Benno Pludra

Little Tim Tammer, the son of a lighthouse keeper, lives right on the Baltic Sea beach, but his remote home often leaves him feeling lonely. When Young Pioneers pitch their tents nearby, he is overjoyed and quickly makes new friends.

The girl Lore had run away from him. Now Heiner had met and fallen in love with Susanne. In the first few days of their acquaintance, Heiner couldn't believe his luck. Because Susanne, like Lore, was a beautiful girl - no, she was actually more beautiful than Lore, and he was afraid that she might run away from him, just like Lore did back then. But Heiner had learned from experience and now knew what to do to get a girl to stay with him. Heiner, whose story is told here, is a 19-year-old young man. He was alone for a long time, had an old apartment with two rooms, a kitchen and even an indoor toilet in the center of Berlin. There is nothing extraordinary about Heiner's life, but for him the longing for happiness is crucial, and that is why he wants to do a lot to achieve it.

A story about thirteen years old Kalle who is moving with the family from West Berlin to East.

Eleven years old Lutt Matten lives near Baltic Sea and has only one dream - to go deep sea fishing independently and catch some eels.

Fourteen-year-old Stefan Kolbe, along with his mother and sister, moves from an idyllic small town to the developing area of Berlin-Marzahn, where his father works as a construction worker. Stefan must find his way in a completely new environment and surrounded by strange people. Stefan gets to know two girls, who attempt to seduce him, and gets himself into trouble with the landlord, who kisses up to societal authority figures. He becomes friends with the anxious Hubert, defends him against the constant humiliation of the older student Windjacke, and encourages him to stand up for himself. It ends tragically in a bitter fight between Stefan and Windjacke.

Jessi finds the petrified talking heart of a pirate who died centuries ago. The pirate's dream image increasingly becomes a substitute for her father. When her father turns up one day, she has to decide between her childish hopes and her burgeoning adulthood...

During a weekend spent on the island Hiddensee, the snobbish high school student Jan, who has just been expelled from school, meets Christine. Christine is impressed with his bragging attitude although he just uses it to hide his insecurity and his remorse about the fact that he was sacked. Naturally, he keeps quiet about his current situation. Christine’s companion Hannes is less thrilled about Jan. Later on, the three of them meet again at a dockyard in Stralsund. After the disreputable end of his school career, Jan is assigned to the very brigade in which Christine and Hannes work as a crane operator and a brigadier respectively.

Animated short based on a children's book by Benno Pludra. Winter has enchanted the city and harbour. Only boatman is boring, no one plays with him. Captain Putt Bräsing has an insight with his little dog and entrusts him Uwe, Jochen and Katrinchen to frolic around. The children go on a research trip to the beach.

Tambari - it's a name of an old boat which children of a small village on a Baltic sea shore got from an old fisherman Luden. But not all the village adults were ready to approve it...