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- The employee of a Way-Home-Phone service experiences the nightly horror of a young woman who is followed by a stranger on her way home.
- Istanbul 2014: Asli gives shelter to a young political activist, who got into a fight with the police. The police investigates the case and ends up questioning Asli's family. Her husband gets drawn into the affair. Their lives, and also their son's, start to become compromised. The situation escalates, as Asli is not willing to cooperate with the investigators.
- Belgrade, 2022: A photojournalist is threatened by right-wing extremist groups in her Serbian home and flees to Germany with her daughter. But then she also experiences increasing strong threats and attacks in her new home.
- For a decade Kenya has been targeted by terrorist attacks of the Al-Shabaab. An atmosphere of anxiety and mistrust between Muslims and Christians is growing. Until in December 2015, Muslim bus passengers showed that solidarity can prevail.
- 15-year-old Oskar is popular at his new high school. But after his classmates find out that he is Jewish, he gets threatened and is bullied brutally. While the headmaster ignores his parents' pleas, Oskar has to find his own ways to cope with the humiliations. This story is based on actual events.
- When Mia runs into her former schoolmate Steffen and his son at the grocery store, she is pleasantly surprised by the unexpected encounter. But the joy quickly turns into unease as Mia and her daughter slowly realize that Steffen's supposed son might be in danger.
- A German couple adopts in Kolkata an Indian orphan. Their child suddenly disappears and they realize that they are part of the problem.
- One day the withdrawn Noé finds a motionless android in the forest, takes it with her, and reactivates it. It's the beginning of a strange relationship. However, Noé realizes far too late that the android is about to copy her personality.
- Janosch, an interpreter, is called to help during a police deployment at the Port of Hamburg. A young African woman has barricaded herself in a container ship and threatens to commit suicide. In order to get her out, Janosch promises to help her, an offer which bears unexpected consequences.
- In der Hoffnung, den Abriss eines Skateparks durch ein Bauunternehmen zu verhindern, sagt eine 16-jährige Skaterin einem Vorarbeiter den Kampf an.
- A highly sensitive composer battles against a deadline, herself, and a relentless opponent: The sound of the city. Sound of the City is an absurd tragicomedy about an artist stuck in a creative crisis, about the examination of the creative process and about music and passion.
- Iranian political refugee Pouya, who lives in Germany, never knows who is an enemy and who a friend, but when the situation in Iran gets complicated, he must take a risk and trust others, in order to bring his wife Nikta to safety asap.
- Day by day, Mr. Jonas and Mr. Schmidt make their way from door to door across the country. selling pots. After work, both go their own way: Mr. Jonas spends his evenings in solitude, contemplating in his cheap hotel room, before going to a bar to drink a few glasses of Whiskey. Mr. Schmidt whereas, transforms himself into a glamorous Drag Queen and dives into the night-life.
- In order to escape from their lives, the teenage girls Carina and Denise always walk along the edge - smoking, stealing, drinking. When they have to bear the consequences for their actions, Carina gets to know Nikolas and with him another perspective on their painful world.
- Isi and Finn are planning their first time. A difficult endeavor, not only because of their physical disabilities but also because of their insecurities and lack of communication, which almost jeopardizes their relationship.
- "Cast Anchor" is a story about a short moment of life of five people. Their path of life is going to cross during one night in the port of Hamburg. At the same time the QM2 leaves the docks. The young Chinese sailor LIAN has only a couple of hours until his Container ship will be departing. On the telephone with his wife he gets to know that he became a father. Far away from home he celebrates the birth of his daughter and gets lost during the celebration ceremony of the QM2. HANNES, a scrap metal thief, meets the African blind passenger DOMBA, who convinces him to drive him to the Asylheim. Domba assumes that his family lives there. Both men make their way through the traffic jam, just to find out that some journeys are never going to end. JOCHEN finishes his last shift work as a customs officer. He has developed cancer and needs to get some serious therapy. But before leaving for the hospital he wants to make peace with his daughter LAURA. They haven't seen each other for eight years. But his egoism and her pride seem to stand in the way of their reconciliation.
- Her part-time job as a pizza delivery girl leads Suri to the house of Thomas, a man in his mid-fifties. There she is confronted with her biggest nightmare: Her parents' sexuality and the realization of her own double standards.
