Andreas and Martin share all the ups and downs of everyday life, and their son is maturing. A cautious approach to the traces of a long relationship. The love story of two people. Not about how they come together, not a phase they go through, but all of their shared experiences: all the years between the first kiss and today.
A drama with a supernatural edge, this genre-crossing gem finds two couples visiting a home from their past, and sexual tension that brings out the worst in each other. Long-buried grudges resurface and it seems unlikely the couples will return intact. Faced with an outcome that will upset their delicate balance of happiness, the world offers them a bizarre opportunity to correct it.
Stefan has been building his own road-legal racing car for 12 years. Every Friday after work, he drives to his parents' house in Brandenburg to continue working on it in the garage. For him, this car is far more than just a vehicle, but his life's work and obsession. For him, there will never be an end to this work, because he is always trying to improve, optimize and prove that he can push the limits of what is technically possible one step further. David is also looking for a borderline experience. For him, this lies in the thrill of speed and vehicle control. When his rear axle breaks out at 100 km/h on a forest road, he feels alive. He uses the car to test his own limits. He accepts the risks involved. Die Schaltgetriebenen is a film about the power of passion, about the search for meaning and the urge to prove oneself.
Paula, a young supporting character, studies at the Main Character School and dreams on graduating to become a lead.
After 20 years Moni (38) returns home to her sister Silke who has been attacked by a stranger. Moni is willing to do anything possible to find the attacker and to protect her sister. But is that really what Silke (34) wants? And if so, who is actually the one, to be protected? And above all, protect from who? And which role does the offender René (38) play, who doesn't even understand why he did it. A melancholic film that plays with three different perspectives and constantly reinvents itself while searching for answers.
Schmitke is an old German wind turbine engineer. One day, he is dispatched to the Czech side of the Ore Mountains to fix an old squeaking wind turbine. His colleague disappears and mysterious things begin to happen in the forest.
A crew from the U.S. intends to film a war drama at an abandoned sugar factory on the remote outskirts of a German city, making the nearby town, which had been a pool of stagnant water, seem to come to life. The residents are excited, each making their own little plans, until a tank pulls up in front of the mayor's house and a sudden power outage disrupts all plans.
Berlin-Kreuzberg. Kenan's big day has arrived. The nine-year-old half-orphan is to be circumcised, following the millennia-old Muslim tradition. But before that, there is a party! During the party, which Kenan's father Ibrahim organises more for his own father than for his son, Kenan and Ibrahim are confronted with archaic traditions and the question: What does it actually mean to be a man?
It’s after hours in a furniture store, and three young protagonists call for the help of a vaping fairy godmother. But will a supersized bed save the throuple or break them apart?
Chris lives with his buddy Alex at a suburban train station, cared for by his neighbors. A heroin addiction determines his everyday life and it seems impossible for him to free himself from this vicious circle. When he becomes increasingly worse and only just escapes death, he decides that he has to get off the streets and off heroin. But where to? How can a young man find his place in our society, even though he hasn't fitted in - or wanted to fit in - anywhere since childhood?
Accompanies three soldiers that are trying to find a way back to life with the help of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD. Where the conventional medicine is limited, Claudia Swiercek fills the gap with her horses.
16-year-old Nadav is writing an explicit gay erotica and his mother Shari, a Fertility Botanist, is busy working and falling in love with a sexy carrot.
A day in the life of Berlin cab driver Klaus Grill.
Is it a mother's duty to love her child? A mother regrets not only the death but also the birth of her child. As a mother in a small town, Lilith is constantly exposed to the expectations of other people who leave no doubt that motherhood is a wonderful thing. But Lilith cannot change her feelings. The young woman quietly endures her fate, but at the same time asks openly for the first time whether a mother really has to love her child.
In the southern United States, two young women meet by chance in the back of a police car and, without saying a word, experience the injustice hovering above them.
In this hand-painted and drawn animation, a lonely old man fishes his dreams from the moon's reflection. Looking inside them, he faces surreal and devastating nightmares until a spiritual discovery frees him from all illusions.
Helen tries to do everything right, but the customers are not interested in the middle-aged woman in the sausage grill. As the straps cut deeper and deeper, Helen has to break out and from then on she does everything wrong, or right?
In his costal village, Nemo is an outsider. With his diving suit and the huge helmet he looks different than everybody else and won't fit in. But his life is about to change when he meets Laika, an astronaut.
Traffic on the B61 road, which connects Rotterdam to Warsaw and cuts through the German spa town of Bad Oeynhausen, is permanently gridlocked. The promised cure is a bypass whose construction is documented for a period of eight years: the efforts of the mayor, police, fire brigade and construction companies, the delays in the construction of the northern bypass and above all the reactions of the affected residents.
Bodo is standing on the top of a roof and ready to jump, when suddenly his phone is ringing...
