Winter Sleepers

Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa ow

Woyzeck

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes od

Kampftag

Deadly Maria

40-year Maria is living in a monotonous and deadlocked marriage with her husband. In addition, she h

Ohne einander

The Bone Man

Set in a sleepy Austrian mountain village, ex-detective Simon Brenner has grown weary of his job rep

Mein Freund der Scheich

Wedding Shower

The film is based on the figure of the police inspector Simon Polt of the Austrian author Alfred Kom

A Year Ago in Winter

A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a

A Birthday to Remember

Lene Thurner is standing on a train platform in Munich. She has to decide: back to Berlin where she

Heart of Glass

A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of t

The Farewell

A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as h

The Architect

Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuri

The White Ribbon

An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was

Winter Journey

Despite advancing age, rural businessman Franz has remained fit and energetic, but serious mental il

Brand

Brand, an author, who falls in love with Angela, his terminally ill wife's nurse and blunders into a

Beer Chase

A man who is dissatisfied with his senseless existence in his family-life and social status steals t

Heal Hitler!

Stalingrad, 1942: just as he is complaining about the "blockheads" who are in control, a German name

The Ghost

Jesus returns to present-day Bavaria, walks around Munich in a somewhat dazed manner and strikes up

Free Fall

Edgar Wurlitzer is on his way home when a woman suddenly jumps in front of his car. He quickly drive

Exit Marrakech

When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous jour

Hamburger Gift

A docu-drama about tetrachloro-dibenzo dioxin, later known as 'Sevesogift', sprayed on thousands of

Sieben Erzählungen aus der Vorgeschichte der Menschheit

1. A modern Bavarian brewer, Emanuel Holzbauer, faces a sales crisis and targets his competitors to

Heidi

In the new film adaptation of Johanna Spyri's popular children's book, Heidi is sent to live for a s

Code Unknown

A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the fil

The Atlantic Swimmers

Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the

Ein Dorf sucht seinen Mörder

Der Komantsche

After several years in a coma, the Comanche, an Indian, wakes up in a Bavarian hospital. But reality

Der Neger Erwin

A filmmaker (Achternbusch) is just released from prison and has to make a living with his craft ag

Wildfeuer

Dicke Freunde

Political satire about the billion-euro loan to the GDR in 1983, which was arranged by Franz-Josef S

Landauer

The story of former Bayern Munich president Kurt Landauer, a Bavarian jew ousted by the National Soc

Bierbichler

Documentary about actor Josef Bierbichler.

Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation

Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.

Triumph der Gerechten

Rita Ritter

A writer tries unsuccessfully to sell his screenplays and plays. He marries a television editor, but

Picasso in Munich

In this surrealist film director Picasso can awaken from the dead. He steals a paintings painted by

Neue Freiheit - Keine Jobs Schönes München: Stillstand

Chancellor Helmut Kohl is to blame in Germany and has to go away without violence. The homeless Hick

Don't Look at Me That Way

Hedi is the new neighbor of Iva, who raises her daughter Sofia by herself. The two women start a rel

Hamlet_X

A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surroundi

Der unsichtbare Freund

The story takes place in the 1960s, when computers were still big and scary. Nevertheless, this is n

Außer Kontrolle

Zwei Herren im Anzug

In the Bavaria of the 1980s, a father and his son compare their respective views on a family past he

Wohin?

Several comedy situations are strung together for this offbeat satire. An unassuming businesswoman i

The Olympic Champion

Dentist Adi has an extraordinary dream: a boy appears to him and asks to become his father. The unkn

Der Brandner Kaspar und das ewig' Leben

Der junge Mönch

Bavaria has become an arctic, hostile environment; at the site of the former state capital, a huge g

Wilhelm Tell

Claus Peymann's production of Schiller's play about oppression, rebellion and human rights is less a

The Second Awakening of Christa Klages

Three people rob a bank to help a day care center that's in debt. Wolf is captured, Werner identifie

Merkel: Anatomy of a Crisis

Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country - some pr

Daughters

Martha and Betty have known each other for twenty years and they have decided to breakthrough. But w

Failure as a Chance

Feature documentary about Christoph Schlingensief's political party/art project "Chance 2000".

Schaut her - und seht die Anmut meiner Hände

A German Film Award winning docu-drama about a woman who works in a school for deaf children.

Kochschule Schwarz

Munich, 1938: After his traditional Jewish restaurant was destroyed by the Nazis during Kristallnach

Bye-Bye Bavaria!

A renowned and sensitive poet and writer is fed up with the crudenesses of his native Bavaria and, i

Subotnik

Straight Through the Heart

Released in Germany in 1983 as Mitten Ins Herz, Straight Through the Heart was director Doris Dorrie

Ein Oskar für Bayern

Max und Sandy

This film deals with the everyday problems and self-discovery difficulties of young people today. Th