Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm – Liebe, D Mark und Tod

In Cem Kaya’s documentary essay, which tells the story of their 60-year musical culture in Germany, migrant workers don’t remain the mere footnote in the supposed success story of the German economic miracle which they are so often reduced to. Instead, the film makes their experiences, desires, and their anger at their circumstances vividly audible and visible against the backdrop of German contemporary history.

Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm – Liebe, D Mark und Tod

In Cem Kaya’s documentary essay, which tells the story of their 60-year musical culture in Germany, migrant workers don’t remain the mere footnote in the supposed success story of the German economic miracle which they are so often reduced to. Instead, the film makes their experiences, desires, and their anger at their circumstances vividly audible and visible against the backdrop of German contemporary history.

Komm mit mir in das Cinema – Die Gregors

Life without cinema is possible, but pointless. True to this motto, Erika and Ulrich Gregor have travelled all over the world since 1957 to find unusual films and bring them to Berlin. In the associative montage "Komm mit mir in das Cinema", film history, German contemporary history are combined with the life of the Gregor’s today, and thus paint a vivid picture of the film culture of the last 70 years.

AEIOU - Das schnelle Alphabet der Liebe

The glory days as an actress are over for 60-year-old Anna. She lives alone, but has a good friend and confidant in her neighbor Michel. Anna reluctantly accepts a job as a language coach for 17-year-old Adrian. In the student she recognizes the young man who recently stole her handbag on the street. Irresistible - this word describes the light-footed and humorous story of an impossible love between two very different people.

Zum Tod meiner Mutter

Kerstin is terminally ill. She decides to stop eating to end her suffering. Her daughter Juliane is supporting her in this. Very slowly, she says goodbye, in silence by her mother’s side at a care home. She wants to help her but knows that she cannot take the death her mother yearns for from her. Days turn into weeks.

L’état et moi

Judge Praetorius-Camusot falters in her juridical routines when an exhibit awakens from a 150-year slumber during the celebrations of German-French relationships: composer Hans List from the Paris community looks just like her, resulting in a slapstick chain reaction. The ZEIT named the film as one of the best ten works of this year’s Berlinale.

Axiom

The eloquent museum attendant Julius is popular with everyone. When he invites his colleagues to a sailing trip on his aristocratic family’s boat, an exciting getaway seems in store. But things turn out differently: shortly before the trip begins, Julius suffers an epileptic seizure and ends up in the hospital. His mother shows concern, but less for his health than for the absurd family history. Is it a mere misunderstanding, as Julius says, or is he not who he claims to be?

Blutsauger

In August 1928, Soviet factory worker Ljowuschka is cast to portray Trotzky in director Sergei Eisenstein’s film "Oktober". But his dreams of a life as an artist are shattered when the real Trotzky falls out of favour with Stalin and he is cut from the film. Henceforth, the romantic dreamer wants to try his luck in Hollywood. Too bad that right now he's falling in love with an eccentric millionaire who also has bloodsuckers in tow.

Alle reden übers Wetter

Clara is 39 years old and doing a PhD in philosophy in Berlin. She has mastered the art of rhetoric, conducts research into Hegel and spends what little time remains with her patient teenage daughter Emma and her secret affair with one of her students. When Clara and her daughter travel to the Mecklenburg provinces for her mother's birthday, she finds herself in her past for a short time. What is it like going back to the place of your childhood?

Schweigend steht der Wald

Not quite by coincidence, the talented forestry intern Anja ends up in the Upper Palatinate Forest, the place where her father disappeared without a trace 20 years ago in unexplained circumstances. Immediately after her arrival, a gruesome murder happens in the nearby village. Anja suspects a connection between this crime and her father’s disappearance and begins an investigation into her family’s past. When she discovers an anomaly in the soil while collecting soil samples, the well-kept history of the village starts to unravel.

Blutsauger

In August 1928, Soviet factory worker Ljowuschka is cast to portray Trotzky in director Sergei Eisenstein’s film "Oktober". But his dreams of a life as an artist are shattered when the real Trotzky falls out of favour with Stalin and he is cut from the film. Henceforth, the romantic dreamer wants to try his luck in Hollywood. Too bad that right now he's falling in love with an eccentric millionaire who also has bloodsuckers in tow.

Blutsauger

In August 1928, Soviet factory worker Ljowuschka is cast to portray Trotzky in director Sergei Eisenstein’s film "Oktober". But his dreams of a life as an artist are shattered when the real Trotzky falls out of favour with Stalin and he is cut from the film. Henceforth, the romantic dreamer wants to try his luck in Hollywood. Too bad that right now he's falling in love with an eccentric millionaire who also has bloodsuckers in tow.