Bärbel Schwarz

After her daughter's fatal accident at a busy intersection, Jenni is confronted with videos on the web of Mia dying. Instead of helping, passersby...

Karla, a strong, sensual and experienced woman, learns that she has terminal cancer. She only has a few months left. After a wild life as a...

Stefan Gabriel is an active father always looking at life positively. While he tries to give back to society, his daughters Jessica (12) and Sabrina...

Frustrated with the hopeless search for professional therapy, Martha looks for help with a spiritual self-help group. When this group turns out to be...

Richard lives apart from his wife. He is unemployed. His life is really not running smoothly right now. Rather by chance, he gets into conversation...

Over the course of a century, as four girls from different time periods experience their youth on a German farm, their lives become intertwined until...

Young forester Jana Doussière takes up a short-term position at the Grunewald forestry office. Coming from a wild forest in the Vosges, the...

Father Iversen has a mission: to save his parish. He already has an idea. With a spectacular performance of the Passion story, he wants to convince...

A crew from the U.S. intends to film a war drama at an abandoned sugar factory on the remote outskirts of a German city, making the nearby town,...

Six teenagers experience tumultuous vacation at the Baltic Sea with a lot of sun and beach. At the holiday home they meet the sexologist Ellen. The...

It's a hot, dry summer in Klein-Schappleben. Micha, a pretentious video game designer, wants to turn his late parents' dilapidated guesthouse into a...

Unemployed Nikki (37) is taken to a movie set for the first time by his uncle Olaf (67) as a security guard. But the seemingly casual job of briefly...

Wherever 9-year-old Benni ends up, she is expelled. She has become what child protection services call a “system crasher.” But she is not...

Former East Germany, 1992. Patrick Stein and Markus Bach, two very different police officers, are commissioned to investigate the disappearance of...

Barbara Teufel's montage of fiction and documentary film elements tells the story of the women's community of "Ritterinnen", who founded a...

A glittery nightclub in 1920s Berlin becomes a haven for the queer community in this documentary exploring the freedoms lost amid Hitler’s rise...

Half-sisters Kim, Lesley and Olivia commit a robbery at a safe deposit box in order to convict the fraudster Christian Heisinger, who stole the...

Franka is a punk—wild and loud—but her star is fading. Her younger sister Maya has retreated to their parents in the countryside and now...

A jester costume worn by dressmaker Dolores comes to life when she is diagnosed with breast cancer. Haunted by the gloomy jester, Dolores tries to...

Every city has a kiosk, newsstand, refreshment bar, or late-night shop. Hajo inherited a shop like this. Here he is with Thorsten and Guido. When the...