Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert 2023

When Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch meet for the first time in Paris in the summer of 1958, they are already international celebrities of the literary world. In the four years that follow, they dabble in great love and an open relationship between his hometown of Zurich and her adopted Rome.

Helene, die wahre Braut 2020

Helene is forced by her wicked stepmother Gertrud to do works impossible to done. When she builds a castle for her with the help of the fairy Cleo, there is only room for Helene, in the cellar. One day, Prince Lassmann ride near the castle.

Do You Sometimes Feel Burned Out and Empty? 2017

Zazy 2017

An idyllic town in the Alps. Here Marianna spends her Easter holidays with her children. Her husband, a showmaster, could not travel because of his job. Zazy lives in the same place and teaches dressmaking there. She is not really happy with that, she would rather go into show business. Together with her friend Tomek she dreams of a life in luxury. In the tailoring Zazy meets Marianna, who has become friends with the owner of the store. When he does not return after a trip with Marianna, Zazy senses the chance to make her dream of a TV career come true.

The Exchange 2016

A 50 Euro note changes its owners and pays all debts – a parable on actual financial dept-crisis and the theory of money circulation, realized as a hommage to early silent movies and filmed with a hand-cranked camera.

Heil 2015

An African-German Author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany.

Die Anruferin 2008

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

Barefoot 2005

A hedonistic bachelor - he is his rich family's black sheep - falls for a suicidal mental patient.

Perfect Sight 2001

10 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, at the "Perfect Sight" campsite, located on the Island of Rügen on the German Baltic Sea coast: the former state property has been taken over by an ex-officer of the German army. Now the new moved in West German rules the site. Anyone who opposes him is banned. With a little imagination and a few tricks, he wanted to make the deal of a lifetime. But he has miscalculated and run the property into the ground, bankruptcy is imminent. His employee, the Vietnamese German Pit Sun, somehow keeps the place together and has a child with the owner's daughter. But since he hasn't received any money for a long time, he wants to run away to Vietnam. The tradition-conscious East German campers are also not happy with the bad-tempered campsite operator. It's just as well that Claus Oehlke has robbed a bank and is only throwing the money around to impress his wife. But she only has eyes for the former GDR crooner Michi Fanselow, the dream of her youth.