
All About Rita
By Malte Wirtz
2019 | 77 min | Independent
The love and life suffering of young people between Cologne and Berlin, with Woody Allenesque lightness.


By Malte Wirtz
2019 | 77 min | Independent
The love and life suffering of young people between Cologne and Berlin, with Woody Allenesque lightness.

2022 | 79 min | Horror
A group of three young people go into the forest, having heard that there is a stone altar, they search until late at night and suddenly a young woman disappears from the group. The two men stay in the forest but can't find her. Initially, Malte Wirtz had wanted to shoot a romantic comedy in Cologne's Königsforst. But the local circumstances, no light, no cell phone reception, and the actual, temporary disappearance of the main actress, then moved the Berlin and Cologne-based director to try his ...

2015 | 82 min | Independent
Love and career prospects open up, but things turn out differently than expected... With an imagination that pours 90 million visual ideas into 90 minutes, and a young, likeable cast, Malte Wirtz succeeds in putting a new spin on the urban romcom. The film follows Paula, Louise, Max, Randolf and Donnie over the course of four days as they struggle to master the chaos in their love and professional lives. The comedy 5 STORIES IN 4 DAYS is Malte Wirtz's the feature debut, an exciting new voice in ...

2019 | 98 min | Documentary
A year in the life of an ordinary street in Berlin. "Summer from of a balcony in Berlin - but also spring, fall and winter: Sobo Swobodnik spent a year observing life in his neighborhood from his apartment and made a unique film about it - with intimate perspectives and vantage points." Filmportal.de The minimalist work of art unfolds a fascinating image-sound-music collage about the “productivity of waiting”.

2018 | 74 min | Independent
After many years of not seeing each other, Mia and Linda meet up in Berlin. Mia has debts and plans to blackmail the man she's been having an affair with. Linda is planning to marry Thomas, but her doubts are mounting... Film and theater director Malte Wirtz is back: in less than 24 hours he shot the entire film without the restrictions of fixed dialogue and without a budget. The hard work was rewarded with the Best Feature Award at the Boddinale in Berlin and a prominent spot at the Achtung Berlin ...

1999 | 79 min | Timeless
Maren-Kea Freese's ZOE was her award-winning graduate film as a student at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin that perfectly encapsulated the lives of drifters in Berlin at the turn of the millennium. Just as the Berlin School is low-key and stoic (and Freese does share a similar lean toward the anti-dramatic), ZOE is laconic, yet near hallucinatory. "Fascinating portrait of one of the 'broken characters' that director/author Freese is so fond of." (Moving Pictures). ZOE is the main ...

2019 | 114 min | Drama
Twenty-four hours in the life of a clique of friends on a Friday in October... All six live in Berlin, are in their early thirties, and single. Today, one of them is celebrating a birthday. Writer Övünç has writer's block. Pascal, professionally successful, is plagued by the desire to throw away his current life for a new one - which one, he himself is not quite sure. He and actress Raha have recently separated. She hopes for her career to grow day by day. Kara prefers to spend the night at friends' ...

1992 | 15 min | Shorts
Zoe is an elevator girl at the TV tower on Alexanderplatz and lives in a cramped bathroom. Maren-Kea Freese shows the everyday life of a woman in a city in transition who is searching for herself. ZOE was made in 1992, not long after the reunification of Berlin. The film shows in poetic black and white and 16mm images East Berlin districts like Mitte before many buildings were modernized or have vanished. ZOE captures a moment in Berlin's history and paints a sensitive portrait of "Generation X" ...

2021 | 103 min | Comedy
While the clubs are still pounding out the music, Berlin is emerging from the twilight. A note is stuck to a lamppost: "For one minute. Please, just stand here in silence and look at the sky, and contemplate how amazing life is." A lone drunk stops and follows the instruction... A not-so-young "Man with Van" wakes up in the morning hungover next to last night's flirt and it dawns on him that it's slowly time for a change. An original Berliner decides at a bizarre WG casting to no longer take part ...

2007 | 88 min | Independent
Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg. Attila, the fireman can actually eat glass, but it doesn't help him as his girlfriend Sabinel breaks up with him. She wants to become a TV presenter and in this life plan Attila isn't the right partner for that. Erika already is a TV presenter, but not happy with her life. She can't connect with her husband Ulf, who is trying anyway to conquer another woman's heart.

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 ...