Torben Kessler

Locked in Society (2022)

On a Friday afternoon, there was an unexpected knock on the door of the staff room of a city high school. An ambitious father is willing to go to extremes to get his son admitted to high school. The six teachers who are still at school so shortly before th ...

Contra (2020)

With his uncouth manner, Professor Pohl doesn't enjoy the best reputation at the university where he works. To make matters worse, he makes a racist remark when student Naima arrives late for his lecture. Unfortunately for him, a video of his verbal outbur ...

Unser Kind (2018)

Katharina became a mother after an artificial insemination when she died in a traffic accident. Although her wife Ellen is the guardian of little Franz, she has custody - unlike in heterosexual marriages - without adoption but not. And not only the biologi ...

Ich war eine glückliche Frau (2017)

Since Mrs. Blok suffers from dementia, she rarely leaves the house and spends most of her day watching the family happiness of her neighbors: Eva, her husband and their two teenage children lead a harmonious family life after moving into the house next doo ...

Das Märchen vom Schlaraffenland (2016)

Paul's life is marked by hunger, poverty and hard work. His sister Magda is sick and needs medicine. In town they meet Master Flintstone. ...

Die heilende Sprache der Pferde (2012)

Baby frei Haus (2009)

Star photographer Christoph Baumgartner and his neighbor Kurt Schollwer, a former record-breaking swimmer, are intimate enemies. The two fight each other tooth and nail. Their petty war is abruptly interrupted when the two discover an abandoned baby on the ...

Die Gipfelstürmerin (2007)

Dr. Sonja Martin is a neurosurgeon at a large clinic in Leipzig. She loves her job. But she has bigger plans: She wants to become a clinic director. She pursues this career goal with ambition. But she has lost sight of the important things in life. Sonja g ...