Theatrical releases (page 2)

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:

Lost in the Living

by Robert Manson

Rückenwind von vorn | Away You Go

by Philipp Eichholtz

They say it’s easy to grow up but hard to be a grown-up. Berliner Charlie is certainly finding it damn hard differentiating between her own expectations and those of the people around her. Her boyfriend Marco wants to have a baby and, without being asked, her colleague Gerry offers up his own opinion: ‘What? You’ve been together for five years? Then there’ll soon be three of you!’ But Charlie’s not sure if it would be nice to have a child or whether it would mean she’d just lose sight of herself. Her job as a teacher is often pretty demanding, her beloved, fun-loving grandmother has fallen ill and things aren’t going too well with Marco who often seems to bore her. If only she could reclaim just a little of the old excitement of the time when she’d dance the night away. Others seem to find being a grown-up a lot easier. Gerry decides to buy himself a motor caravan and head for the Balkans, and her best friend sets off on a backpacking tour of Asia.

Why is everything changing for those around her and why is she the only one for whom life appears to be at a standstill? What Charlie needs is a breath of fresh air.

Theatrical release: March 15, 2018

Königin von Niendorf | Queen of Niendorf

by Joya Thome

In Brandenburg the summer holidays have just begun, but this year ten-year-old Lea (Lisa Moell) isn’t going to summer camp with her friends, as usual. She finds herself increasingly estranged from the girls in her school. And so Lea spends her days mostly alone, riding her bike through the village and visiting the musician and nonconformist Mark (Mex Schlüpfer), who lives on a wild farm. One day, however, Lea observes five boys hauling a large oil drum over the fence of a paint factory, racing away with their loot on a bicycle trailer.

Lea’s curiosity is aroused. At the next opportunity she follows the boys and discovers that they have built a raft on a small lake. But the raft is the property of the gang and girls are not allowed under any circumstances! Lea wants to be included in the gang and agrees to a dare. From then on the summer seems to be full of adventures…

Theatrical release: February 15, 2018

Rakete Perelman | Rocket Perelman

by Oliver Alaluukas

How do we want to live together? In the middle of Brandenburg’s nowhere between green meadows, techno and theater ten people answer this question in their own way. In the artists’ colony Rocket Perelman they live their version of freedom and independence – each for themselves and all together.

New in the rocket is Jen. In her mid-twenties she’s out of the city, out of the industry and into a new life. But the rocket needs money and the solution, how could it be otherwise, is in the art, more precisely in a theater production. Jen also gets the lead role in a play that slowly surpasses reality and at some point puts the idealism of the whole community to the test.

Theatrical release: November 09, 2017

Blind & Hässlich | Ugly & Blind

by Tom Lass

Ferdi is ugly. And he really wants a girlfriend. That doesn’t work, because: ugly. But one day he meets Jonah and Jonah is blind. For the first time in his life there is reason for hope. But what Ferdi does not know is that Jonah is only faking it. She ran away from home and needed a flat. Now she lives with her cousin Cecile in the blind dorm and pretends to fit in. And if Ferdi finds out, he’ll probably kill himself.

Tom Lass. 1983 born in Munich. Did not study anything. In 1999, at the age of 15, first engagements as an actor. Since 2005 also working behind the camera as production assistant and driver, later as production and set-up manager and assistant director. In 2009, he realised his first improvised low-budget feature film “PAPA GOLD”, which was nominated for the Max Ophüls Prize and the First Steps Award. It was also awarded the prize of the German Film Critics Association at Achtung Berlin. “KAPTN OSKAR”, his second feature film, received the main prize at the Oldenburg Film Festival in 2011 with the Seymour Cassel Award going to the lead actress. Lass’ third feature film “BLIND & HÄSSLICH” is a co-production with the ZDF – Kleines Fernsehspiel and was awarded the prize of the international critics’ association FIPRESCI at the Munich Film Festival in 2017.

Theatrical release: September 21, 2017

Mann im Spagat: Pace, Cowboy, Pace

by Timo Jacobs

For the World Breath Agency Cowboy eagerly tries to clean the breath of the world with homemade bed-chains and levitated water. Well, that should not be a problem in Kreuzberg, the district for star singers. After all, Cowboy has the help of his senior interns. But here, too, the times are changing. Cowboy has to watch the greasy Tschick McQueen and his busy partner Angel open a car courier across the street. Cowboy has to do something about those dirty slings. He plans to build a bike courier service and organize a rally right at the beginning.

