Anne, eine etwa 60 Jahre alte Biologin, muss ihre Münchner Stadtwohnung abgeben, und da sie sich allein keine andere Wohnung leisten kann, fragt sie ehemalige WG-Mitbewohner aus ihrer Studentenzeit, ob sie an einer erneuten WG interessiert wären. Dazu bereit sind: Eddi, alter Frauenheld und seit langem Single, und Johannes, ein sozial engagierter Rechtsanwalt, der vor allem Mandanten nimmt, die sich eigentlich keinen Anwalt leisten können, und daher selbst auch kein Geld hat. Bei Eddi wurde zuvor eine schwere Krankheit diagnostiziert, er sagt den beiden anderen aber nichts davon.

Presenting his third feature after last year’s acclaimed Wintersleepers, Tom Tykwer cranks up the volume, stiffens the pace, and jettisons us on one of this year’s most exhilarating cinematic adventures. A breathtaking race against the clock, Run Lola Run straps Tykwers’ playfully hip sensibilities to a fun-filled mix of romance, thrills, and action as his tireless heroine pounds the pavement and racks her brain to save her lover from danger. Manni and Lola are twenty-something Berliners, way past cool and desperately in love.

When Manni, a local criminal’s errand boy, loses twenty thousand Marks, he has twenty minutes to find the money or face retaliation. Not the brightest bulb, Manni turns to the quick-witted, resourceful Lola to devise a plan to save his hide. And so she does, and off she sprints, running for Manni's life, for her love, and to find money somewhere, somehow.

A tragicomic movie which focuses on two women and their daily struggle for survival during a summer in Berlin. Katrin, a jobless single mom, and Nike, a nurse, live in the same house and are best friends. Although always dating the wrong men and still pursuing for happiness, they don't lose their humor and spend many nights together on Nike's balcony, drinking and chatting. However, Nike gets to know the trucker Ronald one day...

Soul Kitchen is a 2009 German comedy film directed by Fatih Akın, with a screenplay by Akın and Adam Bousdoukos. Bousdoukos based the story on his own experiences as the owner of a Greek tavern named “Taverna,” where Akın was a regular customer. Akın filmed the movie entirely in the Hamburg area.

Young Mausi (a nickname) leaves her hometown - a very small province town in northwestern Germany - to live in the city of Hamburg. Being about 18 years old she has just finished school and seeks her freedom away from home. She knows she loves women but never dared to live accordingly. In Hamburg she soon finds a lover and a good friend, too, and the strength to face the narrow-minded people at home. After struggling with it for some time she returns for a visit to tell at least her mother and best friend.

Apparently, rocks are having conversations all around us, but they talk very, very slowly. Das Rad is, at times, quite funny (Hew, the larger of the two rocks, spends several millenia dealing with an algae “rash”), but the most impressive thing about this 9-minute short (aside form the animation, which is phenomenal) is the way it handles the passage of time.

Evet, ich will is a refreshing Turkish–German comedy about four cross-cultural couples in Berlin. All are challenged to grapple with political, cultural, and religious differences in the name of love.

Noted German filmmaker Doris Dörrie directs this understated comedy about two middle-aged brothers who go to study at a Zen monastery in Japan. The two brothers could not be more different. Uwe (Uwe Ochsenknecht) is a bored husband and kitchenware salesman, while Gustav (Gustav Peter Wohler) is a flighty feng shui consultant and Eastern religions devotee. Just as Gustav is preparing to leave for the land of the rising sun, Uwe, whose wife just dumped him, begs his brother to let him tag along.

This savvy and sexy film opens with its heroine, Nabou, a black lesbian living in Germany, being unceremoniously dumped by her lover Katja, a self-centered, blue-haired, white punker. Nabou takes a job cleaning Kim’s apartment, the straight black woman who lives in the same building just below Katja, ostensibly to stay as close as possible to her ex. Meanwhile Kim, with her own melodrama to deal with, feels overworked and underappreciated by her boyfriend, who is also her boss at the ad agency for which she works. While at first cool to and seemingly uninterested in each other, Nabou and Kim’s relationship blossoms over time, even as Katja decides she wants Nabou back and Kim’s boyfriend pops the big marriage question. With its hip soundtrack, overlapping story lines, and satirical take on racism, Everything Will Be Fine is a modern lesbian comedy sure to surprise and please.

Das pommersche Dorf Kummerow zur Zeit Bismarcks: Pastor Breithaupt, der streitbare Seelenhirte der Gemeinde, hält zwar viel von Tradition, von heidnischen Bräuchen aber gar nichts. So ist ihm der Ritus des “Heidendöpen,” den die Kinder von Kummerow jedes Jahr leidenschaftlich pflegen, zutiefst zuwider. Jahr für Jahr stehen sie im eiskalten Wasser des Mühlbachs, und wer es am längsten aushält, wird zum König gekrönt. Dass Breithaupts Jüngste, Ulrike, die “Braut” bei diesem Wettbewerb spielt, verschlimmert die Sache natürlich erheblich.