Eva Mattes

Petra Hoffmann is in her early 50s and pregnant. She is not carrying her own child though, but that of her daughter. Midwife Lena Lorenz has been ...

When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without ...

While dealing with a burnt-down house, smelly diapers and brutal lack of sleep, a Lower Bavarian police officer faces his worst adversary: cholesterol.

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be ...

It’s the early 1950s and little Franzi is growing up in the small Austrian town of Judenburg. Her oppressive family home is dominated by her ...

The gritty, kinetic, visionary cinema of Roland Klick is ripe for rediscovery. After shooting with international stars, such as Mario Adorf and ...

Rosa von Praunheim is an icon in the scene: gay activist, loving provocateur and a very special filmmaker from Berlin for decades. His curiosity ...

The Taschenbiers could actually lead quite a contented life – if it weren’t for the strange fact that if you have a Sams in your home ...

Frido Schulz and Rosa Schätzlein have known each other since their student days. But while Rosa made a career as a lawyer, Frido had to take over ...

Katja emigrated from East Berlin to Bavaria. There she has found the love of her life. Now she invites her mother Rita to take a look at her ...

Alma Mahler’s affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek ...

Eleven-year-old Philipp, known as Lippel, travels from Passau in Bavaria to the Orient without a flying carpet: because his father, the posh chef ...

After two decades in prison Widmer, a former German RAF-terrorist, is released. He meets Valerie, his next door neighbour. The young woman tries ...

Laura sees a shooting star falling to earth and finds it in a park, down on the floor and with a broken point. The star is a living being, and ...

Sams in danger, it is said, when Mr. Taschenbier’s son Martin brings the Sams back into the household, which, however, is kidnapped shortly ...

Explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this ...

It is 1944 and Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels narrowly escapes an assassination attempt on the way to Obersalzberg. It is whispered ...

One Saturday, the Slurb, a strange little creature with a proboscis nose, enters Mr. Taschenbier’s life. Slurb, who immediately adopts the ...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

In 1974, the woman kills herself. I meet the man again in 1997. He still lives in the apartment he moved into 41 years ago with his wife and ...

Bugsy, a small-time crook, seeks to bring his son home by needing a wife, money, and a career. An angel named Noname is sent to help him, but ...

The true story of Otomo, a black man seeking work and asylum in the German city of Stuttgart. However, all he finds is racism, police trouble and ...

Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. ...

A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and ...

A documentary about the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was an episode of the French documentary film series Filmmakers of our time. ...

A black comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulty of obtaining this: While Molly (Eva Mattes), Elisabeth (Katja Flint) and Maria ...

The lives of a Serb family are torn apart by the pressures of the not-too-distant war with the Croats. The film addresses the fundamental ...