Petra Schmidt-Schaller

The city of Schwerin is sweltering under a heat wave never seen before. Detectives Lona Mendt and Frank Elling are on the trail of a serial murderer, who seems to choose his victims at random - but nothing is what it seems. (imdb)

The appearance of a mysterious, hooded man evokes Erik's sinister past. (imdb)

On 10 September, 1964, Germany's one-millionth 'guest worker' was welcomed. Spanning a period of no less than forty-five years, this film by sisters Yasemin Samdereli (director) and Nesrin Samdereli (screenplay) tells the story of guest worker number one-million-and-one - a man named Hüseyin Yilmaz and his family. 'Who or what am I - German or Turk?' asks six-year-old Cenk Yilmaz when neither his Turkish nor his German schoolmates pick him for their respective football teams. (www.berlinale.de)

A look at a Bavarian commune of the Indian Bhagwan cult. (imdb)

The budding friendship between two very different neighbors takes a tragic turn when David runs over a young woman and causes her death. (imdb)

Lecturer Helmut Halm and his wife Sabine spend their summer vacastion at Bodensee, as they've always done. On the beach, the two are coincidentally discovered by Klaus -- a friend of Hans' from younger days... (filmz.de)