Ali N. Askin

Seven Days (2025)

The imprisoned Iranian women's rights activist Maryam is allowed to meet her family for seven days. Her husband and children beg Maryam to flee with them instead of returning to prison but she has not yet made her decision. ...

Aeon Oz (2025)

AEON OZ, a beautiful film about the meaning of life and the transformative power of metamorphosis in the meditative flow of time. Visual poetry, impressive images, extraordinary music, huge landscapes and a protagonist who moves through the transparent air ...

Horst Lichter - Keine Zeit für Arschlöcher (2022)

Based on the bestselling biography: Entertainer Horst Lichter has barely had time to relax on his holiday when his mother calls him. In her own dry way, she tells him that she has been diagnosed with cancer and that things are not going well for her. Immed ...

Moonbound (2021)

When Peter sets out on a magical journey to rescue his little sister Anne, he needs to travel to mysterious territory: the Moon! Anne was kidnapped by the evil Moon Man when she tried to help the beetle Mr. Zoomzeman in search for his wife. On his fantasti ...

Defender of the Faith (2019)

As Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger wanted to lead the Church back to its former strength, but instead he plunged it into a deep crisis. He reacted largely inactive to the revelations of multiple cases of abuse by clergy. In order to understand the thin ...

Zwischen zwei Herzen (2019)

ENT doctor Katrin Schwitters meets a charming stranger on a training trip who brazenly introduces himself as a Russian secret agent. Due to a storm, the two are stranded on an island in the North Sea and spend a wondrously playful evening together. Katrin ...

Kaisersturz (2018)

While World War One is coming to an end, the Social Democrat Friedrich Ebert is trying to maintain political stability in Berlin. In the haughty Prince Max of Baden he finds an ally who offers him government participation under his chancellorship. In the m ...

Tehran Taboo (2017)

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran's schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition ha ...

Am Ruder (2017)

Michael Schröder is the owner of a fitness studio that is not running. His marriage to the aristocratic and wealthy lawyer Elisabeth also only exists on paper. She lives out her love affair with lover Cornelius openly, but a divorce is unthinkable for Eli ...

Pettson and Findus: The Best Christmas Ever (2016)

Pettson and Findus find themselves snowed in their house. The little cat is scared that Christmas is ruined, but Pettson promises that they will celebrate "the best Christmas ever". ...

The General Case (2016)

In the young Federal Republic of Germany, which in the late 1950s in politics and justice is still interspersed with only superficially purified Nazi cliques, leads the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer a lonely fight against the coverup of Nazi crimes ...

Ein Fisch namens Liebe (2015)

The German doctor Vicky falls in love with the young Turk Mehmet. His family has lived in Berlin for a long time, and people are open to Germans - including women . But his mother Fatma has a problem with Vicky because she is almost as old as she is . Fatm ...

Die Neue (2015)

Eva is a passionate teacher. After the death of her mother, she tries to find a new direction in life. Then Sevda, a Turkish girl, joins her class. She is smart, self-confident and wears a headscarf out of conviction. She demands her right to religious fre ...

Harter Brocken (2015)

A landslide in the Harz releases a corpse. Commissioner Frank Koops leads the investigation. Vanessa Riemann, tourist guide and marksman from St. Andreasberg, sees a lot of money in the backpack of the two hikers and attacks. On her breakneck escape throug ...

The Chosen Ones (2014)

In the late 70s, young Petra Grust begins teaching at the progressive Odenwald School. She is flattered by the trust placed in her by its widely respected headmaster Simon Pistorius. But gradually certain incidents at the boarding school begin to unsettle ...

Familie Windscheidt - Der ganz normale Wahnsinn (2012)

After suffering from burnout syndrome and a hospital stay, an architect returns to his family. His wife and the children from their marriage as well as their respective previous marriages are largely considerate, but "normal" life takes its toll: While his ...

Raising Resistance (2012)

Paraguay's lush soy farms are battlegrounds between huge agri-business and small farmers. The GMO beans fatten up cattle in rich countries so steaks remain cheap. But the pesticides used are destroying the crops of the campesinos and harming their kids. ...

The Green Wave (2012)

Green was the symbol of recognition among the supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi. This documentary-collage illustrates with animated blogs and tweets the story of democracy under fire and the dramatic events before and after t ...

Offroad (2012)

Meike has had enough of a comfortable life and ventures out on a risky off-road adventure in a jeep she bought at auction. ...

Life, Above All (2010)

A touching mother-daughter relationship that reflects the modern South Africa. ...

Ayla (2010)

After turning away from her Turkish family, young Ayla works as a kindergarten teacher and enjoys the liberties of being single. When she meet photographer Ayhan, she ignores all qualms and falls head over heels in love with him. Then Hatice, the mother of ...

Allein unter Schülern (2009)

Salami Aleikum (2009)

To save his grumpy father's Persian butcher's shop, Mohsen, a sensitive scarf-knitter, buys sheep on the cheap. On the way to them, he gets stranded in East Germany and falls in love with ex-ball-striker Ana. In the village, Mohsen's father is thought to b ...

Les murs porteurs (2008)

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Leroy (2007)

A gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Berlin teen named Leroy who rediscovers his roots after falling for a pretty white girl and meeting her racist family. ...

Lost Children (2005)

For over 18 years a civil war in northern Uganda has dragged on almost completely unnoticed by the rest of the world. The rebels of the LRA ( Lord's Resistance Army) are waging a bloody guerilla campaign. They abduct children and conscript them as soldiers ...

Qui a mangé la soupe cosmique? (2005)

Explanation of the genesis of the Universe and live on Earth as well as the developement of human culture. ...

Endlich Sex! (2004)

Preoccupied with her virginity, which distinguishes her from her peers, 17-year-old Saskia secretly dreams of dating Christophe, the star of the school and a musician to boot. As she is new to love, her fairy godmother takes the form of Hannes, a new gay n ...

Kosmische Brocken - Frank Zappa und die Deutschen (2018)

Pettson and Findus: The Best Christmas Ever (2016)

Pettson and Findus find themselves snowed in their house. The little cat is scared that Christmas is ruined, but Pettson promises that they will celebrate "the best Christmas ever". ...

Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note (2002)

Frank Zappa: Phase Two is a 2002 documentary about Frank Zappa. It features a lot of footage from Scheffer's previous film, but new material from Malcolm McNab's private achive. ...

Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die (2000)

Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die is a 2000 documentary about Frank Zappa. ...