Acting
When Peppi (36) finds out he wasn’t invited to the class reunion, his self-image starts to crack. Fuck! Forgotten? Uninvited? – This must be a mistake! Searching for answers, we follow Peppi to his old hometown and back to the past of his 16-year-old self: Skateboarding with bleached tips through the monsoon of the 2000s. The era of flip phones, lan parties, and Top of the Pops. But alongside the wild, nostalgic memories lurk some dark teenage sins. Maybe there are reasons why Peppi shouldn’t have been invited after all. CHABOS is like an old Facebook profile you’ve scrolled too far down — full of shame.
In a hot summer during the Covid pandemic, the property management decides to renovate Karsten’s apartment and evicts him. Whether he’ll be able to quickly find something new in Cologne is uncertain. But Karsten remains relaxed. He packs his mattress into the borrowed moving van and turns it into an improvised home. Sophie and Miray also urgently need a place to live and join Karsten. For a while, their set-up seems perfect. However, a few days turn into months. Too much closeness and the impending autumn chill take a toll on the three of them.
Summer. Erik is driven by ideas, principles and expectations of himself and his life. He doesn't want to miss out on anything, wants to catch every wave. Always in search of art and love. With melancholy ease, Erik searches for security, which he believes he will find with Chiara. If it weren't for her boyfriend Peter. Together with the two of them, Erik drifts off to the provinces of Lower Saxony, Leipzig and Berlin. The attitude to life of Generation Y, condensed into a love triangle, staged directly and spontaneously.
21-year-old Alina is an intern on the set of the scripted reality show 'Madly in Love' and prepared for her first day in pleasant anticipation. But her motivation receives a damper when she witnesses the way has-been director Marc treats his team. Under his rule, abuse of power and sexism are everyday occurrences. When Marc resorts to physical and psychological violence against an actor, Alina takes a decision.
A Russian-Jewish teenager Dima gets into a school fight, and then breaks the fourth wall and passionately and ferociously talks about his views, and about the hypocritically tolerant way in which his world works.
