Peter Weiss

The short film anthology MusicStories brings classical music to life through the art of storytelling. MusicStories takes you on a cinematic journey through classical music. It draws on various genres and visual languages - from black-and-white silent films to historical melodramas and romantic comedies. Specially interpreted classics such as Beethoven's “Für Elise” and “In the Hall of the Mountain King” by Edvard Grieg serve as the film music. The format creates a new kind of access to the audience through the symbiosis of classical music and narrative film.

Exiled to a rural clinic in 1980s East Germany for seeking an exit visa, a disillusioned doctor maintains a guarded distance from her colleagues, unsure if the kindly head physician is a genuine ally or a Stasi informant.

A madcap comedy with an episodic character by Oliver Rihs about the desperate search for love online. Shy Lanzelot simply can't manage to meet women. His lonely life takes a radical turn when his flatmate Milan sets up an internet dating profile for him and actively maintains it. Lanzelot is suddenly inundated with dates, but his encounters with the fairer sex are disastrous - he meets a panopticon of neurotic city singles and, in his search for love, is used for questionable sex fantasies, imprisoned, exposed, confused, betrayed... will Lanzelot ever manage to conquer a heart as well as his body and soul?

Sophie and Georg once loved each other, but now they have split up. Almost the entire film takes place in front of the same doorway in Berlin. In an elliptical way, the individual scenes portray a family for whom the word patchwork is the new normal — and take a laconic look at the everyday irrationalities of love.

A modern love story in which two men in search of a woman find the truth about themselves.

A comedy about a crazy summer of young provincial guy in Berlin.

Veterinarian Hansi Riedlinger emigrated to Australia many years ago. At the request of his mother Marianne, he is now returning to Kaisertal to give his father Johann a hand. After an expensive renovation of his stud, the stud ran into financial difficulties and the farm was threatened with loss, because Mayor Ludwig Hackl asked for his loan back earlier than agreed. Johann is up to his neck, but he doesn't want to be helped. To this day, he has not forgiven his son for turning his back on the common veterinary practice. Hansi tries to support the father anyway, but the malicious Hackl lets him down coldly: He wants to finish off his former best friend Johann - because of an old feud.

Gregor finds out that his mother has cancer.