Cinematography: Patrick Orth

Direction Maren Ade

Cast Peter Simonischek · Sandra Hüller · Lucy Russell · Trystan Pütter

Plot Winfried doesn't see much of his working daughter Ines. He pays her a surprise visit in Bucharest, where she's busy as a corporate strategist. The geographical change doesn't help them...

Direction Haifaa Al-Mansour

Cast Mila Al Zahrani · Nora Al Awadh · Dae Al Hilali · Khalid Abdulraheem

Plot The film’s Saudi protagonist is frustrated after being turned back at the airport because her travel permission from her male guardian isn’t up to date. She then embarks on an...

Direction Ulrich Köhler

Cast Lennie Burmeister · Devid Striesow · Trine Dyrholm · Nicole Gläser

Plot High summer in a small Germany town. Four self-destructive days in the time life of a young man who falls in love with his brother's girlfriend and deserts from the...

Direction Ulrich Köhler

Cast Pierre Bokma · Jean-Christophe Folly · Jenny Schily · Hippolyte Girardot

Plot Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness programme. His work...

Direction Ulrich Köhler

Cast Hans Löw · Elena Radonicich · Michael Wittenborn · Ruth Bickelhaupt

Plot A bored man suddenly realizes everyone around him has disappeared though he isn't sure what happened. Armin is getting too old for his night life habits and the woman he...

Direction Ulrich Köhler · Henner Winckler

Cast Maj-Britt Klenke · Sebastian Rudolph · Thomas Schubert

Plot Encourage by her father, who hopes to save her from a life in the provinces, Jette is about to spend a year volunteering overseas. But love stands in the way...

Direction Thomas Arslan

Cast Nina Hoss · Marko Mandic · Uwe Bohm · Lars Rudolph

Plot Canada, the summer of 1898. A group of German settlers travel towards the far north in covered wagons with packhorses and their few possessions in tow. The seven travellers set...

Direction Ulrich Köhler

Cast Isabelle Menke · Hans-Jochen Wagner · Amber Bongard · Trystan Pütter

Plot Köhler's second film, Windows on Monday (2005) is, once again, the story of an attempt to escape family life. Nina (Isabelle Menke) for no explicit reason decides to go awol...

Direction Yüksel Yavuz

Cast Cagdas Bozkurt · Necmettin Çobanoglu · Leroy Delmar · Sunay Girisken

Plot Baran, a 17-year-old Kurd refugee from Turkey, struggles to make it in Germany after his govermental protection is refused.

Direction Tom Tykwer · Fatih Akin · Wolfgang Becker · Sylke Enders

Cast Adriana Altaras · Bernhard Baron Boneberg · Josef Bierbichler · Bernd Birkhahn

Plot Thirteen noted German filmmakers offer their impressions of the past, present and future of the land they call home in this anthology. Coordinated by Tom Tykwer, Deutschland 09, 13 kurze...

Direction Ayse Polat

Cast Katja Bürkle · Aybi Era · Max Hemmersdorfer · Muttalip Mujdeci

Plot Mystery and human rights violations, surveillance and paranoia: Ayşe Polat depicts the Kurdish transgenerational trauma of violence from different perspectives. A political thriller set between sinister organisations and existential insecurity.

Direction Mareille Klein

Cast Leni Wesselman · Ulrike Willenbacher · Zbigniew Bielawski

Plot Helga is stuck in her middle-class home, literally: the 62-year-old fell through the floor and is only discovered the next day. But even when she’s no longer trapped, Helga’s stuck...

Direction Stefan Krohmer

Cast Martina Gedeck · Robert Seeliger · Svea Lohde · Peter Davor

Plot At 40, Miriam radiates serene beauty and tranquility, a confidence and self-assurance as vast as the sea close to her summer home. There are no taboos in the polished, urbane...

Direction Jochen Alexander Freydank · Isabell Suba · Carolina Hellsgård · Andreas Herzog

Cast Clemens Schick · Anne Schäfer · Renato Schuch · Sebastian Fritz

Plot With its expert crime squad run by Xavi Bonet and his charming partner Fina Valent, Barcelona can truly be proud of its homicide team: Xavi, independent, impulsive, enigmatic, with a...

Direction Ayse Polat

Cast Maria Kwiatkowsky · Pinar Erincin · Haluk Piyes · Antje Westermann

Plot Alice is 16 years old and an introverted girl with a special ability: she hears extraordinary good. When her mother sends her to a Catholic foster home, she remains an...

Direction Hossein Pourseifi

Cast Zahra Amir Ebrahimi · Reza Brojerdi · Enissa Amani · Katrin Röver

Plot Iran 1979. The true story of a young mother and her Iranian-born husband from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) who move to Iran with their little daughter in the wake...