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- Queer people from all over the world have made Berlin what it is today. Many leave their home because they want to, others because they have to. This film follows a few of them.
- Handsome Albanian villager Arben wants to marry Etleva, daughter of a neighboring clan, but her father has promised her to another man who is offering a 10,000 Euros bride price. But when it turns out Etleva is carrying Arben's child, the pressure is on for him to come up with the dowry before the baby is born -- and before her brothers take revenge for the dishonor he has brought their family. Fleeing to Berlin without papers, experience or knowledge of the language, Arben soon learns the ways of survival.
- Life is tough, but Peggy Rosinski is tougher: three kids, two jobs and a mountain of debt. She lives with her unemployed husband Torben and children from different partners on the outskirts of Frankfurt an der Oder.
- This movie reflects on the situation around the border between Poland and Germany. The fate of many single characters creates a picture of life in this region: Some Ukrainians want to cross the border illegal to get into Germany, a company wants to build a new factory, a Polish taxi driver desperately needs money to buy his daughter a First Communion dress, and so on.
- A story about the rise and fall of Zyga - a Polish kid in his early twenties, who wants to take charge of his life after the fall of communism, but in a time of chaos and moral anarchy, unwillingly becomes a gangster.
- Two couples, each married for quite a long time, live in a small East German town. The film focuses on the relationships between each of the four people and what happens when an affair takes place between two of them who are not married to each other and logically betraying the two remaining characters. This event leads to deep thoughts about marriage, friendship, relationships, and life itself.
- Susanne (17) and Robert (18) want to get married, but because Susanne is still under-aged, she needs parental permission. With twin babies and tight finances, the newlyweds soon feel overwhelmed, and dealing with everything makes them forget the love that originally brought them together.
- Valentino and Daphne leave Sweden to look for their mother, whom they lost during their escape from the war in Bosnia.
- 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.
- Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann both are highly decorated east German comedians. When the Berlin wall falls they are suddenly and like so many others without employment. Erich tries his luck in Berlin, but nobody can laugh about his east German humour. Thus he stays an unemployed comedian. Rudolf Portmann tries to get the best out of the new capitalistic system. He is selling faked business capital and makes a lot of money. When they meet again Erich is not very impressed by Rudolf's business, but it seems that only Rudolf is able to make a successful living in the western world.
- A migration-drama set in the year of 2014. A prophetic assumption that happened to predict the future correctly.
- Daniela, a 23-year-old mother of four lived in a high-rise estate in Frankfurt am Oder. Without permanent work and adequate support from the children's fathers, the young woman was increasingly overwhelmed.
- The man with the legendary satin smooth voice, Barry White, came to Frankfurt at the peak of his career in 1975. Accompanied by Love Unlimited (Glodean James (White), Linda James, Diane Taylor), the female vocal group which Barry formed in 1969, he enchanted the audience with a truly memorable concert performing some of his most celebrated declarations of love. Never, Never Gonna Give You Up, Barry.
- The film shows the development of the "Freie Kameradschaft Frankfurt (Oder)" over a period of one year and gives insights into the thought and action structures of the members in the right-wing comradeship.
- Burglaries in department stores in various locations are on the rise. Following a identical routine, stolen are banknotes only. Not an easy task for the police, because there are no clues until the thieves leaves typewritten notes.
- A Polish farmer is murdered after his cowshed and the animals have been set alight.
- A young man who considers himself the prophet Elias prevents an abortion by cutting the baby from the pregnant woman's belly. The young Larissa is in mortal danger. The commissioners go in search of the apparently religiously confused man.
- Before Vincent can start his job as a detective he moves into his apartment. That night his new neighbor Bastian is killed. Vincent meets his team partner Adam while both are busy investigating Bastian's family who recently struck it rich.
- Antoni Mazur wird tot in einer Kiesgrube aufgefunden, rund 500 Meter entfernt vom Jakobsweg, der direkt durch Brandenburg führt. Der Tote, ein polnischer Staatsbürger, war anscheinend mit vielen anderen Pilgern unterwegs. Der erste am Fundort der Leiche ist ein Polizist aus dem nahegelegenen Revier in Lebus, Karl Rogov, der sofort die Befragung der Pilger übernimmt. Für Kriminalhauptkommissar Vincent Ross kommt diese Unterstützung sehr gelegen. Es stellt sich heraus, dass Mazur massive finanzielle Probleme hatte und ihm ein Insolvenzverfahren bevorstand. Seine Frau Lina und sein Vater Klaudiusz berichten von dem enormen Druck, den Insolvenzverwalter Udo Schick und sein Schuldenberater Jonathan Hüter auf ihn ausgeübt haben sollen. Als herauskommt, dass der Insolvenzverwalter seine Tochter Maria Schick auf dem Pilgerweg, kurz vor dem Tod von Antoni Mazur, abgefangen hat, gerät er unter Tatverdacht: Was weiß der "Gott des Bankrotts"?
- Deutsche und polnische Polizeibehörden intensivieren ihre Zusammenarbeit, um der grassierenden Grenzkriminalität Herr zu werden. Wachtmeisterin Kateryna Ludwinek geht im Rahmen eines Austauschprogramms von Slubice nach Frankfurt an der Oder. Drei Wochen lang fährt sie zusammen mit ihrem Brandenburgischen Kollegen Udo Lehde Zivilstreife. Der Versuch einen mutmaßlichen Autoschieber im Alleingang festzunehmen endet für die junge Polizistin tödlich. Sie prallt mit ihrem Fahrzeug auf einen zweieinhalb Tonnen schweren Geländewagen, dessen Fahrer zuvor eine Vollbremsung eingeleitet hatte. Für das deutsch-polnische Ermittlerduo Olga Lenski und Adam Raczek ist an dem Fall zunächst nichts Rätselhaftes. Es scheint nur noch darum zu gehen, die Identität des flüchtigen Täters zu ermitteln und den Mann zu fassen. Aber dann mehren sich die Fragen. Wieso war Ludwinek bei der Verfolgung des verdächtigen Fahrzeugs allein im Wagen? Warum saß ihr Streifenführer nicht hinter dem Steuer? Und warum hält der einzige Zeuge des Crashs wichtige Informationen zurück.