Jule Böwe

Dance teacher and mother Nadja left her son Mario with her own mother when he was little. Now she has reappeared on his doorstep, seeking a closeness that knows fewer and fewer boundaries. An uncompromising film about family relationships.

Max, a city rabbit, reaches his goal of joining the master class for Easter rabbits but when the magical golden egg turns black, Max and his friends must act to save Easter being taken over by a family of foxes.

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.

Rabbit Max, a juvenile shoplifter, gets trapped in an old-fashioned school. With rabbit girl Emmy, he acquires Easter Rabbits' secret skills, battles a sneaky fox family and learns about friendship.

13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.

Wolfi is in his mid-40s and wants to revisit the good old days with his three best buddies in the Provence, where life is good. Little does he realize that his old chums are in the middle of growing up for real, bringing their wives and kids and all their everyday family problems too.

A madcap comedy with an episodic character by Oliver Rihs about the desperate search for love online. Shy Lanzelot simply can't manage to meet women. His lonely life takes a radical turn when his flatmate Milan sets up an internet dating profile for him and actively maintains it. Lanzelot is suddenly inundated with dates, but his encounters with the fairer sex are disastrous - he meets a panopticon of neurotic city singles and, in his search for love, is used for questionable sex fantasies, imprisoned, exposed, confused, betrayed... will Lanzelot ever manage to conquer a heart as well as his body and soul?

Set in modern Berlin, "Ms. Stern" is a dramedy about a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor, who is unable to choose her own fate. However, while trying her best to find a way out of this life, she spends her time joyously with her spirited granddaughter, Elli, and her eclectic group of friends, living it up to the fullest.

Peter and Lisbeth are two young but unfortunate lovers living in a rigid rural community in the Black Forest. She comes from a wealthy family of glassblowers; he is a poor coal worker on the lower end of society. To become rich and respected, Peter makes a pact with a devil named Dutch Michael, who rips out his heart and replaces it with a stone. Robbed of all warmth and feeling, Peter becomes a cold-hearted go-getter who rapidly achieves his goals. Ruthlessly he strives for money and power.

"Kainer dies here today" tells an exciting and bizarre way about the last days of a man who seeks the loneliness to die, but first has to face the absurdity of life.

Life could be so good for the children of Bollersdorf if the town had not been discovered by the Society for Consumer Research because of its mediocrity. New products are to be tested here. The market researchers know that what the people of Bollersdorf like sells well everywhere. But while the local parents enthusiastically take part, their children quickly get fed up with the annoying product testers. Even more so when they want to send their beloved grandmas and grandpas to a care home to bring the average age back into line. This is a case for the coati gang! Together with the clever coati Quatsch, the children hatch a clever plan: With adventurous inventions and crazy world records, they want to prove Bollersdorf's uniqueness so that the consumer researchers finally disappear again...

Two twin brothers are living on a different sides of Berlin Wall after being separated after birth.

Three young Russian friends, who move from Moscow to Berlin in a lucky wave of emigration right after the fall of the Berlin wall. They take their chance looking for a better life and find themselves involved in the tales of everyday lunacy on the streets of Berlin and its spirit of the early nineties.

Paula, a young supporting character, studies at the Main Character School and dreams on graduating to become a lead.

Until now, Carlo thought he was living a quiet, manageable life. And he seemed content with his "small world". But somehow, things have not been running smoothly in Carlo's life for a few weeks now. At home, problems are emerging with his son Hendrik and wife Jutta. His now somewhat outdated garage, which he has been running for 30 years, is hardly generating any orders, and even his tortoise Adenauer is giving him grief because she has stopped eating. And now? Carlo has no intention of letting his long-serving employees Becker, Roger and Köll go, because they are more than just his employees. They are his best friends, without whom Carlo's life would really no longer be possible.

What hurts more: losing the wife to her younger lover after 21 years of marriage or having to share a lottery win with her after the breakup? The parcel carrier Henry doesn't want to give up half of his unexpected wealth because of the divorce. While his wife Ellen wants to make a clean break with the new beginning, he tries to save the long-hopeful marriage, but only on paper. The disappointment hurts too much to share the cash fairly! Neither his own daughter, who needs money for a journalism school, nor his best friend Mehmet know about the new fortune. His "favorite colleague" Mona either doesn't like the fact that Henry doesn't tell her the truth. She doesn't really recognize Henry anymore, with whom she has fallen in love. Ellen is also surprised that Henry, who is chronically exhausted, can afford an expensive racing horse. But there's a reason for the secrecy, because Henry wants to make his dream come true to win the Grand Prix of Germany. His maxim: Believe in losers too!

One day she is sitting at his door. In her red wedding dress and worn-out sneakers. She does not speak his language, is actually too young for him and comes from a completely different world. She also loves different than him - and yet the two become a couple. Johnny, failed DJ and club owner from Hellersdorf, and Sophia, the Romni. Whether she really got away from her wedding, actually comes straight from Belgrade, truly loves him as she claims? Johnny does not know. And at some point he does not care. The supposed bride has conquered his heart. Then her family comes to visit ...

