Eva Löbau

Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg. Attila the fireman can eat glass - but this doesn't help his love life. His girlfriend, Sabine, breaks up with him. She wants more from life. It's her dream to be a talk show host - and there's no place for Attila in her career plan... (carpeberlin.com)

Following the travails of five disparate (and desperate) Westerners--including a couple of English lager louts, an in-transit German woman confined to her Thai hotel, an Irishman doing a runner from hometown responsibilities and another German woman seeking solace at a meditation centre--Heiss almost casually (and sometimes gently) allows her camera to capture her characters' predicaments in Thailand and India. (viff)

As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city, things turn out to be much tougher than she had imagined. (imdb)

When Martin (Liam Neeson) emerges from a coma following an auto accident in Berlin, nothing is as it should be: Not only does his wife (January Jones) no longer recognize him, but a stranger (Aidan Quinn) has apparently taken over his identity. With assassins chasing him and the police unsympathetic to his story, Harris must reassemble his world piece by piece, helped only by the one person (Diane Kruger) who seems able to grasp his plight.

Ellen (Jeanne Balibar) works as a flight attendant and one day she discovers that her partner Florian (Georg Friedrich) is cheating on her. She first leaves home, then unexpectedly a flight and is therefore fired. Ellen is almost broke and she doesn't want to go back home, so she becomes sort of a vagabond on her own will and starts a new way of living first in hotel rooms, then as a guest in a commune and tries to confide in strangers.

Ferdi is ugly. And he desperately wants a girlfriend but he can't because: ugly. One day however he meets Jona and Jona is blind. For the first time in his life, there is hope. What Ferdi doesn't know is that Jona isn't really blind. She's just pretending. After she ran away from home to drop out of school she needed a place to stay and began to play blind to live with her Cousine Cecile in the home for the blind. Should Ferdi find out, he will most likely kill himself.

When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her. (imdb)