
Sin and Illy Still Alive
By Maria Hengge
2015 | 67 min | Drama
The young woman Sin is addicted to heroin and wants to get clean. Her plan is to fly to a Greek island where she will give up drugs.


By Maria Hengge
2015 | 67 min | Drama
The young woman Sin is addicted to heroin and wants to get clean. Her plan is to fly to a Greek island where she will give up drugs.

2016 | 75 min | Drama
He flatmate threw her out and she spends all of her energy trying to find a place to stay. This is LOTTTE's colorful life on the streets of Berlin, stumbling from man to man, and flat to flat. Lotte is direct and edgy, yet kind, and above all she has plenty of big city snark. Winner of Best Feature at the 2016 achtung berlin new berlin film award, LOTTE by Julius Schultheiß is about cheeky wit and verve and surviving Berlin. "LOTTE convinces me with its powerful main character and the light-footed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

2014 | 83 min | Independent
Featuring Lilli Meinhardt, Christian Ehrich, Mumblecore icon Axel Ranisch and indie star Peter Trabner. “Fresh take on the Bildungsroman.“ (Jury Decision Tirana International Film Festival) Produced with mere 4,000 EUR (by a production company whose name translates to “sponsored by Grandma”), LOVE ME! is the story of Sarah who chucks her super expensive Macbook out of the window when sex with her best friend doesn't lead to declarations of true love. Sarah's rude and crude exterior masks a deep-rooted ...

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 | 85 min | Documentary
A candid look into the lives of four drug addicts in Berlin’s urban jungle, shedding light on the lesser-known aspects of addiction. ADDICTION follows four people—three men and one womangoing about their daily lives, without sugarcoating and without passing judgment. “We are there when the body demands a fix; we see how the drugs are bought; we observe the preparation, consumption, high, and withdrawal. Four people, four severely addicted individuals, show us their world and let us directly share ...

2017 | 87 min | Independent
Kerstin (Lana Cooper) believes in love with all her heart and has been waiting for the return of her ex-boyfriend Thomas (Till Wonka) for months. She wallows in sweet memories when her mother Charlotte (Saskia Vester) suddenly turns up and wants to move into her apartment. That mother and daughter could't be more different in dealing with their breakups becomes clear when Charlotte - in full mid-life crisis mode - gets inspired by Kerstin's roommate Maya (Christin Nichols) to meet new men via ...

2011 | 84 min | Independent
KLAPPE COWBOY is a trashy, funny and partly autobiographical film 'made in Berlin'. Directors Timo Jacobs and Ulf Behrens reflect on the pros and cons of independent film making. Their ironic and partly autobiographical low budget flick is a self-financed ode to their humble beginnings. this low budget indie ethos is often referred to as German Mumblecore.

2011 | 49 min | Drama
What's wrong with today's men? In AUSZEIT (TIME OUT), a 45 minute feature film by Sven Wegner, a bunch of men go on a short vacation and set their inhibitions aside. Experiments, rivalry and new loves lead them to redefine of who they are and how they view life. Five men from an amateur soccer team go for a short trip to a lake in Brandenburg. Out of boredom, very soon, they forget their inhibitions, reveal a lot about themselves and make themselves vulnerable, resulting in various conflicts. One ...