Jasmin Tabatabai

Four female cons who have formed a band in prison get a chance to play at a police ball outside the walls. They take the chance to escape. Being on the run from the law they even make it to sell their music and become famous outlaws. (imdb)

Originally "Unveiled" was titled "Fremde Haut" which means In Orbit -- the term officially used by the UN to refer to asylum-seekers who find themselves orbiting around planet Earth because they can actually find legal domicile nowhere at all. Fariba, prosecuted in Iran because of her love for a woman, flees to Germany. (Wolfe Releasing)

A ten-years-later continuation of Hal Hartley's "Henry Fool", where Fay Grim (Posey) is coerced by a CIA agent (Goldblum) to try and locate notebooks that belonged to her fugitive ex-husband (Ryan). Published in them is information that could compromises the security of the U.S., causing Fay to first head to Paris to fetch them ... (imdb)

An elderly piano teacher trains a young convict at a women's penitentiary. (imdb)

Irma Caspari has dropped her studies and now tries to make a living as a cleaning woman. Her new clients, the Schwarz family, seem to belong to the upper class. Frau Dr. Schwarz is a judge and will be elected state's supervising judge in the near future. One day Irma discovers something strange, Obviously the Schwarz family has someone arrested in the cellar: an old woman is laying in the dark groaning. Irma decides to do something about it. (imdb)

Flanders, a famous female author, travels 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German capitol. She is deeply depressed of the events because she saw the communistic states as a very good thing that has now ended. In the joy of these days she finds no person to understand her, so she has to travel back to Munich. After meeting several people, known and unknown, it seems as if there will be no way to go. (imdb)

A film about life's problems and the love affairs of two men and women in their twenties. They pretend to suffer from the mediocrity of their lives but in fact try to cover their own lack of perspective and inner emptiness. Setted in scene surprisingly amusing, this crazy and happy Zeitgeist-Comedy abstains from a comment while describing those people in their vividness as well as in their incapacity of giving their existence any sense. (imdb)

The program director of a German TV station desperately looks for a new talk master for the Late Show. (imdb)

13 short movies about Germany in the year 2009.

A former war photographer and her physician husband are caught up in a riot when locals in an Andean village vent their unhappiness with contamination from a nearby mine. (imdb)

The Sams returns after eleven years to Mr. Taschenbier to help his shy son Martin, however, it is kidnapped by the nasty sports teacher Daume who wants to come true all his wishes with the desirable points.

Two friends are continuously keep searching - one of them for nothing else but a place to sleep, whilst the other one seeks the girl of his dreams. However, he does not meet such a girl except ones that exist only in his imaginations, which then are destroyed by the female protagonist. The good shape, that's the question, as is always with jeans, and that's what ties them all together, despite all the confusion: jeans. (jasmin-tabatabai.com)

Some Villa: Penetrant hissing of the bellows of a respirator. The housemaid must bear the chicanery of the consumptive master of the house... (imdb)

Alpenbrennen is a german film about a girl struggling with asthma, who is taken to a clinic in South Tyrol to be cured. After some time she decides to get out of this hell (that's how she feels about it) and soon she'll meet a new friend. Together they try to reach the peak of a mountain where, according to an old custom, she can be healed (imdb)

The summerly adventures of Kurt (Tucholsky) and girlfriend staying in a Swedish castle whilst the political changes in Germany in the thirties. (imdb)

37 years after her daughter was executed in Iran, Haleh finds the woman who betrayed her. The traitor, now a loving mother herself and just arrived in the Netherlands, does not recognize Haleh and trusts her as an older and wiser countryman. While Haleh is plotting her revenge, she gets to know the perpetrator better than she would like to.

After the death of her father, Maria travels to Berlin to visit her elder sister Helena, a dancer, who she hasn't seen for years. However, when she arrives in Berlin she finds out that Helena has quit dancing and now works as a croupier in an illegal gambling club. As the two sisters' relationship gradually becomes closer, Maria must draw Helena away from the underworld and help her overcome her dangerous addiction to gambling. (imdb)

17-year-old Lucy discovers that her mother was once a porn actress and that her birth was the product of an accident "on set." She sets out to find her father, a journey that takes her into the depths of the adult entertainment industry. (imdb)