Franziska Weiss

In a suburb of Vienna during some hot summer days: A teacher who is in bondage to a sleazy pimp, a very importunate hitchhiker, a private detective on the run for some car vandals, a couple with a serious marriage problem and an old man, whose wife died long before on the search for some sexual entertainment live their lives while their lifelines cross from time to time. (imdb)

Irene starts her job as a receptionist for a well-known hotel in the mountains. She soon learns that her predecessor disappeared under strange circumstances. Irene's own fate is increasingly interwoven with that of the other woman, with the hotel and its staff playing a mysterious role. Irene is then confronted by a threat she desperately attempts to escape. (www.cineuropa.org)

Young introvert Daniel Bauer works as a gardener in the botanical gardens, where he gets to know Jana, one of his colleagues. Jana, however, starts to suspect that there's something not quite right about Daniel... Unafraid to expose the shocking brutality of murder, writer/director Thomas Sieben cleverly weaves together a chilling study of a serial killer and a story of damaged love. This disturbing and oppressive portrait of a mass murderer is ostensibly as cold and restrained as its hero. (imdb)

Tells the true story of Johannes Rettenberger, a marathon athlete who developed robbing banks as a hobby. (imdb)

Ben (Robert Gwisdek) is a bright, sharp-witted student in his early twenties who is confined to a wheelchair. He's assigned a new assistant, a medical student named Christian (Jacob Matschenz). Ben is intimidating and demanding of his helpers, but Christian gives as good as he gets and the two develop a keen rapport. Their friendship is put to the test when Christian makes the acquaintance of Annika (Anna Brüggemann), a lovely music student who lives in the neighbourhood. (Rovi)

Maria finds herself caught between two worlds. At school this 14-year-old girl has all the typical teenage interests, but when she's at home with her family she follows the teachings of the Society of St. Pius XII and their traditionalist interpretation of Catholicism. Everything that Maria thinks and does must be examined before God. And since the Lord is a strict shepherd, she lives in constant fear of committing some misconduct. (berlinale.de)

Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels is in charge of building public support for the Holocaust and for the war that Hitler is about to start. (imdb)