But Cowboy’s mission has another reason. Cowboy does not want his mother to end up as a guinea pig in a dull and even dangerous retirement home. His mother is to go to Sohosavoyritz, the invigorating retirement home for BestAgerGutverdiener. There even Elvis is dancing as a laser projection. But cowboy needs money for that; best that of the courier company. As the world’s air center in the shape of the attractive and intelligent Fey van Schweeden sends a representative, Cowboys planning picks up speed. Fey supports cowboy where she can. For this it demands transcendental rethinking. Scattered between his burgeoning love for Fey, the appeal of Angel and his neat penchant for chaos, the rally becomes a race against time. Soon his mother should be taken away from him and these courier drivers really do not do what they should actually: cycling.

Tschick and Angel have cowboy meanwhile rushed the devil from Hermannplatz on the neck. But that’s laughable compared to the huge thundercloud hovering above him, and Cowboy’s ability to trick himself out of the game.

Theatrical release: June 02, 2017

Beat Beat Heart

by Luise Brinkmann

A playful romanticist has been actively waiting for months for the return of her great love – when suddenly her newly separated mother moves in midlife-crisis with her and confronts her in the course of their self-discovery with new-fangled love concepts and life wisdom.

Kerstin (Lana Cooper) believes in love with all her heart and has been waiting for months for the return of her ex boyfriend Thomas (Till Wonka). She has made herself comfortable in sugar beautiful memories, when suddenly her mother Charlotte (Saskia Vester) is at the door and wants to move into her flat. Because mom accidentally broke up with her partner in mid-50s and now does not know where to go. The fact that the two women could not be more different with their longing, becomes clear at the latest when Charlotte unceremoniously by Kerstin’s roommate (Christin Nichols) inspired to meet new men through an app and bring home directly. Kerstin’s happy daydreams are now increasingly interrupted by the reality in which true love has become a hopeless, random product.

Theatrical release: April 27, 2017

Luca tanzt leise | Dancing Quietly

by Philipp Eichholtz

Luca wants to do the Abi after dark years of depression. Her little dog Mata helps her to find motivation and joie de vivre. So that it does not fail to math, Luca concludes a deal with Kurt: English against math. He becomes a reliable friend, even if it gets really bad for Luca. When will it actually succeed, this “life”? If you understand math and get the Abi? If you know how to get sick leave to postpone the exams? If you find the right guy who loves you and wants you – and who is not an asshole?

Luca knows pretty well what it’s like when getting up, eating, getting dressed just does not work. There were ten dark years in her life. Now she has a small dog, Mata, rescued from a killing station in Bulgaria. She gets up for that and goes out. And it tries with the Abitur in the second educational way. So that it does not fail to math, Luca closes with her seat neighbor Kurt a deal: she helps him with English. He explains math to her and he is a reliable friend. For example, when this aggressive guy rings again at her door. And certainly, when things get really bad for Luca. Their lives live, but only they can do that.

Theatrical release: January 19, 2017

Lotte

by Julius Schultheiß

Lotte is direct and edgy, while gracious and above all equipped with a metropolitan Schnodderschnauze. With all these qualities she is constantly in love with her colleagues, girlfriends and even her boyfriend. He throws them out and Lotte is standing in the street – from now on busy to find a place to stay.

One night, Lotte meets Marcel, an almost forgotten acquaintance, in her local bar. As soon as he has recognized her, Lotte escapes and finds a saving place in the apartment of her friend Sabine. The next day, Lotte clings to the hardships of the night and does not seem to let go of her while working in the hospital. A young girl is brought in, Lotte takes care of her, a subtle affection arises.

But the joy only lasts briefly, because a little later Lotte witnessed an encounter between the young girl Greta and Marcel. The eyes of the three cross and Lotte suspects that this time there will be no escape for them.

Theatrical release: October 27, 2016

Frontalwatte

by Jakob Lass

Frontalwatte is like running against a wall and falling softly.

Franz, Adrian and Anastasia stumble through a world without consequences. They pass the time with home visits, jaw surgeries, triangle lessons, incest and poetry slams. Her search for identity degenerates to the search for the right role. Frontalwatte is like standing on stage with bandages in the mouth.

Theatrical release: July 14, 2016

Antons Fest | Party of Eight

by John Kolya Reichart

Eight people gather at a homestead in the middle of nowhere to celebrate a feast together. It is the family members and close confidants of Anton, who fled from his life a few years ago, broke off all contacts and now unexpectedly invited to his 30th birthday. In joyful anticipation of the prodigal son, those left behind try to make the spirits of the past sleep. But the more time passes and the more hopeless it seems that Anton will emerge, the more frustrated and aggressive the waiting people become.

Trapped in the pampas, all fuses burn out gradually, and so does Anton’s feast become a major family battle …

Theatrical release: February 04, 2016

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

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

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