Samuel Finzi

A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded by the women who form his extended family. (Film Forum)

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)

Based on a book by the Swiss author Charles Lewinsky, in the middle of this one-man film is the Jewish journalist, Emanuel Goldfarb, who is invited to speak at a school about his daily life as a "Jewish fellow citizen". Thinking that the whole thing is an idiotic idea, as more than enough has already been said on this subject, he writes a letter to the teacher, refusing the invitation. Yet, to his own surprise, it develops into a general settling of accounts with the German-Jewish relationship. (filmportal.de)

A dark comedy about New Year seen through the eyes of different people with interconnecting fates.

Luckless in job and love - that's the story of screenwriter Henry. But then, things suddenly seem to brighten up when Henry is hired as co-author for the screen adaptation of a best-selling novel. Alas, this is followed by another not-so-welcomed surprise in the form of 8-year-old Magdalena, who out of the blue appears at his doorstep. Allegedly, she is Henry's daughter, the result of one long-forgotten one-night-stand and the feisty Magdalena turns his easy-going bachelor life upside down. (filmportal.de)

In this sequel to the 2009 movie Männerherzen musician Bruce Berger lands a hit and thinks he is the most awesome guy that ever graced earth, Jerome has enough of living in the city and moves back to his parent's house in the boondocks. Günther has trouble with his dependent girlfriend and Niklas goes on dates like crazy. (nytimes.com)

In Emil Christov's über-stylish spy-movie pastiche, a charismatic schemer in an authoritarian police state, fired from his job as a secret-police informant, conjures up his own imaginary spy network and builds up an archive that he turns against his former masters. (tiff.net)

Two years after the end of the first movie Henry, Katharina, Tristan und Magdalena are a chaotic patchwork family. All of them have to deal with little and big problems in private life and job-related. (filmportal.de)

Frederick Schopner, a young management consultant, has been invited to participate in a special kind of team-building event. He and his colleagues will be chased across an outdoor obstacle course while being assessed on leadership qualities and their capacity for teamwork via video surveillance. (imdb)

Filmmaker Fritz Lang seeks inspiration for his first sound film by immersing himself in the case of serial killer Peter Kürten. (imdb)

Julian, the German, Yassin, the Turk, and Addi, the African, have the same mother but different fathers. When they learn about each others existence they go on a road trip together in search for their common roots. (imdb)

A plastic surgeon publishes an ad searching for a slave. Even if he meant it in an ironic way and is really looking for a housemaid, a lot of SM-subs are showing up in front of his house the next day... (indexflicks.com)

Three former classmates reunite for their 30-year high school reunion. (imdb)

Agnes has got her life under control. Her career, her research work and her intact family life with her husband and daughter are all perfectly organised. One day Karola suddenly decides to go away and hands Agnes the keys to an apartment where she is to look after the plants. The apartment looks as if it has been left in a hurry and Agnes feels mysteriously drawn towards it. She begins to visit on a regular basis and gradually takes over the place as if it were her own. (berlinale.de)

To withstand the psychological torture of the Gestapo, a lawyer imprisoned by the Nazis rescues himself in the world of chess. (imdb)

British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.

Khalid, a charismatic big dreamer from Brooklyn, with no follow-thru gets stuck in a small town on the Black Sea after chasing an opportunity for money that goes wrong. Being the only black guy in the town, he quickly becomes the center of the town’s attention. His New York City street bop is all he has to survive. In his pursuit to get home he finds connection in a way he never expected with a local woman. Together they make their small dreams big.

"The Fourth Estate" is a television series, which addresses the clash between power and media, thus showing the many faces of politics and journalism. (imdb)