Birte Schnöink

Nazilere mensup annesiyle babası 1945 yılında Müttefikler tarafından tutuklanınca ortada kalan genç Lore, dört kardeşini önüne katıp 900 kilometre ötede, Hamburg'daki büyükannelerine doğru yola koyulur. Savaşın bitişiyle hüküm süren kargaşa, yokluk ve acının ortasında, Thomas adında gizemli bir Yahudi mülteciyle karşılaşması Lore'un dünyasını alt üst eder. Lore, tehlikeli yolculuklarında hayatta kalabilmek için düşman bildiği, hep nefret etmesi gerektiği öğretilen birine güvenmek zorunda kalacaktır.

An ordinary working day on a construction site. Thomas, a 40-year-old crane operator, receives a call from his wife asking him to pick her up from the hospital. He finds her crying.

Lisa ve Mara, ev arkadaşı olan iki kadındır. Ancak onların ev arkadaşlığı, Lisa'nın tek başına yaşamaya karar vermesiyle sona ermek üzeredir. Lisa yeni bir hayata başlayamaya hazır olsa da Mara, bu değişime henüz hazır değildir. Bu süreç aynı zamanda dost olan Lisa ve Mara'nın arasında gerginlik oluşmasına neden olur. İiki arkadaş arasındaki gerilim, Lisa’nın annesinin, bir usta ve çırağının, komşunun ve evin sessiz üyesi örümceğin araya girmesiyle bir azalır bir artar.

Hannah, a young Jewish girl, is rescued from a concentration camp by her Polish boyfriend, and believes he died after their perilous escape. More than 30 years later, the married Hannah faces an emotional crisis when she learns he's alive.

East Germany, in autumn 1999. Gudrun Pfaff is about to turn sixty when she finds out that the orphanage she grew up in is being sold to turn into a hotel, and she is willing to do anything to stop it.

The two washed-up TV stars Micki and Ginger and the unemployed physicist Reno try to kidnap a young woman. But one of the three kidnappers suddenly doubts the value of the money and drives his accomplices mad. The kidnapped woman is already missing. Three children from a good family are looking for their sister: the dutiful Junior, who counts up his day in seconds, his brother Adrian, who, by contrast, thinks life is one big family outing, and Sophia, the artist, who never finds the real thing in life.

Alman şair Heinrich von Kleist'ın hayatı, Henriette Vogel ile olan ilişkisini ve ölümünü konu ediniyor. Yaşadıkları kişisel yıkımlar nedeniyle hayata küsen iki arkadaş hayatlarını birlikte sonlandırmaya karar verip birlikte intihar etmeyi planlarlar. Hedefleriyse bu yolda bile birlikte olup aynı tecrübeyi birlikte paylaşmaktır, tıpkı aşk gibi ölüm de onlar için birbirlerinden ayrılamayacakları bir varış noktasıdır...

Kerstin is in great pain. Her daughter Juliane wants to help her die, but the law forbids it. Jessica Krummacher’s second feature describes the most important of events via tiny details that stay with us and get under our skin.

Ilyas and Yasemin are a couple in love - until Yasemin is shot by an unknown assailant in their shared café. Ilyas' life, as well as that of their daughter Senna, completely falls apart. And as the police begin to link him and his deceased wife to the crime, Ilyas finds himself utterly bewildered. The longer the suspicions persist, the more he wonders: Was Yasemin truly the woman he loved?

Sophie and Georg once loved each other, but now they have split up. Almost the entire film takes place in front of the same doorway in Berlin. In an elliptical way, the individual scenes portray a family for whom the word patchwork is the new normal — and take a laconic look at the everyday irrationalities of love.

Caro hasn't actually been able to do anything for a long time. As a nurse on a dementia ward, she has hardly taken any vacation in the last two years and has accumulated countless hours of overtime. But it is only when her dearest resident, Mrs. Rumi, dies that the barrel overflows: Instead of going to work the next morning, Caro goes to a locker at Frankfurt Central Station, takes out a packed, brand-new rucksack and simply sets off - without a destination, without a plan, without a cell phone and without any outdoor experience.

Three women, three generations, one house in the 'Altes Land'.