Olivia Lina Gasche

One night as Lena is walking home from a volleyball game when she begins to realise that someone is following her.

A conscription notice forces 20-year-old Marvin to reevaluate his life: between porn addiction, poverty, and failed intimacy, he struggles to find stability—and considers military service as a radical new beginning.

A director desperately tries to replicate his debut success by strictly adhering to the golden rules of arthouse filmmaking on set. But luck is not on his side. Neither the cast nor the crew believe in the project – and nobody wants to film the nude scene that, according to the director, is absolutely essential!

Kevin lives in a time and place where everything is permitted and accepted. He wants to rebel – but against what? A tragicomedy about youth gasping for air in a cotton-candy world. A generation seeking a reason for its malaise and a way to shed the boredom – only to discover, at most, its own emptiness. That’s no way to start a revolution. Or perhaps?

Berlin in the 1920s. A dazzling place, but times are not only golden, they are marked by poverty and crime. Vicky arrives in the city, led by promises of a better life, she’s looking for a job. But as soon as she gets there, her hopes and dreams are met with a cold awakening. With no place to stay and nothing to her name, she hires on to work as a saleswoman at a newly-established, glamorous department store. But the founders are also fighting for survival, just like Vicky. Times are tough, and it’s about to get tougher.