Anna is persuaded by her boyfriend Paul to move from Berlin to his home town of Imma. What the notorious soccer hater doesn't know, however, is that joining his best friend Steffen's law firm is just a pretext. In reality, Paul and his buddies are there to save the soccer club he co-founded, Eintracht Imma 95, from relegation. Anna soon realizes that the players' wives have nothing to say to their soccer junkies: Artificial turf in the bedroom, Effenberg bedding and weekends on the soccer pitch. When she finds out the real reason for the move, she mobilizes her fellow sufferers to counter-attack after a fierce bout of frustration and challenges Paul and his friends to the ultimate duel on the soccer pitch. The bet is on: women against men. If the women win, soccer is over - and Paul has to go back to Berlin with Anna. Forever. If the men win, there will be no more complaining.
Two Afro-German half-sisters that never met before, get closer through their father's death, search their roots and find themselves.
Sandra and Ulrike have to decide the fate of their mother, who falls into a coma due to a ruptured aneurysm and has to be connected to life support machines.
A deadly virus is stolen from the high-security laboratory of a biotechnology company. Although the thief can be found, lifeless and bleeding from the nose and ears, the danger is not over yet: A gang of unscrupulous criminals is also on the hunt for the virus. Super-GAU at Oxenford Medical: A lab technician has stolen a rabbit infected with the deadly Madoba-2 virus from the high-security laboratory near Edinburgh. After the thief's gruesome death by infection, a frantic damage limitation operation begins. Toni Gallo, the head of security at Oxenford, realizes that the theft is only the prelude to an even greater catastrophe, because only a few days later criminals attack the laboratory and steal the virus. When a terrible snowstorm condemns the police to inactivity, Toni takes up the pursuit of the perpetrators alone...
Gerrit Frings is facing ruin at the age of 34. After the end of his company and the suicide of his partner Markus, he is also sued by his widow Sandra. Allegedly, Gerrit owes Markus a lot of money. In reality, however, it was the other way around and his self-denial of his own situation was ultimately the reason for Markus' suicide. Gerrit's wife Claudia supports him in this difficult situation. But Gerrit falls in love with Sandra, of all people.
From an early age, Arnold believes he is an extraterrestrial. Day in, day out, he is busy trying to build a flying machine that will finally take him "home". Protected by his mother Ida and her long-time admirer, the country doctor Emil, he is regarded as a quirky but lovable outsider in his home village.
A fast-paced comedy full of misunderstandings: Norbert Krabbe from pan, unemployed Bürokaufmann and passionate contest participant wins a fjord in Lofoten. But how to get only to Norway - for "Norbert Crab Fjord" including his own cabin - when you're broke and one is already driving poor at S-Bahn? What Norbert lack of money, he makes through original ideas betting: Disguised as a cleaning crew, he makes his way to his daughter by train to Copenhagen, on we go as a hitchhiker and with ill-gotten ship tickets. Many abstruse encounters later, among others with Horst Schlämmer, Uschi Blum and the strong-smelling Norwegians Lars, who predicts the future based on a Dog Quartet, Norbert expects the next surprise at its destination ...
Agnes and Gregor have had a happy marriage for 15 years. No crises, no affairs, no weariness. They looked for each other and found each other, say their friends Conny and Bernhard, who fight a lot and often. If a marriage is harmonious, it is this one. However, when Agnes became socially involved in addition to her job, the distribution of roles in the family, which had worked well for years, was thrown out of balance. The change in their relationship leads Agnes and Gregor into their first major crisis, which neither of them can deal with. They are shocked to find that they are about to lose love.
Der 17-Jährige Gymnasiast Oliver Rother bringt seine Gedanken, Gefühle und Erlebnisse gern in Hip-Hop-Texten zum Ausdruck. Als ihm seine Lehrerin Selma Vollrath eine Sechs für eine Deutscharbeit über "Die Leiden des jungen Werther" gibt, die er im Stil eines Rappers getextet hat, verlässt er enttäuscht und wutentbrannt die Klasse. Dabei verliert er einen Zettel, auf dem er in einem drastischen Song ankündigt, Frau Vollrath töten zu wollen. Aus Angst, einen potenziellen Amokläufer im Haus zu haben, informiert die Schulleitung die Polizei. Als diese bei der Hausdurchsuchung auf Olivers Computer gewalttätige Videos findet und sich der Jugendliche nicht eindeutig von seinen Sprüchen distanziert, nimmt ein ungeahntes Drama seinen Lauf.
