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- A young man who disappears from home for a while returns as his own (deceased) brother and encounters a strange world that should be familiar to him.
- The series "Achterbahn" is about friendships and the handling of difficulties and problems from children's everyday lives.
- A young, naive and enthusiastic theater director named Kai comes to a grim provincial town to put on Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Although the lethargic theater company shows no interest in the play, his spirit remains undaunted. Meanwhile, it is fall 1989. The world is changing and somewhere, far away in the capital, a revolution is taking place and it seems that wishes might come true. Great hopes emerge in the little town and unexpected events overtake Kai's mutating production.
- Documentary about an eight-year old boy, half-German, half-Japanese, about his hobbies, his dreams and his expectations for the future.
- Herrman is an ex-policeman from the border of the disappeared German Democratic Republic. Not understanding the world and the change of values after the fall of the wall he invents his own small fantasy world in which he is allowed to go on checking and controlling like in former times.
- Spurred on by his zealous publisher, a wide-eyed American photographer roams the globe in search of the last remaining Lenin statues. But what he finds isn't exactly what his publisher had in mind. An ironic take on post-Cold War Eastern Europe.
- A documentary that reviews the lives of the couple Alice and Gerhard Zadek and touches on eight decades of German history. Based on their memoirs, he describes their work as convinced young Zionists and socialists in a resistance group against the Nazi regime, their escape to England, and their work to build the socialist state of the GDR, which was characterized by hopes and utopias.
- "Good Guys and Bad Guys" is a post-Cold War romp through suburban Los Angeles. In 1996, expatriate filmmaker Rick Minnich returned to his native California for his ten-year high school class reunion to confront the right-wing suburban "patriots" who had made his life miserable during the Reagan era. The result is an entertaining and provocative look at what has become of the "Good Guys and Bad Guys" of yesteryear.
- In 1993, filmmaker Aelrun Goette became acquainted with the then 17-year-old Jeannette S. in women's penitentiary Plötzensee in Berlin. At the age of fifteen, Jeannette and three other children fatally wounded the 13-year-old Melanie H., who died later on in hospital. This murder is still known as one of the most gruesome crimes in contemporary German criminal justice.
- Three young men kills two policemen after a chaotic bank raid; a problem which forces the trio to make a desperate escape across the border to Poland.
- The film project under the working title of "Nightwalk", about the jazz music of the Afro-American Cassandra Wilson, was born of the idea to really create a fusion between music and pictures. The film team concentrate the contents of the film on the actual theme of the music, "Children of the night". This is not, however, a conventional plot rather an atmospheric series of pictures surrounding a figure who is wandering through the city streets at night.
- Four unsuspecting Germans get caught in a road block in Russia and, because of this contact with a civilization they do not know anything about, in a life-threatening situation...
- A man and a boy walking over the countryside to repair an old table.