CONTEMPORARY GERMAN CINEMA AND TV FILMS

Nine sad, funny, and absurd situations about 20-year-olds who know where they want to go, but have no idea how to get there. At the same time, it is also a film about parents.

A few weeks after palliative nurse Hans spends New Year's Eve with new acquaintance Simone, she discovers that she's pregnant. At another surprise meeting, handsome Hannes surprises her by reacting to the news by offering to move her into his fine home. While Hannes devotes himself further to terminal hospital patients, Simone lazily renovates the house, but somehow gets jealous of the neighbors and compromises everything.

Jonas, 12 year-old, assumes care for younger siblings after mother abandons them. Isolated in home, they retreat into fantasy world resembling haunted castle, their reality blurring as loneliness consumes them.

A photography student struggles to balance school, work, and helping her mom. She meets a mysterious younger man at a club. They start a passionate affair, but their new relationship faces tough challenges that test their commitment.

In 1990s east Germany, three boys are in love with techno music and start their own club.

The adventures of an eccentric girl who has strange attitudes towards hygiene and sexuality longs for the reunion of her divorced parents.

Teenage dropouts Adam and Tommek pass their days hanging out and drinking in their grim housing complex, but as grinding boredom combines with Adam's need to prove himself and Tommek's penchant for petty crime, the two make a bet that plunges them into shocking and sudden violence.

A look at a Bavarian commune of the Indian Bhagwan cult.

The appearance of a mysterious, hooded man evokes Erik's sinister past.

Lotte is impulsive, rough around the edges and leads a colourful life on the streets of Berlin, stumbling from man to man and flat to flat. One night in her local bar she bumps into Marcel, an almost forgotten acquaintance. Just after he recognises her Lotte takes flight, finding refuge in the flat of her friend Sabine. The following day, the events of the previous evening still grate on Lotte and she cannot seem to shake them off, even during her work at the hospital. A young girl, Greta, is brought in, Lotte takes care of her and a gentle affection develops between them. But this happiness is short-lived because, a little later, Lotte witnesses an encounter between Greta and Marcel. The three catch sight of each other and Lotte realises she will not be able to run away this time.

A complete opposite of a hero is banished from his village for his (in)actions. He then travels the world with more or less the same result trying to impress.

Four cigarette-smoking, alcohol-drinking, troublesome adolescents wander between the concrete skyscrapers of downtrodden West-German suburbia. These uncouth youths are surprisingly not boys but girls with attitude, quick-tempers and foul-mouths, who violently vent their scorn on any unfortunate soul who gets in their way.

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.

Nine-year-old Nikolas has been missing for days. Criminal psychologist Claudia notices contradictions in her conversation with the parents of the missing child, in particular Nikolas' mother, who appears to be hiding something.

Bomber is a small man. And he has just lost his job as a courier. He decides to rip off his boss and keep the money from his last delivery trip to Paris.

While investigating a series of suicides in prison, von Meuffels falls for the warden, who may know more about the deaths than she wants to admit.

A bungling cop on his last day on the job becomes eager to leave town quickly when he learns that a certain gangster is about to be released from jail that same day.

At work, Astrid is admired by her fans as a famous cabaret artist and privately a second child is on road to complete her family happiness.

It's summertime at a remote country house in the Uckermark nestling in the midst of protective woods. During the course of the summer, several generations of family will come here.

Eighteen-year-old Maggy has a baby, Lucy, eight months old. Maggy still lives with her mother, who often takes care of the baby so that Maggy can go out for an evening. At a disco she meets Gordon and soon falls in love with him.

Julietta returns to Berlin with a dilemma on hand and meets up with Max again (who has been befriended by boyfriend Jiri), and of course, what unravels is a predictable case of three-way tension, and so-called matters of the heart.

A family struggles to come to terms with their mother's death and their grandmother's illness.

A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.

In Germany, in 1991, Marga suffered from Alzheimer's disease. Sofia, her daughter, only reluctantly accepts to take care of this mother, who has always treated her with a certain coldness.