Isabelle spends her ninth birthday alone at home as her mother has to work. While painting at the window, she suddenly receives an unexpected visit from a clown who sends her labeled balloons to the window. But how does the stranger know it's Isabelle's birthday?
When Jonas loses his job at a Hamburg startup company, he doesn’t have the heart to tell his girlfriend Katharina, as her nerves are already on the edge with her final law exams coming up. Every morning he leaves their flat and drift aimless through the metropole on endless underground rides....
After a long time, young Franz returns to the village of his childhood, Klein-Reibach. The big anniversary celebration is coming up. But he is shocked to discover that his hometown is threatened by a crack in the old, dilapidated dam. In order to save the village, Franz has to stand up to the...
Orphan August can hardly believe his eyes. In the dead of winter, a small bird suddenly lands at his window. But the strange creature is a tree elf - the last of its kind, who entrusts August with an almost impossible mission that could change his own and the world of tree alves forever.
In an old house in the middle of nowhere, the two elderly ladies Ottilia and Milva lead a cozy life. Suddenly, a circus director appears on their doorstep and gives them an intimidated ox, which they kindly take into their home. They have no idea what his hidden intentions are.
Young Friedrich is a loner. He doesn't want to work in his father's company later on, he wants to travel the world, become a writer and find the meaning of life. One day, by chance, he meets an old man who is traveling through the country with a strange suitcase. This suitcase is said to contain a...
The young Russian Leonid Zaharov tries to flee to the West via the GDR at the end of the 1980s. When he is bounced and there is no way forward, he looks back. Does he give up everything for freedom or does his happiness lie at his back?
With her reckless behavior art student Kalina (21) provokes her fellow students, her teachers and sometimes even her only friend Ruth (24). Kalina convinces Ruth take a spontaneous trip to Portugal the next day and they euphorically head out to celebrate their plan. After a half-hearted attempt to...
Prof. Adam Rosenberg is a renowned plant researcher. When his favorite flower begins to wither one day, Adam tries everything he can to prevent it. But like all living things, plants cannot live forever. The secret behind the purple flower leads Adam to make a decision that will change his life.
Pictures of a elaborately designed miniature setting of a forest, were filmed solitary and combined with 3D animations of firebugs and gardenspiders in post-production. Accompanied with sound effects and appropriate electronic music the bugs are taking action.
Frank has to join the army as a reservist in the GDR. Every day he writes home to his wife in the Erzgebirge. The young couple, who already have a daughter, look for ways to deal with the separation. But their time in the barracks remains lost time, and the description of the weather becomes a...
