
A German Loves His Fatherland
By Nico Sommer
2011 | 20 min | Comedy
In Nico Sommer's mockumentary a nazi loves a woman of color.


By Nico Sommer
2011 | 20 min | Comedy
In Nico Sommer's mockumentary a nazi loves a woman of color.

2014 | 78 min | Independent
Maja's and Uwe's marriage is stuck in a rut. However, Alina, their daughter, is head over heels in love with Nico. She invites both sets of parents to meet in Brandenburg, but a clandestine and surprising love affair wrecks havoc on the apparent harmony in the group. A German mumblecore tragicomedy set in a Brandenburg mansion. Three couples, six people, love, deceit, and the question: What's next?

2002 | 110 min | Comedy
Nae Caranfil's black comedy tells the story of the 35-year-old teacher and unsuccessful writer Ovidiu. He still lives with his parents and is a clear loser in post-Ceausescu Romania. When he falls in love with the toothpaste model Diana, he pretends to be a millionaire to win her over. He 'earns' the money for his act with petty scams. He can only afford such extravagance thanks to Pepe, a rather strange “godfather”. Mister Pepe, 60, a sreenwriter/songsmith for beggars, set up a foundation called ...

1985 | 80 min | Comedy
HITHER AND THITHER was filmed in Wolfsperger's hometown of Constance with the participation of many local amateur actors. Frieder Witz was embodied by the town's true master baker, Richard Gandor. Chubby baker Frieder Witz is having a bad day. Supermarket bakeries are taking away his customers, he hasn't yet paid off the loan for his bread mixer, he has no money for his upcoming vacation and working all the time is no longer fun. So doughboy fakes a fall down the stairs and plays dead. Before his ...

2021 | 60 min | Comedy
Inspector Konka and his assistant Walter have to solve the mysterious case of a headless corpse, decapitated by a Hun rider, in the small town of Anröchte. At first, the mayor claims to know nothing about the murders. He does not want to endanger Anröchte's reputation as a haven for tourists. Despite several arrests, there are no clues to the Hun riders. Director Hannah Dörr transforms Wolfram Lotz's lovingly satirical original into a West German fever dream: "An anti-social romantic comedy that ...

1984 | 8 min | Shorts
Maren-Kea Freese movie is a rediscovered gem of the Super 8 underground in 1980's West Berlin. The short film is a two-hander showing the absurdities of modern relationships. A man and woman alone in a room with just a boardgame between them. What's the next move?... TREFFPUNKT ER + SIE experiments with wordless acting, editing and ironic use of music to create an offbeat variation of romantic comedies.

2007 | 85 min | Drama
AND ALONG COME TOURISTS by Robert Thalheim deals with the complex issues of coming to terms with the past and human interaction. The film follows the young German Sven, played by Alexander Fehling, who is doing community service at the Auschwitz memorial site, and is confronted with both his own history and the historical burden of the place. Sven's relationship with concentration camp survivor Stanisław Krzemiński, played by Ryszard Ronczewski, forms the emotional center of the film. Their initially ...

2025 | 79 min | Comedy
Vienna, 1996: two MiniDV tapes resurface, containing footage from a student film project. The students Alina and Flora investigate paranormal phenomena, interviewing people who claim to have witnessed unusual encounters. What begins as a playful inquiry gradually develops a momentum of its own. Through encounters with conspiracy believers, self-proclaimed experts and unreliable witnesses, a theory takes shape: reptilian extraterrestrials live among humans and are secretly advancing their hybridization. As ...

2017 | 20 min | Shorts
In the shop, their relationship meets bigger ordeals than they ever would have imagined. Is this really how a relationship works, or are they the subjects of a capitalist conspiracy?

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 ...

1990 | 60 min | Timeless
Christoph Schlingensief's interpretation of German reunification resembles a cannibalistic slaugther house. The Iron Curtain has fallen and many East Germans want to "cross over" - including Clara (Karina Fallenstein). So she quickly kills her husband (Susanne Bredehöft) and meets her lover (Artur Albrecht). But when she meets her boyfriend, they fall into the hands of an insane family of butchers, who take advantage of the opportunity to catch as many East Germans as possible and later process ...