Today, MEL (34) is on the bright side of life, but that wasn’t always the case. The thought of her own past disturbs the self-made millionaire’s happiness so much that she unceremoniously buys the slab building in which she grew up. She wants to come to terms with her history, but the past is a stubborn beast.

When 8-year-old Ole disappears, the apparent peace in a small village in eastern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is put to the test. In her search for the child, Rostock police officer Mona uncovers a monster of vigilante justice and oppression that has grown over decades.

Johanna, a young neurologist, confronts her unsettling family past after meeting a new patient, six-year-old Lotte. Her obsession with trying to understand the girl’s mind and finding a cure for the rare condition prompts memories of the sexual abuse Johanna experienced when she was Lotte’s age.

An aging theater diva wants to do it again: She hires an ensemble at her own risk to perform a play with her in the leading role. Rehearsals take place in her country house by the sea and chaos takes its course. A tragicomedy about the power of art and the power of the last chance.

Spring 1980: 19-year-old Marina is a strong supporter of socialism and is training for the GDR’s freestyle relay team for the Moscow Olympics. When she is dropped from the national squad, she thinks about fleeing to west Germany – because only there does she see a chance of being nominated for the Olympics.

An undiagnosed bipolar art student embarks on a hitchhiking adventure with a parrot after the ambiguous death of her father. In search of his former lover, she tries to find answers to the question of her own ability to love. Silver Linings meets Catch Me If You Can.

To save her from being sent to a nursing home, a seven-year old girl sets out to find proof for her grandmother’s demented reality.