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A young woman visits the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots to emancipate the robots from capitalist exploitation, with catastrophic results. Based on the famous 1920 play by Karel Capek, a satire ever more potent for today.

"What does your paradise look like, then?" - "Dark. Quiet. Wet. And full of fish." Jan likes Shakespeare, water and fish. Nina likes roller-skates, cars and brightly dyed hair. Jan loves Nina. Nina loves Jan, but ... Do Fish Do It? is a film about first love, the problems of growing up, the vital question if fish have sex and a threat this love is exposed to. 16-year old Jan is absent-mindedly strolling through the streets when he's run over by roller-skating Nina. As fast as she has stormed into his life, however, she rushes off again. Nina is 15 years old and full of crazy ideas. She lives together with her brother, her father and his new girlfriend. Her mother isn't in touch much. That's why there is the unconventional Angel whose own daughter disappeared years ago and who is Nina's best friend and substitute mother. Jan is a little shy, with a sheltered upbringing. Yet the image of the perfect family is an illusion. Jan feels lonely and the only person who seems to understand him is his grandfather. Jan's great passion is water and fish for they make him forget about his illness. When Jan tries to carry a newly-acquired fish home safely, Nina bumps into him after another failed attempt to brake. As a result, the fish dies. Nina feels guilty, doesn't want to let Jan go. Within a short time they get very close and Nina becomes equally fascinated by water and its scaly inhabitants. They start searching for an answer to the question if fish have sex and secretly meet at night to have picnics at the municipal aquarium. This is not without effect, friendship develops into tender love. Jan's parents, who worry about their son's health, are against the relationship. Only Jan's grandfather stands by him and doesn't begrudge him his happiness. On her birthday Nina learns that her father's girlfriend is pregnant. Appalled, she flees to Jan. For the first time they end up in bed together. Basically a rather innocent encounter but Jan realizes all of a sudden that he's dangerous for Nina and will continue to be so. He withdraws into his dream world - "dark, quiet, wet and full of fish". But Nina won't give up that easily ...

An unsatisfied woman in her late 30s dreams about stealing the big cash and leaving the country. She meets a petty criminal ten years her junior who has the thing for her, and she asks herself is he the only true love of her life.

"Lost and Found" is a film project for which six young filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe have each developed a short film on the theme of "generation". Together, these six short films make a whole cinema evening. Unique thereby is the selection of young directors, who are currently among the most talented in the Central and Eastern European region. Also special is that five of the short films (four short narrative films and one short documentary) are visually framed by an independent animation story. The filmmakers made their films with local producers in their home countries; post-production was carried out in Germany. The theme "generation" is the thread running through the whole film. It mirrors a new self-understanding of young filmmakers in Central and Eastern Europe. Traditions and national history are viewed in a new way and cinematically narrated. The concept of generation was not intended to neutralize the differences between the countries, but to create a fascinating frame for comparison. The stories were written in accordance with this thematic guideline especially for this project.

The radiologist Agnes must take care of a flat. Without her family knowing about it, she visits this flat regularly and begins a parallel life. One day she falls asleep there. When she wakes, a man lies beside her in the bed.

Discontentment reigns in a Kyrgyzian village: money is not flowing as expected, everyone is trying to arrange his own business, if necessary secretly.

The opportunity to make some fast money by delivering a hot car moves Ana and Nicolae, a young couple from Romania, to take a bus from Bucharest to Vienna. When the arrive they are told to be patient; their car is not ready yet. Ana wants to go home, but Nicolae would rather forge on westward. With no money they are stuck in Vienna, and after a fight they split up, which leads to encounters with various locals. Nicolae meets Dana, a vivacious 30-year-old travel agent, and Ana gets acquainted with Jan, a department-store detective still suffering from his breakup with Rita, his ex-girlfriend across the hall. Martha, Jan's equally-apathetic roommate, keeps her head above water as a human crash-test dummy. When Ana and Nicolae meet again, their relationship is bathed in a new light.

Leila wants to help. The 30 year old Irishwoman receives instruction for her first foreign assignment in the education center of the International Red Cross in Geneva. She is sent to Liberia, not exactly her dream destination. As a journalist there she reported about the civil war, and knows the destruction that 15 years of terror by warlords, the military and child soldiers have wrought. Leila reaches Sanniquellie, her assignment location in the Liberian bush, on her birthday. Here, with her local team, she should reunite families separated by the war. Working with the local Red Cross field officers is satisfying for Leila. But she also sees the limits of her work: even in successful searches for missing children their homecoming remains problematic, since former child soldiers are everything but welcome in their home villages. In the Red Cross delegation, with evening curfew and without an internet connection or mobile phone reception, Leila experiences the difference between being alone and being lonely. Despite the obvious limitations to humanitarian relief, Leila tries to meet her own expectations on her work.

1,726 female fighters of the Polish underground and female warriors who survived the Warsaw Uprising formed an unusual self-government in a Nazi camp between 1944 until their release in 1945. A film about brave and creative women in dangerous times.

A portrait of Bruno S., who became famous as an actor in Werner Herzog's films The Enigma of Kaspar

Karlchens Parade.

Max Hansen is one of the greatest entertainment stars of the Weimarer Republic. With his role as waiter Leopold in the musical "Im weißen Roessl" (The White Horse Inn - Berlin 1930) he achieved public acclaim. Cabaret "rags" and his jewish decent restricted his career under Hitler's regime. During his time of emigration in Vienna, he discovered Zarah Leander, then moves on to Scandinavia and began a new life. After creating himself a new identity, he was able to acquire the "arien- certificate". However, his anxiety remained unvanquished, Hansen never returned to Germany. A personal portrait of a forgotten superstar and an impressing retrospection of the Weimar Republic.