
Hans Dampf
By Jukka Schmidt, Christian Mrasek
2013 | 92 min | Comedy
Modern Fairytail about a young man who quits his jobs and looks for new challenges in the whole wide world.


By Jukka Schmidt, Christian Mrasek
2013 | 92 min | Comedy
Modern Fairytail about a young man who quits his jobs and looks for new challenges in the whole wide world.

2015 | 87 min | Documentary
Apart from the obligatory visits to the Louvre and the Leaning Tower of Pisa, a livestock transporter and the statues of ancient deities also become an occasion for cultural exchange. France, England, Holland and Italy are on the itinerary. In between are Belgium, Ireland, Austria and of course Switzerland, the absolute highlight of the trip. Ever since a slew of Bollywood films were shot in Switzerland, the land of the Alps has become the very epitome of Europe for many Indian people. Anna, the ...

2016 | 44 min | Comedy
Every man is an abyss, with the exception of Dieter (55). When out of the blue his wife Tamara takes off to Mont Saint Michel, leaving the endless repetition of their life together behind, Dieter is forced to leave the security of his row house cocoon for the first time. Aided by congenial vagabond and street philosopher Ronen (38), Dieter embarks on a journey that will confront him with the impossibility of escaping one's self.

2017 | 71 min | Independent
Et just got fired from his job and he's sick of life. At that moment, he meets Carla, who was just dumped without warning by her fiancé. Malte Wirtz (FULL PAULA) mercilessly dissects the world of hipsters. HARD AND UGLY was filmed in Kreuzberg and Neukölln in only 13 days, with a minimal budget, and was screened at the Achtung Berlin - new Berlin film award. "With HARD AND UGLY Malte Wirtz succeeds in telling a metropolitan story in the tradition of modern social novels, such as Berlin Alexanderplatz ...

2017 | 77 min | Comedy
Blunt, sarcastic, honest and in a signature style, filmmaker Yannis Korres' Mumblecore-romcom KISSING? is a declaration of love to the lost souls of today's crisis generation - a story about sex, love and (not) belonging. KISSING? won Best Acting in a debut film at the Athens International Film Festival. Staring down the barrel of their thirties, disoriented Xennials Danny (Thanassis Petropoulos) and Stella (Iro Bezou) feel utterly lost - just what is it about the remainder of their lives that frightens ...

2014 | 98 min | Independent
Czech Lion winner SCHMIDKE - a journey into the mind of an unfortunate man - is set in the fog of the Erzgebirge Mountains in the Czech Republic is a story set somewhere between comedy and mystery. Directors note: The film is based on a short story by the writer and screenwriter Tomáš Končinský entitled “Julius Schmitke slipped through death’s fingers like an awkward seal”, which immediately captured my interest. It is a story set somewhere between comedy and mystery, somewhere in the fog of the ...

2013 | 93 min | Drama
"Waiting for Godot" meets "Festen" in PARTY OF EIGHT, the feature debut of German director John Kolya Reichart. Eight people come together on a farm in the middle of nowhere. All of them are related by blood, friendship or love to Anton, who escaped his old life and disappeared some years ago and who has now invited them to celebrate his 30th birthday. Anticipating the reunion with their lost son, they put old grievances and injuries aside at first. Yet as time passes without Anton showing up, ...

2017 | 70 min | Drama
On a Saturday morning, 39-year-old Heriberto takes his former elementary school friends, Flor and Trujillo, on a ride across Mexico City to attend a class reunion. On the road, the three of them recall good old times until gradually Flor and Trujillo start becoming the bullies they once were with Heriberto as kids. Yet today, 25 years later, Heriberto will strike back, or won’t he? "By any measure, one of the year’s most ambitious Mexican films." (Variety) "OSO POLAR is an emotional roller-coaster!" ...

2013 | 81 min | Independent
Oskar's not doing great. His ex-girlfriend Alex set his apartment on fire and now he's alone in his shabby basement. Then Masha shows up. She's not feeling so great either. Masha dates older men, but none give her the intimacy she craves. Together Oskar and Masha fight loneliness and drift through Berlin nights. Soon Oskar regrets their no sex deal and before you know it he ends up drunk back in Alex's bed. German Mumblecore celebrates improvisation, low-budget, agile hand camera, a volatile and ...

2012 | 95 min | Documentary
It all began in a Berlin bar when Australian Nick Jaffe met ex-pat filmmaker Jack Rath. Nick came to Germany to explore his family roots through the line of his father, who had died when Nick was a baby. As a way of connecting the two poles of his life, Nick, at 25, was planning to make a solo 26,000 km sea voyage from Europe back to Australia on a small sailboat. Nick had never sailed before in his life. Driven by an idealistic determination not to ‘sell out’ and settle down like his peers, Nick, ...

2013 | 90 min | Independent
A luxury hotel. Steaks are sizzling. Love handles are getting massaged. Boy meets Girl in a hotel kitchen. A surprise hit comedy by mumblecore star Jakob Lass. Sweet young Clemens is a newbie at this hotel spa. Tough cookie Lara has to fight it out in the kitchen pecking order. The elevator brings them together. Hanging out in the bliss of co-dependency, the friction builds... and ignites. "I still remember how I hung the film posters of LOVE STEAKS in Berlin pubs with Jakob Lass in a night and ...