Karin Hanczewski

Simone and Walter are hopelessly at odds after, or because of forty years of marriage. They can’t afford a divorce, so they wage a little daily war of roses. Everything changes abruptly when a large cash prize looms for their dilapidated house. As “the most loving couple with pure hearts” they need only put on a brave face and eliminate the competitors. So, you better look well before you take the leap.

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Sixteen-year-old Mila returns from a psychiatric clinic after an alleged suicide attempt. She finds herself caught in a love triangle between Ali and Jannis and is drawn into a dangerous world of drugs and violence.

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Springe, a bourgeois little town in Lower Saxony in the 1970s and 80s. Evelin is caught between shame, worry, and social pressure due to the otherness of her son Oliver, who ultimately escapes to the Kiez quarter of Hamburg. Thanks to a big heart, an irrepressible sense of humour, and the ability to get up every time he’s down, Oliver manages the transformation to Olivia Jones, drag icon, entertainer, and Kiez restaurateur.

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Welcome to Stern Talent Agency, where stars, drama, and intrigue are part of daily life. After the founder’s death, the agency faces collapse. Only by discovering new talent, keeping old stars, and securing smart deals can it survive. Behind the scenes, the agents fight with passion — for their clients and for their own future.

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An ackward triangle forms among Philipp, her girlfriend Henriette, and Johanna, Henriette's daughter. Mother and daughter know exactly which buttons to press to get on the other's nerves. Does Johanna want the best for Henriette?

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Bruno's unreasonable-symbiotic relationship with his mother Ton is put to the test when her new partner Hannah moves into their shared bungalow in Spain. Until now Bruno alone has been the centre of his mother's attention, now he has to share it with Hannah by force.

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A depressed entertainer wants to conquer the stages of the world. He has only one problem: no one knows him. His ambitious sister wants to change that. She organizes a film crew to record his glamorous rise, but instead deep abysses reveal themselves behind the facade.

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Philipp Hochmair, the newly appointed special investigator, and his partner Andreas Guenther immerse themselves in the equally dazzling and twilight world of the Prater showmen in the sixth "Vienna thriller". To solve the murder of a strikingly successful businessman, the opposing duo must not only uncover his secrets, but also get a tight-knit circle of suspects to speak up.

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Swim coach Anne trains her niece Juli for a state championship, sparking clashes with Juli’s mother, Anne’s sister Miriam, who fears Anne’s strict methods stem from her own abrupt, mysterious career halt years ago. At their mother’s 65th birthday, old secrets surface, triggering Anne’s panic attacks - visions of a shadow beneath the pool. Haunted by past disorientation at a key race, Anne must confront her fears to uncover the truth.

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Hanna begins to reminisce about her time in Berlin and reviews her past relationships and affairs. Each of her ex-girlfriends connects her to something different and has played its part in making Hanna the woman she is today.

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A tragicomedy about mankind. Pristina 1999. NATO has bombed Serbia. The Kosovo-Albanians celebrate "their victory" over the "Serb oppressors". Ethnic hate is rampant. The International Community sends thousands of emissaries to democratize the country. Young German Anna is full of idealism and proud to contribute for a democratic change. Hustler Plaka belongs to the repatriates, who have a faible for Westerners and their currencies. Anna becomes Plakas favorite target of seduction. On the other hand Anna soon understands that her neurotic international colleagues are ignorant, corrupt and bored by their own mission. Worst of all Commander Rhaci, the alleged Kosovarian freedom fighter and darling of the West exploits the country like a Mafioso. Anna witnesses nationalistic violence, her world falls apart after feeling responsible for a deadly mistake, where Plaka is her accomplice. Up in arms the two special friends now risk their lives for humanity and against indifference.

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Franz and Lilly run their father's cattle farm together. While Franz is perfectly happy with his life as a cowboy, Lilly dreams of a bigger life. That's when she meets Chris, a musician, with whom she starts a romantic affair.

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Young Berlin schoolteacher Charlie no longer wants to continue as usual on her chosen path and asks herself what she really wants and needs.

