Pola Schirin Beck

Breaking Horizons

Pola Schirin Beck

Aylin Tezel, Henrike von Kuick

“Congratulations, you’re pregnant!” Lara can hardly believe what the doctor has just told her. The 25-year-old spends her nights hanging around Berlin with best friend Nora, having lost interest in her architectural studies long ago. She has no idea what to do with her life – she does a lot, but nothing properly. She now finds herself pregnant after a night of passion with a charming barman she met at a party. Nora is thrilled by the news though, proclaiming: “we’re having a baby!” After some initial doubts, Lara too begins to see her pregnancy as a chance. Together with Nora, she sets about painting the nursery and goes in search of the baby’s father. Then the gynaecologist gives Lara some bad news…

Kleptomami

Pola Schirin Beck

Rosalie Thomass, Sebastian Schwarz

Lucy is tired of being the perfect mother. When a department store security guard searches her stroller, he finds more than he could ever have imagined.

In deiner Haut

Pola Schirin Beck

Kim Schnitzer, Margrit Sartorius

A shimmering summer story set in a summer house on the Baltic coast. Sixteen-year-old Suse feels like a gooseberry next to her young mother and her new boyfriend and begins to shut herself away more and more. The situation comes to a head when, feeling thoroughly depressed, she returns to their holiday home one night where she is obliged to listen to her mother and Erik cavorting loudly in the bedroom. Then Suse comes up with an idea as to how to turn things around in her favour…

Five to Six

Pola Schirin Beck

Pia Mechler, Esben Høilund Carlsen

A film about 6 people working in a big kitchen - about hierarchy, time pressure, love, jealousy and passion. They all have "delicious" fantasies about the beautiful dishwasher Fernanda as an unexpected event turns the "kitchen fairy" into a place of war.

Teheran Kitchen

Pola Schirin Beck

Between 600 kebab and nagging students we find three cooks and a kitchen help in a small canteen working with wit and irony while doing their duties, philosophizing about cooking and life in general. And still there is a lot more that makes this place something special...

All Russians Love Birch Trees

Pola Schirin Beck

Aylin Tezel, Aleksandar Jovanović

After her boyfriend becomes extremely ill, Mascha re-evaluates her path and decides to leave her previous life behind. But it's only by returning home that she can find peace.

Sternstunden

Pola Schirin Beck

Der Kreis in dem sie reist

Pola Schirin Beck

Kristin Suckow, Andrés Montiel

19-year-old Luisa travels to Mexico to search for her Mexican roots, which her mother has always kept from her. She wants to find her grandfather, whom she has never met.

Druck: Mia

Jano Ben Chaabane, Pola Schirin Beck

Milena Tscharntke, Chris Veres

Mia Amalie Winter is a feminist and dislikes the arrogant Alexander Hardenberg, who exerts a bad influence on her friend Kiki. After Mia asks Alex to end his relationship with Kiki, she gets to know another side of Alex and slowly develops feelings for him, which in turn threatens her friendship with Kiki.

Druck: Hanna

Pola Schirin Beck

Lilly Dreesen, Milena Tscharntke

Hanna Jung has been dropped by her friend group and has only her boyfriend Jonas and his best friend Matteo to talk to. As the school year starts Hanna sets out to reinvent herself and make new friends.