Lars Jessen

Spaziergang nach Syrakus

Paul Gompitz, a young man from Rostock, dreams of retracing the poet Johann Gottlieb Seume's journey to Syracuse. But as a citizen of the GDR, his only option is to flee.

Amrum

Island Amrum, early 1945: Hunting seals, fishing at night, nothing is too dangerous for 10-year old Nanning. He helps his mother to feed their family during the last days of war. After the war ends, new conflicts and challanges arise and Nanning has to find his own path in life.

Micha denkt groß

It's a hot, dry summer in Klein-Schappleben. Micha, a pretentious video game designer, wants to turn his late parents' dilapidated guesthouse into a luxury hotel with a wellness oasis. The villagers are skeptical, even though Micha loudly promises new jobs and prosperity. But his plans start to falter when the groundwater in the village dries up.

Mittagsstunde

Ingwer, 47 years old and a lecturer at Kiel University, has been wondering for some time where his place in life might actually be. When his "olen" can no longer manage on their own, he decides to get to the bottom of it, turning his back on his chair at the university and his life in the city to spend a sabbatical in his home village of Brinkebüll in the North Frisian nowhere ... (more)

Wildes Herz