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- Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature.
- A stowaway has sneaked aboard the rocket: Mel, Prof. Tarantoga's furry assistant, doesn't know what kind of being he is.
- Director Eva Stotz meets interesting people in her film whom she found through online-hosting-networks and for a limited time plunges into their every-day-life: A music-loving Tuareg in Mali, a wildlife enthusiast in Tokyo/Japan, an ecologist in the Palestinian Westbank, a dance-maniac in Turkey and a visionary in the US are her inspiring hosts. The film explores a thrilling new way of travelling that is becoming more and more popular and paints a bigger picture of human interaction with the world.
- A defect in his cryogenic sleep chamber causes space pilot Ijon Tichy to wake up as an old man aged by 30 years. Tichy worries about the return flight, another 30 years - he won't survive.
- Space pilot Ijon Tichy, travels in his three-room-rocket together with his holographic and/or hallucinogenic colleague Halluzinelle and the ugly dog-like extraterrestrial being Mel. The conflicts between the bad feelings of Halluzinelle about the stubbornness of the space pilot always end up in difficult situations in which it is the mission to find the most irritating solution as possible.
- An Irish woman is on the search after the father of her unborn child. Unfortunately, she doesn't know much about him, only his first name and that he can be found in Poland.
- Christmas in space - and the rocket is full of dirt and waste. Tichy finds a device in the garbage that teleports him to a congress of various space races. There he is to make a plea for the admission of humans. Tichy does his best.
- A rather minor incident has rather major consequences when Tichy gets caught in a time loop. The defect in the control module is impossible for Tichy alone to fix, so it's good that he has now company from Tuesday's and Wednesday's Tichy.
- Tichy and his Halluzinelle have the best possible chance of winning the robotics competition on the planet Prozytien. But he didn't think about his stubborn assistant.
- A pupil finds out that Paul McCartney died early and the public had not been informed at all.
- On its way to the planet Eggman, the rocket is just passing through the cosmic nebula "Nebulus Cognitionis" when the Halluzinelle asks Tichy for his date of birth. Unfortunately, he suddenly can no longer remember.
- Tichy has to face an existential problem: The passionate omelet eater has only one last rotten egg left in the fridge.
- In the constellation of drought, Tichy drinks gallons of water against the heat. When the doorbell of the rocket rings, two disciples of the guru Elron Petri are at the door and turn Mel into a follower of their water cult.
- Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad, and Roman live near the northern border of Austria in 1995. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The quintet meets and gets close to one another, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.
- Tichy wants to pass off Prof. Tarantoga's invention 'Biste-Fix Time Bubbles' as his own at the prestigious inventors' congress 'Interstellarer Präfektus'.
- Tichy finally reaches the planet Eggman with his rocket. But through a mishap, the rocket rams the planet and its shell breaks.
- Tichy wants to fly to the planet Eggman. The route passes the planet Prozytien, where Dr. Spamy has just been dumped by his wife Güva. Dr. Spamy steals the Halluzinelle.
- In his three-room rocket, Ijon Tichy traverses the depths of space. Tichy has just finished his new assistant, when she proves to be unruly. Instead of helping him control the rocket, she crash lands on the inhospitable planet Torkov.
- Tichy makes the acquaintance of an old lady who looks very much like him. He can hardly believe what he hears from her.
- Tichy, Mel and Prof. Tarantoga are trapped in the world on the other side of the teleporter gate because the Analoge Halluzinelle has accidentally pulled the plug on the teleporters.
- Tom steals Tina's love and money, and five years later they meet again by chance. Both wanting to get back what was taken from them, they dream of traveling to Cuba. In the end, however, they only manage to get as far as the Belgian coast.
- A young couple in love: Rebecca (32) and her boyfriend Julian (34) are expecting their first child and are full of pleasant expectation. As Rebecca gives birth to a healthy boy their luck seems to be perfect. But instead of the unconditional motherly love she was expecting she is thrown into an emotional turmoil. Helplessness and desperation reign and her own baby is a stranger to her. With every day that passes her inability to meet the demands of motherhood become more and more apparent. Unable to admit this to anyone, not even Julian, she falls into a deep darkness - to the point that she realises she is becoming a threat to her child. Now only unconditional love can bring her back on track...
- Karin's world is the suburbs. It sells low-cost cosmetics in the large area of Leverkusen. She lives in simple hotels - during the week, the company pays, on weekends she gets special conditions, because you have known them for years. She does not have a home. Karin works hard because she needs every penny to reach her goal: Paris. There she wants to live some day.
- A family, middle-class and entrepreneurial, in times of globalization.
