Maria Speth

Lynn (22) lives with her brother in Berlin. There she enjoys the advantages of family life, without really feeling involved in it. She does not have any precise aim in life, but manages to awaken the interest of many people with her direct and spontaneous character. Her boyfriend David is very different: he is entirely engrossed in his very disciplined swimming training for the world championships. (imdb)

A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own six children and forces her mother to take the role of a mother for her grandchildren as she never did that for Rita. (imdb)

Agnes comes to Berlin to identify a dead girl. The police suspect it is her fifteen-year-old daughter, who has run away from home. But she is not. Agnes remains in Berlin nevertheless, driven by the hope of finding her daughter and meets Ines, a passionate social parasite.

Some homeless Berliners are interviewed in a sterile, white studio about their lives. (imdb)

Where does one feel at home? In Stadtallendorf, a German city with a complex history of both excluding and integrating foreigners, genial teacher Dieter Bachmann offers his pupils the key to at least feeling as if they are at home.