Thelma Buabeng

Matured through two years in prison, Babtou is looking forward to a new beginning with his buddy Dennis. A free man in a free world! But of all things, his welcome party where all the boys from the block are gathered ends in a police operation. Babtou has his hands cuffed again and is confronted with dramatic news. He will soon be deported to his “home country” of Senegal. To prevent a deportation, Babtou and Dennis are willing to do anything, including marriage.

Nina and Angie are best friends and struggle through life together. When Angie's teenage daughter Rahel needs €300 for a school trip, they decide to go to the bank where Nina's husband Marc works to ask him for a small loan. But when Marc harshly rejects their request, Angie loses her temper. Things get out of control—and suddenly the friends are stuck in the bank and mistaken for gangsters.

In 2015, thirty year old refugee Francis, the sole survivor of a boat that illegally crossed the Mediterranean, is drawn into Berlin's seedy underbelly.

The main thing is sexy - no matter whether thin, fat, what skin color, young, old, we can all be sexy in different ways. Almost every woman grows up having to work on herself in order to remain desirable. Why? What if we stopped pushing ourselves into a sexy pose with all our might? What if we no longer fought for the right to be sexy, but were truly free? What if we stopped investing all our time and energy in being heard and the world started to hear us? A modern movie about modern women and men - who might be able to find a common language.

After having a chance encounter with a mysterious character, Wendy, a young working class mother, discovers that she has super powers.

In the heat of a shimmering Berlin summer, Nora spends her days as a third wheel to her older sister Jule and her best friend Aylin. When Romy comes onto the scene, a friendship blossoms. Nora instantly falls for her, opening up a whole new world and unexpected summer of love.

After two pregnancies, Sonja struggles with her body feeling and the relationship with her husband Milan. Frauke, shortly before her 60th birthday, shares this fate and feels almost invisible to her husband. Daughter Julie is working on her modeling career, but a flaw is discovered on her body again and again ...

Jakob Sesam is the once successful creator of the children's TV series Hello Spencer. Twenty years after the last episode, he lives with his puppets in a dilapidated discotheque, but now this last refuge is also in danger of disappearing. Sesame and his puppets have only one chance left: they must quickly raise 10 million to stop the demolition excavators.

"Borga" is Better. A Borga is a Ghanaian abroad living an excessive wealthy lifestyle. At least that's what they want everyone to believe.

Lena is a cheerful student who firmly believes in happiness and the good in people. As part of a social project, she is sent by the office as a writing coach to Hugo Drowak, who has long since lost his luck and lives alone in a run-down tower block.

On a couchsurfing trip through Europe, Laura wakes up in a guy's bed without any memories of what happened. Triggered into a both destructive and liberating exploration of her own boundaries, she crosses country borders to find her truth.

An adaptation of Moby Dick as a silent film and theatre piece with a postcolonial and queer reading that highlights its marginal characters.

At first glance, Paul is just a normal eighteen-year-old. What no one knows is that Paul is bipolar. He is helplessly at the mercy of the radical mood swings in his brain. When a depressive episode ends in a suicide attempt, his single father Hardy has to commit him to a therapy center for mentally ill teenagers. At the clinic, Paul meets teenagers who are also struggling with mental problems. He has to make a decision: Does he continue to run away from his illness?

Seeking the truth in a human grey area. Lawyer Annabelle Martinelli has specialized in sexual offences and represents victims of domestic violence. Shoe salesperson Doreen Markowitz seeks her support after pressing charges against her husband Leon for assault and sexual violence. The opposing lawyer is Annabelle's ex-boss John Quante, a cunning and unscrupulous divorce lawyer. Annabelle is convinced that her client has been systematically intimidated, beaten and forced to have sex. But the evidence is thin. One of several cases she has to deal with which put her professional distance to the test.

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Three kilos of marijuana! The fact that drug smuggler Eda got away with a suspended sentence is due to her seven-year-old son Robert. Probation officer Klara Sunday, who knows a home childhood from her own experience, worries about him at least as much as she does about his tough-looking mother.

Sorted out - and at almost 50! Both professionally and privately, window dresser Tanja feels like she's been left behind. But she bravely sticks her chin out. Of course she can still keep up, and after one order after another falls through, Tanja is eager to start canvassing. An online course is designed to make her digitally fit. She is so preoccupied with herself that she neglects the most important people around her.

A tracking shot along the objects on the shelves of a film prop warehouse will trigger stories in our minds. The orange-coloured telephone takes us to the futuristic 1970s, plastic salmon canapés on artificial lemon slices invite us to a party, cut and thrust weapons herald mortal danger.

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In the center of Hamburg, the discovery of an unexploded bomb from the Second World War not only leads to a far-reaching evacuation, but also to an interpersonal state of emergency.

In order to avoid being “canceled”, an association called “House of Womxn” must immediately change the panel that will be participating in an international women’s conference in order to satisfy a diversity checklist. As a result, the very diverse panelists clash in the empty clubhouse, revealing some painful differences at first, but then some affirming commonalities as well.

