
The Party Is Over
2017 | 88 min | Drama
Since the first day in rehab, Céleste and Sihem have been inseparable. Is their friendship a force for good or will it distract them from recovery?


2017 | 88 min | Drama
Since the first day in rehab, Céleste and Sihem have been inseparable. Is their friendship a force for good or will it distract them from recovery?

2021 | 92 min | Drama
Director Charlène Favier deals with her own experiences of abuse as a young junior athlete in this compelling and haunting drama.

2014 | 75 min | Documentary
Ivette Löcker accompanies two addicted St. Petersburgers in her documentary chamber play. They are the lost "generation Perestroika", which broke under the newly gained freedom. Ljoscha and his mother live with Schanna in a small apartment in St. Petersburg - but Ivette Löckler is not concerned with an inventory of the things that make up a wasted existence, but with the human achievement of gentleness in dealing with each another. Schannas and Ljoscha's attitude to life is not only bitter. In the ...

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 ...

2012 | 21 min | Shorts
Award winning short by Swiss-Turkish director Esen Isik, who graduated from the Zurich University of the Arts and has been winning prizes for her film work since. YOU & ME is a modern short about two girls navigating their teen years. Different cultural backgrounds and the sterile apartment building in the suburbs are not Linda and Sevilay’s problem. The problem for these two 15-year-old friends is their messed up parents. What the two teenagers really want to do is run away. Things come to a head ...

2011 | 6 min | Shorts
Robert Bohrer's short comedy looks at the bête noire of many a drunk driver in Germany, MPU - MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT. Two years of preparing for the MPU to get back a driver’s license and two years of being sober... well, not really... and today is the final test and the most important conversation with the psychologist. Hold on: today? TODAY??? On this Monday morning, as Frankie leaves a Berlin club with his girlfriend Lanka, he realizes that he has totally forgotten about his big MPU ...

2010 | 41 min | Drama
Winner of the First Steps Award, PHILIPP is Fabian Möhrke's diploma film from the Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam. Philipp suffers from not being able to detach himself from his cool and friendly (and hovering) father. Philipp is fifteen. Bernd, Philipp’s dad, does what he can to be a good buddy to his son. He’s even full of understanding when Philipp steals from him. And it’s not just Philipp’s friends who think Bernd’s a really cool dad; even Caro, Philipp’s new girlfriend, takes a shine ...

2011 | 52 min | Drama
Monika has had limited vision since birth and takes care of her alcoholic mother. An eye operation is supposed to provide relief. However, this failed and Monika is now almost completely blind. While her mother is completely desperate and cannot cope with the situation, Monika regains her courage after the initial shock at a school for the blind. But her new independence is not to everyone's taste, especially not her mother's.

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 ...

2013 | 95 min | Music, Dance, Theater
In St. Petersburg, 8,500 children live on the streets, but the innovative circus Upsala and its director Larissa give some of those children a chance to forget their hardships. The heartwarming documentary LUCKY DEVILS by Verena Endtner portrays day to day life in the circus and takes us on a journey from the Russian slums to the big top’s lights and the joys of a tour to Switzerland. LUCKY DEVILS portrays the half-orphan Danja, who discovers the pleasure of playing and performing, the street ...

2006 | 20 min | Drama
Malte Wirtz studied film and theater at the Athanor Akademie Burghausen. BEHIND FORTUNE was his graduation film. Father Wolfgang loves his son Jonas, who lives with his mother. The mother hates Wolfgang. Wolfgang tries to drown his grief in alcohol and ends up getting some very strange notions about he might get closer to his son. BEHIND FORTUNE played at the Festival of Festivals, St. Petersburg, the IFCT Florida and the ALTER-NATIVE Festival in Tirgu Mures, Romania.

2021 | 95 min | Documentary
The film follows a young woman named Beatrix, played by Eva Sommer, as she spends time alone in a house whose previous tenant was older. With no context given, the film's plot revolves around the ordinariness of Beatrix's activities, from taking care of the house to feeding a stray cat. However, it is clear that Beatrix is going through something significant in her life, which is painful and transitional, although the viewer never knows what it is. The non-professional actress Sommer brings a sense ...