The tragic death of the six-year-old Tine joins the fates for three families: The eight-year-old David meets as suspected offender in the psychiatry on the energetic physician Nora, who tries to displace her own problems with his treatment. However, David's mother is increasing overwhelmed with the situation and escapes to her new friend, while the parents of the dead girl desperately try the fate to process.
It's all about the currywurst. In the unequal battle between a family business and a snack bar chain, Frieda, who runs the sausage stand inherited from her father with her three daughters, clearly has the worse cards, as she is nastily tricked by her own brother. Because Walter sneakily outmaneuvers his sister in the competition for catering at the stadium of the traditional club MSV Duisburg...
25 years after graduating from high-school, Alexander, Ole and Paul embark on a journey through Germany to see a show of their favourite band Madness.
Once again, 16-year-old Jonas starts at a new school and, as always, he has no intention of being anybody’s darling. Jonas has muscular dystrophy, is confined to a wheelchair and knows that he will die sooner rather than later from this incurable and progressive disease. His mother Alma, who raises Jonas alone and would rather take a second job than forego therapy for him, is determined to delay his deterioration. She has placed Jonas with Dr. Wildenhahn, an authority on Duchenne disease. The doctor manages to be taken seriously by Jonas, that is until he gets to know Emily, Marianne Wildenhahn's daughter, who goes to his class. Emily has a massively low academic grade, which she hides from her mother because of the doctor’s high standards. Emily falls in love with Jonas, and her sincere affection gives him the courage to love her back. Emily and Jonas become a couple, overcoming all obstacles.
Kindergarten teacher Hannah lovingly creates a calendar of activities for the coming year to get her relationship with her boyfriend Simon back on track. Through a mishap, however, the calendar falls into the hands of misanthropic Jonathan, a wealthy publishing heir who sets out to find the author with growing curiosity. Miraculously, the paths of the two cross from then on, for the time being without knowing of their connection through the calendar.
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
Heddi is a self-confident and battle-hardened coastal fisherwoman. She only has one weak point: her daughter Eva. Eva is an environmental activist and just as militant as her mother. But despite their resemblance, Eva doesn't want to know anything more about Heddi; there has been radio silence between the two for years. But now Eva and her ten-year-old son Jannis turn up unexpectedly in the small Baltic Sea village, ostensibly for a birthday visit to Grandma Lore, where Eva spent most of her childhood. In reality, however, Eva is in big trouble: She has to serve a prison sentence for resisting law enforcement - and a repeat offender at that! - she has to serve a prison sentence. But who will look after her little Jannis while she is away?
On the advice of a doctor, mentally challenged parents Petra and Martin Kaminski apply to the youth welfare office for early intervention for their daughter Lona. However, the helper provided has the effect of depriving them of custody. The parents ask a lawyer to help them. A long journey through the courts begins...
Set in the early '80s, a time when a new wave of leftist political consciousness and activism had swept German youth (and was just about to disappear as quickly as it arrived), this satiric comedy follows a young couple, Ingo (Hans-Jochen Wagner) and Nadja (Valerie Koch), as they travel to Austria for a weekend of skiing near her parent's luxurious chalet. While Ingo and Nadja have an open relationship, he thinks its time that they commit to one another exclusively, and is hoping this weekend will convince her this is a good idea. However, their privacy is interrupted when several guests arrive -- friends of Nadja's brother Knut (Ingo Haeb), a noted political activist, who, unbeknownst to her, has also planned a ski weekend. As the guests await Knut's arrival, they get the unpleasant news that he's been arrested during a demonstration; several propose that they should come to his aid, while the majority decide instead to go skiing as a way to pay tribute to his commitment to the cause.
Survival is not enough. Fariba Tabrizi has made it. Under peril of death she has fled from Iran. In Germany she has no alternative way of avoiding the threat of deportation other than to assume the identity of a deceased co-detainee. So what happens after a few month in which she has tried to come to terms with a situation which is actually an insufferable one for her? How does Fariba live not only in this external state of exile but also in an inner state of exile? The term "in orbit" is officially used by the UN to refer to asylum-seekers who find themselves orbiting around planet Earth because they can actually find legal domicile nowhere at all.
