Drama

Pro-gamer Jitze has to take a forced break from a tournament in Taipei and meets a young woman who changes his view of the world.

In this Hollywood-style mother-daughter road trip east, the two try to get closer to their dream.

Following the death of her younger brother during a police intervention, Malika embarks on a legal battle to ensure a trial takes place.

Between school trouble, mean girl drama and catchy lyrics, teenage Lena tells us the real story behind the big fight. But what isn’t she telling us?

Rosa and David, two lost souls, try to escape purgatory. But only one of them can be saved in the end.

On a lonely Black Forest farm, the shattered dreams of life, painful love and hidden longings of a Berlin clique collide.

A simple worker gets caught up in the maelstrom of real estate sharks, evictions and clan crime, where humanity often gives way to greed.

The war crimes tribunal in The Hague is fighting with itself and war criminals from the former Yugoslavia.

When a mother and her daughter take a vacation at the Baltic Sea, it quickly turns into a journey into the past that opens up old wounds.

A teenager grapples with masculinity amid family splits and first loves, reflecting the rawness of youth in a German town.

In her harsh milieu study, Gina Wenzel tells the story of youth violence from the perpetrator's perspective.

With destabilising gentleness, Mo Harawe recounts the last hours of the terrorist Farah before his execution.

Caught between German stuffiness and Argentinian religiosity, Madi discovers her own sexuality.

A family visit and a broken tooth raises universal questions about identity, origins and life choices.

A creeping, almost invisible toxic waste catastrophe is taking place on Somalia's coast.

Lee and Jasmin's lesbian idyll on the outskirts of Salzburg starts to crack when they give documentary filmmaker Amira a glimpse into their lives.

"Don’t become like my father" - a credo that will drive Alex, a man on the run from himself, to the edge of reason.

In the heart of Berlin, a film noir billiard thriller unfolds with deceit, ambition, and suspense.

In the vast emptiness of the Patagonian steppe, 13-year-old Mora embarks on a journey with an old, indigenous Mapuche gaucho.

The dark, dystopian horror cabinet with BDSM vibes about the man in the monkey mask enters its second round.

While Wissam fights for his love, political tensions rise and the Israeli army invades Lebanon.

A poignant tale of lost innocence, young Dib navigates the tumultuous landscape of 1950s Damascus following his father's death.

A 24-hour odyssey through Berlin, full of subtle tension and existential questions.

Is it fact or is it fiction? A documentary-fiction hybrid about the Red Mountain near Trier and the people who dwell there.

After a wedding party, three friends from Hamburg are stranded Berlin. A fast-paced odyssey through the urban wasteland of this once divided city.

In a world driven by algorithms, a group of "forever teenagers" rebel against the dictates of self-optimization.

When Germany surrenders in 1945, two reckless teenagers put their families' escape on the line to save their friendship.

Under the crushing emotional burden of his terminally ill father and violent brother, 14-year-old Daniel seeks refuge with two outcasts.

A film in episodes based on the trend blog "Notes of Berlin" that sheds light on the urban madness of everyday life.

When Ava's father Gunter, a classic macho dude, shows up at her door, worlds collide.

After a vacation romance, Kenneth and Theres lose sight of each other. But fate brings them together again 30 years later.

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a 15-year-old girl tries to find a home in the Berlin of wastelands and ruins.

An omnipresent giant who sees everything, but can’t be seen himself ... An “City Symphony” entirelly composed from material generated by CCTV.

Authentic, haphazard and unromantic, three residents of a high-rise housing estate search for love, friendship and sexuality.

Either the grass is greener, or the houses are bigger, or the sun is warmer ... anywhere else is better.

Samson and Delilah: The Old Testament story of a man with irrepressible strength - as a silent film, told in a modern way.

A powerful film about the struggle of a naive boy with good intentions in the harsh environment of Irans drug stronghold on the Island of Hormuz.

In poetic tableaux, filmmaker Zora Rux tells a surrealistic-comic story about the search for the true self.

Milena Czernovsky and Lilith Kraxner's debut blurs the line between documentary and fiction filmmaking, joining a recent trend in the film industry.

A senistive drama that authentically and lovingly captures the lifestyle of a group of young urbanites on the brink of a quarter-life crisis.

Authentic, honest drama about a family threatened by the downward spiral of depression, alcoholism and jealousy.

An adeptly played debut in which a yearning for paternal affection plays out against a background of teenage sexual manipulation.

Quiet drama about the Russian soul, corruption and the postman from Lake Kenozero in northern Russia.

The poetic tale of a man with a neurological disorder and the enigmatic nurse persuaded to support him with assisted suicide.

Karabas, a shamanistic con artist from Kyrgyzstan’s countryside, is reunited with his long lost son. This leads to quarrels between his two wives.

Soviet heroine Polina Schneider gathers a group of avant-garde artists to convert the remote pagan tribes of Siberia to communism.

Elza lives in a small town on the Caspian Sea. While her husband catches fish illegally, she dreams of breaking out of her small world.

An exceptionally candid Belarusian film about three teenagers who are confronted with prejudice from their peers and adults.

Anna Jadowska's fifth feature film illustrates the inner struggle of a woman who comes into conflict with patriarchal power structures.

