Lara
It is Lara’s sixteenth birthday and it is surely no coincidence that her son Viktor is giving the most important piano concert of his career – since it was her…
Brecht
Bertolt Brecht, a theatre revolutionary, poet of the state, outsider, looks back on his life in 1956, the year of his death, in East Berlin: adolescent provocations in Augsburg during…
Werk ohne Autor
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.
Woman in Gold
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II, she believes…
Suite Française
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a…
Posthumous
After false reports of his demise put him and his work on the map, an artist decides to continue the charade by posing as his own brother. Soon, a reporter…
Who Am I
Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world’s stage.
Generation War
Berlin, 1941. Five friends eager to become heroes in an adventure that will change the face of Europe – and that will forever change them as well.
Shark Alarm at Müggel Lake
A lifeguard at Lake Müggel has his hand bitten off and the marks indicate a shark attack. The lake is closed to the public by extending a local festival indefinitely…
The Tragedy of a Simple Man
Woyzeck takes psychotropic drugs and punishes himself physically. He has no choice. It’s his living. With what he earns selling his body and by working in a restaurant and in…
A Coffee in Berlin
A fateful day pushes an aimless college dropout (Tom Schilling) to stop wasting his time and finally engage with life.