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- The everyday lives of teenagers, coming from various social backgrounds. For them, sexuality has become a substitute for love, resulting from emotional neglect.
- After his father's suicide, confused angsty 16 year old Paul goes to stay with his uncle's family. His uncle's wife is also unhappy with her life, so she and Paul have sex and only end up feeling even worse afterwards. Things get ugly.
- Marisa hates foreigners; she finds them guilty of the decline of her country. But her convictions will slowly evolve when she accidentally meets a young Afghan refugee.
- Luxury hotel. Luxury clientele. Irritable staff. A couple who might fall in love, or they might leave their relationship in its raw state - like the titular steaks.
- Frontalwatte is like running against a wall and falling softly. Teenagers, Franz, Adrian and Anastasia stumble through a world without consequences. They pass the time with home visits, jaw surgeries, triangle lessons, incest and poetry slams. Their search for identity degenerates to the search for the right role. It is like standing on stage with bandages in the mouth. Franz is left by his girlfriend, Claire and is going around visiting luxury apartments as a potential buyer who is obviously not rich but lives in a city where this can still be pulled of: Berlin. He meets an older woman, Ursula who wants to seduce her teenage son, Adrian, but he refuses so she uses Franz to replace him for her sexual inappropriateness. One day they are caught by Adrian.
- Lynn (22) lives with her brother in Berlin. There she enjoys the advantages of family life, without really feeling involved in it. She does not have any precise aim in life, but manages to awaken the interest of many people with her direct and spontaneous character. Her boyfriend David is very different: he is entirely engrossed in his very disciplined swimming training for the world championships. David does not intend to allow himself to be distracted by the complicating factors of a relationship with Lynn. When Lynn, working behind the till of restaurant, meets the Japanese student Koji, everything gets more complicated. They can't exchange many words, but it is soon clear that their moments together mean a lot to both of them.
- Herr Hoffman parks his late-model car in a lot across from his corner office on the top floor. Each day, he puts a coin in the cup of a beggar who stands in front of the building. One day, Hoffman looks out his window and notices the beggar washing his car - no one else's in the lot, just Hoffmann's. That evening, when he gives the beggar a coin, Hoffmann tells him not the wash it. But the next day, it happens again. On the third morning, Hoffman drives his car back and forth in a mud puddle; the beggar washes it carefully. That evening, Hoffman has no change and no small bills, only 100 DM. He tries to evade the beggar, who gives chase, cane and all. More than wills collide.
- A girl's everyday life at the end of her school days, trying to find a way into society and her own life.
- A teenage girl learns some valuable lessons about love and self-acceptance in this coming-of-age drama from filmmaker Kirsi Liimatainen. Sonja (Sabrina Kruschwitz) has just turned sixteen, and is going through a summer where nothing seems to feel right anymore. Sonja can't get along with her mother (Nadja Engel), their apartment feels uncomfortably small, a recent spurt of growth has left her physically awkward, and she's lost all interest in her boyfriend. The one person who seems to understand Sonja is her best friend Julia (Julia Kaufmann), but as Sonja spends more and more time with Julia, she begins to realize that her feelings for her have moved beyond friendship. Hoping to sort out her feelings, Sonja pays a visit to her estranged father, but an upsetting encounter with a neighborhood boy only confirms in her mind that her sexuality follows a different course. Sonja received its North American premiere at the 2006 Miami International Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- A frog tries to impress a shapely gazelle by transforming into various animals, each with a different attempted appeal.
- At the film festival in Cannes, young director Isabell fights against her incompetent producer and the stone age stereotype attitude in film business.
- The series "Achterbahn" is about friendships and the handling of difficulties and problems from children's everyday lives.
- Lucia discovers some X-ray pictures on her night trip through the hospital. An image of a head stimulates her fantasy--dream and reality dissolve into each other, and her illness takes her to a strange place. Then, hope prevails.
- The film is a drama about a young woman who has to grapple with the painful consequences of an unplanned pregnancy. It not only reveals loss and loneliness, it is also a story of the search for a meaning to life by 20- to 30-year-olds.
- Nine young actors leave behind their daily lives in Berlin and travel to country to audition for a summer theatre production to be performed in ruins of an old church.
- Television plays an important role in the life of the people of Havana. Despite there being only one program - the daily broadcast of the Telenovela is a most welcome distraction from the boring everyday life in the capital of Cuba. The movie watches enthusiastic and less enthusiastic viewers, and the almost holy people who are repairing the precious, mostly Russian devices.
- In 1980, 11-year-old Mike is the only survivor when his family attempts an escape from East Berlin over the Death Strip. 10 years later, he reluctantly returns to the united Germany to confront his past and the truth behind his mother's disappearance in the STASI machinery (former Ministry for State Security).
- A young, naive and enthusiastic theater director named Kai comes to a grim provincial town to put on Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Although the lethargic theater company shows no interest in the play, his spirit remains undaunted. Meanwhile, it is fall 1989. The world is changing and somewhere, far away in the capital, a revolution is taking place and it seems that wishes might come true. Great hopes emerge in the little town and unexpected events overtake Kai's mutating production.
- Nine sad, funny, and absurd situations about 20-year-olds who know where they want to go, but have no idea how to get there. At the same time, it is also a film about parents.
