Cinematography: Bernhard Keller

Direction Valeska Grisebach

Cast Meinhard Neumann · Reinhardt Wetrek · Waldemar Zang · Detlef Schaich

Plot A group of German construction workers start a tough job at a remote site in the Bulgarian countryside. The foreign land awakens the men's sense of adventure, but they are...

Direction Valeska Grisebach

Cast Andreas Müller · Ilka Welz · Anett Dombusch · Erika Lemke

Plot A small paradise near Berlin with a population of two hundred and a comfortable life, enjoyable and simple. Markus and his wife live there, they have been together forever, they...

Direction Julian Pölsler

Cast Martina Gedeck · Karlheinz Hackl · Ulrike Beimpold · Wolfgang Maria Bauer

Plot A woman joins a couple that runs a refuge at the top of a mountain. At night, they head over to a pub located in a nearby valley. The following...

Direction Barbara Albert

Cast Georg Friedrich · Gabriela Hegedüs · Birgit Minichmayr · Ursula Strauss

Plot In a small town, a popular local schoolteacher passes away. Five of his former students who are now grown up come back home for the funeral, the first time the...

Direction Maren Ade

Cast Birgit Minichmayr · Lars Eidinger · Hans-Jochen Wagner · Nicole Marischka

Plot This film tells the story of Gitti and Chris, an odd couple who are battling their way through a holiday of secluded togetherness. It is an intimate portrait of two...

Direction Michael Koch

Cast Margarita Breitkreiz · Georg Friedrich · Olga Dinnikova · Sahin Eryilmaz

Plot Marija, a young Ukranian woman, earns a living as a cleaning woman in a hotel in Dortmund, but dreams of having her own hairstyling salon, and puts away some money...

Direction Ruth Mader

Cast Aleksandra Justa · Gottfried Breitfub · Martin Brambach · Margit Wrobel

Plot Struggle is set in contemporary Austria close to the border between East and West and hence between wealth and poverty. Ewa, a young Polish woman, hustles from one job to...

Direction Christoph Hochhäusler

Cast Robert Hunger-Bühler · Nicolette Krebitz · Mark Waschke · Wolfgang Böck

Plot A man and a woman at an art exhibition share a fleeting moment of attraction, which neither can act upon. Days later, a chance second meeting leads to an innocent...

Direction Christoph Hochhäusler

Cast Constantin von Jascheroff · Manfred Zapatka · Victoria Trauttmansdorff · Nora von Waldstätten

Plot Armin Steeb is adrift: just finished with school, living with his middle-class parents, clueless about finding work. He tries connecting with a girl, he engages in risky sex with strangers...

Direction Henri Steinmetz

Cast Franz Rogowski · Maresi Riegner · Jonas Dassler · Emanuel Schiller

Plot The lives of Tubbie, Tim, Jojo, Birdie, and Marie took an unexpected twist, as if their summer vacation never ended. The five youths are a tightknit group of friends, wandering...

Direction Franz Müller

Cast Mehdi Nebbou · Simon Licht · Alexander Hörbe · Susan Swanton

Plot H.C.’s wife has left him. He’s distraught, mid-forties, and has been left with nothing… apart from a little extra weight and his two boyhood friends Wolfgang and Nic. Wolfgang, sensitive...

Direction Christina Ebelt

Cast Franziska Hartmann · Slavko Popadic · Martina Eitner-Acheampong · Antje Lewald

Plot Sandra, a young mother-to-be, fights to have her child stay with her after birth while she serves a prison sentence for aggravated assault.

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 Felix Hassenfratz

Cast Maria-Victoria Dragus · Anna Bachmann · Clemens Schick · Enno Trebs

Plot 18-year-old Maria lives with her younger sister Hannah and their father Johann in a small village in the southern German province. Since their mother died many years ago, she feels...

Direction Jan Bonny

Cast Matthias Brandt · Victoria Trauttmansdorff · Wotan Wilke Möhring · Susanne Bormann

Plot The Hoffmanns are a forty-odd-year old couple living in Essen. Their two children are students. They live in an apartment that they have been able to buy thanks to the...

Direction Nana Neul

Cast Josef Bierbichler · Giorgio Colangeli · Andreas Konstantinou · Alexandra Maria Lara

Plot Best friends Betty and Martha set off for Switzerland with a dying father on the backseat, who has but one wish: accompanied suicide in a special institute. It’s to be...

Direction Stanislav Güntner

Cast Mark Filatov · Emilia Schüle · Àlex Brendemühl · Kai Michael Müller

Plot A young Russian-German, torn between love and his criminal past, is struggling to make a new beginning in Berlin.

Direction Valeska Grisebach

Cast Nicole Gläser · Monique Gläser · Jeanine Gläser · Christopher Schöps

Plot Nicole is fourteen years old and she is in love for Christopher, one of the celebrities of the neighborhood. They attempt to realize the ideas of love they have formed...