Gerdy Zint

Based on a true event, this powerful new voice in German cinema superbly examines German society with a critical and questioning eye in this excellent drama with utterly convincing performances. Weltstadt brings us two teenage boys living in a small village who battle with unemployment and despair at living the same frustrating life every day, over and over again. Their growing angst leads them to start taking risks and seriously pushing social limits - until there's no going back. (leedsfilm.com)

The only place Marisa, a 20-year-old German girl, feels home is the Neo-Nazi gang she belongs to, where hate, violence, and heavy parties are the daily rules. When 15-year-old Svenja joins the group, Marisa appears like a role model to her: she fits the idea of a combat girl fighting for the group's ideology. But Marisas convictions will slowly evolve when she accidentally meets a young Afghan. (imdb)

Romek is a Polish railway worker and Guido is a German soldier. They are both 17, in love with jazz and the same pretty girl. But it's 1943 somewhere in Nazi-occupied Poland, and their lives are bound to change soon. (imdb)

A surrealist rural noir about a German thief who flees to a small Luxembourg village only to discover that the locals have secrets of their own.

Lenz is a Kreuzberg layabout: funny, charming, imaginative, and incapable of making decisions. When he and Ira become a couple, the two spend a carefree summer together - until Ira makes it clear to Lenz that she wants a baby. She is approaching 40, after all. The thought of having a child frightens Lenz. He runs away and goes back to his old life: sleeping in, partying, and smoking in the kitchen with his friend Kenn. (imdb)