Theatrical releases (page 5)

Most movies are produced for the big screens of cinemas. Because of we’re cinema lovers, we want to pay tribute to this fact and therefore we operate our own theatrical distribution in Berlin.

The following films also had theatrical releases on the specified dates and have since been screened in selected cinemas:

Das Floß! | Floating!

by Julia C. Kaiser

Katha is sure she wants to marry Jana and have a baby with her. But her sandbox friend Charly has come up with something very special: a weekend ‘hen party’ for five, on a raft.

Katha has to learn not to think in conventional patterns; and it’s the most conservative-looking Charly who turns out to be the bearer of this ‘queer’ spirit. The movie tells of intellectual freedom – it should be created with the greatest possible creative freedom. With the raft! I want to tell a story that lives on improvisational authenticity and at the same time on narrative density. The script, served us as a promise – which, however, was allowed to be broken.

Theatrical release: January 07, 2016

Schmitke

by Štepán Altrichter

Julius Schmitke is a 57-year-old German engineer for wind turbines. He feels sickly, his body ages, creaks, crunches and groans. One day he is sent somewhere to the Czech Ore Mountains to repair one of his old patents, a mysterious C 174, which also does not want to creak and creak.

But that’s not the only secret that awaits him there. His colleague Thomas disappears, strange things happen, and Schmitke begins to feel the spirit of the forest around him. The longer Julius wanders through the rough and misty woods, the more surprised he is that the entire expedition into the mysterious, unknown forest seems to be a return to old, familiar places in himself.

Theatrical release: November 05, 2015

Available via UCM.ONE in Germany, Austria & Switzerland.

HomeSick

by Jakob M. Erwa

The ambitious cello student Jessica and her boyfriend, the young physiotherapist Lorenz move into their first shared apartment. When Jessica learns that she should compete for Germany at the prestigious “Young Classix Award” in Moscow, this is her big chance. The two enjoy their new life and new home. But soon dark clouds start to rise, because the neighbors, an elderly couple, seem to feel disturbed.

While Lorenz is out of the house during the day, Jessica prepares for the competition at home. Her tension increases daily. She also finds herself exposed to smaller and larger anonymous harassment she attributes to neighbors. Lorenz gets nothing from all this, which burdens the young happiness and makes life difficult for the couple in their new home.

Driven by her ambition and perfectionism, Jessica’s boundaries between reality and imagination seem to blur. She practices obsessively, often looks absent and can not find peace even at night. Friends become opponents, neighbors oversee, the new home becomes a self-imposed prison and the music becomes a nightmare …

Theatrical release: October 15, 2015

Available via UCM.ONE in Germany, Austria & Switzerland.

Liebe mich! | Love me!

by Philipp Eichholtz

It flies out of the window in a high arc, Sarah’s sauteures MacBook. A total loss. And all because she has spent the night with her best friend and is unwilling to have breakfast or swear eternal love with her. Since you can mess around, if you are as impulsive and uncompromising as Sarah. Just stupid that all their work was on the laptop in the last few weeks …

Could that be the nice guy from the computer store again? Maybe he can fix his whole life again? He tries both. And Sarah likes it, because behind her loud roar is above all one thing: the desire for love. But she would not be Sarah, if she would not break it all again, plunge into Berlin party life, having sex with a stranger in the bathroom and throwing up with her father. To then regret everything again.

Theatrical release: August 20, 2015

Nachthelle | Bright Night

by Florian Gottschick

It promises to be an idyllic and sentimental weekend. – The lovers ANNA and STEFAN and BERND and MARC meet in their old home. The expanding coal mining industry, which will soon swallow up the village, meadows and forests, has depopulated the place. The old school has expired, the dead in the cemetery have been exhumed and yet the four enjoy their time in the dying area and reminisce. But an old guilt pushes vehemently into Anna’s consciousness. The place of her youth has a threatening effect on her: she is afflicted by nightmares, something sinisterly surges to the surface, while towering conveyors dig incessantly closer. And that’s not enough, Stefan is drawn to the two men’s open relationship, which Marc takes advantage of to play with Anna’s ailing psyche.

