Fabian Stumm

A woman creates fake dating profiles until she runs into one of the men she has deceived.

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.

After false reports of his demise put him and his work on the map, an artist decides to continue the charade by posing as his own brother. Soon, a reporter enters his life and has a profound effect on him.

In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Nevertheless, over the decades, he continues his quest for freedom and love, even if he finds it in the most unusual places.

After being abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country. Led by the eldest, 14 year-old Lore, the children are forced to confront their parents’ actions and the reality of a new world.

A man has disappeared. His pregnant girlfriend waits in vain for a sign. She clears out his abandoned apartment, assembles fragments of their shared existence, and prepares for her new role as a single mother. DANIEL is an essayistic examination of an intangible loss.

As a contestant in a singing casting show, Lea is asked by the TV team who she is and what makes her special. She doesn't know and begins to slip into different roles in her search for what makes her special, developing an unexpected fascination for her aunt Kati. Kati's return home as head architect for the renovation of the Residenzschloss after many years abroad reunites the family in one place. This reunion raises the hopes of grandparents Friedrich and Christel that they can join forces to give their pension, which has few visitors, a new lease of life.

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.

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.

A lonely woman pays a homeless stranger to take over the role of her ex as she struggles to let go.

A true story, Bela Kiss was one of the the most brutal serial killers, who killed 23 young women during the beginning of the first World War. The blood-drained bodies were found in metal barrels, conserved in alcohol. According to rumors, he was still seen decades later, in different parts of the world. He never was found and so the whereabouts of this man are unknown, even today. Almost a century later, five bank robbers search for a hideaway in a remote hotel, as they flee from the police. Brutal and unforeseen events take overhand and build a bridge to the past. The assumed safe house turns into a nightmare... is Bela Kiss still alive?

MIDDLE OF BEYOND blends fiction, news clips, and animation recounting ten days in the life of Malte Krumm, a month after the latest US elections. The film depicts the numbness of a world flooded by information and social media activity, where the borders between reality and illusion are crumbling and narcissism and self-promotion overshadow moral values.

After getting kicked out of her home, Manou, a young drifter, hitchhikes a ride with troubled sales rep Johannes. Their chance encounter on this hot summer day offers an escape from their struggles but reality soon enters the picture.

A car bomb explodes in front of a Berlin cinema as an Israeli film celebrates its premiere there. The trail leads to the video blog of 18-year-old Jana. What might have made her do it? Jana herself can no longer give any information about it, because she was killed in the attack. So all that remains is her blog on the social networks.

A portrait of two teenagers, growing up in a council estate, whose lack of prospects brings them closer to each other.

Bella is a single mother business and mother trapped in the normal everyday insanity. Nevertheless, she is happy. But from now on, everything gets out of hand. The house, in which the elderly-shared apartment of Bella's father and their own physiotherapy practice are located, is to be sold and renovated. Bella would not be Bella if she was not determined and would fight with all her might against the injustice and sale of the house. But as she juggles with family, her practice, PR campaigns, demos and squatters, Bella needs to realize that even her power is not endless.

The film centers around the lives of three men - three generations of a family which are all entangled in the effects of gambling addiction.

Unsatisfied with his his place in New York's art scene, Artist Peter Bjorn relocates to Berlin in search of change. Meanwhile in a remote Polish village, Alicia prepares to become a nun but, feeling home in nature, her reveries continually distract her from her religious path. Both lost in their own ways, their friendship leads them to yet another new beginning.

The state of North Rhine-Westphalia has purchased a CD containing files from a Swiss bank. It contains files on more than 800 tax evaders. However, there is not enough tax investigation staff to process all the cases before the statute of limitations expires. The successful tax investigator Karola Kahane decides to pick out a particularly prominent name from the list. Her goal: finally, a tax evader who had failed to declare more than one million euros should actually go to prison for stealing from the community.

Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism.

Two Afro-German half-sisters that never met before, get closer through their father's death, search their roots and find themselves.

A political activist falsly accused of being a terrorist is put into prison by a government hoping to gain information by subjecting him to chemical waterboarding.

A day at the factory. Bekel is called to the boss. Through a chain of events the two men are forced to examine their place in this world.

Nils Philippi, advertising photographer, accuses himself of being an incorrigible hypocrite. He's been that way since he was a child, said what earned him recognition, what made him look good. He knows his problem, he just can't get rid of it. Nils illustrates his suffering to his analyst, putting himself in the limelight once again.