A girl named Johnny

Early on, Joana Wolkenzin knows that she is different. She spends hours reading and learns song lyrics by heart. As she grows older, she falls in love with both boys and girls. In the No Man's Land of Western Pomerania in the 1990s, she gives herself a new name: ...

"People tell each other stories in order to survive-but for death they need music." Marten feels most at home in graveyards: they are quiet and their trees offer plenty of shade. Even as a child he was the odd one out-and as an adult he takes up the profession that fits him like a lid fits ...

Lorenz, a former librarian and cinema usher, is now pushing 30 and working in a copy shop. One day he holds onto one of several copies of a diary he is binding for a diplomat. He gives it unread to his girlfriend Iris, a substitute teacher, so they can read it together. The diary is the ...

Western Pomeranian, 1999, in the small village of Bresekow. When old Frau Hanske dies, her daughter Ingrid flies in for the funeral with her family from Ireland. Ingrid had fled Bresekow many years ago. Her visit brings about many changes in the village, raising questions old and new, ...

Julius is the story of a young man striking out on his own. It's also the story of the eponymous protagonist's friendship with Martin, a sports-mad French student. And it's the moving and tragic love story of Julius and Jadwiga, and Julius's only seemingly ...

Sixteen-year-old Annamaria will never forget that "Dirty Thursday": A harmless Carnival tradition spells doom for the young girl. And yet no one is willing to believe what happened to Annamaria, who has been living with a negligent and unloving foster mother since her parents' untimely deaths.

It is 1959, and friends Ruth and Christa are enjoying their last summer holidays before the school leaving exams. During a lunchtime swim they meet Erich, a young man who is a member of a group of evangelical Christians. Little do they know Christa will soon secretly be accompanying Erich to ...

Three friends in their mid-forties, a turbulent trip through China and a cascade of incredible surprises

Alicia and Theo, Didi and Gregor: two married couples in their mid-forties who happen to be friends. When Gregor is killed in an accident, the group's equilibrium is compromised, since ...

Germany, 1965. Elizabeth has had a strict Catholic upbringing in a small village and dreams of leading an independent life in the city. That summer, she falls in love for the first time: with Giorgio, a young Italian guest worker. But shortly before his departure, Giorgio confesses that he is ...

Everyone in Paris knows him: Mr Cho, the mysterious tea master, who lives a life of lonely seclusion. One day a young woman turns up at his shop and asks him to perform a traditional tea ceremony for her. Escorting Lin to the door after the ritual is over, he is stunned when she bids him ...

One winter's day just before Christmas, Sami discovers a little glass vial full of unrecognisable grains in a graveyard. He takes the vial to the nearest pharmacy, where petite red-headed pharmacist Katharina sniffs at it, then blushes crimson and bashfully discloses the nature of its ...

A man without memory. But the past catches up with him…

After an accident that virtually destroys his face, the life of German entrepreneur Max Winther is hanging by a thread. Two years and countless plastic surgery operations later, he is able to leave the specialist ...