Woyzeck

Woyzeck

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some...

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The White Ribbon

The White Ribbon

An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the...

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Heart of Glass

Heart of Glass

A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the...

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The Bone Man

The Bone Man

Set in a sleepy Austrian mountain village, ex-detective Simon Brenner has grown weary of his job repossessing cars and embarks on an extended...

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Wintersleepers

Wintersleepers

Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local...

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Code Unknown

Code Unknown

A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris...

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A Year Ago in Winter

A Year Ago in Winter

A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a commissioned work.

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Exit Marrakech

Exit Marrakech

When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a...

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Deadly Maria

Deadly Maria

40-year Maria is living in a monotonous and deadlocked marriage with her husband. In addition, she has to take care of her ill despotic father. One...

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A Birthday to Remember

A Birthday to Remember

Lene Thurner is standing on a train platform in Munich. She has to decide: back to Berlin where she lives, or toward the south, where at the foot...

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The Farewell

The Farewell

A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home...

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Don't Look at Me That Way

Don't Look at Me That Way

Hedi is the new neighbor of Iva, who raises her daughter Sofia by herself. The two women start a relationship and Iva is desperately in love with...

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Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation

Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation

Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.

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Daughters

Daughters

Martha and Betty have known each other for twenty years and they have decided to breakthrough. But while Martha realizes that her father has only...

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Hamlet_X

Hamlet_X

A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story.

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Zwei Herren im Anzug

Zwei Herren im Anzug

In the Bavaria of the 1980s, a father and his son compare their respective views on a family past heavy with resentment and unsaid.

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Landauer

Landauer

The story of former Bayern Munich president Kurt Landauer, a Bavarian jew ousted by the National Socialists and brought to the concentration camp...

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Merkel: Anatomy of a Crisis

Merkel: Anatomy of a Crisis

Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country - some praised the moral stance, others criticized the...

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The Architect

The Architect

Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuring every completed building against the...

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Ohne einander

Ohne einander