Zu ebener Erde

In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

Africa. In the wild expanses, where bush-bucks, impalas, zebras, gnus and other creatures graze by the thousands, they are on holiday. German and Austrian hunting tourists drive through the bush, lie in wait, stalk their prey. They shoot, sob with excitement and pose before the animals they have bagged. A vacation movie about killing, a movie about human nature.

Götz Kubitschek is right-wing conservative, he says. Right-wing extremist, say others. He is an author, publisher and thought leader of the New Right. And above all one thing: German.

Based on Philippe Garbit's short story “Je la regarde dormir,” a woman is accused of a cruel crime by a man who claims to be her friend. After many sleepless hours, the boundaries between madness and reality begin to blur, and at her last supper the man becomes the judge of life and death.

As a talented Taekwondo-Fighter, Marlene Jahl has already won several important medals. Her next goal: the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. A tightly scheduled training plan and her study of medicine, leave her hardly any private time

Mothers talk about their experiences. What is expected of them, what personal and social challenges do they face? Everything is represented: from nuclear families to single parents, homosexual parent constellations to motherhood through artificial insemination. Layer by layer, outdated and inverted role models and also the break with social norms become visible. Motherhood between backbreaking work and euphoria.