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A young policewoman from Hamburg is torn between rigid adherence to her professional ideals and the testosterone-fueled power lust of her head of operations. After her training at the police academy, 24-year-old Laura begins her service in a task force of the Hamburg riot police. Sooner than expected, she realizes that the daily routine in the social hot spots of society is draining. When she makes a serious mistake during an operation, she has to decide what kind of policewoman she really wants to be.

Belgrade, 2022: A photojournalist is threatened by right-wing extremist groups in her Serbian home and flees to Germany with her daughter. But then she also experiences increasing strong threats and attacks in her new home.

For a decade Kenya has been targeted by terrorist attacks of the Al-Shabaab. An atmosphere of anxiety and mistrust between Muslims and Christians is growing. Until in December 2015, Muslim bus passengers showed that solidarity can prevail.

When a girl on a medieval farm says she dances with the devil, her stepmother must find out the real reason before it's too late.

The employee of a Way-Home-Phone service experiences the nightly horror of a young woman who is followed by a stranger on her way home.

Iranian political refugee Pouya, who lives in Germany, never knows who is an enemy and who a friend, but when the situation in Iran gets complicated, he must take a risk and trust others, in order to bring his wife Nikta to safety asap.

Istanbul 2014: Asli gives shelter to a young political activist, who got into a fight with the police. The police investigates the case and ends up questioning Asli's family. Her husband gets drawn into the affair. Their lives, and also their son's, start to become compromised. The situation escalates, as Asli is not willing to cooperate with the investigators.

A German couple adopts in Kolkata an Indian orphan. Their child suddenly disappears and they realize that they are part of the problem.

Since joining the police forces, Mirko's life has been torn between his family and his unit. When the suspicion arises that his girlfriend might have reported a right-wing chat message from the unit, Mirko is in danger of losing both.

In der Hoffnung, den Abriss eines Skateparks durch ein Bauunternehmen zu verhindern, sagt eine 16-jährige Skaterin einem Vorarbeiter den Kampf an.

One day the withdrawn Noé finds a motionless android in the forest, takes it with her, and reactivates it. It's the beginning of a strange relationship. However, Noé realizes far too late that the android is about to copy her personality.

Day by day, Mr. Jonas and Mr. Schmidt make their way from door to door across the country. selling pots. After work, both go their own way: Mr. Jonas spends his evenings in solitude, contemplating in his cheap hotel room, before going to a bar to drink a few glasses of Whiskey. Mr. Schmidt whereas, transforms himself into a glamorous Drag Queen and dives into the night-life.

Janosch, an interpreter, is called to help during a police deployment at the Port of Hamburg. A young African woman has barricaded herself in a container ship and threatens to commit suicide. In order to get her out, Janosch promises to help her, an offer which bears unexpected consequences.

Electrohypersensitive Alice lives in seclusion in a dead zone deep in the Northern German forest. But then her hermitage is suddenly disturbed by the sex worker Lucia, who settles on the border of Alice's safe space with her lovemobile.

Thanks to an app, Katja finds Rosie. Death is what connects them. For one it is the end, for the other a way out of her emptiness. A film about the chaining between two people who only know each other for a few moments.

When Naemi decides to meet her father for the first time in 19 years, there's not only a journey into the unknown ahead of her, but also a half-sister she didn't know about yet.

A boy wants to prevent his friends from taking a daring test of courage. A lonely man confronts his most painful memories. A family is on its way to seek a long-overdue encounter with that man. The day, when these fates will meet.

A short film about a priest and his family, living under the dictatorship of the East German DDR. They have to choose between staying in their country and pretending that they are free, or to seek real freedom in the West.