
Luz
By Jasmin Lord
2021 | 30 min | Drama
Working as a maid in Germany, Luz finds herself caught up in a system of dependency, fear, and violence.


By Jasmin Lord
2021 | 30 min | Drama
Working as a maid in Germany, Luz finds herself caught up in a system of dependency, fear, and violence.

2018 | 39 min | Independent
In the dystopian chaos of civil war, Ari and Cato drift apart—escape meets fanaticism, until one decision changes everything.

2008 | 22 min | Drama
A shimmering summer story in a holiday home on the Baltic Sea. Sixteen-year-old Suse feels like a fifth wheel alongside her young mother and her new boyfriend and withdraws into herself. But then she discovers how she can change things in her favor. She just has to use the right means... Using a mixture of youthful naivety and growing cunning, Suse tries out various strategies to win back her mother's attention and undermine the unwanted presence of her new boyfriend. Each day brings new insights ...

2015 | 98 min | Independent
HOMESICK is a sensitive and disturbing psychological portrait of a young female musician who falls into a vortex of self-imposed pressures - and threatens to cave in. After his highly acclaimed debut film "Heile Welt" Jakob M. Erwa returns with his second feature film, the impressionistic psychodrama HOMESICK, which is also his first Berlin film. "A masterclass in nerve-jangling suspense from the young Austrian writer-director Jakob M. Erwa, HOMESICK is a classy psycho-thriller which makes effective ...

2024 | 72 min | Horror
German director Malte Wirtz's latest independent production, THE THIRD GUEST, transports viewers into a suspenseful atmosphere that mixes classic horror with subtle parody elements. The young couple Eva and Arthur, played by Merle Peters-Moorhouse and Tim-Fabian Hoffmann, decide to escape the stress of everyday life and book a weekend in a run-down hostel. Once there, they are greeted by the idiosyncratic porter, played by László Nagy, who creates an ominous atmosphere with mysterious allusions to ...

1980 | 170 min | Drama
Work is scarce in Sicily, so 18-year-old Nicola follows many of his compatriots to cold Germany. He finds a job at VW in Wolfsburg and falls in love with Brigitte, a car mechanic. But she only uses him to make her German friends jealous. In a fight, Nicola kills the two men and is arrested. PALERMO OR WOLFSBURG deliberately shows the Federal Republic in its reconstruction phase, in which life is only administered and bureaucratized, “a country where there is no light, no love, only work.” PALERMO ...

2023 | 18 min | Shorts
Set in the deserted off-season on the Italian coast, caregivers Anca and Zoya meet at a bus stop shortly before returning home and decide to visit a client's abandoned beach house. A brief vacation turns into a moment of solidarity and tenderness that challenges the structural norms that govern their daily lives. “The discourse on the inner-European class question has never been more present and at the same time more repressed. As a German-Romanian, I encounter these socio-economic conditions every ...

2019 | 90 min | Documentary
Forty long-term unemployed people are sent to Germany's favorite vacation island, Mallorca, for a 10-week internship, to get off welfare and improve their chances on the job market. The trainees are expected to prove themselves in a foreign environment and to be open to new ideas. For most of them, the PRIMA MALLORCA project is the greatest, perhaps last chance of their lives. However, their success is challenged by the lure of the fun island and the lack of a daily work routine...

2016 | 120 min | Thriller
Alia is fresh out of prison and has to undergo therapy and keep a video diary. But her therapist doesn't seem to have the best of intentions. Felix Charin, co-author for the series 4 Blocks, worked for six months in a youth detention center in Berlin to research his feature film debut THERAPIE. In this gripping psychothriller, the boundaries between normality and illness blur. Alia (Taneshia Abt) is released from prison after five years of juvenile detention. However, she must undergo a court-prescribed ...