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Over one year, filmmakers Marcus Vetter and Stefan Tolz follow eBay users - from a Saxon town and a Scottish isle to a Mexican desert village - as they chase their “eBay Dream.” Through personal stories and a global economic narrative, the documentary examines how the world’s largest online auction house promises a 24/7 market, turns local flea-market culture into big business, and tests the ideal that everyone can win.

A world, as spotless, bleak and cold as its uniform design is not a good place for a dreamer like Lutz. With as much courage as desperation, relying only on his skills and imagination, he faces a terrible fate and fights for his personal happy end.

For Jack there is only violence, death and drugs… Nobody knows about his twisted and perverted mind except his explicit diary… But soon a lot of people will learn the truth about Jack!

Horror short by Christian Jürs.

Living holograms, called Hollies, are helped by their human finders to get home.

In a successful mixture of wit and situational comedy "With all my heart" tells of the clash of two people who could hardly be more different - and therefore find each other. Gudrun Landgrebe and Christian Kohlund play the unequaled dream couple, Berno Kürten has staged the smart romantic comedy.

The story of Jewish tenor Joseph Schmidt whose voice touched millions in the early Thirties. When Germany voted Hitler into power, Schmidt had to flee. He died in Switzerland at the age of 38.

Poed Cameron is a 23-year-old punk who is once again released from jail. Just on the loose, he wants to celebrate his release with his 3 friends Oz, Elijah and Dylan. First they get some money, beer and weed and get going. When the mood is almost at its peak, however, they run out of weed and so Poed sets off in his freshly stolen car to get supplies from his regular dealer BIG T. But when the latter takes him to another dealer, Poed is forced to leave. But when he sends him to another dealer, there is a serious accident and the situation begins to escalate.

TV presenter Willi Weitzel travels around the world and tells remarkable stories.

Joe Müller, a single father, is electrified: in front of him stands an outraged woman who insults him badly. Still, he falls in love. As it turns out: not exactly the right one. Tessa, who is in the hospital with her son, is upset because her counterpart does not apologize for the accident caused by his daughter. But then she also finds Joe more than just nice. When Joe finds out that the magical Tessa is the new, ambitious CEO of the architectural firm "Planfactory", who has given him notice without even knowing him, he plans a revenge campaign.

In Eberswalde, Germany, just outside of Berlin, Karl Szmolinsky is contacted by the North Korean government to send his "German Giants" to Pyong Yang. What happens next is beyond his wildest imagination.

Deputy director Sonja Winter is fighting against the closure of "her" zoo, where she lives with her daughter Hanna. However, city councillor Antonia Grewe is determined to push through her plan. Her right-hand man is, of all people, the architect Mark Fechter, whose eight-year-old son Tom is Hanna's friend. When Hanna learns that her old friend "Schulze" is to be put to sleep as part of the lockdown, she and Tom decide to kidnap the penguin...

Till and Tina are washing the dishes in their flat as something unsuspected happens...

Documentary film.

Johanna, a librarian who was recently abandoned by her partner, has stopped her car at a railroad crossing to end her life. She caught her boyfriend in the act—with her best friend, of all people. Car mechanic Uwe shares Johanna's fate; he has been left by his career-obsessed girlfriend Sabine, who suddenly decided he wasn't good enough for her anymore. At the last second, Uwe manages to intervene and save Johanna, but in doing so, he almost wrecks his Opel Kadett. Johanna is first taken to a mental hospital, where her uncle is already staying. The elderly gentleman is a little crazy, but quite lovable. Convinced that he is a knight from the 13th century, he wants to do everything he can to reunite with Johanna's deceased mother Anneliese. He is firmly convinced that he can do this if he finds the time hole that opens every seven years on the Großglockner.

Short film by Benjamin Eicher

Law student Ben has only ever received a monthly check from his father. So he moves in with him - and discovers the unexpected: grumpy loner Alexander Yorck (Heinz Hoenig) has lung cancer, is seeing a very young woman - and turns out to be a professional killer... A bit too much of a good thing. Filius should have left it at a check.

The story (or: the non-story) is focusing on small, unconscious gestures during a moment of non-communication on a train.

A man and his girlfriend wander off from their group of friends into the woods, where the man then kills his girlfriend and proceeds to engage in necrophilia.

Documentary film.

In 1973, two teenagers are illegally transported across the East German border inside a fake cow.

While his wife Linda jets through the world as a pilot, the architect Jan Weber takes care of the son as a full-time houseman. When Jan unexpectedly slips into an affair with the equally successful and attractive businesswoman Sophie Berger, who also makes a comeback in his professional life, Jan faces a difficult decision: Will he continue to stay a houseman or return to work as a "real man"?

A cinematic journey into the music of Udo Lindenberg.

Zimbabweans and their Diaspora. Family live in Zimbabwe is full of myths and speculations about the loved ones living abroad. But what is really happening to those ones far away from home? A close look at the Zimbabwean Diaspora in Germany and their families and friends at home.

A family withdraws from civilization in 1932. Just a little over 70 years later, the descendants of that family come back to civilization. They also happen to be the come back during an outbreak of the living dead. Blood and gore fly everywhere as human and zombie clash. Just when they think they are rid of the zombies, more of them show up.

The Devil moves into his Viagra years, hoping to find the girl to complete his life, in this atmospheric short. He discovers that blind dates, personal ads and video dating are simply pitfalls along a road of good intentions.

Georg Kaltengruber actually wanted to spend a cosy New Year’s Eve at home. But his wife Anneliese startles him with a glorious idea: She wants to re-enact ‘Dinner for One’ in Franconian, put it online, and even charge money for it. And her husband Georg is obviously supposed to participate and play James the butler. But Anneliese can’t remember the original plot quite exactly – and so, chaos is sure to follow.

After her father unexpectedly loses his job, 16 year-old Jessica feels the need to do something - something drastic. Her whole life begins to rearrange itself. The "good life" doesn't seem to matter anymore.

Short film by Till Kleinert.

The single Christine Arnold, who works with great success as a commercial lawyer in a Cologne law firm, is on her way to her old friend Judith, who is going through a very difficult phase of her life: recently she has parted company with her longtime friend Felix. They have a son, Marco, who is very attached to his loving father. Whenever possible, the boy spends time with his dad. However, Judith would like to see that Marco also develops a friendly relationship with her new life partner Georg.

The time has finally come: head physician Dr. Daniel Guth proposes to Miriam and also decides to invest in the Alpenklinik. The couple's happiness seems perfect when dark clouds gather: Impressed by her professional skills, Daniel hires the competent Linda Singer, who has applied for the vacant senior doctor position at the Alpenklinik. But Linda seems to be hiding something. Mayor Rosner, of all people, discovers the new doctor's secret. The scheming businessman gains a welcome ally in Linda for his plans to restructure the Alpenklinik. Shortly before the wedding, Miriam suddenly faints and struggles with death...

A peaceful landscape is engulfed by endless concrete reptiles. Their multi-laned tarmac skins melt into enormous constructions of insanity. When two of these creatures meet, more terror is about to hatch.

With the help of her adversary Marius Perlinger, Barbara Herzog is able to avert the impending sale of the Maibach paper mill. Marius is suddenly prepared to put his demands on hold. In return, he has a vacant inn, which is part of the company's property, signed over to him. Barbara and Marius slowly grow closer, which has a harmonizing effect on the Herzogs' strained family life. But before things get really serious between the lovers, Barbara's world-traveling husband Wolfgang suddenly turns up...

A documentary exploring the aftermath of the Berlin Wall's fall, the film features interviews in English and German with long-time residents and foreign visitors/residents from both sides of the former divide.