Boris and Jonathan have been a couple for many years. But their relationship has reached a point where they might as well spend their evenings together separately: One lies in bed reading, the other works at a desk in the next room. While actor Boris digs deeper into rehearsals for a new film with an ambitious director and begins to mix real and fictional characters, Jonathan tries to redefine his voice as a writer. Ghosting through these days of wrestling with distance, closeness, trust, desire and fear of loss is Jonathans' young niece Josie, who is trying to deal with the approaching end of her childhood in her own idiosyncratic way. BONES AND NAMES, the feature debut of Fabian Stumm, portrays people searching for their place in life in different ways. A sensitive and humorous reflection on the dissonances in relationships that both connect and distance us from each other.
Tragic love story about a fashion designer who falls in love with a professional gamer after the death of her husband, without realizing that he received her husband's heart as an organ recipient.
Lena and Wolfgang Breuer's baby is snatched from the baby carriage in a moment of inattention. Lena Breuer had only taken her eyes off her baby for a moment - and then he disappeared. Despite a feverish search, little Jakob was never found. Even after twelve years, the parents' wound has not healed, but Wolfgang Breuer has come to terms with it. Lena, on the other hand, is still searching for her son. After countless futile hopes, one day she manages to track him down. He is living, bright and happy, as the son Tim of single mother Carola Weber. Lena wants to take the boy home immediately and hand the kidnapper Carola over to the police. Wolfgang and the lawyer, however, urge caution. Tim should not be disturbed. Reluctantly, Lena agrees to get to know him carefully, although she doesn't trust Carola's consent.
"Goal, goal, goal!" That's too much for Father Finkbeiner. The joy of the German team's victory at the '54 World Cup throws the old man onto his sickbed. He quickly summons his sons to him. "The legacy must be settled." The solution is simple: whoever can produce a wife and child first will inherit the coffin fittings company. Well, out of three sons, only two come into question. Fritz, the eldest, has "something on his head". But while Erwin and Kurt are still fighting bitterly to lose their innocence and win the woman for life, problem child Fritz gives himself over to the consecration of physical love. Even accountant Petra is interested in the dreamer...
Vera and Wolf Küper live in Berlin with their 5-year-old daughter Nina and their one-year-old son Simon. Vera takes care of the children and the household alongside a part-time job, while Wolf works as a scientific advisor to the UN, trying to raise awareness of the seriousness of the coming climate catastrophe. The stressful everyday life in a system that is not exactly family-friendly puts increasing strain on the young family and the couple's relationship. The Küper family's way of life is finally shaken to the core when little Nina is diagnosed with a fine motor and coordination disorder. At this moment, Wolf remembers a wish that his daughter expressed shortly before going to bed. Nina would like to have a million minutes, just for the really nice things.
Sometimes he feels a tugging in his shoulder, sometimes he thinks his kidneys are failing. Two weeks before his marriage to the beautiful Anne, junior architect Stefan seems to have gathered all the diseases in the world. Drawn from the stress of the wedding preparations, the hypochondriac is in top form. When he overhears a phone call from the family doctor, he mistakenly thinks he is a dead man. Now a substitute husband is needed for Anne.
Klarissa, 26 years old, takes intensively care of her mother Waltraud who has a terminal illness. However, Waltraud isn't grateful, but amused because she doesn't want anyone's pity. As she doesn't like Klarissa's boring boyfriend Marius, she -together with her partner Enno- tries to convince her daughter to leave Marius and enjoy her life. Enno also wants to improve the women's relationship, which changes Klarissa's feelings towards him dramatically.
The happily married judge Susanne has been carrying a secret with her for many years. As a 17-year-old, she released her baby for adoption. But a letter now confronts them with the past: Paolo, the Italian father of her girl, has died and has inherited his house in Tuscany to the unknown daughter. Despite better knowledge, Susanne sets out in search of her lost daughter - endangering the happiness of two families.
After years of waiting for her big break, singer Amanda has finally achieved her goal: she is allowed to host a big TV show. Unfortunately, it's Christmas of all times, so she has no time for her ten-year-old son Joshua, whom she wants to send by courier to his father Bernhard, who lives somewhere remote in the mountains. On the way, the courier driver Maurice learns what a valuable cargo Joshua is and, together with the waitress Lizzi, plans to kidnap the little boy and collect a ransom. However, when the kidnapping is supposed to take place at night, the two are drunk, so an accident occurs on the way to their hideout, a lonely mountain hut, and Joshua manages to escape. Left to his own devices, he now tries to get back to the valley, where the greatest adventure of his life begins.
Before eleven years old Tilda's parents can put her beloved grandfather in an old people's home due to his progressing Alzheimer disease, she takes him on one last adventure that subliminally threatens to tear her family apart.
