THIS IS LOVE

Chris (Jens Albinus) and little Jenjira (Lisa Nguyen) are running away from the mafia. Together with Holger (Jürgen Vogel), Chris got the 9 year old Vietnamese from human traffikers without being able to pay for her. Maggie (Corinna Harfouch) is a withdrawn police inspector prone to alcohol who finds out why her husband left her without a word after 16 years. The two meet when Chris is accused of murder. In countless interrogations, the two get to know each other better and confess their hidden fears and dangerous desires to each other …

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DAYS TO COME

Laura Kuper’s life story is told before the backdrop of an instable world at the beginning of the 21st century. Her biography and the story of her family take the audience through the near future of the next decade into a utopia of our planet in twenty years.

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STILL

The last days of World War II. During a raid on a farm house by enemy soldiers, a handful of children hide out in a deserted shed. Since a single cough would endanger the entire group, this highly sensitive moment brings the children to their limits.
Threatened by the danger from outside, they communicate only with looks and gestures but the noise caused by the soldiers and the villagers induce feelings and reactions of panic.

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Gnade

Maria and Niels have decided to pack up and leave Germany to start a new life in Norway.
A few months later, Maria commits a hit and run accident. Her guilt heavily challenges the families’ philosophy of life. At the same time, the tired relationship is enlivened by the secret they now share.
What role does “evil“play in our happiness?

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WOLFSKINDER
("WOLF CHILDREN")

Today, nine million children are refugees worldwide. They are the innocent victims of wars and displacement. Many of these children lose their homes and parents. One such generation are the so called "WOLFSKINDER" who needed to fight for survival by themselves in the turmoil of WWII all around the Baltic States and in East Prussia. This project tells their story. "WOLFSKINDER" is the story of a boy who, driven by the search for his lost brother, joins a group of children in order to survive the chaos of post-war anarchy in the haunted forests of Lithuania.

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SCHWESTERN
("SISTERS")

"SCHWESTERN" is the story of a few days in the life of three sisters. Linda is suffering from a heart disease since birth and is regularly subjected to intense operations. It is highly unusual that she has reached the age she’s at. Had this strong woman not been stopped by her frail body all of her life, she surely would have chosen a different path of life than the one behind her.
This will be a film that will be told with lightness, humour and beauty in spite of the sadness brought upon by the certainty of the approaching farewell. Although Linda’s disease has influenced all of their lives strongly, it is still the story of three sisters who escape their everyday lives in order to open up to one another completely.

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DENN WIR SIND ANDERS
("BECAUSE WE ARE DIFFERENT")

This is the story of an unusual family. Arnold, his wife Jeanette, their daughter Paula and her son Felix Stewart.
Arnold’s relationship with Germany begins as early as 1936. To protect his Jewish friends, he fights Bur Nazis on the streets of Johannesburg. Racism spreads through the country. After meeting Nelson Mandela, young Arnold decides to dedicate his “white life” to the black cause.
Many years later in the GDR, Paula will bring a boy into the world. Felix who is coloured as well.
Always an outsider, he has never known anything but the struggle. The relationship to his mother is volatile. Paula does not feel home in the GDR. And “love” is something that has always been a difficult subject in this family.

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SOME DEAD BODIES

In the future a fault running through the planet leads to a slow takeover by people from a parallel world. Space and time change and slowly but surely humanity forgets how to tell past, present and future apart. New diseases can no longer be healed and the feeling of the approaching apocalypse spreads. This is the atmosphere in which DJ Loyd grows to be the hero of those in the underground willing to play with the fire one last time. If life turns worthless, then one can waste it.
A melancholic science fiction thriller about the feeling of being lost, the certainty of not being part of this world and about the fact that an end is always a beginning.

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