Movies: Deutsche Film Und Fernsehakademie Berlin Dffb

After another failed attempt to get pregnant, a young couple begins to diverge in their desires. Pandemics, climate change and life’s uncertainties loom large. What does it mean to bring a child into an ever-more-complicated world? The cycles of natu...

A young man from the countryside goes to Berlin, where he is robbed by hoodlums. Completely penniless, he meets a prostitute with whom he falls in love, but the pimp wins. In a hopeless situation, he decides to take back what is his by force....

An almost deserted diner in the middle of the port. The owner, Violeta, dreams of a life that could have been different. She employs her niece, Maria, a radical passivist who steers away from any drive or ambition. Between chores and cigarette breaks...

17-year old Sarah, filled with adolescent angst, is an extreme person who in her rehearsals with a theatre group is transformed until she is almost in a trance, and her performances at home or elsewhere verge on excess. A cold, intellectual father, a...

While life in a provincial town in eastern Germany near the Polish border has virtually come to a standstill, a dynamic young entrepreneur, his wife, and a laconic, resigned dropout strive to make a new start. But their dreams of revitalizing the reg...

On a bleak island where monolithic concrete buildings rise above the windswept horizon lies work-colony #191286. Piwonka is one of a handful of migrant workers who are forced to work here under harsh conditions. He has been estranged for two months f...

Patrick and Sara are in love. And they are involved in a group campaigning for the rights of refugees. When their rapprochement leads to sexual assault, their private love story takes on an unintentional political dimension....

Elena is a student in Minsk. She is having an intense but self-destructive love affair with Viktor. When Elena's father goes to prison she has to take charge of his business dealings to help him. She drives repeatedly into the restricted zone at Cher...

Before Martin dies, he asks Jan to carry out three wishes. Will Jan be up to making them happen? Sometimes, one can also be faced with other, unforeseen wishes....

An apartment, a man, a compulsive mission. Bruno, a silent Gangster, tries to rob an apartment. He is in search of the key for the Strongbox, but what he doesn’t expect is that a video on the internet would distract him so much. In order to satisfy h...

Drug courier Sal has the war in him. When he meets the charismatic Sasha, his life goes off the rails and he botches an important coup. They flee together and Sal undergoes an astonishing metamorphosis....

The mysteriously familiar face of a deceased young woman shakes young surgeon Fabian out of his lethargy. On a whim, he leaves Berlin for Portugal, determined to win back his former girlfriend Doro, who works at an architectural company in Lisbon....

Berlin. A lonely construction worker falls in love with an East European prostitute. She asks him to marry her - but they have different ideas about the reason for this marriage....

A nighttime odyssey just before New Year's Eve: a woman and a man walking along a back road, caught up in a fight. Their conflict spreads out around them: it covers the dirty coat the woman is wearing, a child she meets and a waiter who doesn't want ...

Representative Diethard has given up. There is nothing left for the 40-year-old on the German marriage market. So he chooses an exotic woman from the catalog, has her flown in and marries her. But everyday life with Beanboat is disappointing......

Nina, a young actor, returns to the Ruhr region for her grandmother’s funeral. Tensions surface between her and her mother. The noises of a small town fill the eloquent silences in the complex mother-daughter relationships explored in this endearing ...

Three young men kill two policemen after a chaotic bank raid; a problem which forces the trio to make a desperate escape across the border to Poland....

Moritz had a nervous breakdown. His friend Paul persuades him to travel to the countryside. Paul wants to do some cosmetic repairs to the cottage of his girlfriend Hanna. He is convinced that physical work is the best treatment for Moritz....

Although photographer Horn has been back from Scotland for a while, he still has to think about his irritating and fleeting encounter with a stranger on his journey. Due to a mix-up, some of the stranger's valuables are sent to him....

Margarita, 13 years old and an introverted outsider at school, observes the beautiful Ariana on a school trip. All the boys want to be near Ariana, and all the girls want to be like her. Margarita is also fascinated by Ariana and a secret friendship ...