Susanne Bormann

Teacher Anne and policeman Georg are thought of as the perfect couple. However, appearances are deceptive: one of them is covered with scars and bruises. But which one is the abuser? (imdb)

Helmut is a shy kid when it comes to girls. When Britta, the most gorgeous girl in his high-school class, finally notices him one day, he falls for her hard. Then she suddenly announces that she is moving to America to live with her father, and he is devastated. Years later, Helmut fall in love with Gisela, but can not forget Brida. Gisela became pregnant and he needs to see Brida last time.

Polly leaves youth prison determined to make a clean start. Polly quickly learns though that leaving her past behind isn't that easy - nor is getting away from her family. Polly cares too much for her family to just stand by while Ronny, a dodgy character, brings disaster upon them. She knows she risks blowing her fresh start - her love hangs in the balance and all her good resolutions are in jeopardy. (imdb)

Summer in the GDR in 1980. Barbara, a doctor, has submitted an application to emigrate to the West. She is punished by being posted away from the capital to a hospital in a small town. Jörg, her lover in the West, is busy planning her escape via the Baltic Sea. It's a waiting game for Barbara. Her new flat, the neighbours, summer and the countryside no longer hold any charms for her. (mubi.com)

Russendisko is the story of Wladimir, Andrej and Mischa. Three young Russian friends, who move from Moscow to Berlin in a lucky wave of emigration right after the fall of the Berlin wall. They take their chance looking for a better life and find themselves involved in the tales of everyday lunacy on the streets of Berlin and its spirit of the early nineties. Russendisko is a modern fairy tale, a story of friendship, of love, of dreams and the search for happiness and its fulfillment. (imdb)

Inspired by West German terrorists, two pupils hijack a teacher in the GDR. (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 Pope is in town and the night of his visit is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin's inhabitants. The down-and-out, the rich and the poor, the Polizei, the street kids, and taxi drivers, in search of a little bit of happiness, all end up going for a harrowing odyssey through the labyrinth of the big city. (imdb)