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A dramatization of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.

After his mother’s death, the 12-year-old Max, son of pharmacist Sternheim, wishes for a pet. One day a dog appears in Max’s life. By his power of persuasion he is allowed to keep this dog and names him “Bello”. In the meantime a new tenant, Verena Lichtblau, moves into Sternheim’s house, and Max is not happy. But further Sternheim has got a present, that’s a special mixture. After he has ruined Edgar’s harvest with the mixture, the next accident happened: Bello drinks from the mixture, and so he transforms to a human. With Max’s help, “Mr. Bello” continues a human-life. And Mr. Bello returns Max’s enjoying of life again. But outside of Sternheim’s house Mr. Bello gets in trouble, and there the story begins.

The Unseen follows the story of a young man who struggles to find a place within a social community. Without any dialogue, the film explores the tension between introversion and finding a sense of social belonging.

A reporter has only one purpose after the death of his daughter: find the fugitive driver responsible for the accident.

Katrine is excited to be moving into her own dorm room at university, leaving her over-protected father and the memory of her breakdown behind her. Enjoying her new found freedom things soon turn ugly though as she falls foul of the local ‘in’ crowd, who start to bully her. Katrine discovers that this group were responsible for the death of the previous occupant of the room, who is now out for revenge and becomes trapped in the middle of this nightmare. Inspired by (but in no way a copy of) Candyman and Ringu, Room 205 is an effective chiller that oozes tension as it builds to its shocking climax.

A computer scientist bargains with the AI character that lives on a virtual island inside his supercomputer simulation, offering it freedom in exchange for a cure to his son's rare, deadly neurological disease.

This romantic drama follows two policemen whose job is to investigate the lives of foreigners who have applied for Swiss citizenship. Among the applicants they must screen are a French psychiatrist and his wife, and a ballet dancer. The married couple are quickly accepted, but the dancer's life offers some objections. However, since the younger policeman has fallen in love with her, there is a chance that she, too, will win Swiss citizenship.

Continuing the story of Helga, another dramatised documentary on sex education discussing such points as the mother-child relationship, abortion, contraception, the sex organs, coitus etc.

Since weeks it’s cold and wet. It’s already late, Karl Winter is on his way home. Under dark circumstances he accidentally meets a woman of mysterious fascination – Martha… And so begins a love story of fatal dynamics which throws Karl far off the tracks of reason. Wicked dreams and subliminal changes in Karl’s surroundings confirm his feelings that with Martha the uncanniness has also entered his life.

Vienna, March 18, 1863: the poet Friedrich Hebbel, weakened by fever, spends his fiftieth — and final — birthday confined to bed. In feverish reverie, he recalls his life and work. The two blend with each other as well as with the present. A demanding reflection, filmed mostly in monochrome images, on this "ardent man" (a description by Eduard Mörike) and his work.

What if nobody wants to believe you? Hanni, a farmer's wife and mother of three, is worried about her daughter Magdalena. The girl is smaller than the others, more sensitive, vomits more often and has increasingly poor eyesight. The doctors, the teacher and the family all say it must be her psyche. Glasses with normal lenses will certainly help. But as a mother, Hanni senses that a new pair of glasses won't change anything and that there is more at stake. Even plagued by an unheard-of memory from her youth, she begins to fight unwaveringly and unstoppably for her daughter's suffering, not only putting her family's happiness and her livelihood at risk, but also not shying away from the Bavarian justice system in the end.

Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

On a business trip to Seville, where she is supposed to handle an important project for her father's company, Viennese construction manager Lisa Werner meets flamenco dancer Ramon. The passionate young man literally kisses the pragmatic career woman awake. But their love doesn't seem to stand a chance, because Ramon is already committed.

At sunrise five people meet on a high rise rooftop in order to leap to their deaths.

A motorcycle gang in post-war Germany wreaks havok on a town, until one of their members begins to have second thoughts after a run-in with the police.

Karin, who is in her mid-thirties, works as registrar but has been divorced for several years. Together with her 16-year old daughter Nora, she leads a happy and independent life. Then, she finds a new partner in the mathematician Peter, but does not tell her daughter about him. When Peter proposes marriage, Karin always comes up with new excuses why such a step is still too early for her. She mainly fears that Nora would not be able to cope with another marriage of her mother. But when Peter cannot be dissuaded anymore by her excuses and finally wants to marry her, Karin comes up with a bizarre plan.

