Movies: Basis Film Verleih

Edda Chiemnyjewski, a freelance press photographer and single mother living in 1970s West Berlin, is confronted with the fact that "a cook has no time for affairs of state". She also fails to find a market for the project she has been working on with...

A strike for better wages puts machine fitter Dieter Wittowski in financial difficulties. This upsets his plans for the future and brings his wife a step closer to self-realization, as she now accepts a more responsible job against his will. There ar...

The unemployed machinist Alfred "Scheff" Schefczyk moves from Württemberg to West Berlin full of hope, where he finds a job as a transporter. There, however, he despairs at the seemingly insurmountable dependency structures and the lack of solidarity...

Two fugitives in contemporary Iran encounter citizens across the country, all wounded by the same corrupt government and all united in their willingness to help the pair survive....

A short film by Ula Stöckl, with Grischa Huber and texts from "Hyperion" by Hölderlin: "I would like to show you a free land, a land full of beauty and full of soul and say: save yourself there!"...

This feature film describes the labor dispute of a piecework crew in a large German industrial company and its workforce against the background of the "September strikes" in Germany....