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A soon-to-be-father policeman falls for a gay fellow officer and his life starts falling apart.

Plot unknown. A follow-up film to Stephan Lacant's 2013 film 'Free Fall'.

Two boys, different worlds. Just at the beginning of the summer vacation, 10-year-old Jona has to move from Berlin to the German-Czech border with his mother and new stepfather. Lonely and angry, he explores the new surroundings. But then he met 13-year-old Ukrainian Miro across the border. Jona is fascinated by the taciturn and self-confident boy. Jona only slowly realizes what kind of fate is hidden behind Miro's adult facade.

There seems to be little room in society for imaginative people. Paul's father was personally affected by this. When he told the people of his village how old records indicated there was a legendary cave inside the Ursulenberg mountain, they thought he was a crank. But more than a year ago, he left on an expedition and never returned. Did he find the cave and have an accident there? Paul has a hard time coping with his father's disappearance. He keeps thinking about what his father had told him: "We have to dream as much as we can. How can all the wonderful things that could change the world become real if no one dares to imagine them?" On the last day of school, Paul picks up his father's notes and decides to go in search of the cave with his best friend. Thus begins the summer of their lives.

Markus, a good-looking, likable and respected architect, is a paedophile. Bodies of little boys excite him. He suffers tremendously because of this inclination. He tortures himself for it and is disgusted by himself. Nevertheless, the arousal is there. And there is nothing he can do about it. He struggles the most when he is about to become sexual with a boy for the first time. That is when he senses that he will not be able to keep his desire under control for much longer. He is getting more and more isolated. Markus struggles to resist the ever-rising calls in his head to finally 'do more' with a boy.

Lena (17) meets 19-year-old Farid, a young Muslim. She has a clear-cut attitude towards his culture and religion: utter rejection. Despite their differences - or perhaps because of them - they fall in love. When Lena unexpectedly gets pregnant the two of them must make a pledge to each other and their child. Hannah, Lena's mother, sees red, realizing this means her daughter will be expected to marry a Muslim man - unfathomable both to her and to Farid's family. A couple destined to be together stuck between worlds, traditions, religion, contradictions and prejudices.

17-year-old Rebekka has been feeling empty and hollow since her brother Dennis' suicide two years ago. His friend Vincent is the only one who can help her through this difficult time, but he's an outsider, accepted by nobody--especially since he jumped off the bridge with Dennis and survived. Although Rebekka's parents do not want her to spend time with Vincent, the two start a relationship that is healing and destructive at the same time. When things are threatening to escalate, Rebekka must leave everything behind to find her way back to herself.

An interview situation suddenly changes into something else because of the past.

An accidental hit and run jeopardizes the friendship between a journalist and his quirky neighbor.

'Swimming' or 'Schwimmen'(OT) is the story of Elisa and Anthea, two most different girls, whose friendship gives them orientation and stability in the most difficult time of their young lives. But their innocent friendship soon turns into dependency. To maintain their cohesion, they develop a game - which turns them from victims to offenders.

Songea, Tanzania. John Mbano is on a mission to find the human remains of his great-grandfather, Songea Mbano, who was executed by the German colonial army.

In the German city of Ludwigshafen on the Rhine river lives a man who fixes cars in his own car shop while at the same time being king to over 200,000 people in Ghana. King Céphas Bansah, who has lived in Germany since 1970, governs his people from Ludwigshafen. He travels to West Africa several times a year to check on his aid projects and to be available to people on site. His daughter Katharina (38), whose mother is German, was born and raised in Ludwigshafen. She is a free-lance graphic designer, a feminist free spirit, an artist, hippie and: a king's daughter. In recent years, father and daughter have been experiencing a growing hostility towards them from the white German majority society. Their reactions to that experience could not be more different. He - the exotic majesty - thinks assimilation and gratitude are key to successful integration. He successfully finances major essential aid projects in Ghana with the help of German donors. She, on the other hand, is sick and tired of proving to be 'German enough': "I have tried everything. But it's never enough. And if it isn't enough, I don't want it to be enough. If that's the case, I have to find other solutions for my life." Father and daughter go on a journey together. For the first time after many years, Katharina accompanies her father to his kingdom in Ghana. She wants to get back in touch with that part of her identity, she wants to recharge her spiritual batteries and figure out if she wants to succeed to the throne someday. On this intense journey, Katharina sees her father with new eyes and realizes the meaning her Ghanaian side has for her life - and which it does not.