- A short film about a priest and his family, living under the dictatorship of the East German DDR. They have to choose between staying in their country and pretending that they are free, or to seek real freedom in the West.
- To finally gain her father's acceptance, Leonie, a trans woman, decides to return masqueraded as a man to the world of her childhood: the funfair. Though even the old owner of the ghost train has something to hide.
- A father shopping in a department store with his three sons must decide how do deal with his quiet middle son who is caught stealing a mermaid doll.
- Maik just wants to get through his community service hours at the home for the disabled as quickly as possible. But he soon starts to wonder who really needs the support here - he himself, the disabled, or maybe even the social workers?
- Alex, a carpenter who is currently on the road, is once again hit by a car on the side of the road. But this time he is hit harder than the times before and the lonely shepherdess Rita rescues him unconscious from the ditch. On her farm she treats him and the two quirky nonconformists quickly become close. They enjoy each other's company until Luise, one of Rita's sheep, is torn by a wolf. Thereupon, the two's differing worldviews begin to destroy the budding romance. Alex underestimates Rita's intense loyalty with the wolf and she, on the other hand, underestimates his with Luise the sheep.
- A boy wants to prevent his friends from taking a daring test of courage. A lonely man confronts his most painful memories. A family is on its way to seek a long-overdue encounter with that man. The day, when these fates will meet.
- Eight-year-old Jonathan grows beyond himself on an excursion into a dark forest as he overcomes his fear of the dark and is forced to take away the fear of death from his father, who becomes seriously injured on the trip.
- Thanks to an app, Katja finds Rosie. Death is what connects them. For one it is the end, for the other a way out of her emptiness. A film about the chaining between two people who only know each other for a few moments.
- When Naemi decides to meet her father for the first time in 19 years, there's not only a journey into the unknown ahead of her, but also a half-sister she didn't know about yet.
- Hannah sneaks into Paul's apartment to surprise him, but finds that the surprise is on her.
- When the venerable clown school of Claudia Clodetti calls for quietition, the talents show up to enter a rivalry with their likeminded. Likewise Konny and Dimples, two applicants, who soon enter an epic duel, blending reality and phantasy.
- The beginning of summer, the end of Svenjas childhood: defenselessly she has to bear the cruelties and bullying from dazzling Janine and the rest of her peers, all for a little recognition. What Svenja is wiling to sacrifice, comes as a surprise not only for Janine.
- A girl and a man - a duel and a duet. The girl with the saxophone has a dream: she wants to become a star, she wants the big show and the big breakthrough. But there is this special guy with the saxophone getting in Sophie's way, again and again. Who will win, who will lose?
- Together with two friends, 16 year old Jessy plans their collective suicide as an event on the Internet. But her little neighbour Sam gets in her way.
- For some time, Anna has been suffering from terrible nightmares that apparently reflect the true experiences of an unknown woman named Aylin. Anna finds herself magically drawn into Aylin's mysterious world, where dream and reality finally merge to resurrect the connection between these two women.
- Oona's parents are expectant and a little nervous before the first meeting with the daughter's new partner. But when the couple finally shows up, they are very surprised, and the dinner develops into something completely different than what they expected.
- When her dad ends up at the hospital, Lea immediately decides to cancel her stay at the Film Festival Cannes where she is about to present the latest short film she directed as part of her film studies. Instead of taking part of the premiere, she takes the first flight to see her parents at the end of the world: The Wendland. At home, she - unsurprisingly - is confronted with the usual chaos. Her parents Heiner (62) and Martha (56), two ex-Hippies who decided to built their own anarchic home on the countryside, didn't change much. Years ago, they where the first to demonstrate against the environment disasters of Gorleben and today, they still value their alternative lifestyle and a never ending grudge with modern medicine. No matter how serious Heiner's condition is, he refuses agreeing to the surgery, especially because he can't stand the idea of receiving a pig valve. Because of her strong belief in self-determination, Martha doesn't try to persuade her husband and just finished, changing the junk-room of the house into an Hawaiian Massage-Studio. As a masseuse, Martha decided to employ Numar, a refugee from the Ivory Coast, who also moved into Leas old nursery. From now on, everything needs to change. Heiner has to take the heart surgery and the only one able to persuade him is Lea. At least that is what she's convinced of.