Melanie Straub

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 ...

Chaos and Silence (2025)

As young musicians Jean and Helena brace for parenthood amidst job insecurities, their lives collide with landlord Klara's enigmatic breakdown. Accepting her offer of rent-free living, they embark on a surreal journey, encountering societal judgments and f ...

Kalt (2022)

Kathleen Selchow has been working as an educator in a daycare center for many years and leads a harmonious life with her husband Robert and son Luca, who goes to elementary school. The experienced educator takes charge of the motley group of children on an ...

The Kangaroo Conspiracy (2022)

The cabaret artist Marc-Uwe and the kangaroo are faced with a problem: Lisbeth, the mother of Maria has taken a wrong turn somewhere and is now denying the climate crisis on the Internet. How can she be brought to her senses? The two make a bet with each o ...

For the Time Being (2020)

Larissa and her nine-year-old twins arrive from Germany at their father's paternal home in the Spanish Sierra Morena mountains. Father's flight was delayed, but the guests are welcomed by his mother and sister. As the scorching hot days go by, everyone tri ...

90% (2020)

Anorexia is taking up more and more space in Jean's life or as he would call it: the incredible feeling of absolute self-control. His parents don't understand him and put him under increasing pressure. But when the brazen Lili enters his life and turns it ...

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 ...

Air (2018)

Louk is deep as the sea. Manja is pure as the air. Her love means: No fear. No lie. No trace. ...

Das schaffen wir schon (2017)

Germany, two days before the general election. In the popular talk show "Sechs gegen Neunzig", the shrewd presenter Frederic Neunzig offers the party candidates the opportunity to present their election platforms one last time. Harald Müllbeier, head of t ...

Tod auf Raten (2016)

The former boxer Ronald has lost his short-term memory after an accident. Now nothing is the same. Roland's world has no future, and the past only exists in his mind up until his accident. ...

Brief an mein Leben (2015)

Diagnosis burnout: The successful career woman Toni Lehmstedt can be referred to a psychiatric clinic after a physical breakdown. Urs Egger's free adaptation of the biographical novel of the same name by Miriam Meckel with Grimme award winner Marie Bäumer ...

Hedi Schneider Is Stuck (2015)

A model family's happy life unexpectedly goes off the rails when the carefree Hedi, played by Laura Tonke, suddenly starts having panic attacks. First mental illness and then drug dependency – the happiness that these happy-go-lucky thirty-somethings onc ...

As We Were Dreaming (2015)

Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall. ...

Neufeld, mitkommen! (2014)

Nick Neufeld was abused by some classmates, and a judge sentences the main offender to 120 hours of gardening. All good? No: mother Beate sees that Nick is skipping school out of fear and withdrawing more and more. She wants the perpetrators to be expelled ...

Histeria (2013)

At the end of the 19th century in an isolated mansion: a young maid has to help undress her new mistress, who is suffering from hysteria. Even though the attacks scare the girl, she is being drawn to the hysterical woman. The master, who tries to treat the ...

Willkommen auf dem Land (2011)