Henning Stehmann is an investment advisor and has cheated several people in his immediate vicinity, including his entire neighborhood, out of their money. Probation officer Klara Sonntag is to take over the court assistance and write an expert opinion on the man for the public prosecutor's office.

Vivian Bernaise is the star of the Hamburg drag scene. After a glamorous performance in the Hamburg drag club "Die Donauwelle", she witnesses a mafia attack and has to flee. Vivian becomes Volker – and disguised as a straight man, she hides with the family of the elementary school teacher Katja in the rural areas of Schleswig-Holstein.

An absurd comedy about a couple whose perfect façade is becoming more and more cracked. Olli and Anja are a happy couple – but then Anja gets pregnant and her body releases hormones that turn her into a different person for a few weeks. A stressful person. Anja’s mood swings make Olli despair. Nine months later she goes into labour. On the way to the hospital, Anja accidentally meets Olli’s lover. And from then on, everything that can go wrong does go wrong.

Klara Sonntag, probation officer, believes in the good in people. Everybody deserves a second chance. This is how she tackles her work. The judge Thomas Aschenbach, with whom she is secretly together, is at her side.

A body is found in a canal on the Danish border. The woman was murdered in the same way as three before her. Special investigator Gloria Acheampong is sent to the province to take on the case.

A dystopian world filled with polar opposites seeks to find harmony through common threads.

The ladies' man Edgar dates stewardesses and frequent flyers. The system behind it: While one is away, there is plenty of time for flings with the others. Edgar doesn't want to commit to one woman until he meets his childhood sweetheart Hannah again. But frequent flyer Hannah has also perfected the system for herself in matters of love and meets up with several admirers.

Hanni works around the clock as a cleaning lady. She has to because her husband, whom she loves, has not exactly shown himself to be a support financially. They also have their son Viktor. One day Hanni witnesses an attempted murder on an old lady. The killer now has an involuntary confidante and must eliminate her. But it doesn't come to that because Hanni uses her cleaning agents at the right moment, with her presence of mind. The killer falls unhappy and falls into a coma.

An African-German author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as a promotion-figure for more political power over Germany.

Aspiring angel Addi is annoyed. She is sent to Earth to accompany the serious Marie-Louise on her train journey to her grandmother's house shortly before Christmas. Marie-Louise, however, wants nothing to do with her companion...

Artist agent Franzi is faced with a problem: her top client, washed-up rock star Alexander Gromberg, urgently needs a comeback! Instead of working on new songs, however, he has one crash after another. Rumors about his excessive lifestyle have already spread to record boss Fricke, who wants to take a look at Gromberg first.

Michael Schröder is the owner of a fitness studio that is not running. His marriage to the aristocratic and wealthy lawyer Elisabeth also only exists on paper. She lives out her love affair with lover Cornelius openly, but a divorce is unthinkable for Elisabeth for reasons of reputation. Because Michael is up to his neck financially, she gets him a loan. When he arrives at the bank, he is taken hostage during a robbery. The masked bank robber turns out to be a female bank robber. Nina seems aggressive, tired of life and unpredictable. The grueling wait for ransom money and a getaway car eventually turns hostage and hostage-taker into a fated couple. Michael even knows who they can demand more money from. But then everything gets out of hand.

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Annabelle Martinelli, successful lawyer at the renowned Berlin law firm Quante & Ackermann, specializes in sexual criminal law.

On January 27, 2010, Okpako visited the (East) German author Christa Wolf to discuss a film project based on Wolf's novel Medea: A Modern Retelling. Over tea, with the sound of planes landing at nearby Schönefeld airport, they talk about how she came to tell the story of Medea the immigrant, treated with suspicion in her host country, and are joined by the voices of Medea, Jason, Agameda, Glaucke and the passing of the East German era. This film premiered at the Berlinale in 2014.

A man wanders around outside, through deserted spaces. Two women have found temporary shelter somewhere inside. Their deserted environment poses a subtle threat. Plateau is a story of an alienation that has spread from within the protagonists into the outer world. The dystopian outdoor shots were filmed in so-called shrinking cities, in town districts in the Ruhr area and in Bremerhaven, both struggling with massive numbers of unoccupied buildings.

Susi Q loves to travel. To dance. To get drunk. She loves women. She loves her best friend. She loves life! And now all that should suddenly change? Because she's getting "too old"? Take responsibility - Settle down with someone - Live a normal life - Like everyone else? Not Susi Q.

A lonely therapist and her suicidal half-sister are on their way to Norway in a red fire-engine. Accompanied by a Spaniard who wants to go to Finland. Haunted by a bunch of stranded personalities. And two flies who suddenly start dreaming.

Patrick and Sara are in love. And they are involved in a group campaigning for the rights of refugees. When their rapprochement leads to sexual assault, their private love story takes on an unintentional political dimension.

Four young girls head out into the Canadian woods for some outdoors fun. They wind up running into 2 brutal and sadistically inhuman rednecks. A blood-soaked fight for survival ensues.