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Children with magical animal companions at Winterstein School experience adventures spanning a forest and fashion show, encountering a snobbish cat and vegan crocodile while navigating friendship and first love.

An elderly piano teacher trains a young convict at a women's penitentiary.

A young man learns that his dying father was once deeply in love with a man.

In the summer of 1914, thirteen-year-old Oda von Siering (Paula Beer) leaves Berlin to join her family and an assortment of German and Russian aristocrats on an estate in Estonia. The von Siering family home is a character in its own right, a hulking, neoclassical manor that hovers on stilts above the sea. Oda arrives there bearing her mother's coffin and a gift requested by her surgeon father: a jarred, two-headed fetus to add to his laboratory of gruesome curiosities. Ebbo von Siering (Edgar Selge) sees himself in his daughter when she calmly and expertly learns to suture the corpse of a cat. What he fails to recognize - and what Oda luckily understands - is that their interest in science is their only similarity. His dedication to experimentation is linked to an appalling obsession with power and destruction, while Oda is genuinely curious about life. Her quick, quiet intelligence complements her humanity and her lucid understanding of right and wrong. When she strays from a family picnic and discovers a badly wounded Estonian anarchist, she helps him without a second thought, smuggling him into her father's lab and putting her new surgical skills to good use. As their illicit friendship deepens, family turmoil escalates and war closes in. The safe haven of the community collapses, forcing Oda's family to make impossible choices.

The story of a driven, hard-boiled woman, who, through the love of a 16-year-old boy, finds the strength to turn her back on violence and finally stop running.

In 1980s Germany, 17-year-old Ursula falls for her charismatic teacher Siegfried and thus gets involved with the peace movement. Siegfried's believe in free love, however, turns the entire village upside down.

Five new German directors have made this film about their mentor, university professor, colleague and friend Rosa von Praunheim. He taught film class at Konrad Wolf University of Film and Television in Potsdam Babelsberg.

Actually, Florian Herbst is happiest when his dad isn't at home. Then he can dance around the house with his mum, wear crazy costumes and forget all his troubles. And Hanno Herbst doesn't really know what to do with his son, who has two left hands, a much too big belly and is neither interested in sports nor girls. But it's not that bad! There is still mum. With a tender dominance she keeps the family's fragile harmony in check and protects her two men from each other. At least until one terrible morning, when the house of cards collapses and mum vanishes from their lives from one moment to the next. Father and son are left behind, overwhelmed, but gradually learn to cope.

Misfit Johanna is trying to connect with her schoolmates, but the problematic situation at her family home prevents her from living a carefree teenage life.

At a New Year's Eve a Nazi family discovers that the daughter's groom is a Jew.

A nuclear power plant is taken hostage.

16-year-old Luca, a girl from a middle-class family shoots two people at her school. A year later, the process begins and the camera follows Luca's mother, her best friend, the family of the teacher who was killed.

Thin is beautiful in our world. And Tiffany is plump. Nevertheless, she dares to want all the things she is not entitled to: sex, a fantastic man and a well-paid job. This, she seems to have found. Everything should be perfect, but then she meets a good-looking barkeeper and falls in love. When her boss replaces her with a slimmer colleague, Tiffany makes a decision: the rolls of fat have to go, no matter how...

Nike, 19 years old, is a civil servant trainee at the immigration department in Hanover, but still lives with her father on his farm, where he tries to cultivate strawberries for the first time to overcome financial problems. However, while bringing in the crops, he suffers a heart attack. Suddenly, Nike has to take over business, but soon realizes that most of her father's employees are illegal immigrants...

Documentary who follows the celebrations in Berlin's Jewish community center for a year.

A bored herd of sheep is seduced by an eloquent dog to follow him, and ends up in the desert. Only one sheep recognizes the dizziness, leaves the flock and bravely and alone makes the way back.