Bärbel Schwarz

Holy Meat (2026)

Father Iversen has a mission: to save his parish. He already has an idea. With a spectacular performance of the Passion story, he wants to convince the theater-loving archbishop to keep the parish. But director Roberto, who has been canceled by the Berlin ...

Sound of Falling (2025)

Four adolescent girls each spend their youth in the same farmhouse over the last century. Though separated by decades, resonances between their lives emerge: their desires and distress, secrets and truths, encounters with another's gaze and defiant gaze in ...

Another German Tank Story (2025)

A crew from the U.S. intends to film a war drama at an abandoned sugar factory on the remote outskirts of a German city, making the nearby town, which had been a pool of stagnant water, seem to come to life. The residents are excited, each making their own ...

Die Absperrfrau (2025)

Unemployed Nikki (37) is taken to a movie set for the first time by his uncle Olaf (67) as a security guard. But the seemingly casual job of briefly stopping a few pedestrians and motorists during the takes turns into a series of failures. ...

Micha denkt groß (2024)

It's a hot, dry summer in Klein-Schappleben. Micha, a pretentious video game designer, wants to turn his late parents' dilapidated guesthouse into a luxury hotel with a wellness oasis. The villagers are skeptical, even though Micha loudly promises new jobs ...

Großstadtförsterin – Berliner Besonderheiten (2024)

Young forester Jana Doussière takes up a short-term position at the Grunewald forestry office. Coming from a wild forest in the Vosges, the solitude-loving Jana, who tends to struggle with people, encounters the big city forest and its "Berlin peculiariti ...

Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate (2023)

A glittery nightclub in 1920s Berlin becomes a haven for the queer community in this documentary exploring the freedoms lost amid Hitler's rise to power. ...

Und ihr schaut zu (2022)

After her daughter's fatal accident at a busy intersection, Jenni is confronted with videos on the web of Mia dying. Instead of helping, passersby were filming with their cell phones. The horrific images won't let Jenni go. Horror and rage at the gawkers' ...

Lehrer kann jeder! (2022)

Richard lives apart from his wife. He is unemployed. His life is really not running smoothly right now. Rather by chance, he gets into conversation with the director of his daughter's school, who is desperately looking for teachers - which gives Richard an ...

Und dann steht einer auf und öffnet das Fenster (2022)

Karla, a strong, sensual and experienced woman, learns that she has terminal cancer. She only has a few months left. After a wild life as a photographer of music bands, full of touring, joints and rock 'n' roll, the woman in her mid-sixties has no desire f ...

Free Country (2020)

Former East Germany, 1992. Patrick Stein and Markus Bach, two very different police officers, are commissioned to investigate the disappearance of two female teenagers in a remote area of the country. Did they run away from home or did something more terri ...

Get Lucky (2019)

Six teenagers experience tumultuous vacation at the Baltic Sea with a lot of sun and beach. At the holiday home they meet the sexologist Ellen. The teenagers experience their first love, the first sex and what possibly can go wrong. ...

System Crasher (2019)

Wherever 9-year-old Benni ends up, she is expelled. She has become what child protection services call a "system crasher." But she is not looking to change her ways, and has one goal: go back home to her mother. When anger management trainer Micha is hired ...

Happiness Sucks (2019)

Stefan Gabriel is an active father always looking at life positively. While he tries to give back to society, his daughters Jessica (12) and Sabrina (15) struggle with their own problems. Jessica is often mistaken for a boy and has to deal with her many ti ...

Glioblastom (2009)

Gallant Girls (2003)

Barbara Teufel's montage of fiction and documentary film elements tells the story of the women's community of "Ritterinnen", who founded a flat-sharing community in 1987 as part of the autonomous scene in Kreuzberg. ...