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After his father's suicide, confused angsty 16 year old Paul goes to stay with his uncle's family. His uncle's wife is also unhappy with her life, so she and Paul have sex and only end up feeling even worse afterwards. Things get ugly.

The everyday lives of teenagers, coming from various social backgrounds. For them, sexuality has become a substitute for love, resulting from emotional neglect.

Marisa hates foreigners; she finds them guilty of the decline of her country. But her convictions will slowly evolve when she accidentally meets a young Afghan refugee.

Luxury hotel. Luxury clientele. Irritable staff. A couple who might fall in love, or they might leave their relationship in its raw state - like the titular steaks.

Teens Franz, Adrian, and Anastasia drift through life aimlessly. After his breakup, Franz poses as a wealthy apartment buyer in Berlin, meeting Ursula, who pursues him as a substitute for her son Adrian.

Disappointed by love, suicidal Norman arranges to meet some like-minded people. But when he arrives at the meeting the alleged suicides turn out to be unscrupulous killers looking for a willing victim. A comical and macabre fight against death begins.

The film project under the working title of "Nightwalk", about the jazz music of the Afro-American Cassandra Wilson, was born of the idea to really create a fusion between music and pictures. The film team concentrate the contents of the film on the actual theme of the music, "Children of the night". This is not, however, a conventional plot rather an atmospheric series of pictures surrounding a figure who is wandering through the city streets at night.

Lynn (22) lives with her brother in Berlin. There she enjoys the advantages of family life, without really feeling involved in it. She does not have any precise aim in life, but manages to awaken the interest of many people with her direct and spontaneous character. Her boyfriend David is very different: he is entirely engrossed in his very disciplined swimming training for the world championships. David does not intend to allow himself to be distracted by the complicating factors of a relationship with Lynn. When Lynn, working behind the till of restaurant, meets the Japanese student Koji, everything gets more complicated. They can't exchange many words, but it is soon clear that their moments together mean a lot to both of them.

A frog tries to impress a shapely gazelle by transforming into various animals, each with a different attempted appeal.

Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.

About the V2 rocket and the rocket research in the Peenemünde Army Research Center. The film deals with the history of ideas surrounding the rocket research and the conquest of space.

The film is a drama about a young woman who has to grapple with the painful consequences of an unplanned pregnancy. It not only reveals loss and loneliness, it is also a story of the search for a meaning to life by 20- to 30-year-olds.

At the film festival in Cannes, young director Isabell fights against her incompetent producer and the stone age stereotype attitude in film business.

The modern version of the German classic play EMILIA GALOTTI by G. E. Lessing. It plays in todays Berlin, but the characters speak in the original "Lessing-German".

A group of school friends meet real life in Germany after school is over. From failed love affairs to unpaid bills, growing up means learning that life is not as you imagined it.

Shortly before Christmas, a mismatched German couple is driving not-completely-voluntarily through Poland in a ratty old car. Square lawyer-to-be Max Lowenberg investigates a formerly-German property; constantly-gabbling Anna just wants her car to be stolen. Both are surprised by Polish hosts and Santa Clauses. They become closer to their Polish neighbors--and each other--with help from hearty hospitality and lots of vodka.

BANDITS (2003) retraces the roots of the escapade of a group of Georgians in their twenties who hijacked an Aeroflot passenger plane on November 18, 1983 from Tbilisi.

A girl's everyday life at the end of her school days, trying to find a way into society and her own life.

Years later, a young adult drifting aimlessly through life meets the man who sexually abused him as a child. After his prison sentence, he now works in a sports hall, and the re-encounter triggers feelings he thought he had long since overcome, while his former victim oscillates between powerless anger and the desire for closeness. The complex drama impressively captures the atmosphere of fatal addictions, makes the characters' pain physically tangible with minimal dialogue and refuses simple catharsis.

Herr Hoffman parks his late-model car in a lot across from his corner office on the top floor. Each day, he puts a coin in the cup of a beggar who stands in front of the building. One day, Hoffman looks out his window and notices the beggar washing his car - no one else's in the lot, just Hoffmann's. That evening, when he gives the beggar a coin, Hoffmann tells him not the wash it. But the next day, it happens again. On the third morning, Hoffman drives his car back and forth in a mud puddle; the beggar washes it carefully. That evening, Hoffman has no change and no small bills, only 100 DM. He tries to evade the beggar, who gives chase, cane and all. More than wills collide.