ARTHUR`S LAW
The comedy follows unemployed Arthur Ahnepol, played by Jan Josef Liefers, who ekes out a bleak existence. Drawn from the strains of his unhappy marriage and bored to death, he makes a morbid plan: he wants his obnoxious wife to die. With the money from the life insurance there’s no obstacle for a restart with his beloved mistress. But an unwritten law dominates the life of the unlucky fellow: every problem solved by Arthur has a far worse effect. And so, he sets off an avalanche of disastrous events.
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THE VISIT
Klaus (60) works voluntary as a Santa Claus in a shopping mall. After an exhausting day, he considers to hang up his job. But then, he gets a call from the children’s intensive care unit.
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REST IN GREECE
The author David travels to the Greek island, Tinos, in order to write his new book. He hopes to find inspiration in the seclusion of a rented beach house in the off-season. Together with his wife Nina he moves in when in the first night mysterious Margarita enters their life. She is everything David’s wife is not, and it is what he misses in his life. The three grow together, even erotically. All of a sudden, Margarita disappears, and the young married couple is not innocent in her disappearance...
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Bruma
Martina feels trapped in a boxed life in Mexico City. Finding out about her pregnancy and not knowing what to do about it, she decides to go to Berlin, to search her father, her identity. The multicultural, plurisexual environment of this modern Babel infuses in her and makes her reassess her foundations.
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HomeSick
Ambitious cello student Jessica receives the invitation to an international contest. A great opportunity - but at the same time enormous pressure. Stress begins to gnaw on Jessica's everyday life and soon reality and imagination blur.
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Trash Detective
In the small Swabian town of Matringen, Uwe is well known. Being a tinker, misfit and drunkard, nobody believes a single word of his - even when he claims to have witnessed a mysterious crime. In search for the truth he more and more encounters the dark secrets contrary to the small towns idyll.
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Klingenberg
Wolfgang Klingenberg, a former police inspector is consigned to a senior home, against his will. His gut instincts tell him that there´s something terribly wrong at his new home. He is sure to be part of an arcane conspiracy.
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Peter Punk
At a concert Peter Punk meets the young punk girl Jenni. After partying through the night together Peter awakes on a run-down farm finding Jenni strangely altered. No more boots, no piercings. Wearing a work-coat she´s helping her balky father to manage the farm. And in between Peter. An explosive mixture.
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Clean Up
It`s his job to clean this special room - an execution chamber in a state prison of the United States. After every execution, he has to recover this place to its previous state. This experimental short film gives an unusual view on the death penalty.
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