Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-50 of 801
- A film about two siblings, Emilie and Jakob, about their deep love for each other, as well as their own happiness. Two things that do not always coincide.
- After the loss of her tormented mother, the erratic behavior of a 15th century woman living in an isolated mountain village becomes a threat to the safety of her infant child.
- A sensual and intimate experience about a group of postmodern Berliners, looking for new ways of living, loving and experimenting with sexual fantasies.
- A woman who is trying to balance her career, relationship affair, family life and individual freedom.
- Elena is a student in Minsk, Belarus. She has a passionate but increasingly difficult relationship with her boyfriend Victor. When her father is arrested, she has to continue his illegal business. In order to make deals for him, she repeatedly has to drive into the 'forbidden zone' of Chernobyl. She finds herself attracted by the zone's deceptive beauty - but her life seems more and more contaminated by a destructive force.
- Young doctor Fabian travels to Lisbon to win back his ex-girlfriend Doro. While the two of them are gradually getting closer again they are being haunted by their fears. Fabian's jealousy once again puts their relationship to the test.
- Shy law student Martin falls for his mysterious landlady, who lives next door behind a thin wall. While trying to find out if she's responsible for the disappearance of the previous tenant, Martin experiences the horror of his first love.
- A chance encounter on a street corner has Lisa and Giorgi fall in love at first sight, but an evil spell is cast on them. Will they ever meet again?
- Playful auto-fictional trip from Berlin to Paris.
- A rebellious 17-year-old girl reunites with her physician father, years after he left the family. What initially started off as a healthy bonding process between the two eventually inadvertently turns into uncomfortable sexual attraction.
- Marie, early thirties, gets a wedding proposal from her boyfriend Julian. Overwhelmed, she goes for the honest way: She has to think about it. On the countryside, she tries to clear her mind but is confronted by "thought-people", beings that all seem to have a clear understanding of what's best for Marie. Soon, they don't only question Marie's proposed wedding, but her whole life itself: an army of "thought-journalists" bring up existential and trivial questions alike, Marie's esoteric ex-boyfriend climbs down a tree and wants her to meditate with him, her mother getting started on sex - everybody wants something, but what does she actually want?
- Set in a small German village, a bloody game of cat-and-mouse ensues between a young, straight-shooting police officer and a cross-dressing villain with a large sword and a predilection for beheadings.
- Space pilot Ijon Tichy, travels in his three-room-rocket together with his holographic and/or hallucinogenic colleague Halluzinelle and the ugly dog-like extraterrestrial being Mel. The conflicts between the bad feelings of Halluzinelle about the stubbornness of the space pilot always end up in difficult situations in which it is the mission to find the most irritating solution as possible.
- A girl roams through the city looking for a place to sleep, but between yoga studios, art galleries and the beds of strangers there is no space for her. A post-modern comedy in pink and blue.
- A pupil finds out that Paul McCartney died early and the public had not been informed at all.
- A young couple in love: Rebecca (32) and her boyfriend Julian (34) are expecting their first child and are full of pleasant expectation. As Rebecca gives birth to a healthy boy their luck seems to be perfect. But instead of the unconditional motherly love she was expecting she is thrown into an emotional turmoil. Helplessness and desperation reign and her own baby is a stranger to her. With every day that passes her inability to meet the demands of motherhood become more and more apparent. Unable to admit this to anyone, not even Julian, she falls into a deep darkness - to the point that she realises she is becoming a threat to her child. Now only unconditional love can bring her back on track...
- Karo is 28, freshly separated from her boyfriend and, like every year, she is going on holiday with her mother Michaela. They travel to the Baltic Sea, and what starts as an annual trip soon turns out to be a journey into the past of two women who couldn't be more different.
- In a decaying forest on the Yugoslav-Italian border in the years after World War II, a stingy, old carpenter and a lonely, young chestnut seller share imaginative memories of the past as they weigh fateful decisions for the future, in this touching homage to a lost way of life.
- Come & Play is a film about the memory of a place. Time does not disappear and the past does not go away. Everything coexists in one moment.
