Safira Robens

When cab driver Ludwig “Wiggerl” Brunner, a true Munich bon vivant, is hit by a streetcar and ends up in heaven, there is only one way back to his beloved Bavaria: he has to improve his karma balance as quickly as possible.

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1774, shortly before the French Revolution, somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin. Madame de Dumeval, the Duke de Tesis and the Duke de Wand, libertines expelled from the puritanical court of Louis XVI, seek the support of the legendary Duc de Walchen, German seducer and freethinker, lonely in a country where hypocrisy and false virtue reign. Their mission is to export libertinage, a philosophy of enlightenment founded on the rejection of moral boundaries and authorities, but moreover to find a safe place to pursue their errant games, where the quest for pleasure no longer obeys laws other than those dictated by unfulfilled desires.

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Influencer Julien Bam and his sidekick Joon Kim try to return to life as they know it after accidentally traveling to a parallel dimension.

Ella and her friends sign up for a song contest that offers her the chance to make it big in the music business. Her strongest competitor is rapper alfaMK, who already has a fan base and is also outrageously good-looking.

The German ex-top model candidate Luna imagined it completely differently. She stands at the train station in Linz with all her luggage because she was promised a place in an influencer shared apartment. But Luna has too few clicks, too few followers and too little fame, which is why she's thrown out of the shared apartment before she's even been inside. Things are also going differently than expected for programmer Heribert, because he actually wanted to present the app idea at a pitching contest at Ars Electronica Center that would free him and his development team from his boring help desk job. But his pitch is at first pathetic, then embarrassing and ends in a faux pas with a shitstorm. And so he and his colleagues are thrown out before they can even develop. When the completely inexperienced but fearless would-be influencer Luna Heribert discovers first in the viral video and then in real life in Linz, she makes him an offer because she knows: we are better together than alone!

Annie Breuer, a single mother in her mid-thirties, lives with her two children, Lena and Tino, on the top floor of an old apartment building in Vienna's suburbs. She sometimes doubts whether she can handle life's diverse challenges and challenges. She has better days and worse; sometimes a dark shadow hangs over her mind and the entire world—at least, that's how Annie feels.

Sofia, a reserved and bookish 18 year old, is on the cusp of graduating high school when her free-spirited sister Joan dies in a tragic accident. Wracked with guilt, Sofia decides to take the European adventure that Joan had planned but would never complete. She sets out with Joan’s backpack and itinerary, drifting from city to city, encountering strangers and unfamiliar experiences, in search of something she cannot yet name

A Luxembourgish anthology about radicalization before and during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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In her desperate search for sleep seventeen-year-old Eva does everything to stay the night at other people’s houses where she watches others while sleeping. When being awake through the nights, Eva takes us to the backside of normal life at the same time forcing her family and friends to develop a different perspective on what they thought is „normal“.

During a unplanned solo night out in Berlin, Esra is haunted by his memories of the loss of his former best friend.

An oil complex burns. A young man is caught and caged. A young woman flees, injured—into the forests, where the dream of another future shelters. A state psychologist is assigned to assess—yet trusted truths falter: What does a just life look like in a wounded world?

If you don't like the reflection. Don't look in the mirror. I don't care. A promo-film for the 240 hours performance installation at Schaubühne, Berlin.

From one of the most densely populated suburbs in the Lisbon metropolitan area, “Miraflores” stages a funny teen comedy, absorbing the little turmoils of youth and the poetics of their lives. Interspersed with an amusing mockumentary, in which a kid tells the “history” of the Miraflores neighborhood, this short film is a tender and fresh portrayal of a potentially anonymous place in the suburbs, filling it with a beautiful and transformative affection. The first shots of an architecture with no personality show the contradictions of cities and their communities.

After her parents’ separation, Gretchen sets out in search of her absent father. Overwhelmed by the need to communicate with those closest to her, she plunges into the unknown. The directorial debut of actress, writer, and musician Robens is a collage of portraits: encounters, people, places, and voices that Gretchen encounters on her journey—a poetic exploration of origins, loss, and quiet becoming.