Alexander Beyer

A human story of the reunification not only of an entire nation, but of a family living in East Berlin. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Only ten years ago the Cold War divided Europe and a real brick wall split Berlin in two. Young German radicals fleeing the law could find protection in the communist "east." Eleven idealists remained there for good -- until the wall came down. This is the story of one of them. (Kino International)

A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens (imdb)

Martin is poised to start on his doctorate, when he is diagnosed with testicular cancer. The removal of one testicle reduces the most immediate threat, but the cancer has already spread and Martin's doctor argues for an operation that would save him, but could also castrate him. Martin refuses to risk the remainder of his manhood and instead chooses a long and painful chemotherapy. The cancer ward becomes Martin's new home, patients Susanne, Harry and Nickel his new friends and fellow suff (german.cinema.de)

Lene, a young student, is standing at the train station. She has to make up her mind whether to take the train back to Berlin (where she lives) or the one to the Bavarian countryside where her family resides (and from where she left in anger many years ago): Finally, she takes the train to her family. (imdb)

Yael Hersonski's powerful documentary achieves a remarkable feat through its penetrating look at another film-the infamous Nazi-produced film about the Warsaw Ghetto. Discovered after the war, the unfinished work, with no soundtrack, quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record, despite its elaborate propagandistic construction. The later discovery of a long-missing reel complicated earlier readings, showing the manipulations of camera crews in these "everyday" scenes.

When Jan and Marie traveled to Spain with some friends, Jan disappeared without a trace. Five years later, Marie, now married to Frank, incidentally discovers Jan's Spanish address and writes him a farewell letter, which she throws into the wastebasket. However, Frank finds the crumbled paper and sends it off. After a short while, Jan returns to his hometown, making Marie uncertain of her feelings... (imdb)

In the medieval South Germany the beautiful Marie is to marry the illegitimate son of the count von Keilburg against her will. In consequence of terrible plots Marie is brutally raped, tortured and whipped. Half dead, she robs into freedom only to be picked up by some Wanderhuren. From now on Maries lives only for revenge, and for that she's working as a Wanderhure.

The film starts in the early evening of a normal day: Sophie, a 20 year old girl, is pregnant and wanders through the night to get sure about her future life. Does she want to be a mother or do an abortion? Does she love her friend or not? Who is the father of her unborn baby? Trying to figure out what to do Sophie encounters many people, and in the morning she has come to a decision. But this is not the movie's end... (imdb)

A dramatic thriller based on real events, THE FIFTH ESTATE reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization. (imdb)

Two German tourists meet a lady while waiting speedboat.

Set in a divided Germany in 1983, during a peak period for Cold War tensions between East and West. Martin Rauch, a wide-eyed 24-year-old East German soldier plucked from obscurity, goes undercover as a West German soldier for the East Germany Secret Service. (imdb)

The story of five aristocratic families in Russia during the the Napoleonic Era. (imdb)

When a woman comes to the aid of a group of refugees shipwrecked on the high seas, she is shown the limits of her importance and of the empathy of her cultural milieu.

Hannah and Julian have separated and meet for a last time to empty out their shared apartment. But nothing goes as planned, and their last night together becomes a turbulent roller-coaster ride. (imdb)

It is 1986 and communism is crumbling. The German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany, is going broke, while across the Soviet Union, there's talk of major reforms, with Soviet President Gorbachev's policies of glasnost and perestroika.

Gregor, a young man, lives with and cares for his elderly grandmother. He's also a bit of an inventor. One day, when her wheelchair accidentally rolls down a hill and throws her into a pond, he gets an idea for an invention: A harness system that will let his grandmother walk again by supporting her weight. Meanwhile, her friends from the nursing home are trying to convince her to leave Gregor and live with them.

1942. Gilles, a young Belgian man, is arrested by the SS alongside other Jews and sent to a concentration camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but then Gilles is assigned a seemingly untenable mission: to teach Farsi to Koch. Gilles finds himself having to invent a language he doesn't know, word by word.

In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps the aging genius Salvador Dalí prepare for a big show in New York. (imdb)