- A group of school friends meet real life in Germany after school is over. From failed love affairs to unpaid bills, growing up means learning that life is not as you imagined it.
- 24 hours of life in Berlin. Nine young people at major turning points of their lives.
- Disappointed by love, suicidal Norman arranges to meet some like-minded people. But when he arrives at the meeting the alleged suicides turn out to be unscrupulous killers looking for a willing victim. A comical and macabre fight against death begins.
- All dogs chase their tails. A dog once succeeds in catching his own tail. That changes his life as he finds his best friend in it.
- Jakob has been unemployed for two years. He has no one, so he goes to do the laundry and walks aimlessly around town. Undine is 19 and has to work. Dr. Scheer hired her as a babysitter for her son Philipp.
- The single package-delivery woman Dora lives a somewhat reclusive life in a high-rise in Leipzig and gets through everyday life with her dry sense of humor. But her quiet, well-ordered life spins out of control when she has to hide her mysteriously fascinating Polish neighbor Jola - who believes to have accidentally killed someone. Dora is hesitant at first to take her in, but she cannot seem to shake her fascination with Jola. Dora's trust in the direct, impulsive woman grows - Jola seems to ask exactly those questions no one else dares to ask. When Dora finds out that the accusations against Jola have been lifted, she lies about the status of the police investigation in order to keep her Polish neighbor for herself.
- The modern version of the German classic play EMILIA GALOTTI by G. E. Lessing. It plays in todays Berlin, but the characters speak in the original "Lessing-German".
- Three children and their Grandpa are on a kayak-outdoor trip in the middle of nowhere, when their Grandpa suffers a heart attack in the wilderness - to rescue themselves and their Grandpa the children have to help themselves and fight their way back to civilization.
- A divorced couple and their adult daughters meet at their lake cabin to clean it out and remove their possessions before it's sold.
- Everyone in Lars' gang lusts after his sister Sara. When she and new gang member Benny get busy in Lars' car, the rest of the gang spots them, and things get out of control.
- A 16 years old boy from Germany runs away from a boring birthday party and follows a few graffiti artists to the station.
- All know the Way, but few actually walk it - Rising Hope, once the fastest horse in the world, dares to be one of the few.
- While Dina lost herself during her long years she is living this "WAG"-life, spring chicken Judith finds her new life alongside an up-and-coming footballer quite exciting. Dina decides to rescue Judith - and finally rescues herself.
- By chance Nele meets the mysterious Rona who, stylishly dressed with high-heeled boots, digs for food in a rubbish container. This is the beginning of a special friendship between two women with very different life concepts. All this happens within the colourful Berlin milieu, where punks, street musicians and bottle collectors find their lives beyond norms and conventions.
- Do-gooder Katja persuades her boyfriend Hendrik into a sham marriage to Saïda, an Algerian who has immigrated illegally.
- They say that love is blind and there must be some truth in it, because in this comic tale, a good-looking frog falls for the velvety skin of an imitation lady-frog that graces a pair of slippers belonging to the farmer's wife. But their happiness is short-lived, because real frogs can't really fall in love with imitation frogs... can they?
- Paul wants to become an astronaut. It is his favorite game. Pauls older sister, Lisa is playing his assistant in the spaceship. Lisa meets Simon and he also joins in but when Paul's physical conditions worsen, the game needs to favor Paul.
- The story of Ed, a middle-aged nervous-laughing insane man who lives in his family manor, and of his plans to murder his elderly demented father and dispose of the corpse.
- It is mating season for the water shrew. When two male shrews find a female, the males engage in a fierce battle that becomes unexpectedly epic.
- What makes life worth living when we grow old? When we have more time, but our bodies have less capacities? Our own mobility becomes one of the most important things for us, because it represents freedom and a self-determined life.
- One afternoon Dan is brutally jumped and accosted by a Gang in his neighborhood. Angel, the leader of Dans crew demands that he murder his punisher and thus earn his official "membership" into the crew: a teardrop tattoo under his eye. Dan stands at the most important crossroads in his life. Will he go through with the killing to become a member, or back out and risk standing alone? We see the film through Dans eyes and know what he experiences, but do we know who Dan is?
- "Prussian Gangstar" is a slice of life view of three youths in small-town Brandenburg. The idyllic setting and the modest prosperity of the community mask the problems with which the young people have to contend. Nico is a school drop-out, dreaming of a hip-hop career. Tino, in an effort to satisfy the expectations of his mother, struggles to gain his lower school certificate. Oli wants to open a club, but his girlfriend dreams of their leaving their hum-drum provincial life behind them. The difficulties seem routine enough. Nonetheless, an unfathomable void develops between their youthful values and those of their parents. Only their friendship gives them a degree of security. Together they are the "Prussian Gangstars".
- Despite having lived in the East German countryside for several months, teenager Lars and his dad, Henrik, are still treated as unwelcome guests. Henrik is building a "marriage barn," a proposed bed-and-breakfast for newlywed Berliners.
- Siar, Alican and the boys from Osdorfer Born tell their story. Being a member of the ghetto provides them with a sense of identity and creates a common bond between them. But the boys also have doubts. In truth, most of them know that it is a strange world they live in, where a criminal counts more than someone who goes to school.