Druck: Matteo
While the upperclassman prepare for their final exams and graduation, Matteo Florenzi struggles with the pressure from his friends to be intimate with the girl he is dating while hiding that he is actually gay. He also is grappling with mental health and family dynamics that create an increasing reliance on substances to cope with them. While he stresses about school and girls, he experiences the rise and fall of his developing romance with the mysterious new boy in school, who has his own secret.
Tom Lass
Pola Beck
Chris Miera
Toks Körner
Sandra Stöckmann
Julia Penner
Jonas Lindt
Casts & Crew
Michelangelo Fortuzzi
Lukas von Horbatschewsky
Anselm Bresgott
Louis Daniel
Arda Görkem
Luise Emilie Tschersich
Florian Appelius
Lilly Dreesen
Milena Tscharntke
Tua El-Fawwal
Lea Zoë Voss
Jobel Mokonzi
Juliane Schütze
Chris Veres
Ada Philine Stappenbeck
Naomi Achternbusch
Also Directed by Tom Lass
Denny is living the high life in Berlin and is having sex with a lot of girls. Denny got a mother. This mother just got a new husband: Frank. Denny hasn't talked to his mother in 10 years. Frank wants to change this. He takes a train to Berlin. Who's gonna be the first to mature?
Ferdi thinks he's ugly – but likes the fact Jona is interested in him. Maybe because she's blind. What Ferdi doesn't suspect: She's just pretending to be blind to be able to live cheaply in subsidized housing. How long can she maintain her charade? Can love, which is supposed to make you blind, even work out that way? Director Tom Lass takes a closer look, shooting with blind actors and old Berlin buddies, acting the lead himself – paying tribute to a way of life beyond our way of seeing the world.
The turbulent relationship between Oskar and Alex ends in a big blaze, Alex has set fire in Oskar's apartment. So Oskar decides that everything shall be different with the next one and he makes a deal with fun-loving Masha: sleeping together but no making love. They both drift through Berlin and through their lives, sometimes playful, sometimes obsessively. And even Masha has her issues. While trying to build up a "normal" relationship, both Masha and Oskar reach their limits. - Written by Claudia Romdhane
Also Directed by Pola Beck
A story about a funeral eulogy speaker who loses faith in her work and tries to sabotage her husband's funeral.
A film about 6 people working in a big kitchen - about hierarchy, time pressure, love, jealousy and passion. They all have "delicious" fantasies about the beautiful dishwasher Fernanda as an unexpected event turns the "kitchen fairy" into a place of war.
19-year-old Luisa travels to Mexico to search for her Mexican roots, which her mother has always kept from her. She wants to find her grandfather, whom she has never met.
“Congratulations, you’re pregnant!” Lara can hardly believe what the doctor has just told her. The 25-year-old spends her nights hanging around Berlin with best friend Nora, having lost interest in her architectural studies long ago. She has no idea what to do with her life – she does a lot, but nothing properly. She now finds herself pregnant after a night of passion with a charming barman she met at a party. Nora is thrilled by the news though, proclaiming: “we’re having a baby!” After some initial doubts, Lara too begins to see her pregnancy as a chance. Together with Nora, she sets about painting the nursery and goes in search of the baby’s father. Then the gynaecologist gives Lara some bad news…
After her boyfriend becomes extremely ill, Mascha re-evaluates her path and decides to leave her previous life behind. But it's only by returning home that she can find peace.
Between 600 kebab and nagging students we find three cooks and a kitchen help in a small canteen working with wit and irony while doing their duties, philosophizing about cooking and life in general. And still there is a lot more that makes this place something special...
Skam Germany
Hanna Jung has been dropped by her friend group and has only her boyfriend Jonas and his best friend Matteo to talk to. As the school year starts Hanna sets out to reinvent herself and make new friends.
Lucy is tired of being the perfect mother. When a department store security guard searches her stroller, he finds more than he could ever have imagined.
Also Directed by Chris Miera
Andreas and Martin share all the ups and downs of everyday life, and their son is maturing. A cautious approach to the traces of a long relationship. The love story of two people. Not about how they come together, not a phase they go through, but all of their shared experiences: all the years between the first kiss and today.