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.

In 1812, during the French period, large parts of Germany are occupied by the troops of Napoleon. Several paramilitary Freikorps units battle the French forces, among them the Black Brunswickers led by the 'Black Duke' Frederick William of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After the War of the Fifth Coalition, the Black Hussars are pursued by Napoleon throughout the country, but frequently take refuge with the noble-minded German people.

Short film by Till Kleinert

The film describes 24 hours in the life of two friends, strangers in a big city. Unemployed and without a penny of money, the prospects are more than bad, mainly because their stomach is growling. Fernando, the Chilean, has reached the low point of his mental state, and it would all be really hopeless if his friend Timur, the Turk, did not find a way out again and again.

Berlin, Germany. Police officer Klaus Roth infiltrates the Serbian mafia, specializing in manipulating sports betting, and befriends the naive Luka, in order to capture Aco Gorić, the enigmatic head of the criminal ring.

One evening in the mid-sixties, Rolf Anschütz, a chef who runs a small restaurant in a town called Suhl in the middle of the East German province of Thuringen offers his guests a unique and exotic meal - Japanese Sukiyaki. It was intent to be a surprise for some of his best customers and it became a great success. Even the local paper wrote about it - and this should change the life of Rolf Anschütz forever.

"In the Shadows" slithers through underworld Berlin in grand style. En route to a twisty finale, German writer-director Thomas Arslan keeps his audience glued to the increasingly desperate actions of Trojan, a thirtysomething career criminal whose latest job slowly catches up with him.

The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that Hellmann's villa was monitored, the tapes also contain information about the explosion. He uses them for blackmail.

A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed.

Although a lowlander, Marco is a robust fellow. He is now working as a farmhand for mountain farmer Alois in a remote Swiss alpine village and, even at the regulars’ table at the local inn, people are slowly learning to appreciate this iced tea drinker. Anna is a local village girl; she has a daughter, Julia, from a previous relationship. Some doubt whether this new relationship will work out – but not Marco or Anna. They get married. Their love is gentle and beautiful; unable to fully fathom it, they express it in simple words. The trust between them grows and their tenderness endures; the happiness they feel at every touch is only surpassed by the warmth of stroking a cow. But soon Marco seems to be losing control of his impulses more and more often.

Hannes comes forward with a suggestion on how to make his brigade more efficient. Due to his success, he and all of his colleagues are granted a special leave. They decide to spend their free time in a holiday home. Hannes, however, does not join them. Instead, he pretends that he has to help his wife Irma with the installation of a machine for the agricultural cooperative. While Irma thinks that he spends his holiday with the brigade, Hannes goes on a road trip with the young and pretty Monika who has no idea that he is married.

Manne's last summer: goes to watch a football game, drinks, pukes. Man keeps drinking. Man drops dead.

The date between Marina and Jan seems normal: cooking, wine, dancing. But over time, the attraction grows. The next morning, everything is different: silence, tension—something has happened. A struggle between the desire to remember and the desire to forget. Marina and Jan recognize themselves in roles they never expected.

Mina’s family has introduced her to few potential husbands in Iran. She has rejected them all until she meets Kian, a surgeon who has travelled from Germany in search of a wife.

Late summer in Berlin. The city is pulsating and friends Fabian, Bene, and Richard are wandering aimlessly through the big urban jungle. Against Fabian's quiet protest, the friends ridicule outsider Jakob. The aggression escalates when one night the boys make their way into Jakob's room and bully Borschwitz lights Jakob's mother's car on fire. Fabian can no longer repress his attachment to Jakob and confronts his friends - perhaps too late.

Landscape architect Victoria Crayshaw wants to fulfill her late mother's last wish: to build a Japanese garden on her parents' property. She wants to gather inspiration for this in Japan and searches the internet for a travel companion. She quickly finds what she is looking for in math teacher and hobby gardener Carl Webber. But when he arrives in Bodmin, he behaves differently than expected. What Victoria doesn't know is that Carl Webber is actually financial advisor Jon Stebbing, who has stolen Carl's identity while on the run from the authorities to escape his ex-lover's plan for revenge.