- Lenz is a Kreuzberg layabout: funny, charming, imaginative, and incapable of making decisions. When he and Ira become a couple, the two spend a carefree summer together - until Ira makes it clear to Lenz that she wants a baby. She is approaching 40, after all. The thought of having a child frightens Lenz. He runs away and goes back to his old life: sleeping in, partying, and smoking in the kitchen with his friend Kenn. Lenz does miss Ira, though, and when the two happen to meet again, they share a night of passion - and Ira becomes pregnant. This is a romantic comedy full of dry humor and wonderfully surreal ideas.
- December 1999. I remember that, amidst the Millennium Bug anxiety, I went to the birthday of Enrico, a kid who lived with his family in an old and isolated farmhouse.
- On the stage of her high school drama class 17-year-old Sarah gives it all. When she performs, there is an instant of suspense in which she appears to transform completely into her character. But what lies behind Sarah's radical stage presence? A dark secret she is trying to express, a claustrophobic family environment, the longing for a boyfriend, a friend, someone she can confide in. The more Sarah expresses this desire, the more she ends up alienating the people willing to get close to her. The downfall of an outsider and her incessant struggle to escape solitude.
- For many, the Alterlaa residential park remains the manifestation of a residential utopia. In the stories of the residents, the filmmaker traces her own memories and thus creates a playful portrait of the here and now.
- Andrea, a woman without a past, is the object of both Philipp's and his son's desire. A love triangle filled with expectations, longing and fears leaves open the speculation of who knows what about whom.
- In a Germany in the not too distant future, queer people have become even more marginalized and under threat. On the last day of winter, Omar is released from prison and, unannounced, visits Ava.
- When a young bacteriologist witnesses a car accident, she becomes entangled in the life of the deceased, which triggers the suppressed loss of her unborn child.
- Is it possible to think of nothing? The absence of expression on Fausto's face as he stands in front of his machine in the factory tells us that it is. When Ivan asks him the same thing it turns out that a thought has crept into his head: an extreme thought, dark, beyond human standards. It is this violent thought that is the origin of the encounter between Fausto and Ivan. In a remote valley eaten away by industrial towns, they are confronted with the impossibility of escape from their everyday existence.
- When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the consequences of the German re-unification.
- Sal has the war within him. And he doesn't want anyone to touch his face. He sometimes does dirty and risky jobs for his boss. When he meets the charismatic Sasha, he screws up an important coup and gets a taste of his boss's disturbing violence. Sal goes into hiding. For Sasha's sake, he gets involved in a heady tour de force with her friends Andy and Lucy, which causes Sal to undergo an incredible metamorphosis. Together they get lost in a labyrinth of drugs, sex, fears, violence and disorientation. Delicate and cruel, real and surreal, terrifying and strangely funny, love must be reinvented, real life lies elsewhere. But when his boss's henchmen track down the four, defenseless, at an old farmhouse, a massacre is imminent. Drug mule Sal has war within him. When he meets the charismatic Sasha, his life goes off the rails and he screws up an important coup. Together they escape and Sal undergoes an amazing metamorphosis.
- A family in a house, and a chain of events that take place, on an ordinary evening that they plan to have dinner with relatives.
- Edgar, a convicted serial killer, is told by the female prison doctor that he will die of a brain tumor within days. Holding her hostage he manages to escape intending to quietly enjoy his freedom for the time left, but word spreads among the witnesses and survivors of his crimes. They all arm themselves, desperately seeking revenge.
- Jens and Milena are young and looking for the right path for their love. The classical model of marriage and fidelity seem obsolete to them. The families they observe around them are all sad: Milena's brother has given up his family; Jens' father was cheated for years by his wife. So they do not want to be like them.
- On a plane island where a cold wind blows over the paltry landscape and a few mighty concrete buildings rise into the sky, lies the work-colony #191286. Piwonka is a migrant workers who are forced to work here.
- A bourgeois dog and former filmmaker confesses how he became four-legged by failing in love, apple-picking and revolution. A political comedy with magic twists.