Prinzessin Polly hat es nicht leicht. Das Königreich befindet sich in einem Ausnahmezustand: Seit Pollys Bruder vor Jahren verschwand, herrscht Trauer. Der König erträgt kein Lachen. Doch ausgerechnet Prinzessin Polly fällt das besonders schwer, sie liebt es, Witze zu machen und andere Menschen aufzumuntern. Als Polly bei der Trauerfeier zum Gedenken an den Prinzen ihren Nebenmann zum Lachen bringt, breitet sich dieses Lachen wie eine Lawine unter den Umstehenden aus. Es kommt zum Streit - Polly geht. Zeitgleich überquert der Abenteurer Leif die Landesgrenze. Möglichst schnell will er durch dieses trauernde Land reiten, muss dann allerdings den Widerstandskämpfer Hagen retten, der vor seinen Augen abgeführt werden soll. Den Wachen des Königs können die beiden nur mithilfe einer magischen Alten entkommen. "Jeder muss seine Last auf den Rücken nehmen!" ist die Maxime dieser geheimnisvollen Frau, bei der auch Polly bereits Unterschlupf finden konnte. Sie fordert die jungen Menschen um sich heraus und öffnet ihnen neue Horizonte. Schaffen sie es gemeinsam, die Zukunft des Landes umzugestalten und es von der Last der Trauer zu befreien?

"Everything in life happens for a reason." After the death of his pregnant wife, Schimon clings to this sentence. When he meets Milena just two weeks later and falls head over heels in love with her, he thinks he's found the reason.

The new darling Kreuzberg is Greek and comes from Mannheim-Jungbusch, the multicultural heart of the city. Lawyer Dimitrios Schulze, called Dimi, is passionate and tricky here for the legal needs of his clients. When he's not helping out in his mother's shop, Helena. Dimi's thing is not understatement, he is always convinced that he is the best that can happen to his clients. Key witness deals are closer to him than fundamental disputes, and when it comes to pulling the clients out of the noose of investigating judge Eszter Petöfi, he sometimes gently bends the facts. In this way, Dimi drives the ambitious territorial bull Sultan Camak insane. The two have known each other since childhood and Sultan fights a private battle against Dimi, in which speed cameras and the trade inspectorate play a not exactly creditable role. Samira El Fani from Morocco needs Dimi's help because she stole valuable jewelry from his friend Abeo's shop, a repeat offense. Abeo doesn't like to see Dimi standing up for the petty criminal junkie bride Samira. But Abeo still has to acknowledge that he succeeds in tricking Samira into psychiatry instead of in custody. Unfortunately, Samira strains Dimi's patience because she refuses to stay in the clinic. When the lawyer has to take care of the new client, site manager Alexa Livrova, who is accused of attempted manslaughter. Dimi doesn't believe in it, and the victim is Samira's pimp friend Ruman, whom he doesn't trust anyway. Annoyingly, right now Sultan Cakmak has an opportunity to investigate his intimate enemy for a major offense. Lawyer Laura Pellegrini has not yet fully voiced her allegation that her former classmate Dimi cheated on an exam with her help when Sultan started the house search. Bad situation for Dimitrios Schulze, because that could mean the end of his work as a lawyer .

The 16-year-old blind Peter is on the run from the Allies with his father Heiner, a former SS officer, in the cold winter of 1946. With them they have the wounded soldier Karl, who has promised to take them across the Swiss border. When Karl succumbs to his injuries on the way there, Peter and Heiner take the dead man to his family, who live on a remote farm in the Black Forest. They hope that Karl's father Wilhelm will make good on his son's promise. However, a snowstorm forces them to stay on the farm, setting off a fateful chain of events.

Goodbye G.I. is a film about the withdrawal of the US army from West Germany taking Patrick Henry Village in Heidelberg as an example.