With actors Nicole Seelig and Mišel Maticevic English availability “Lost Killers” follows a group of curious characters, stranded in the city of Mannheim, all of them struggling to survive and to fulfil their dreams. Branko and Merab are two hapless hitmen assigned to kill a businessman for reasons unknown. Absurd coincidences prevent them from carrying […]

With actors Benno Fürmann and Christiane Paul available on DVD in Germany Nils, Caro and Tayfun: They used to be best friends when they were young. They shared everything, and together they were on the top of the world. But their friendship fell apart when Caro couldn´t decide whether to be in love with Nils […]

With actors Megan Gay and Lguidmila Isvetkova Four cities, four cases of theft, four instalments of a Champions’ League game and football fever everywhere… The interwoven episodes of this film kick off in Moscow, where Galatasaray Istanbul and Deportivo La Coruña meet for the Champions’ League final. Kate, a young English art dealer, is mugged […]

Produced by Martin Hagemann With actors Baki Davrak, Gandi Mukli, Erdal Yildiz, Michael Gerber available on DVD with English subtitles in the US and Germany When young Turkish talent Kutlug Ataman wanted to make a film about transvestites, the first location he had in mind was Istanbul. As he developed the script, his thought was […]

This documentary about “immigrant” police officers, comes from a German-Turk Berliner herself. She follows police actions in the heavily Turkish (dominant among many immigrant groups) districts of Kreuzberg and Neukölln. These are both home to now-third generation German Turks, Yugoslavs and others. But these “foreigners” started to inhabit this area of the former West Berlin […]

Produced by Claus Boje With actors Alexander Scheer, Alexander Beyer, Katharina Thalbach, Teresa Weissbach Available on DVD in Germany A “mufta” is a multifunctional table, a “Minetta” is a radio, mopeds are called “Swallows” and “Asthmakraut Halle” (a special asthma medication) is the only recreational drug available. The Soviet Union is big brother; the rest […]

With actors Necmettin Çobanoglu and Füsun Demirel Yilmaz Arslan directed this Turkish-German-Swiss drama which begins in a German city where a woman arrives at an apartment building to visit her friend Hulya (Yelda Reynaud), only to learn that Hulya has returned to Turkey with her aunt and uncle because of an unspecified illness. There are […]