Joscha Eickel

This is what happened after “The Brothers Grimsby” … Trouble Agent, is a sequel to Grimsby, and it actually stars Sacha Baron Cohen as his character, Nobby.

In the face of the bucket wheel excavators in the brown coal mining area eating their way through the muddy Rhineland soil, the Lange family is at a crossroads: what do we do when the old has to go and the new is so uncertain? The young entrepreneur Marcel Lange, hungry for success, wants to build a new high-end village and achieve social advancement. To this end, he has already had the prototype Villa Verena built on the edge of the open-cast mine, where the largest renaturalized lake in the world is to be created in just a few years. But his sister Franca is against it. In the old village, which is about to be demolished, she is holding the fort and tinkering in the basement on an electricity storage unit that will supply all the houses with green energy in the future and make them self-sufficient. In the midst of this chaos, widow and mother Angelika Lange has other plans. She wants to finally take a vacation with the relocation bonus and doesn't always want to worry about others.

Vienna, the 1950s. A childhood captured on 8mm film, documented by thirteen-year-old Johanna.

A Neukölln clan boss becomes a climate activist. A gender doll inventor who fulfills her most secret wishes with a fake gun and a new girlfriend in Grunewald. A balcony beekeeper whose bee colony is on speed. And in the middle of it all, a fisherman who wants to conjure up sustainable snacks from invasive swamp crabs. What unites them all? A hot summer in the capital - and waiting for the rain!

Isabel Burger would normally consider herself lucky. An unexpected inheritance takes Isabel, a trained chef, to Crete, where her German father left her a country house complete with its own olive grove. If only her failed startup in Munich and the resulting financial woes hadn’t led to the recent opening of insolvency proceedings against her. Isabel’s insolvency administrator gives her four weeks to sell her house on Crete as best she can and use the proceeds to pay off her creditors.

Todor is in his early thirties and lives with his mother, reliant on her cooking, ironing, washing, and company. The comfort of this co-dependent lifestyle is suddenly altered one night when Todor arrives home late after an office party.

The air has been sweaty forweeks in the conference center of Baguio City (Philippines) where the new chess world champion will be determined in the broiling summer of 1978. Viktor Kortchnoi (47) and Anatoly Karpov (27) are facing each other in a match that will decide who is going to take the title home. Karpov back to Russia and Kortschnoi, well, that ́s a controversial matter...

Margarita, 13 years old and an introverted outsider at school, observes the beautiful Ariana on a school trip. All the boys want to be near Ariana, and all the girls want to be like her. Margarita is also fascinated by Ariana and a secret friendship develops between the two very different girls. But then Margarita observes how the crush on Ariana can get out of control and a dark secret is imposed on the class community. Margarita is faced with a conflict of conscience for which there seems to be no solution.

In England banger racing isn't just a sport, but a way of life. This film follows 11 year olds Finn and Harley through a cold winter race day in Birmingham.

Zheng Bo focuses on the molecular level of plant life, considering how they build communities and practice politics with their bodies. In the forest, trees work with fungi for nutrition and insects for pollination. Zheng Bo’s new film is a portrait of Grumsin, an ancient beech forest in Brandenburg and one of Germany’s UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Wars can begin with a single shot. Peace is a task for generations. On a journey around the world, the film explores examples of how peace emerges and what it takes to preserve it in the long term, and to foster understanding, reconciliation, and coexistence.