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- A teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.
- The four Friends Lukas, Julius, Gino and Sanchez are trying to survive the everyday life in Neukölln, Berlin between Drugs, Gangs, Rap, Violence and Boredom. Until they are one day making a serious decision with serious consequences because of a dead certain Plan.
- A dramatization of Christiane F.'s memoirs and her hard beginnings in Berlin.
- Nini and Jameelah are best friends. Together they delve into the urban jungle of Berlin, amid clouds of drug smoke and alcoholic dazes, looking for love, sex, and a better future. But life intervenes: Jameelah is in danger of being deported to Iraq, and then they witness a murder.
- Award-winning filmmaker Dome Karukoski brings to screen the life and work of artist Touko Valio Laaksonen (aka Tom of Finland), one of the most influential and celebrated figures of 20th-century gay culture.
- From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It's about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the difficulties a 15-year-old faces in a poor and criminal environment.
- After his father's suicide, 15-year-old Jargo is sent to Berlin from Saudi Arabia. He makes friends with local girl Emilia and petty criminal Kamil, but soon there is tension because both boys fall in love with the pretty Emilia.
- Florian Vogler suffers from OCD. Everyday he has to check his gas cooker, the windows, the lights and his door. One day his therapist suggests him a way to deal with his problem.
- A knife in the pocket, adrenaline in the blood and only one dream in mind: to be a gangster - and the biggest one at that. Yehya was 15 years old and close to realizing his dream when he met the filmmaker Christian Stahl in the stairwell. Yehya wasn't just the nice boy from next door, he was also "the Boss of Sonnenallee" - one of the gangster runners of the Berlin borough of Neukölln. And gangster runners want to make it in the gangster world. In the eyes of the authorities, he is an "intensive offender"; in his own eyes, Yehya is "one of the top ten of Neukölln. I got my own prosecutor!" Yehya: the son of Palestinian refugees from Lebanon, a Rütli school student with straight Fs - and a jailbird doing time. At the age of 17, Yehya was convicted of robbery and sentenced to three years without parole. The director Christian Stahl followed Yehya through the years in prison and, at the same time, his family in Neukölln. The viewer is there as Yehya's image of the world and gangsterism wobbles, as he quickly goes up the ladder in prison hierarchy, as he turns to Islam, and as he suddenly himself becomes a victim while in prison. His father tries to solve the family problems with a pilgrimage to Mecca, Yehya's brothers follow in his footsteps, and the government wants to deport Yehya or send him back to the refugee camp in Beirut. His parents, who as refugees in Germany were not allowed to work for 14 years and stayed in their own world, are in despair. Gangster runner presents an impressive portrait of an "intensive offender" whose charm, criminal energy, and reflexivity astound and shock. Between Muslim traditions and gangster dreams, macho image and mosque, the ever-present war in the foreign homeland of the parents and the battle to survive in Europe.
- 'You haven't heard the Dijon Story?!'
- Gary comes home and confronts his girlfriend about the rumor he just picked up.
- A subway station somewhere in the Northwestern hemisphere. Rush hour. An unattended baggage catches the attention of the passengers. Moments of insecurity pass. All of a sudden, a mass panic breaks out in the moving crowds. The stampede leaves its survivors perplexed: Was the bomb only ticking in their minds?
- The 3 siblings Hassan, Lial and Maradona are successful dancers and musicians. But their family is in danger of being deported out of Germany. The teenagers plan to use their artistic talents to save the family. However the pressure has put a strain on their relationships, and the way to success is long and uncertain.
- Linda and Jakob are happily in love until one night, Jakob begins to have horrific nightmares in which Linda appears as a darkly seductive creature. Tormented by these visions, Jakob asks his best friend Kurt to murder Linda for him, thus beginning a slow descent into madness. Unbeknownst to the two men, Linda is acting under the control of an ancient family curse. Will her love for Jakob overcome the powers of death? Will Kurt give in to his violent urges and kill to protect his friendship? Is there a way to escape the Devil of Kreuzberg?
- Whereas you sometimes can't move for police series, the lives of firefighters doesn't get nearly as much screen time. So give a blazing hot welcome to "Alarmcode 112", the TV series that takes the word action and adds a big exclamation mark to it! Named after the emergency number you dial in Germany should your house go up in flames or kitty gets stuck in a tree, these eleven episodes are stuffed with breathtaking explosions, raging blazes, and terrible accidents!