On a farm in South Africa, Hanna and Helmut lead a seemingly happy life surrounded by nature with their children and their housekeeper Desi. But since the tragic accidental death of their eldest son, a shadow lies over their idyllic life. Hanna, in particular, clings to her memories and fears that she will forget her son once she has overcome her grief.
Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.
'Amok' tells 48 hours of the live of Lorenz Fuchs, a middle aged gray accountant who believes his triste and monotonous life being meaningless and absurd. For him the outside world was always hostile and aggressive. When his Boss not only unexpectedly promotes him but also reveals that he knows about his well covert emotional failings, Fuchs is thrown out of his daily routine - his defense lines are crumbling. Well hidden memories of traumatic experiences bring up a long suppressed rage that results in an outburst of violence and a bloodbath.
In the middle of Maike's sister Inka's wedding preparations, the marital dispute between Sören and Maike is still simmering because she has been cheating. Maike suggests that Sören should have a fling himself so that peace can finally be restored. With whomever! But Sören ends up in bed with Maike's best friend Doris, of all people. Dirk, Doris' husband, is not the only one fuming with rage and wants to give Sören a thrashing. Maike in particular reproaches Sören: the offer was never meant to be like that! And in the midst of all the chaos, Inka decides to throw the stuffy wedding, which groom Nils only wants to go ahead with for the sake of his conservative mother Renate. So: no wedding and three break-ups?
Hotte is a petty criminal on probation. He has two teenage children, but he doesn't want to know anything about them. When their grandmother dies, he is given custody of them, which he is not particularly happy about - but he could do with the child benefit. And gradually he starts to like life as a middle-class family man - but probation officer Benno is convinced that Hotte doesn't have what it takes to be a responsible father and does everything he can to sabotage his new start. But Hotte takes care of that himself by getting involved in a crooked deal with his Albanian buddy Ivic. Benno is also plagued by private worries: he can't father any children, but his girlfriend Tanja is desperate to have offspring...
Svenja and her 16-year-old daughter Kira have traveled the world a lot. Svenja is a hotel manager and is currently bringing an aging hotel in Australia back into shape. But her biggest challenge is her daughter, who has switched to complete refusal and doesn't let Svenja tell her anything anymore. Kira doesn't avoid confrontations at school either, which in turn leads to conflicts with Svenja. After another argument, Kira decides to go to Jack. Jack is Aboriginal and Kira's only friend. Together, the two young people go in search of their “special place”, their own particular locality. Svenja is beside herself with worry when she notices Kira's disappearance and gives chase with Jack's father Kalti, a deeply relaxed hotel boat guide whom Svenja had released two days earlier. An adventurous journey begins in the barren deserted Outback - for Svenja and Kira a strange world, fascinating, but also life-threatening!
Alex, Fedja, Timo and Lara are four troubled teens for whom the upcoming Christmas eve isn't a time of peace and joy: Since they all have a history of escalating family conflicts, they'll be spending the holidays not at home, but in a psychiatric ward. The utterly different adolescents not only have to adjust to one another, but also have to confront themselves in exhausting therapy sessions. Yet thanks to the unorthodox psychiatrist Dr. Wolf, the sessions take a turn for the unexpected - and the four experience a Christmas which they will never forget.
Match Factor is a story about the power the prejudices and the strength of trust. Ahmed, a young football player from Iraq comes to Berlin to participate in the FIFA Charity Match. When he disappears from his hotel, a search for him is mounted as a possible case of defection. Brigitte, a young policewoman is on patrol duty when she comes across him.
Merle is often distracted by daydreams. When her teacher Heinicken threatens her parents, Kathrin and Roman Falkrät, with expelling the 11-year-old from high school due to her bad grades, the mother sends her to a psychologist. She diagnoses her with ADD, or Attention-Deficit Disorder. But her parents don’t want her to take remedial drugs, so they attempt to help their daughter on their own. Their jobs, their marriage and her teenage sister Lea are increasingly at risk...
Nikolas "Tex" Techner is the frontman of the "legendary" band Slowfuck and tells the story of his life after graduation. It's not just about him and his love life, but also about his best friend David and his very best friend Sven.
A young girl goes through the ups and downs of school-life.
