In THE LIGHT, Tom Tykwer paints the portrait of a family caught between collapse and a new beginning and deals with the big issues of our time in a world that is reeling. Tim (Lars Eidinger), Milena (Nicolette Krebitz), their almost grown-up twins Frieda (Elke Biesendorfer) and Jon (Julius Gause) and their illegitimate son Dio (Elyas Eldridge) - this is the Engels family, who seemingly have nothing left to hold them together when housekeeper Farrah (Tala al Deen) enters their lives. The mysterious Syrian woman puts the Engels' emotional world to an unexpectedly wild test.

The young Vera Brandes (Mala Emde) is determined to conquer her place in the music world of the 1970s. As a concert organiser, she brings international stars to Germany, despite her parents' resistance and the challenges she faces as a woman in a male-dominated industry. Her passion for music drives her to risk everything for her dream. The culmination of her endeavours: The concert by the famous jazz pianist Keith Jarrett (John Magaro), which is due to take place at the Cologne Opera on 24 January 1975. But shortly before the evening begins, everything threatens to collapse and Vera is faced with the challenge of saving the concert, which will later go down in history as legendary.

Berlin is a city of dreams and nightmares in equal measure. Behind the façades of the sometimes ruinous, sometimes futuristic buildings lie human heights and abysses. The streets and roads of the city are the nerve cords of a post-industrial Moloch, the bloodstreams of an urban world - superficially of beguiling beauty, but with the reverse side of a leper. ‘Traumnovelle’ is a modern adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's work, in which a woman explains to her husband that she has fantasies with other men, thus triggering in him the desire for his own adventures.

The Book Walker tells the story of a bookseller (Herbst) and a little girl (Bennett). Together, they embark on an unforgettable journey, discovering new friendships and giving Carl the opportunity to come to terms with his past and grow personally. The Book Walker comes to the big screen in 2024.

Written and directed by Oskar Roehler, BAD DIRECTOR follows Gregor Samsa, a washed-up director in his late fifties who is reviewing his life. Him having wasted it as a cultural worker doesn’t exactly add to his joy.

It tells the story of a young woman who dreams of a bright career as a swing singer on Broadway, longing for happiness and recognition. But Stella is Jewish and lives in Nazi Berlin.

The film tells a breathtaking story, of frighteningly high topicality. It is about mechanisms of dictatorships, of indoctrination and violence.

An art house project of a special kind: It shows the years Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky spent together, an extraordinary pair of artists and passionate lovers. Both co-founders of the Blaue Reiter, one of the most famous loose groups of artists of Classical Modernism. The feature film is produced by Berlin-based CCC, Munich-based MZ-Film, Swiss Pamy Mediaproductions and us, Gretchenfilm.

Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes is a miniaturized epic comedy about one man’s very flawed attempt to become immortal through language and ideas. It is also about what happens when the most thinking and feeling people in the World butt up against real barbarians… who unmistakably and horrifyingly play to win.

East Berlin, 1988. Just before her final exams, 17-year-old Suzie is expelled from school and is forced to work in a factory. When a chance photo of her ends up on the cover of SIBYLLE, the ‘Vogue’ of the East, it thrusts her into the glamorous fashion world and gives her an opportunity to flee from socialist factory life.

He was a pop star of his time: Albrecht Dürer is one of the most important artists of the Renaissance. An obsessive, hedonist, visionary, networker and self-promoter, an eternal doubter and admonisher, a lover and seeker, in short: a modern man, far ahead of his time. Director Marie Noëlle (“Marie Curie”, “Ludwig II”) has staged a high-quality, gripping docudrama that alternates between fiction and reality of Albrecht Dürer (Mues) and his wife Agnes (Herzsprung).

The film follows the artist Daniel Richter over a period of three years, captures his artistic development, celebrates his major exhibitions in New York and Paris with him, observes him uncommented and for a long time in his studio: painting, listening to music, thinking. The result is a film about art that wants to be political and yet, in the best sense, remains what it is: painting!

Daniel Brühl’s directorial debut is spot-on: Berlin, the Prenzlauer Berg district. When this summer day is over, nothing will ever be the same again. Only Daniel doesn’t know that yet. The protagonist of this tragicomic scenario is as unsuspecting as he is accustomed to success. His loft apartment is stylish and so is his wife, and nanny has the children under control. Popping into the bar on the corner, he finds Bruno sitting there. Bruno has been waiting for this moment for a long time. And so this eternally overlooked man – one of reunification’s losers and a victim of the gentrification of what was once East Berlin – takes his revenge. With Daniel as his target.

A police station in the middle of a peaceful German town with a comparatively high number of foreigners is threatened with closure due to a lack of local crime. Tina, the commissioner, is sent by a superior authority to get it shut down as quickly as possible, but local police officers Deniz, Rocky, Annette and Hagen will not stand for it. To convince her of the “imperative” of their station, they make a snap decision to simply fake a few crimes themselves and also simulate some strenuous investigative work.

Based on a short story by Stephen King (Rest Stop), The Passenger is a psycho-thriller about two very different friends who make a fateful stop one night at a rest area on the deserted stretch of the Desert Highway. The decisions they make will change their relationship forever…