- On Labour Day 1987, a riot broke out in Kreuzberg which gave this west-Berlin district its legendary reputation - a reputation which has prevailed right up to the present day. During the night of 1 May, the Berlin police used force to try and break up a street party - and triggered off a riot in which old and young, Turks, Germans, anarchists and ordinary citizens battled shoulder to shoulder to repel state authority.The riot ended with the police in retreat, a supermarket in flames and one more problem for Berlin's Senator for Internal Affairs. How was he to keep a district in check when the inhabitants were clearly hell-bent on protesting against the Queen's and Ronald Reagan's visits as well as the International Monetary Fund conference? Kreuzberg's anarchists included a group of women living in an apartment in Ritterstrasse, or "Knight Street". These "female knights", as they were known, fought any and all manifestations of patriarchy with exactly the same verve they applied to organizing resistance to the IMF meeting. And then: the wall came down, the world changed and nothing was the way it used to be anymore.
- Nike, 19 years old, is a civil servant trainee at the immigration department in Hanover, but still lives with her father on his farm, where he tries to cultivate strawberries for the first time to overcome financial problems. However, while bringing in the crops, he suffers a heart attack. Suddenly, Nike has to take over business, but soon realizes that most of her father's employees are illegal immigrants...
- As Tobias, a young director, supposes that his girl-friend Ellen had an affair with his brother Markus, front man of "Hansen", one year ago, he decides to shoot a documentary about the band's next tour. When Ellen joins the project, everybody's emotions boil over, although they are observed all the time...
- Three young men kills two policemen after a chaotic bank raid; a problem which forces the trio to make a desperate escape across the border to Poland.
- 16 year-old Georg is forced to leave his home in the West, which means saying goodbye to his two loves; his girlfriend, and his Taekwondo team, something that is all-important to him.
- A young man flees his parents' house, especially his neurotic mother, after a clod of initially unknown material hits the roof of his parents' house.
- House building with obstacles.
- Nele soll die Familien-Apotheke übernehmen. Doch sie hat das Pharmazie-Studium abgebrochen.
- Castle hotel owner Simeon Herzog's daughter Isabelle loses a gold chain in a sewer. Diver and aquarium cleaner Jimi Springer retrieves it for her, demanding in exchange a four weeks course by observation how to fit in her society life. She thinks he wants to seduce her friend Olivia, but he crushes on Isabelle. Finally graduated from boarding school, she hopes to win her widower father's approval by joining the family hotel firm, like her two sisters, but Simeon barely trusts her enough to organize the annual children's hospital benefit gala, which also seems to go wrong. Jimi however wins Simeon's respects and helps her approach sponsors differently, showing Isabelle the orphanage where he grew up with fat buddy Heinrich Eisen.
- A wild family tale: 15-year-old Mareike lives with her mother Jutta (43), her sister Franca (9), her brother Tim (6) and some chickens in a suburb of Mannheim. Jutta's job as a detective at the local department store doesn't pay much, so the family is always a little short of money. Mareike's ambitious plans to become a model and to participate in an expensive training are therefore problematic. And momentarily Mareike is rather chubby and doesn't really look like the classical beauty. But nevertheless she is prepared to go to any length to have her way and is full of ideas. Jutta hasn't overcome the death of her husband yet, nor have the children. Now she tries to keep her beginning love affair to her colleague Winnie a secret, but doesn't really feel happy about it. Mareike attempts to earn money for her model "education", and jobs around at the weekly market to prove to her mother how serious she is. There she meets Samir, a German-Arabian boy who Mareike immediately falls in love with. To impress him Mareike signs up for a belly dancing class, distrustfully watched by Jutta, who is nerved by her daughter's body fixation. But dancing gives Mareike a sudden boost of confidence and a lust for life, which Jutta must notice positively. And then suddenly Mareikes hair starts to fall out - a shock. An autoimmune disorder is diagnosed. There is no cure. Mareike's world is shattered...
- Jasper wants to meet his father, but his mother has no clue. She needs to find him and it comes down to 3 very diffrent men.
- Eva Jensen is a carpenter form Hamburg who wants to make a new start on the Baltic Sea coast. She faces prejudice but ends up growing closer to fish-seller Christian, with whom shares common passion, kite-surfing.
- Wheelchair-stuck star designer Paul Petit allows the excited sisters Rosalie and Bianca Rothe to bid for a job under his reputed fashion label if they win for him the annual competition of Style fashion magazine in an old, desolate castle. They need the 30,000 Euro prize to pay their recently deceased mother's debts. Selling off her cloths shop stock, they met the main rival, carpenter turned fashion designer Leon Bär, who seems to reciprocate Rosalie's crush ion him. Three days in a row, jury chair Sofia Südwein, who heads a fashion chain, sets a task to complete before night, each judged by a jury of professionals, also including key seamstress Anni Lohse, chief designer Gabriel Winter. Paul Petit promises the sisters cart blanche, yet encourages strife between them as Rosalie seems besotted with main rival Leon Bär, object of vicious rumors, which play a part in a twisted plot of deceit.
- Katja Sterner has to start a new life from scratch. After finding a mysterious coin she returns into her hometown of Herzfelft. Will she be able to find love there?
- Heinrich Witte runs the restaurant "Schneewittchen am See" after the death of his wife. At the time, his daughter Smilla wanted to work as a cook under her father. When her mother died, her father found a new chef and partner in Regina.