Kathrin Angerer

A portrait of the youth in the 60s living in East Germany.

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.)

The movie deals with the real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR. (imdb)

Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling cigarettes in Germany during the weekend. One thing leads to another, and soon she finds herself pregnant. Then her life starts falling apart when Andrzei tells her he already has a wife back in Poland and her baby dies shortly after its premature birth. (Homme A. Piest)

A small community of survivors of an apocalypse that has overrun the rest of the world and plunged it into chaos is holed up on Germany's only offshore island. (imdb)