Benjamin Quabeck

Richard the Stork and the Mystery of the Great Jewel (2023)

Richard, a sparrow adopted by a stork family, is wintering at the Great Lake in Northern Africa. When he realises that he won't be the one to lead his flock back North, Richard decides to travel on his own and crosses paths with Samia and her sparrow flock ...

Axel the Hero (2019)

Axel lives in a poor village where people work days at the chicken farm and gamble their last pennies at night. It's made Manne, the farm and casino owner, a very powerful man. Axel's debts are so great he has to do whatever Manne says. So he works in Mann ...

Mischief (2018)

Set in a Medieval town, the film has a theatrical quality, as the behaviours and actions of the characters are exaggerated almost to the point of satire. Nevertheless, its relatively dark and heavy plot yields over-the-top expressions from the actors. Ther ...

Der Auf-Schneider (2018)

He was arrested 23 years ago. In May 1995, Germany's most famous building tycoon and fraudster was caught by FBI and BKA investigators in Miami. Jürgen Schneider had been hiding there with his wife Claudia for over 13 months after his flight from Germany ...

Revolting Rhymes (2017)

Two half-hour animated films based on the much-loved rhymes written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. ...

Hell's Bells (2017)

Dragon Girls (2012)

The documentary film Dragon Girls tells the story of three young Chinese girls training to become Kung Fu fighters, far away from their families, at the largest Kung Fu school in China. These girls, in a crowd of 26,000 children, are under constant pressur ...

Der kleine und das biest (2010)

Dandy (2006)

Follows experiments of fictional 19th century aristocrat Monsieur Lautréamont, a hypochondriac dandy committed to the pursuit of true aesthetic perfection which he calls "urge-ingeniousness". The film focuses on the interplay between Lautréamont and Loui ...

Europe - 99euro-films 2 (2003)

Second part of a short film project, where every single short film is only allowed to cost 99 Euros. This time there are not only German filmmakers, but directors from all over Europe involved... ...

Wasted Youth (2003)

The year is 1981, the German New Wave is at the peak. Harry, otherwise Sparkasse trainee, wants to make it big as a manager of the band of his friends, Apollo Schwabing. He has booked the band as the opening act for a concert where the group DAF are the he ...

No Regrets (2001)

This teenage drama deals with the emotional chaos of a high school graduate at the beginning of a new period of his life. 19-year-old Daniel is frustrated: he wants his great love Luca to be the "first" woman in his life, but she seems to be unreachable, s ...

Höhlenangst (1998)

An animated short directed by Benjamin Quabeck. ...

The Princess, the Prince and the green-eyed Dragon (2012)

An obsolete prince wants to read the newspaper. A resolute princess wants to fetch wood. And a thoughtful dragon is looking for a useful birthday present for his grandmother. In the end, everything is different than expected. ...