- Thomas Müller is spotted by a marketing agency for his exceptional normality.
- Real estate agent Christian travels the countryside scouting for investment prospects. In a forgotten, seemingly abandoned village far off the main roads, he finds more than he is looking for. Getting entangled in an encounter with a taciturn teenage farmhand, he confronts his sexual frustrations and, in the process, gets drawn into the undergrowth of a bloodthirsty rustic community.
- Follows four teenagers over the course of two years as they grow up deep in the southern African mountain kingdom of Lesotho. Very little happens in the village of Ha Sekake, but from their perspective, a lot is at stake.
- 'Dreissig' (German for 'thirty') portrays 24 hours in the life of five Berlin friends nearing thirty, all more or less suffering from a quarterlife crisis while celebrating the birthday of one of them.
- When a photo model gets replaced by a batch of new younger prettier girls, her life of riches melts in front of her eyes and she's forced to live like a homeless person in a parking lot of a high class hotel she once lived in.
- Layla, a young 17 year old school girl, is just like any other. She's bright, comfortable with her body and surroundings but like most girls her age, she does not know what to do with her life, or even boys for that matter. When Layla becomes pregnant her parents refuse the option of an abortion, thus resulting in her keeping the baby. How will this impact Layla and those around her?
- Tim is about to graduate from high school. He goes to parties with friends, takes exams, and has his first date with a classmate. At night, he makes videos of himself displaying his masculinity, declaring his hatred of women, and announcing his plan to go on a killing spree on the last day of school. But the closer his self-proclaimed "Judgment Day" comes, the harder it is for him to live up to his archetypal ideal of masculinity.
- The story of a seemingly settled bank employee who breaks the shackles of his everyday life and becomes a wanderer between worlds. Frederik is an up-and-coming young bank employee who lives an ordinary life. When a bank customer, whom Frederik has denied a loan in the face of the bank crisis, shoots himself in front of Frederik, he snaps. Together with ex-con Vince,he begins to live out a new, dark side of himself. He robs his rich bank customers' homes and gives the money to the needy. The initial rush of crossing social boundaries soon develops into an addiction to ever greater thrills.
- A diner in the midst of the port that is nearly empty. Violeta, the owner, longs for a life that might have been. Maria, a radical passivist who lacks any drive or ambition, is the person she employs.
- Nico enjoys the summer in Berlin with her best friend Rosa until a racist attack pulls her out of her carefree everyday life. Traumatized by the crime, the geriatric nurse decides never to be a victim again and begins to train with a karate world champion.
- A day and a night in Berlin: Karma drives an electric wheelchair, a flat share audition ends in a squat, a chef and an escaped dog become kings, everyone is looking for a father-to-be and a rabbit gets a nerd to finally be his neighbors get to know. Do Berlin taxis actually go to the Eiffel Tower? And who is the Queen of Berlin? In 15 bizarre encounters, "Notes of Berlin" tells the affectionate story of Berlin characters who are otherwise easy to overlook. Somewhere between club nights and housing shortages, between fleeing pets and finding a father, the film shows everyday madness and nocturnal encounters. A declaration of love for Berlin, because: "The heart of the city beats on the street". Based on Joab Nist's blog of the same name, each episode is inspired by an actual note found on the streets of Berlin and published on www.notesofberlin.com.
- Sasha, crazy, sexy, alcoholic, 23, meets Alex crazy, sexy, alcoholic, 60. What starts as a fast-pace game ends in a trip of self-hatred and despair.
- Over one wild Cologne night, three women in search of the perfect partner and perfect life discover that a little bit of magic changes everything.
- Andy is walking around the town on a very hot summer day. Yesterday he witnessed the drowning of a girl, and gave the police a statement. Today he has to talk to the girl's father - but at least it will break the monotony.
- This documentary chronicles the ups and downs of a German family in the 1970s, but in an unorthodox manner. Footage from several years prior serves as a point of comparison to the family's current tumultuous state.