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Because of trouble at school, 16-year old Isabell's single mum persuades her to take part in a self-knowledge seminar in the Sudeten Mountains. What begins as an unusual holiday adventure in an esoteric group, changes when one of the participants has a mental breakdown and disappears. Has the young woman left or is she the victim of a crime? Isabell is alarmed and begins to investigate the seminar and the other members. Her enquiries are met with a wall of silence. When the mutilated body of the woman who disappeared turns up, Isabell's stay at the wildly romantic resort becomes a nightmare.

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Ferdi thinks he's ugly – but likes the fact Jona is interested in him. Maybe because she's blind. What Ferdi doesn't suspect: She's just pretending to be blind to be able to live cheaply in subsidized housing. How long can she maintain her charade? Can love, which is supposed to make you blind, even work out that way? Director Tom Lass takes a closer look, shooting with blind actors and old Berlin buddies, acting the lead himself – paying tribute to a way of life beyond our way of seeing the world.

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Life is not a pony farm - even if it started there. The experience of three unequal sisters in the young comedy : They learn shortly before the silver wedding of their parents that there is a dark chapter in their picture book marriage. On their trip to the family celebration, this provides additional explosives in the already exciting girl's triangle.

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Best buddies Christian Ulmen and Fahri Yardim can't help to embarrass themselves from time to time. The troublemakers they are they love to test the limits of ethics and political correctness.

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Lotte is impulsive, rough around the edges and leads a colourful life on the streets of Berlin, stumbling from man to man, flat to flat and bar to bar. A brief encounter with a young girl, Greta, turns her life upside down. Lotte realises she will not be able to run away this time.

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The duo of investigators, Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein, has to solve a case of a dead girl found on the river Main, while digging deeper into a chasm of viciousness and brutality.

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Brothers David and Matthias have contrasting personalities. Long since grown up – one with a wife, the other a girlfriend – they unintentionally meet at their parents' holiday home. Games and plots about power and dominance with unforeseen consequences.

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At the end of winter, there is a game of bowls in the north. The islanders are proud of their bowling ball, which Thies' grandfather found 60 years ago. Only Katharina believes the archaeologist Jens Jeschen, who wants to examine the sphere in a laboratory on the mainland and suspects a Viking grave and treasure on the island, that it is a medieval celestial globe.

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Isabell Suba, ambitious up-and-coming director, has made it – one of her short films is in the line-up of the most important film festival of the world! When she arrives at the 65. Cannes film festival, she has face the accomplished facts: David, her incompetent producer, has kindly sublet their cosy joint apartment to other festival guests. The other bad news: There is not a single movie in the competition directed by a woman! This affirms Isabell’s qualms: The film business demands women to gear up instead of dressing up low cut! Moreover, the chauvinistic remarks of her comrade-in-arms David who feels comfortable around the clichéd gender stereotypes from the Stone Age seemingly prevalent in Cannes infuriate Isabell. As if this wasn’t enough already, a shattering feedback on her new film project by a potential investor finally causes her to doubt herself. Before she can live her dream up at the Olympus of film business, she must first find out who really believes in her.

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Munich, 1968: 21-year-old Laura, who has emigrated to the USA with her husband Gabriel, returns to her old home in Munich. Laura's father has been killed in a traffic accident a few days earlier. Her younger sister Friede is in a coma. Overwhelmed by the pain, her mother has withdrawn from the outside world. Laura feels abandoned, as she had hoped that the shared grief might help to overcome the tense relationship between her and her mother. Throughout her life, her mother was incapable of empathizing with her children and avoided any physical closeness. When her mother refuses to visit the critically injured Friede in hospital, Laura forces her into a confrontation in the hope of gaining a better understanding of her mother.

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One could almost believe, two fresh lovers would kiss here tenderly. In fact, Jan and Katja come straight from the divorce judge who finished what had started promisingly - a harmonious, fulfilled marriage and family life. The common house building was too much for their relationship. While a dream came true for Katja, the building was a pure torture for Jan. He escaped more and more and started an affair. When Katja comes after the infidelity, there is only one consequence for her: Divorce.

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