Film rights: AUTUMN 2026

Bernhard is 70, divorced, childless, and ever since he retired, he’s felt like there is something missing from his life. A new relationship? A hobby? Maybe volunteering? Nothing seems to fit together. But then he receives an invitation to Salerno – that place on the Italian coast where he’d spend a few months all those decades ago, and which at the time had seemed to promise a different life....

In the early days of the new millennium, Carl Bischoff returns to Berlin from the surrounding countryside, only to quickly head off again. His pilgrimage follows the path of a woman who seems to have...

She sat at the kitchen table, smoking, exuding a »seductive world-weariness reminiscent of the films of the Nouvelle Vague«. Having been left by a man, she turns up in the narrator’s share house in Frankfurt in 1973 looking for a room. She was majoring in history and French. Three years later, after falling in love with a Spanish anarchist, she follows him to Barcelona.

After a few...

When Lucy takes a job as a social media consultant for the once-legendary rock band Crrowl, she knows there’ll be plenty of stress on the road, sleep deprivation, and controlled chaos. What she doesn’t expect is a band that harbours dark secrets. Crrowl was once the loudest, wildest, most dangerous rock band in Europe and had massive hits. But Crrowl’s mythic status isn’t based solely on music....

To escape the threat of arrest by the authorities, Natalja flees Russia with her children. At the asylum seekers' centre in Bavaria, she is met with hostility. And yet her new life is like one big exhale. The feeling of being freed from fear makes it easier to deal with the difficulties. Her older daughter needs help because she’s slipping into depression. The younger one asks if she can say...