Deutsche Kurzfilme

A mentally-ill but very musically gifted man lives trapped in the surreal world of his own imagination. When reality is visible, the only thing he wants is to see his beloved daughter, but he isn't permitted to.

Julius can not sleep. To get his head empty he decides to go on a roadtrip, but somehow he can not manage to leave. A hand drawn film about failure, insomnia, a red motorbike, pretty bargirls, the desolateness of Berlin (even in summer) and waterproof socks.

A divorced father picks up his eight-year-old daughter Lea. It seems pretty much like every second weekend, but after a while Lea can't help feeling that something isn't right. So begins a fateful journey.

A 30-sth. businessman gets stuck on a man-eating traffic island in the middle of a forest for an entire year.

After an accident Herman learns that he suffers from the rare Kahnawake syndrome, which causes him that the emotion "fear" falls out whereby he is forced to try out all phobias to become normal again.

An old hunter finds the lost rosary of a mysterious Saracenic princess, which keeps an old secret power.

This film is about an elder woman Helga Landowsky who wants to buy a jug in an antiques shop in Goerlitz but the shop assistant does not want to sell it for money. Jakub Lato would only sell the jug for a good story - her story.

After a trip to the doctor, a little boy wonders if he may secretly be a cat.

When they learn of an outbreak of a dangerous virus shortly before their long-awaited return to Earth, a teenager and his mother struggle to decide whether to land or return to space aboard their confined spaceship.

When a Black man is the victim of unfounded racial abuse on a packed bus, only one passenger will not ignore the situation like everyone else.

A department store security guard is secretly in love with a clerk in the store's bookshop. When he witnesses a seeming rival being attacked in the train, he gets off instead of helping him. Not being able to deal with his bad conscience, his formerly controlled life breaks down.

Gabriela (75) is terminally ill, and can barely breathe. She then embarks on a journey that takes her to a brutal, dystopian world. In a small village, she faces the consequences of her attempt to stay alive.

An unspoken connection between two elderly neighbors, who share a daily ritual but who have never actually met, deepens when they face the inevitable...together.

On the date thousands of people went on the streets to protest against unaffordable rents in Berlin, a gay Brazilian immigrant who was just kicked out of his apartment struggles to find a new room while his personal life falls apart as well as the city around him.

Explores the idea of reducing a person's life to just those moments captured in photos and asks poses the question how real these pictures actually are.

Derya is pregnant, but she hasn't had sex. In the height of a dry summer, signs of the supernatural and the divine emerge, questioning the true origin of her mysterious pregnancy.

Two sixteen year old boys, Marcos and Johannes, spend their days racing, wrestling, hanging out, watching videos and playing hide-and-seek at nights. A closeness develops between the two of them, which soon starts to become a calamity to their friendship.

An 18 years old U19-Bundesliga player with a pretty girlfriend - that's Jonathan. A gay liar, using girls as an alibi - that's Jonathan too. Torn between the world of football and his sexual orientation, he has to take a decision.

November 1940, during the greatest conflict man has ever known, an epic duel unfolds between two ace pilots, each willing to take the match to it's ultimate conclusion. Unknown to the pilots is a fate neither has considered.

Gregor, a young man, lives with and cares for his elderly grandmother. He's also a bit of an inventor. One day, when her wheelchair accidentally rolls down a hill and throws her into a pond, he gets an idea for an invention: A harness system that will let his grandmother walk again by supporting her weight. Meanwhile, her friends from the nursing home are trying to convince her to leave Gregor and live with them.

While his lover is sleeping, a man assembles around her a Rube Goldberg collection of malevolent-looking implements. Then he leaves and lights the fuse . . .

Who says a hamster can't travel the world chasing down his lady-love?

'And I'm still carrying the gift you gave, It's a part of me now, it's been cherished and saved, It'll be with me unto the grave And then unto eternity.' (Bob Dylan)

A group of fishermen on a precariously balanced platform fight over a trunk.

As a crossmedia project, connecting film with the online video scene, WANNABE tells the story of a young YouTuber, who builds herself a fictitious world on the internet (www.youtube.com/cocochannel99).