- This movie is a statement and a research about the similarities between the ideal city of Mahagonny and a new 'promised land - utopia'. Is a feature docu-drama project which is based on a song and also on an operetta which deals with the migration of a mass of people to an ideal land.
- A ruffled young man, at first unrecognizable as a ghost, turns up in Neukölln and visits an old friend. The two grew up in the same house. Now one of them is a broker and is selling this very building, destined for demolition as the area becomes ever more gentrified. In the meantime a group of young people is on a journey through the night, in search of the "spirit of Neukölln", themselves and other fallen angels.
- About Stefan Stricker, who calls himself Juwelia and has been running a gallery on Sanderstraße in Berlin Neukölln for many years. Every weekend he invites guests to shamelessly recount from his life and to sing poetic songs written with his friend from Hollywood Jose Promis. Juwelia has been poor and sexy all her life, has always struggled for recognition, but only partially.
- Atze, Henne, Henny, Lutze and Wolle looked liked the Beatles and felt like the Stones - at least sometimes. Five guys from Berlin - with the world at their feet. Children of the Economic Miracle: Peace, freedom, football.
- Lars Schelling runs a sushi-bar in Berlin in ca. 2001 that the Mafia finances. The Mafia wants its money back. Suddenly Lars's mother dies, and Lars himself gets followed and kidnapped. In fact, the Mafia has nothing to do with these latter events. It is rather former members of the East German state police. Lars's mother, it seems, had the documentation for a money laundering scam in the 1990s that funneled enormous sums from East German sources into a Swiss bank account for bribing government officials of the united Germany. The question is whether Lars learned the password to the Swiss lock box where the documentation is hidden before his mother's mysterious death. The press, East Germany's former state police, and Germany's legitimate police all want to know. The question driving the plot, however, is who belongs to which group, whether Lars really knows the password, and what he will do with what he knows and has.
- A struggling expat living in Berlin spirals toward homicide when his unrequited love reveals a dark secret.
- This short experimental work, led mainly by dialogs, tells the story of an encounter between three old friends.
- A hot summer in Germany. In the sleepy suburb of Berlin, Rudow is startled by eerie events. Who creeps at night by the brave front yards, leaving a bloody trail? Cora and Torsten try to solve the dark mystery and embark it in mortal danger. For the devil is waiting.
- On a sunny afternoon at the pool, 12 year-old Manolo has to face his fears: Will he stand up to his big cousin Mike, the notorious splashdive-hotshot?
- A portrait of a rootless guy who want to recover something from the pass. A story about coming of age, relationship mother&son, duels, good-luck charms.
- A documentary on young musicians from around the world who have connected to the city of Berlin.
- Josh and Martin's one-night stand turns into an intense power-play between captor and captive.
- Berlin's notorious Neukoelln district. The near future, a time in which the health system has collapsed. A man works in the shadows and without licence as a doctor. He treats people in the streets, stealing medicine from pharmacies. Forced to adopt the role of a shadow, an outlaw, he is confronted with the question as to whether he really is a doctor.
- Stuckrad Late Night.
- Although the Hasenheide has been sensationalized by the German media as a mecca for drug dealers and as a discount drug store, Director Nana Rebhan (Welcome Goodbye) shows local people at home in the park's many secret and not-so-secret places. A documentary about the Berlin park Hasenheide in all its funky glory.
- Without graduation and no prospect of vocational training young males between 17 and 25 are outsiders in a labor-oriented society. The Job Center and the Youth Welfare Service of Berlin's district Neukoelln fund a small team of teachers and social workers, who work full time in order to 'activate' the young men. The film observes the measure 'Neukoelln-Active' with a Direct Cinema approach over a period of three months. It shows fairly successful attempts and hollow rituals, imposition of discipline and social-pedagogical interventions that go far beyond the scope of the 'activation measure'. It also shows the institutions troubled relations to the sponsors of the program, who foster a questionable attitude towards administering the young 'customers'.
- Snapshots from the Berlin district of Neukölln, which is commonly regarded as a social hotspot. About the residents of the district with a high proportion of foreigners in their everyday lives, with their worries and life plans.