Hendrik Massute

Anxiety (2024)

A young refugee struggles with learning the German language while being existentially at the mercy of the bureaucratic system. Receiving an overwhelming amount of letters from the authorities triggers fears and war memories in him. Reality and imagination ...

Noctuidae (2021)

A lonely seamstress receives a strange request: to sew a cloak made only from the wings of moths. Her client soon disappears, but maybe she has one more chance to get it right this time. A philosophical fairy tale about humans and moths, both lost in the l ...

Rival (2021)

Young Roman and his mother Oksana leave Ukraine and go to Germany, where she works illegally while they both live with Gert, an old widower who tries to befriend Roman, who struggles for his mother's attention and sees Gert as a rival. ...

The Last Execution (2021)

The ambitious scientist Franz Walter doesn't hesitate when he is promised a professorship at the university. He immediately accepts, pledges absolute loyalty to the system and agrees to work for the GDR's foreign intelligence service until he can take up h ...

Until the Edge of the World (2019)

The five-year-old Flo cannot understand the condition that her father is in. Her mother explains: "He is with us but also far away at the same time". This description sparks the child's creativity, as she begins to imagine her father embarking on a journey ...

Leningrad Symphony (2017)

August 1942: Amidst the unimaginable suffering inflicted during the blockade of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht, an orchestra director was given an almost impossible task: to stage the premiere of Dimitri Shostakovitch's "Leningrad Symphony". The perform ...

Family Commitments (2015)

The happy gay couple David and Khaled would love to marry publicly - if there weren't Khaled's homophobic father Faisal, David's pseudo orthodox Jewish acting mother Lea and a possible paternity and gallery insolvency. ...

1913 - Der letzte Tanz des Kaisers (2013)

Reported Missing (2012)

All of a sudden, 16-year-old Martha vanishes. Her father Lothar, who for years has had no contact with her or his ex-wife, sets off unwilling to find her. He soon realises other young people are also vanishing from the city inexplicably. Lothar follows the ...

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2006)

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war. ...

Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht - Das Leben des Heinrich Heine (2006)

Zeppelin! (2005)

In 1929, on the shores of Lake Constance, zeppelins are being built in the small town of Friedrichshafen. Fascinated by airships, Robert gets a job in the assembly shop thanks to Thea's brother Konrad, with whom he has fallen madly in love. The trio spent ...