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- The everyday lives of teenagers, coming from various social backgrounds. For them, sexuality has become a substitute for love, resulting from emotional neglect.
- After his father's suicide, confused angsty 16 year old Paul goes to stay with his uncle's family. His uncle's wife is also unhappy with her life, so she and Paul have sex and only end up feeling even worse afterwards. Things get ugly.
- Luxury hotel. Luxury clientele. Irritable staff. A couple who might fall in love, or they might leave their relationship in its raw state - like the titular steaks.
- 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.
- Frontalwatte is like running against a wall and falling softly. Teenagers, Franz, Adrian and Anastasia stumble through a world without consequences. They pass the time with home visits, jaw surgeries, triangle lessons, incest and poetry slams. Their search for identity degenerates to the search for the right role. It is like standing on stage with bandages in the mouth. Franz is left by his girlfriend, Claire and is going around visiting luxury apartments as a potential buyer who is obviously not rich but lives in a city where this can still be pulled of: Berlin. He meets an older woman, Ursula who wants to seduce her teenage son, Adrian, but he refuses so she uses Franz to replace him for her sexual inappropriateness. One day they are caught by Adrian.
- 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.
- "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.
- The film is a drama about a young woman who has to grapple with the painful consequences of an unplanned pregnancy. It not only reveals loss and loneliness, it is also a story of the search for a meaning to life by 20- to 30-year-olds.
- Lynn (22) lives with her brother in Berlin. There she enjoys the advantages of family life, without really feeling involved in it. She does not have any precise aim in life, but manages to awaken the interest of many people with her direct and spontaneous character. Her boyfriend David is very different: he is entirely engrossed in his very disciplined swimming training for the world championships. David does not intend to allow himself to be distracted by the complicating factors of a relationship with Lynn. When Lynn, working behind the till of restaurant, meets the Japanese student Koji, everything gets more complicated. They can't exchange many words, but it is soon clear that their moments together mean a lot to both of them.
- A frog tries to impress a shapely gazelle by transforming into various animals, each with a different attempted appeal.
- Herr Hoffman parks his late-model car in a lot across from his corner office on the top floor. Each day, he puts a coin in the cup of a beggar who stands in front of the building. One day, Hoffman looks out his window and notices the beggar washing his car - no one else's in the lot, just Hoffmann's. That evening, when he gives the beggar a coin, Hoffmann tells him not the wash it. But the next day, it happens again. On the third morning, Hoffman drives his car back and forth in a mud puddle; the beggar washes it carefully. That evening, Hoffman has no change and no small bills, only 100 DM. He tries to evade the beggar, who gives chase, cane and all. More than wills collide.
- The modern version of the German classic play EMILIA GALOTTI by G. E. Lessing. It plays in todays Berlin, but the characters speak in the original "Lessing-German".
- A teenage girl learns some valuable lessons about love and self-acceptance in this coming-of-age drama from filmmaker Kirsi Liimatainen. Sonja (Sabrina Kruschwitz) has just turned sixteen, and is going through a summer where nothing seems to feel right anymore. Sonja can't get along with her mother (Nadja Engel), their apartment feels uncomfortably small, a recent spurt of growth has left her physically awkward, and she's lost all interest in her boyfriend. The one person who seems to understand Sonja is her best friend Julia (Julia Kaufmann), but as Sonja spends more and more time with Julia, she begins to realize that her feelings for her have moved beyond friendship. Hoping to sort out her feelings, Sonja pays a visit to her estranged father, but an upsetting encounter with a neighborhood boy only confirms in her mind that her sexuality follows a different course. Sonja received its North American premiere at the 2006 Miami International Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- In 1980, 11-year-old Mike is the only survivor when his family attempts an escape from East Berlin over the Death Strip. 10 years later, he reluctantly returns to the united Germany to confront his past and the truth behind his mother's disappearance in the STASI machinery (former Ministry for State Security).
- The series "Achterbahn" is about friendships and the handling of difficulties and problems from children's everyday lives.
- At the film festival in Cannes, young director Isabell fights against her incompetent producer and the stone age stereotype attitude in film business.
- A girl's everyday life at the end of her school days, trying to find a way into society and her own life.
- While Dina lost herself during her long years she is living this "WAG"-life, spring chicken Judith finds her new life alongside an up-and-coming footballer quite exciting. Dina decides to rescue Judith - and finally rescues herself.
- One afternoon Dan is brutally jumped and accosted by a Gang in his neighborhood. Angel, the leader of Dans crew demands that he murder his punisher and thus earn his official "membership" into the crew: a teardrop tattoo under his eye. Dan stands at the most important crossroads in his life. Will he go through with the killing to become a member, or back out and risk standing alone? We see the film through Dans eyes and know what he experiences, but do we know who Dan is?
- A group of school friends meet real life in Germany after school is over. From failed love affairs to unpaid bills, growing up means learning that life is not as you imagined it.
- Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.