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In the midst of a freezing winter on the island of Sylt, Cem comes across Jesús, who is on the verge of committing suicide. The two young men become fast friends, with their friendship unexpectedly threatening to develop into something more. Cem and Jesús - laconic, alienated loners - find their previously uneventful lives starting to spin out of control now that each has someone who means something to him.

Young Roman and his mother Oksana leave Ukraine and go to Germany, where she works illegally while they both live with Gert, an old widower who tries to befriend Roman, who struggles for his mother's attention and sees Gert as a rival.

Waitress Doris meets a stranger on a train to Leipzig. This well-dressed thirty-something man decides to follow her, as they are drawn to each other, but neither seem prepared to admit to their loneliness.

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The wealthy industrialist Ernst Schmitt has to take a step back for health reasons. But first he wants to arrange his succession, as he doesn't trust the manager of his chocolate factory. Without further ado, he pretends that his chauffeur is his millionaire boss and that he is his own driver. This allows him to uncover the factory manager's machinations unobserved...

A teenage car thief is incarcerated in a home for the hard-to-educate. He gets a second chance when he's offered a job at a car dealership that cares for juvenile delinquents. There, he is confronted with his past and becomes the target of a youth gang that wants to recruit him for a major heist.

Stories of the Berlin city life, separated into five episodes. A hopeless impostor. An East German couple who dreams of the big money. Three Turkish teenagers who do everything to have sex. Two hapless Satanists. And gay boys who dream of a better world.

The young prince decides to take revenge:putting himself insane, he wants to enlighten the murder of his father. Hamlet travels to England for a year and returns to kill the 11 uncles and save his mother.

It's Lene's first day back at work after some time off. Friends and acquaintances, regulars and strangers come to her jazz and blues bar. While Lene is waiting for Danish musician Leif, who is scheduled to perform tonight, the guests discuss all kinds of topics, ranging from pop music by elves and invisible cell phones to maggots eating away at corpses. But what if Leif doesn't show up at all?

In a German town, teacher Irene leads an inconspicuous, boring, lonely life. One day, a man rings at her door and slips in. It's an armed convict from the prison next door, escaped with a leg wound. He now makes her a prisoner in her own home. Almost without a word, as if she secretly enjoys the excitement or just mesmerized, she obeys Vassily, every single command, even sexual services, submissively or after a symbolic struggle. Somehow that seems to change, but can force initiate love?

Jost roams through the streets of Berlin. He opposes the world enraged, aggressively and furiously in a self-destructive way. He continuously provokes situations proving to himself that everybody hates him. He is convinced he does not need anybody and does not let anyone get close to him. Anna is walled in by her fear and unable to leave her apartment. She manages to keep this situation from all the others in a system of lies. Her reserves draw to a close. She heads for a catastrophe. One day, Jost shows up at her door.

The red haired Antonia calls her mother the radio host Zora on her show for coming home. But Zora joins a cuddle party. Antonia injures herself. The next day they meet in the metro.

A Neukölln clan boss becomes a climate activist. A gender doll inventor who fulfills her most secret wishes with a fake gun and a new girlfriend in Grunewald. A balcony beekeeper whose bee colony is on speed. And in the middle of it all, a fisherman who wants to conjure up sustainable snacks from invasive swamp crabs. What unites them all? A hot summer in the capital - and waiting for the rain!

The story of a seemingly settled bank employee who breaks the shackles of his everyday life and becomes a wanderer between worlds. Frederik is an up-and-coming young bank employee who lives an ordinary life. When a bank customer, whom Frederik has denied a loan in the face of the bank crisis, shoots himself in front of Frederik, he snaps. Together with ex-con Vince,he begins to live out a new, dark side of himself. He robs his rich bank customers' homes and gives the money to the needy. The initial rush of crossing social boundaries soon develops into an addiction to ever greater thrills.

After her mother's death, 15-year old Mia moves in with her aunt, the actress Cleo, who lives with her son Fritzi in a shared apartment in Berlin. Mia lingers for stability and attention but in between Cleo's rehearsals at the theatre and her relationally disturbed housemate Elisa, she finds herself in a world of adults who themselves seem to be unable to cope with life.

Siblings Mareike, Dietrich and Felicitas Reber can hardly believe their eyes when, after an absence of 50 years, their father Xaver, who was thought to have disappeared in Argentina, suddenly turns up on their doorstep - penniless, without a pension or health insurance and with nothing but his toothbrush in his luggage. Attempts to drop him off at the social welfare office, in a retirement home or at a highway service station fail - and so, one by one, the hard-hitting Xaver wanders through all the apartments, causing quite a stir in the families, partnerships and work of his children. It turns out that the three siblings are also in a bit of a mess, and it doesn't take long for them to realize that their freewheeling father isn't their biggest problem...

This documentary celebrates the spirit of freedom and joie de vivre of the Clara Mosch artist collec-tive. Starting in the late 1970s, these non-conformist free spirits from Karl-Marx-Stadt declared the GDR a happening zone. Great, but also serious fun, which seems more relevant than ever today - and a poetic cinematic portrait of the power of art.