Movies: Christopher Buchholz

In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic leader...

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Dah and Jocelyn come from former French colonies to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant....

A moonstruck comedy about lovers and robbers....

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Late fall 1947: The inhabitants of Frauenburg, a US garrison town, are facing another harsh post-war winter. But a social sensation causes a stir: Freya Sonnenberg, one of the three daughters of the former mayor, is to marry the American base command...

A made-for-TV movie on right-wing terrorism in Italy....

Damien and his friends are garbage collectors in a small provincial town. One day, Damien finds a decomposing corpse in the dump where he works, but also a knife that turns out to be his. Because of his personal and social environment (an omnipresent...

A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. When Ben is 25 years old he decides to set off in sea...

A kid on a bike on a country road. It's Lionel, the Legrands' adopted son. Later the same teenager, helmet and yellow leather jacket on a motorcycle, a gift from his mother Colette. In the meantime, there will have been handball matches, the installa...

A summer night celebration, the nightcap after the class reunion. The former high school clique meets again for the first time in 25 years. Amidst the joy of reunion, the present and the past intersect. Old issues shine through the seemingly superfic...

Working together with his friend Leo as a waiter in a dining car, Simone discovers that Silvia, a girl with whom he had a casual relationship, is pregnant and wants to keep the baby....

Early evening - a big city. Two teenagers shyly flirt with each other, a housewife sits down to watch her daily soap, nurses in a hospital gossip before the nightshift starts, a trendy couple drives through rush hour, so excited they can hardly wait ...

Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg. Attila the fireman can eat glass – but this doesn’t help his love life. His girlfriend, Sabine, breaks up with him. She wants more from life. It’s her dream to be a talk show host – and there’s no place for Attila in her care...

Young Stella's sudden return from American boarding school and her fervent desire to return to the country house of her childhood is a welcome opportunity for her mother Maria and stepfather Carl to reconcile with their estranged daughter. But the un...

A documentary directed by Christopher Buchholz and Sandra Hacker....

What would it be like to become an animal? And would this transformation also bring relief? While we watch flickering shots of nature and people, someone speaks of sentiments, memories, and fears. With the aid of an unsettling music score director Lo...