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Half of Chernivtsi's once 150,000 inhabitants were Jews. Only a few of them survived the deportation to the camps of Transnistria in 1941. "This year in Chernivtsi" portrays cellist Eduard Weissmann, for example, who sets off from Berlin.

The sons of Elizabeth Paetzold reveal, little by little, what they have in common. And their story is a real, living history lesson of Pomerania - throughout history inhabited by Kashubians, Germans & Poles. Over twenty years had to pass before their true identities were confirmed. All the sons were born in the Paetzold family country manor - a formerly German area of Pomerania, near Danzig, which became Polish again & definitely-so after mid 1945, just 9 months after the last of the brothers was born. Elizabeth could only take 2 of the children out of the area before the Red Army took over. The other children remained in Polish orphanages, 2 of them adopted by Polish families. During this meeting, what the brothers call their "last reunion" - the eldest was born in 1938 & the youngest in late 1944, interviews with all the sons, their wives, partner, children, in-laws & neighbors participate, in telling this wonderful family saga, which is the mirror image of post-WWII Pomerania, or even the post WWII Polish-German relationship as a whole.

Travelling to the island of Usedom, the beaches of Poland, the Baltic coasts, and the northern archipelago of Sweden, the director shows the impressive natural landscapes and the different regions on the Baltic Sea as the home of a wide variety of people. The political conflicts between East and West, regional egoism, and ecological problems are also reflected in the history and the present of the sea.

Volker Koepp and his longtime cameraman Thomas Plenert travel to north-eastern Poland

Documentary about the changing tides at the German farmland area bordering Poland. Once part of the GDR, the changes that the government had implemented here are also affecting the local way of life - but is it for the better or worse?

The director revisits places of his own past. Born in 1944 in Stettin (now the Polish city of Szczecin) and grown up in Berlin-Karlshorst, he has met and turned numerous people and locations between the two cities into the protagonists of his films. Now, he returns to them to find out more about the history of this region, and how much of his own life has overlapped with the lives of his protagonists.

Director Volker Koepp travels the Lithuanian shore on the border to the Russian enclave. Germans and Lithuanians have always lived here.

The 'Kurische Nehrung' is a promontory between the Baltic Sea and the Kaff, whose northern part belongs to Lithuania, while the south is Russian territory. This documentary feature depicts the landscape, the differences between the two countries, the opinions of the people and the German roots some of the inhabitants have.