Fritzi Haberlandt

Helmut is a shy kid when it comes to girls. When Britta, the most gorgeous girl in his high-school class, finally notices him one day, he falls for her hard. Then she suddenly announces that she is moving to America to live with her father, and he is devastated. Years later, Helmut fall in love with Gisela, but can not forget Brida. Gisela became pregnant and he needs to see Brida last time.

Stories from the Kaliningrad region and its inhabitants: with the calamity of unemployment and the ravages of alcohol, many children are left to their own devices, in landscapes that are retuning to the wild. (cinereel.org)

The love story of a blind couple. This film gives an insight into life for the blind, using very good sound editing to hear as the characters hear. A very dramatic film but also funny in parts. A young director called Jakob becomes blind after a car accident and thinks life is not worth living. That is until he meets Lily, a girl who was born blind. They visit Russia together to see Jakobs dying mother.

Schoolboy Rico is a typical loner and outsider. He is neither a stellar student nor has any success with the girls or in the sports classes. Due to his constrained hearing ability, the sensitive boy more and more lives in his own world. When one day, a schoolmate is poisoned and dies, Rico at first does not show a lot of compassion because he never really liked the deceased. But when he learns that the attempt was initially targeted on him, Rico's life is more and more thrown out of joint. (filmportal.de)

Henriette is a young ballet teacher living a quiet monotonous life. On day she meets Felix, a young man who seems to be deaf-mute. A relationship full of extremes and unspoken desires begins.

Love story spanning 60 years of the lives of Charlotte and Hugo. As a teenager before the war she is in love with him, but he marries her sister. They share some brief happy moments during the difficult post-war period, then they are separated for the longest time. They meet again as 80-year olds. (imdb)

Juliane's happiness seems perfect. She is head over heals in love and has just begun a new life with August. One morning, however, she wakes up to find that she has been unexplainable thrown back into her past - to the time before she met her new love. Is what seems at first glance a cruel setback in reality actually a second chance? (imdb)

Udo has a problem. He suffers from a difficulty of being seen. His peers don't take him seriously, look straight through him, and notice him only when he directly speaks to them. Thanks to this, he can live in a tent in a shopping center, where he also works as a detective. The only person in his life is the transsexual perfume seller Amanda.

It is 1986 and communism is crumbling. The German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany, is going broke, while across the Soviet Union, there's talk of major reforms, with Soviet President Gorbachev's policies of glasnost and perestroika.

Martin Rauch experiences the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 during his activities as an East German spy.