brüggemann, who competed in Vary six years ago, 30-somethings conceivably have it all, yet they fail in their attempts to achieve their set ideals. Nö delivers a critique of contemporary values, while also highlighting the struggle to find and nurture love.

1997 год. Американские спецслужбы и их союзники лихорадочно ищут в Ираке бактериологическое оружие, чтобы иметь законный повод развязать войну против Саддама Хусейна. Доктор Вольф, один из лучших экспертов в мире и сотрудник Федеральной разведывательной службы Германии БНД, возвращается из командировки в Ирак ни с чем: доказательств наличия в Ираке биооружия нет.

Peter and Lisbeth are two young but unfortunate lovers living in a rigid rural community in the Black Forest. She comes from a wealthy family of glassblowers; he is a poor coal worker on the lower end of society. To become rich and respected, Peter makes a pact with a devil named Dutch Michael, who rips out his heart and replaces it with a stone. Robbed of all warmth and feeling, Peter becomes a cold-hearted go-getter who rapidly achieves his goals. Ruthlessly he strives for money and power.

Öllers and Niederländer have everything under control. For the past six years, the two successful business consultants have been traveling through some of the seediest countries around the world in order to satisfy their clients greed. They have achieved almost everything, but there is one career move left: to finally become a partner in the company! When they find out that their team colleague Hellinger made the cut, they are at their wits end. Up or Out is the name of the game. The fact that Hellinger falls from an office window for no explainable reason doesnt seem to help the situation. Of all people, the young and ambitious Bianca steps in for Hellinger. Öllers and Niederländer are irritated, sarcasm spreads, neuroses break out. The fight for survival within the company takes its toll the AGE OF CANNIBALS dawns.

Двадцатилетний албанец Арбен хочет жениться на своей беременной подруге, но у молодых людей совсем нет денег. В поисках заработка Арбен покидает родину и отправляется в Германию. Но немецкая земля встречает его недружелюбно: никто не хочет брать на работу нелегального эмигранта, Арбен повсюду вынужден сталкиваться с дискриминацией и нетерпимостью. Но когда Арбен, наконец, возвращается в Албанию, его ждет еще более сильное разочарование – невеста, родившая в его отсутствие ребенка, вынуждена была убежать из дома, так как ее родители не захотели признать внука, рожденного вне брака. Несмотря на все мольбы Арбена, девушка не может простить ему, что он бросил ее в трудный момент.

An eleven-year-old Turkish boy, two young men from a small town, and a cuckolded policeman from the sticks all find their way to Berlin on May Day, where, in the district of Kreuzberg, emotions come to the boil every year.