The otherwise so confident Anna has to learn how to first slip away from well-structured life and then the friend – and she has to learn that only the confrontation with the demons of their past offers a way out.

Theatrical release: June 04, 2015

Amok – Hansi geht’s gut | Amok

by Zoltan Paul

With “Amok” comes on May 28, 2015, a quiet, sharply observed and succinctly staged psychodrama by Zoltan Paul in the cinemas. The scene is the Shakespeare-Platz in Charlottenburg. Here is the old West Berlin dying.

Lorenz Fuchs lives on Shakespeare Platz, magnificently played by Burgtheater actor Tilo Nest. Early in the morning, his eyes wander over the sea of ​​houses in the direction of the radio tower. Breakfast, the everyday way to work. His company is the calculated victim of inhumane corporate strategies. The accountant has to handle jobs. Fox is the last to be pushed by the sinking ship. Between panic attacks and self-pity, his cynical boss (Charly Hübner) makes an offer to his accountant that drives him even deeper into the abyss!

“Amok” is a psychodrama about time, agonizing on the ride to the end of life has stopped and no longer finds prospects. A film about the inner pressure, which leads to wrong decisions and then can only explode. In real time implied the camera pursues the main actor. From the apartment, to the street, to work, to the pedestrian zone. Lorenz Fuchs is in a tormenting process. The audience gets into the exciting pull of a sensory labyrinth. Sad, disturbing, directly alive.

Theatrical release: May 28, 2015

Familienfieber | Family Fever

by Nico Sommer

Majas and Uwe’s relationship is embedded in the routine of everyday life. Her marriage is full of calm. Alina, daughter of Maja and Uwe, however, calls in the context of their newly discovered love for the family reunion with Nicos parents. Badly prepared it goes to an unknown place in Brandenburg – but the planned family reunification holds interesting surprises …

Family Fever is a ravishing German tragicomedy by director Nico Sommer and offers a humorous and affectionate insight into the lives of two families who are suddenly unintentionally united over the love of their children. The director, after his critically acclaimed feature film debut “Silvi”, once again grapples with the 40+ generation. He was able to fall back on a wonderful cast of actors. Without funding or broadcasting, the film was completed on a low budget in just seven days on the basis of four pages Storyline in Berlin and Brandenburg.

Theatrical release: January 12, 2015

Kaptn Oskar

by Tom Lass

Oscar is not feeling well. His ex-girlfriend Alex has flared his apartment and now he’s garbing in a shabby basement dike. But then he meets Masha. She is not feeling well either. Again and again she ends up in bed with older men, who can not satisfy their excessive need for closeness.

Together Oskar and Masha fight against loneliness and let themselves drift through Berlin. However, the agreement to not have sex regrets Oskar quickly – at the latest when Alex pushes back into his life and tries to disperse the two. All the more, Oskar now longs for Masha’s physical love and instead gets drunk sex with Alex, only to realize that loneliness is even worse when the ex watches it. Slowly it becomes clear that a radical decision has to be made. Oskar and Masha drive tents. Fuck.

Theatrical release: December 11, 2014

Love Steaks

by Jakob Lass

A luxury hotel. Steaks are fried. Massed bacon rolls. Clemens (tender) comes as a baby in the spa. Lara (good through) has to assert herself in the kitchen pack. The elevator brings the two together. They rub against each other until it pops.

Clemens (Franz Rogowski) is shy, polite and just finished his training as a massage therapist. During his first job in the spa of a luxury hotel on the Baltic Sea, he bumps into the lift on the quick-fix Lara (Lana Cooper), who initially can not smell him at all. She designs her hard everyday life as an apprentice in the hotel kitchen according to her own rules. She massages steaks and wants fun. He massages bacon rolls and loves peace. He does not participate in her crazy actions. But then it bangs violently between this unequal pair, they fall in love with skin and hair, unrestrained, determined to find a place in the other’s life. Even if that means teasing the antagonism down to the blood to soft knead it – until things get out of hand and both have to make a decision …

Theatrical release: March 27, 2014