Christian Petzold

Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists, who are chased by the police since almost fifteen years. The puberty of her increasingly rebellious daughter Jeanne imposes a threat on their security, when she falls in love with a boy, that she has met on the beach. (imdb)

Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fell in love with each other, but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. In the meantime, Francoise is picked up at a psychic department of a Berlin hospital by her husband, Pierre. After seeing Nina, Francoise believes that she has found her kidnapped daughter Marie, but neither Toni nor Pierre believe her. Nina is unsure about what to think... (imdb)

Yella (Nina Hoss) is a business-savvy divorcee based in the sleepy East German town of Wittenberge. Looking to make a clean break with her past, she accepts a job as an accountant for a company in Hanover, but tragedy strikes when her resentful ex-husband trys to kill her by careering his Land Rover into the Elbe. Managing to claw herself away from the wreckage, she eventually reaches her destination but discovers the job she was promised doesn't exist. (Time Out London)

Off the beaten path of life, three people stumble into a fateful encounter. Thomas, young and strong, has been dishonorably discharged from the army. Ali, an affable Turkish businessman, has seen some hard times but now his primary concern is making sure the employees of his snack-bars don't cheat on him. Laura, an attractive woman with a dark past, seems to find refuge in the shadows of her marriage to Ali. (altinportakal.tursak.org.tr)

Philipp Gerber is a smart, but self-satisfied car salesman. In an inattentive moment at the wheel of his car, he runs over a biker and drives away. As he has feelings of guilt, he tries to find out more about the accident's victim and learns that the boy lies seriously injured in a hospital. Philipp wants to tell his mother Laura Reiser the truth, but he doesn't. After a carefree holiday with his girlfriend Katja, he learns that the boy is dead... (imdb)

A lawyer sees an attractive woman at a swimming pool and is immediately attracted to her. After he sees her again in a café the same day and unsuccessfully asks her out when they meet again at the swimming pool, he follows her around and insists on taking her out to dinner. They end up spending the night together listening to music, but the next morning, she has seemingly vanished. The lawyer goes on a desperate search for her and finds out she quit her job and moved out of town without a trace. (Jan S.)

Petra professionally works as a thief abroad to finance the studies of her younger sister Franziska in Germany. When she returns, she realizes that her sister has a secret, too.

The story tells of a travelling saleslady who gets a younger rival from her boss and isdoomed to be mobbed out. However the new girl soon discovers that she also is only a plaything for the boss and after a rough start the two women come together and play a bit Thelma and Louise ...

Summer in the GDR in 1980. Barbara, a doctor, has submitted an application to emigrate to the West. She is punished by being posted away from the capital to a hospital in a small town. Jörg, her lover in the West, is busy planning her escape via the Baltic Sea. It's a waiting game for Barbara. Her new flat, the neighbours, summer and the countryside no longer hold any charms for her. (mubi.com)

A disfigured concentration-camp survivor, unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband who might have betrayed her to the Nazis. (imdb)

The story of people who have long since been ignorant of how many millions there are in the lottery jackpot or that there is now a "super number". People who don't know the Federal Chancellor's name or how many television stations there are. A story of people who just couldn't care less about that. They meet each other in an anonymous station buffet: Tom, falling apart, worn out... (german-films.de)

When a man flees France after the Nazi invasion, he assumes the identity of a dead author whose papers he possesses. Stuck in Marseilles, he meets a young woman desperate to find her missing husband - the very man he's impersonating. (imdb)

Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water. (imdb)

A lonesome car. The wind is whistling. A door of an undefined building opens-is it a holiday bungalow, a shed or a ruin? A woman is standing at the window. The heat of an idle day of holiday, perhaps. The South, a place of longing. (imdb)

Shortly after German reunification, three residents of a quiet area north of Berlin talk about their plans and attempts at new economic beginnings amid the changes brought by the fall of the Berlin Wall. (imdb)

Vera and Heike are two friends who aspire for a dazzling lifestyle, but don't own any savings to do so. Vera decides to start stealing from men while sipping drinks with them in bars. When Heike takes over her job, her technique doesn't prove as successful and she ends up being caught at once. (imdb)

A group of friends in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea where emotions run high as the parched forest around them catches fire.