Asad Schwarz

A mute man with a violent past is forced to take on the teeming underworld of a near-future Berlin as he searches for his missing girlfriend.

Wherever 9-year-old Benni ends up, she is expelled. She has become what child protection services call a “system crasher.” But she is not looking to change her ways, and has one goal: go back home to her mother. When anger management trainer Micha is hired to help, suddenly there is hope.

Berlin-Gropiusstadt, a prefabricated housing estate on the outskirts of the city. On the last day of the year, three young people are at a turning point: Tarik receives a letter about his impending deportation, Stella gets accepted to an acting school abroad, and Luan wakes up from a nightmare in which he is left behind by both of them.

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13-year-old Jonja goes on vacation with the wealthy family of her best friend Paul. None of this would be a problem if the girl had told her mother about it - but she hasn't. Meanwhile, the days at the lake turn out to be extremely idyllic: Jonja falls in love with a girl and her friendship with Paul is strengthened even further. When it becomes clear that Jonja has lied, emotions run high...

A small village is haunted by strange and awful murders. The scared villagers turn to two officials in search for help to solve the crimes. The investigations point to a very perfidious kind of murders: All victims were nibbled off shortly before or after their death. Could an animal be the cause of the strange bite tracks in face and arms of the dead bodies?

Ela, a young actress, gets a role with the well-known theatre director Franz Kramer. The production is a great opportunity for Ela, but also comes with pressure. Kramer constantly oversteps Elas boundaries, and the situation worsens when Kramer sexually harasses her. Ela struggles to reconstruct her role as a self-confident character-and realizes that to do so, she has to take the same steps of self-empowerment in her real life.

A young couple with an open, long-term relationship, engage in a three-way relationship with Chloe in the free-spirited city of Berlin.

Father Iversen has a mission: to save his parish. He already has an idea. With a spectacular performance of the Passion story, he wants to convince the theater-loving archbishop to keep the parish. But director Roberto, who has been canceled by the Berlin theater scene, and Mia, the butcher who has returned involuntarily, thwart his plans.

A jester costume worn by dressmaker Dolores comes to life when she is diagnosed with breast cancer. Haunted by the gloomy jester, Dolores tries to maintain her normal life and vehemently refuses to tell her family about the diagnosis.

Speedy, merciless and with plenty of black humor Gasman shows the picture of a man searching for his inner soul.

Klaus has a new job. And it's brilliant. The best job in the world. There is just one small snag: after work.

In a king's kingdom there is a forest so dangerous that every man who goes into it is never heard from again. Iron Hans, who is responsible for the deaths, is found at the bottom of a lake and locked up in the king's palace

Documentary filmmaker Paul Krewer follows his friend Thomas Ritter in the Peace Race, aiming to capture a winner’s story. When Ritter crashes and falls back, Krewer shifts focus to underdog Steve Baxter’s grit and teammate Falck’s unexpected lead. In a dramatic final stage, Ritter stages a comeback to win overall—and vows to uncover whether Falck’s last-minute mechanical failure was chance or conspiracy.

George is in his 40s, a family man, on the fast track in his job - until one day a stranger claims ownership of 2m² of his house, enters the home, sets up his bed in the living room and stays. While the stranger is expanding his space in the house bit by bit, a gloomy feeling is taking hold of George.

Antonia Hofmaier and her son Linus actually only want to pay a short visit to the North Sea island of Langeoog: Antonia needs the signature of her father, with whom she has had no contact for almost twenty years, to sell her parents' house in Munich.

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.

Four young skaters spend an afternoon claiming an abandoned factory as their playground, moving from one forbidden urban spot to the next. When the security abruptly cut their session short, the day ends with one of them under arrest. Years later, one of the skaters looks back on a fleeting moment of youth, freedom, and friendship that has stayed with him ever since.

Father is dead. Daughter and son carry his corpse south of the border. Despite the risk this journey entails, they set out to bury him at the place that used to be home. A migrant family story.

Berlin, the vibrant life. Only cashier Emma feels really lonely. There is nothing wrong with her, she just goes underground in the big city. Her desire to meet people has brought Emma to a strange idea: she lets go in the supermarket purses of customers and later presents herself as a hospitable finder, who invites you to pick up at the laid table. Unfortunately, the visit remains short. Only the shrewd homeless August who sees through her starts to get interested in Emma.

When Mara, a social worker at a drug consumption room, meets the heroin addict Ole, the boundaries between work and friendship between to blur. Now she is faced with the question of whether she can handle the job or if her friendship with Ole will get in the way.

Driven by childlike curiosity and the desire to get to know his new German home better, 9-year-old Hamid has made it his business to observe his surroundings with his binoculars and to document the actions of other people in his neighborhood. When one day a homeless woman comes into his field of vision, he realizes that the time has come for him to leave his observation post on his balcony at home.