Dror Zahavi

Crescendo

When world-famous conductor Eduard Sporck accepts the job to create an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra, he is quickly drawn into a tempest of sheer unsolvable problems.

Crescendo

When world-famous conductor Eduard Sporck accepts the job to create an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra, he is quickly drawn into a tempest of sheer unsolvable problems.

The Weight of Steel Title

Who knows Berthold Beitz? Fewer and fewer people. He shaped the history of Germany like no other, be it as the leading industrial manager of Krupp or as the rescuer of numerous Jews during National Socialism.

Familie!

The focus is on a family - or what one might think of it today: a wide variety of characters and interests collide when people grow together into a family, in a time when everyone just wants to become something, but nobody knows how to be someone anymore.

A Bitter Mix

Benny, an Israeli living in Berlin is called back home following his grandfather death. He arrives to Israel with his girlfriend Sara and his family can't wait to meet her. But suspicions arise. The family realizes that Benny and Sara haven't actually met in a synagogue but in front of a synagogue and that the right pronunciation of her name is Zahra. Zahra Abdulla to be precise. Zahra was born in Germany to a German mother and an Egyptian father. As tension rises, the members of the family discover that Benny and Zahra were not the only ones who tried to lead a quiet life while keeping secrets.

Das Jerusalem-Syndrom

A young pregnant woman who lives in Jerusalem believes she is going to bring the son of God into the world. Her older sister tries to convince her to return with her to Germany. Then the young woman disappears.

Und alle haben geschwiegen

Between 1949 and 1975 more than 800 000 German orphans have lived their post-war years in Church Institutions. They have endured terrible abuses. Everyone knew but no one spoke. In 2012 the Church admitted her wrongdoings. The movie tells the story of a German woman (Senta Berger) living in New York coming back to Germany to bear witness in front of a board of enquiry. During her stay she remembers her traumatic experience.

Civil Courage

For almost 30 years, bookseller Jordan has lived and worked in a neighborhood in Berlin that has become a social hotbed. As Jordan witnesses a teenager brutally beating up an older man, he intervenes and files a complaint - with unimaginable consequences ... Director Dror Zahavi ("Everything for my father", "My life - Marcel Reich-Ranicki") succeeded after a screenplay by Jürgen Werner ("Tatort - With a steady hand", "Schimanski - layer in the pit", also with Götz George) an atmospherically tightly staged and outstandingly played portrait of a so-called problem district. Here nothing is glossed over, but instead the reality shown and the powerlessness of our judicial system mercilessly layed bare. A highlight of 2010!

Marcel Reich-Ranicki - Mein Leben

The film tells the early life story of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who was born in Wloclawek, Poland in 1920. During the Third Reich, the family was in great danger. Nevertheless, he returned to Germany with his wife.

For My Father

Two outcasts, a suicide bomber and an Israeli girl, fall in love during a desperate weekend in Tel Aviv.

The Hunt for Troy

True story about how famous German businessman and archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann located the ruins of the mythical ancient city of Troy in Turkey in 1868.

Familie und andere Glücksfälle

Entrepreneur Mathilda Beer is extremely successful professionally and newly engaged. Suddenly the past enters her life in the form of Mathilda's disabled half-brother Matze - and throws it into chaos. Professional bankruptcies and private crises are the result. Of course, Mathilda tries to get rid of Matze, but all attempts fail. Because Matze's love for Mathilda is unshakable and quite persistent...

Die Salsaprinzessin

A lost sports bag brings chubby nurse Christel and racy Latin dancer Rubén together. But while Christel immediately falls in love with Rubén, the professional dancer doesn't give Christel a second glance. From then on, Christel, who is completely inexperienced as a dancer, goes to great lengths to attract Rubén's attention, despite her many contradictions.

Zwei Mädels auf Mallorca - Die heißeste Nacht des Jahres

The two sales clerks Tanja and Nicole hardly know each other, but they share something: their married lover, who is careful not to let them know anything about his marriage or the other. When they do find out the truth, they travel head over heels to Mallorca to vent their frustrations. Tanja finds out that she is pregnant and wants revenge on Nicole and her lover.

Kissing My Sister

Teen brother and sister who rarely get to see each other fall in love with one another one summer.

Kissing My Sister

Teen brother and sister who rarely get to see each other fall in love with one another one summer.