Marco Zanoni

Golden Hands

In 2011 Prof. Dr. Ömer Özkan, Prof. Dr. Özlenen Özkan and their team performed the world’s first successful uterine transplant from a deceased donor to Derya Sert who was born without a uterus. This groundbreaking operation which made medical history is followed by the extraordinary story of the birth of her miracle baby.

Butzemann

A young man needs to face his childhood trauma to hunt down the monster that killed his mother.

Lionhearted

Together with their coach, the young members of a Munich boxing club are travelling to Ghana to hold training camp.

BAIL

Following his failed retaliation against a racist murderer, the protagonist offers his girlfriend up as a pledge in exchange for one more day to live and struggles to surrender himself to his own execution thereafter.

Mystery of the Ice Age Giants

During the last Ice Age, millions of large animals roamed the Earth, from wooly mammoths and giant sloths to cave lions and saber-toothed cats. But as the temperatures rose, three-quarters of these species died out. What happened? Can environmental changes alone really explain this mass extinction, or did humans - who at this very time were beginning their conquest of the planet - play a key role? To find out, researchers around the world are hunting and studying fossils in their search for answers to solve the mystery of the Ice Age giants.

Soil

Since the death of his parents, the teenage Burak lives with his uncle Cemil and grandmother in a remote Turkish village town. ​ They try to make a living by selling pomegranates but while the religious Cemil is satisfied to live his life in poverty, Burak struggles to leave for the city and going to university. ​ When the grandmother gets sick, both have to make tough decisions that will change their lives.

A Clear Felling

Martin and Eric grew up in a small village in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. They have been friends since they were little boys and met when they were fishing, and from then on went to the lake together every Sunday. But their friendship is also marked by rivalry, because on one of their trips together they also met Frenni, who both fell in love with. The three of them roamed the woods and fields as children and remained friends when they grew up and Frenni got together with Eric. The couple is inseparable and very much in love, and this great love and the friendship of the threesome is only repeatedly tested by the drunken attacks by Eric’s unpredictable, aggressive twin brother Basti.

What Killed the Ice Age Giants?

Scientists speculate why the end of the last Ice Age caused the extinction of some of Earth's largest animals.

The Tobacconist

Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a small tobacco shop, where he meets the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, who will become a valuable friend in times of chaos and uncertainty.

Gott liebt ein menschliches Weib

He is not weak-willed tied to an unnatural law. He seeks the woman that absolutely loves him. It longs him for the only thing that frees him from his loneliness - for love. Is this a story of a virgin and her hero?

Jain

Fabi is gay an that's fine. Whereas Benni says that the long nights together with Fabi are nothing else than the product of to much beer. Fabi is going to a party with Benni against his better know and it comes to a violent argument with Benni's friend Maik about Fabi's homosexuality. Benni has to make his choice between keeping his secret or defending Fabi against Maik.

Pinocchio

Geppetto the carpenter carves the object of his hidden desires out of a log: a puppet that will keep him company and will be like a son to him. He will call him Pinocchio. Imagine his surprise when he discovers that the puppet moves, as if by magic, and is gifted with a life on its own.

Pinocchio

Geppetto the carpenter carves the object of his hidden desires out of a log: a puppet that will keep him company and will be like a son to him. He will call him Pinocchio. Imagine his surprise when he discovers that the puppet moves, as if by magic, and is gifted with a life on its own.