Daniel Zillmann

Tom and Malte are best friends; they make music together, DJ in Berlin clubs, dream of a career together, party until they drop, wait tables at a...

Alex is a passionate musician. He travels from one gig to the next with his tango band. He can't make a living from his music, but he doesn't really...

Rebecca is undecided about what her future life should look like. On the one hand, she is on the path to becoming a teacher, and on the other hand,...

When Momo leaves his small home town to go to university, he is full of enthusiasm and confidence, but slowly the pressures of study and campus...

The fairy Kräuterweis transforms the boy Jakob into a dwarf. No one recognizes him now. But Jacob does not lose his courage to face life....

In a dystopian 2054, three young rebels go on a journey to find traces of the long lost beauty of nature, hoping to discover what happened to their...

The true story of a young woman whose lust for life means she is determined to be so very much more than just another cancer patient.

Stories of the Berlin city life, separated into five episodes. A hopeless impostor. An East German couple who dreams of the big money. Three Turkish...

Florian, Matthias and Enrique drive to school full of anticipation: the exchange students are coming today! A bus full of attractive French girls!...

The cabaret artist Marc-Uwe and the kangaroo are faced with a problem: Lisbeth, the mother of Maria has taken a wrong turn somewhere and is now...

Inexperienced guardian angel, Buddy (Michael Herbig) arrives to assist Eddie (Alexander Fehling) with getting his life back on track, but instead...

Viewers of the short film as a real film always in new excerpts. Oskar just doesn't understand why nobody wants to film it. For his friend Benny,...

A dusty stretch of desert through which a Bundeswehr tank is struggling. The hungover Martin dozes off inside the vehicle. Suddenly shots ring out,...

Intern Annika gets the chance for a permanent position at the record company "GrandMusic". As a rehearsal, she is supposed to prepare the Finnish boy...

A social satire in which a chauffeur accidentally becomes the editor of an online newspaper.

A man decides to sell his grandparents' house when he finds out that the death of his parents seems to be connected to a legend about a murdered...

Young people disappear in Berlin's subway shafts, near the "Kill Your Darling" disco.

1980: 19 year old Robert, fed up with Hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for West Berlin. A tour de...

An African-German Author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany.

The Farmer's Daughter is given a riddle to solve by the king: "Come to me, neither naked nor clothed, neither walking nor riding, nor driving,...

Senta and Thomas are dying to fall in love - just not with one another. Still, when two people - a hopeless romantic and a system analyst - meet, an...

Actually, Kathi should be happy: her best friend Caro marries and wishes on top of Kathi as a maid of honor. Would not it be the unspeakable...

Proud Annegret Simon is new to the retirement home. She doesn't particularly like the change of scenery. And rightly so, says Mr. Tiedgen, who would...

To this very day, kids believe that the stories of "The Wild Soccer Bunch" are the best in the world, and that's why Leo, Elias, Finn, Joshua, Oskar...

Somewhere in the GDR, in 1988: young soldier Henrik Heidler starts his service in the National People's Army, a whole new world. Together with the...

In the motley final-year class 13e at Kepler School in Neukölln, children who have moved to the western part of the city legally as well as...

Plum out of luck, Swabian farmer Huber’s farm goes under. Then his girlfriend Birgit takes over her father’s newly-acquired firm –...

Four field researchers want to go home. Unfortunately, one of them apparently lost his mind. Since the return is not possible, as long as they remain...

Full of anticipation, the young and ambitious Commissioner Carsten Lanner (Florian Lukas) is moving from Berlin Cloppenburg in Lower Saxony for a...

Thomas is trapped in a loveless relationship, even though he has already fallen in love again, Anton can't manage to introduce his boyfriend to his...

Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can...

In order to catch a basketball from the favorite team of his girlfriend's spoiled son, Fred poses as a numb, wheelchair-bound fan. But when he...

Marion, a Berliner facing child custody and job loss as her ex Felix oversees her factory’s insolvency, scoffs at the idea of a savior, until...

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...

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

The tusk from a mammoth and a whale skeleton are found in a grotesque mix of bricks and destruction - a zoological museum has been blown up. Images...

At seventeen, girls are all about looking good, dressing right and making out with the cutest boys. Or they're like Luka, who's an ace in boxing and...

Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1992-2017. The end of the GDR gave rise to new artistic freedoms in reunited Berlin. Shortly after the fall...

A look at a Bavarian commune of the Indian Bhagwan cult.

No crisis is as disastrous, overwhelming and unjust as that of Alfi Seliger. The Jewish filmmaker, hypochondriac and family man is up to his neck in...

A day in the life of Berlin cab driver Klaus Grill.

For teenage twins Robert and Elena, a weekend can seem endless yet still fly by. Time almost stands still while discussing philosophy, lying in a...

A communist kangaroo moves in with an artist in Berlin.

After his successful first "case", Allmen decides to make finding lost art objects his profession and thus avoid financial misery in the future.

After having a chance encounter with a mysterious character, Wendy, a young working class mother, discovers that she has super powers.

A young orphan boy Jim Button, his best friend Luke and a magical steam engine called Emma travel across the world in search of the truth about where...

Love and loss are closely linked in MY SON, an emotional drama about a teenager and his mother who go on a journey together after nearly having lost...

Sorted out - and at almost 50! Both professionally and privately, window dresser Tanja feels like she's been left behind. But she bravely sticks her...

Lonely online miracle worker Olli Hermes cannot accept that his favorite show "Dr. Burg - der Herzchirurg" is being cancelled after 35 years. ...

Vampire sisters Silvania and Daka try to rescue their baby brother, a half-vampire, from the clutches of the evil vampire queen Antanasia, who wants...

Abahachi, the Apache chief, and his white blood brother Ranger fight tirelessly for peace and justice - but a new, up-and-coming gang is making life...

Far away from the big city, Janine is unwelcome, yet an eye-catcher: a sensual, queer subject of projection with wine-red hair. Jan Eilhardt travels...

Professional provocateur and artist Maven Shegula has returned to Berlin after a hiatus in Zürich. She’s back to celebrate her 50th...

Peter Lindburg played the role of "Kommissar Kämpfer" in the crime series "Blaulicht" for decades. Now the series is to be canceled, which...

Chris, a young lawyer, drives on a nightly road heading towards Hamburg. But his ride takes an unexpected turn as he witness a tragic accident. A...

Eleven-year-old Nick, son of a wealthy, single-parent architect, is being robbed by street children in Berlin. The blonde hairdresser Anna takes care...

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...

A Neukölln clan boss becomes a climate activist. A gender doll inventor who fulfills her most secret wishes with a fake gun and a new girlfriend...