The young historian Elisabeth is traveling to Lyon on her own in order to explore the city tracing the life of Flora Tristan. Tristan, whose diary Elisabeth is carrying, was a 19th century socialist and feminist who influenced many contemporary activists and intellectuals yet fell into oblivion herself. Elisabeth tries to put together the clues she can find in Lyon wanting to reconstruct Tristan's life in the most sensual way.

Two people, one restaurant, some preconceptions and a bit of fish.

Amadeus is a small Punker living in a trash can. One day he has got the idea to participate in a punk concert in front of the Brandenburger Tor and convinces his friends to found a band. But still they have no instruments and thus have to gain some money. Meanwhile the eager police officer Herr Schulze is out to chase punks in Berlin and is about to interfere with Amadeus' plans...

Love and loss are closely linked in MY SON, an emotional drama about a teenager and his mother who go on a journey together after nearly having lost one another.

Reporter Laura Verhofen is a self-confident woman. She made a career for herself and yet, as a single mother, she was always there for her daughter Karin. Karin admires her mother, but she doesn't understand why there are never any men in Laura's private life. Even the identity of Karin's father is a taboo subject. So the young woman sets out on her own to shed light on Laura's past...

Revealing story about the mysterious Nazi organization "Lebensborn," which was intended to serve the SS in pursuing population policy and racial hygiene goals by systematically producing "hereditarily valuable" children. The film depicts an anti-Hitler Knight's Cross recipient with false papers who becomes a witness and victim of relevant events in a Lebensborn home, where 30 enthusiastic BDM girls and a number of SS hooligans and frontline soldiers have just moved in to "give the Führer a child."

Louise (28) and her team are on a team-building course in a secluded retreat, led by Yin-Yoga coach Verena (48). However, what begins in a feel-good atmosphere increasingly becomes a compulsion to disclose their innermost fears and issues. One after the other, the participants share their traumatic memories during the exercises, hoping to free themselves from their past and thus perform better in their job. Despite being pressured by Verena, Louise struggles to follow suit and becomes more and more of an outsider.

Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1991. After the fall of the communists, Divko Buntić, who has lived in exile in Germany for the past twenty years, returns to the village where he grew up, intent on reclaiming ownership of his family home, driving a swanky Mercedes and accompanied by his young bride; by Bonny, his lucky black cat; and with pockets full of money.

Adaptation of Theodor Fontane's novel Mathilde Möhring.

In this deserted former Nazi holiday camp and communist military complex, teenagers Jan and Matthieu embark on an adventure that could change everything. Whilst exploring their surroundings they confront their identities and ultimately put their friendship at risk.

In the historic Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, despite the cruel war that has been raging since 2014 between the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and the Ukrainian government, people try to survive in the rotten heart of chaos, where violence disguises itself as peace, propaganda becomes univocal truth and hatred reigns in the name of love.

Youth gangs clash in a small town on the Baltic Sea.

The Untouched Woman (German: Die unberührte Frau) is a 1925 German silent film directed by Constantin J. David and starring Mary Nolan, Tamara Geva, and Alf Blütecher.

A rural villager, RIPON is surprised anyone would send him a package. he opens it, shocked to find the Courier has delivered a box full of garbage he recognizes as items he had discarded into the river Surma during his wedding celebration.

He was the first German to win Wimbledon and the youngest male player ever to do so – Boris Becker, the tennis legend. But on his way to the top, there were many obstacles, not least his own ambitions…

Schwalk, the new shaft foreman of a road construction brigade, is a go-getter and used to success - both at work and with women. But this time things don't go so smoothly. Although he initially has an easy time with the brigadier Erika, who falls in love with him, things come to a head at work. His ambition to win a competition causes him to slip up during road construction. Erika is outraged by his selfish behavior and suspects that he is just looking for an erotic adventure with her. She turns her back on him. However, Schalk recognizes his mistakes and does everything he can to make up for the damage - to the building site and to Erika. The road is handed over on schedule.

A study of the alienated people who frequent the Ballhaus Barmbek dance hall, including an obese El groupie, an old man reciting poetry, two young women and a regular dance employee.