Despite its disarmingly strange erotic scenes, The Skin of Others is a deeply romantic love story.

An authentic and quietly directed personal love letter to all those whose greatest struggle is to just get out of bed every day.

Compassionate mumblecore-style drama about a young woman's struggles with the expectations placed on her by her partner and friends.

How do you become who you are? Dirk GIESELMANN was wronged. Now he is going to confront the people who caused his humiliation.

This film sensitively shows how two war orphans, in the face of an inhumane policy of conquest and the loss of their home, support each other.

Marc is a surfer and lives his life one day at a time. But after many strokes of fate, he dreams of turning back time, and starting all over again.

Isolated from the outside world a mother lives with her daughter in a remote house. The mother is training her daughter to be a survival specialist.

Joscha is on high alert. He wants to take a pill, but chance encounters with old friends keep him from swallowing it. Shot in a single t ake!

A grieving teenage girl is drawn to the young man blamed for her brother's death.

Teens Elisa and Anthea devise a sinister and destructive game as a way to sustain their mismatched friendship.

In this self-reflective improv film, an acting class prepares for a crucial final audition that will decide the rest of their careers.

A political and sociological look at the transformation and gentrification of Berlin through teenage eyes.

A haunting psychogram of an entire generation of ex-GDR citizens who have not yet fully accepted that they now live in the Federal Republic of Germany

"German cinema can be this exciting: Angela Schanelec's fourth film MARSEILLE" (taz)

Growing up in a rural idyll on his father's farm, teenager Johannes searches for his place in life.

On 3 summer afternoons, a family meets up a beautiful house in an upscale Berlin neighborhood. They come together but ultimately drift further apart.

Jealousy and biting jokes about old wounds start slowly, but build until bald-face confessions and hand-to-hand scuffles take over.

Deniz, 21 works as a dubbing artist and has just ended her relationship with Jan. In one short day, she goes through a separation and a new beginning.

The first part of Thomas Arslan's "Berlin Trilogy", which shows young people with a Turkish migration history from their own perspective.

Based on a true story: The film examines the German justice system and its structural bias.

Driven by their obsessions and fears, three Berliners lose themselves in the urban jungle.

A young woman ventures into the deadly beauty of the Chernobyl exclusion zone to save her father from prison.

When Jonas loses his job at a Hamburg startup he doesn’t have the heart to tell his girlfriend Katharina.

Karen, a young math teacher, is involved in a traffic accident for which she is not to blame. The accident causes the death of a girl on a scooter.

1956: 13-year-old Johanna, a polio sufferer, uses her camera to document family life, her coming of age and what really happens behind closed doors.

A Tinder date encourages young Leonid to live out his own definition of "masculinity" in a world of changing gender roles.

A group of young city dwellers celebrate New Year's Eve in a Tyrolean mountain hut, engaging in a alcohol fueled conflict with the locals.

In the face of an unfathomable tragedy, a young couple manages to focus on love and the good in life.

Sophie and Wolfram meet in the hospital and set off together on their final journey. Both are terminally ill with cancer.

From an early age, Sebastian had to be self-reliant. This film follows him through three stages of his life on the path to discovering his true self.

Omar, a photographer, lost his male lover in an explosion. He turns his experience of loss into an art project.

A young Irish musician immerses himself into Berlin nightlife after a concert and loses more than just his friends in the process.

Lászlo, an aging film director, is in a creative crisis. His latest project has been cancelled so he joins his son's band on their tour to Japan.

The merciless analysis of their failed relationship brings a newly separated couple closer together than ever before.

After playing a sexually charged game with her best friend, below the cliffs of Dubrovnik, a teenage girl doesn't return home.

What would kids do if they didn't have to go to school? Five young people follow their interests in a world without compulsory education.

An unconventional portrait of a man whose life motto reminds us of the poets of romanticism: The genius writes its own rules.

Mara jumps from a bridge to her death - and wakes up in the hospital. But something's wrong. No one recognizes her.

Lena (16) is in love with her brother and would rather indulge in this fantasy than face reality.

In dystopian Germany - just a breath away from our current reality - the return of the wolf triggers a mysterious fascination among the citizens.

WANNABE tells the story of a young YouTuber, who builds herself a fictitious world on the Internet.

A fairytale-like story with tableaux vivants of three macabre, mystical and humorous nymphs.

An intimate look at three headstrong women who come from different parts of a country that no longer exists.

A sales rep find himself stranded in an abstract space and time loop. Trapped in a non-place, between urban misunderstandings and Google Street View.

After an assault, Maya tries to find her way back into life.

Stuck in her everyday life, Antonia oversleeps, procrastinates, and surfs the internet. Until she decides to asks her fling for a steady relationship.

Winner of the Bronze Student Oscar.

On a trip Felipe shares his most intimate mantra with Pilar, which kept him afloat in existential crisis: a '70s cassette with hypnosis inducing talk.

A woman dies in a tragic accident, but her soul remains in the here and now. But how? A quick-witted Berlin repairman has a hand in this...

Meeting his old school "friends" reveals old wounds. But Heriberto has changed...

Teenaged sex worker Paul finds refuge with a stranger.