1981-1990

On Christmas Eve, a young boy builds a snowman that comes to life and takes him to the North Pole to meet Father Christmas.Read More »

In “Ein Kaktus ist kein Lutschbonbon,” a quirky comedy, an ambitious botanist navigates love and hilarity when his rare cactus goes missing, leading to a series of wacky misadventures. Amidst chaos, he learns that some treasures can’t be replanted.Read More »

After their caravan is attacked and their respective families butchered by Arab marauders, teenagers David and Sarah flee across the desert. But the desert is filled with danger from the elements, animals and the appetite of the Jackal.Read More »

In Josefina Molina’s ”Evening Performance,” two people whose long marriage is being annulled meet to discuss the situation and then proceed to talk it to death. She says: ”The children have become a burden to me – a wonderful burden, but a burden.” He says: ”I say that love can exist at first sight.” She says: ”I’ve done nothing for myself. I’ve done it all for others.” And a fortune teller, who also figures briefly in the proceedings, declares: ”Marriage always leaves its mark on the children.”Read More »

A small town by the lake. Guido is a young man with no desire to work who spends the whole day in the local hotel at the poker table and manages to win decent sums with a lot of luck. One day he meets Caterina at the station and falls in love with her.
After some hesitation she accepts his courting and their love story begins among ups and downs, as the girl sometimes assumes mysterious attitudes.Read More »

This is an affecting story about a father’s attempts to mend the breaches in the relationship between himself and his 10-year-old daughter. Emmanuel (Sami Frey) is the father of Elise (Mara Goyet) by his first marriage, and the stepfather of an older daughter by his second marriage. He tries to make the best of both family relationships by taking off to visit his young daughter on the weekends, but that only makes his new family a little jealous – especially his stepdaughter. She herself is confused about her own relationship with him. After a particularly emotional send-off one weekend, Emmanuel and Elise take a trip from the south of France into Spain, working on a film project. Through a series of round-about conversations, Emmanuel manages to open up a few channels of communication with Elise – channels that expand even wider when he uses the technique of talking into her video camera to express thoughts and feelings that otherwise would have remained hidden.Read More »

In January 1945, during the 2nd world-war, the Dutch resistance kills a collaborator in the street where the 12 year old Anton Steenwijk lives. The man was shot in front of his neighbors house, but is moved by them to the house of the family Steenwijk. Because of this, his father, mother and brother are killed by the Germans, and their house is set to fire. During his life, Anton meets several people that tell him more about what really happened on the night of the assault.Read More »

Aspiring singer Wendy hops on a plane to Tokyo with dreams of making it big in the music business. She soon finds romance with Hiro, a rock ‘n’ roll musician who convinces her to become the lead singer in his band.Read More »

Synopsis Das Wunder (The Wonder)

Teenager Raphaela was born blind into a wealthy, material focused family. Her father played by Raimund Harmstorf escapes reality into an affair with his secretary (Sybille Rauch). Her mother (Dagmar Lassander) reacts to the difficult situation in an over protective and possessive conduct towards her blind daughter.Read More »