In September 1989, more and more GDR citizens fled to the West German embassy in Prague. Among them were Stefan and Bettina, who were spending their honeymoon in Czechoslovakia. When Stefan briefly returns to the GDR to fetch their young son, he also brings their friends Karin and Thomas with him. There is no end to the influx of refugees and the embassy is completely overwhelmed with those wanting to leave. What's more, despite hectic negotiations behind the scenes, no political solution seems to be on the horizon. The situation in the embassy garden is becoming increasingly dramatic. A humanitarian catastrophe is imminent.
Director Joseph is working through a new idea for a film and the breakup with his ex-boyfriend Marc. At the same time Sonya, the mother of his son Pino, is suffering from a depression that increasingly tears her from her life.
Ben and Barnabas are unseparatable since they are small. The two of them, however, are no ordinary pair of brothers, for Barnabas, with his twenty-two years, remained mentally at the age of three.
A wellness hotel in a small German castle specializes in well-off couples, offering a wide range of services, including one some partners feel trapped into : relational therapy. It's truth time, for some liberating, forcing others to face their secrets of dysfunctional relationship.
Corinna Safranski wants to become a police officer in Hamburg. She gets off to a great start and even saves the life of a colleague. But then comes routine at work and stress at home. And when Corinna defends herself against the pushy precinct manager, he begins to harass her. Her colleagues watch - or applaud...
17-year-old Jana has a congenital heart defect. To defy fate, Jana seeks every challenge, plunges into every wild and dangerous adventure. Her parents does not like that and are even more in constant fear of their daughter.
Impoverished former soprano Anneliese Behrens is forced to leave her house and collapses in an underground passage, when looking for a place to sleep. In the hospital, she learns that she suffers from a brain tumor and needs 24-hour attention. Although they have maintained no contact with each other, she will be hosted by her daughter, who, however, has already booked a Christmas vacation with her family in Thailand. The only solution is to take her mother with her.
Anna is a surgeon and, like her husband Gunnar, works at the hospital in a small town in the Mecklenburg Lake District. They have built a good life here with their son. Anna is torn out of her usual routine when a child suddenly suffers an allergic shock after a routine operation, which was triggered by an antibiotic that Anna had not been given. A medical mystery for Anna until she finds out that the clinic has a massive hygiene problem. The more unpleasant truths Anna uncovers, the more hostile she becomes. Anna is faced with decisions of conscience that could bring down everything she has built up so far.
Max Bretschneider pretends to be a communist in order to conduct the last interview with Erich Honecker.
Hanni works around the clock as a cleaning lady. She has to because her husband, whom she loves, has not exactly shown himself to be a support financially. They also have their son Viktor. One day Hanni witnesses an attempted murder on an old lady. The killer now has an involuntary confidante and must eliminate her. But it doesn't come to that because Hanni uses her cleaning agents at the right moment, with her presence of mind. The killer falls unhappy and falls into a coma.
Georg Weiser has learned all his life not to feel emotions, to ignore the opinions and rights of others and to give free rein to his resentment. When he loses his wife, it seems as if he is not particularly affected. But his children will not rest.
It's double trouble when fate and an ill-executed diamond robbery throw Mel and Franny together in a race and chase against time.
Mila and Charly use this way of escapism to avoid facing their respective crises. Hoping to find new ways of coping with their inner dead ends, they decide to take a trip to the sea but not take into account that they are taking themselves with them.
Life, death, and yet we know nothing.
On a bridge: a boy tries to stop his friends from performing a dangerous dare. In a cellar: a single man confronts his most painful memories. In a car: a family sets off to seek a long overdue encounter with this man. The day their fates are forever intertwined.
Like every year, Maike and her husband Sören invite family and friends over for New Year's Eve. This time, however, the raclette dinner turns out differently than the meticulously planned Maike had hoped: In addition to the cheese, all three couples sitting at the table reveal hard-to-digest truths and intimate secrets.
A lonely woman pays a homeless stranger to take over the role of her ex as she struggles to let go.
The main thing is sexy - no matter whether thin, fat, what skin color, young, old, we can all be sexy in different ways. Almost every woman grows up having to work on herself in order to remain desirable. Why? What if we stopped pushing ourselves into a sexy pose with all our might? What if we no longer fought for the right to be sexy, but were truly free? What if we stopped investing all our time and energy in being heard and the world started to hear us? A modern movie about modern women and men - who might be able to find a common language.
In the 1980s, the life of a family in a small village is determined by just one issue: the mother's body weight. Her husband Werner decides that she needs to lose weight, Cornelia suffers as a result and their daughter Ela is caught in the middle.