Thorsten Merten

Jagdsaison

Eingeschlossene Gesellschaft

On a Friday afternoon, there is a sudden, unexpected knock on the door of the teachers' room at a municipal high school. Surely no student would dare to do that? No, an ambitious father is standing in front of it, fighting for his son's admission to the a-levels - and is even prepared to go to extremes to get it ... (more)

Gundermann (2018)

Tigermilch (2017)

Best friends Nini and Jameelah are both 14 years old and live in the same housing complex in Berlin. Jameelah's family is from Iraq and might be deported if their application for citizenship isn't approved, but right now, the girls try not to worry about these existential problems. They look forward to the Berlin summer and the school holidays.

Der Greif

The three friends unexpectedly come into contact with a fantastic world called the Black Tower. There, the Griffin, a world-devouring monster, has ruled for centuries, mercilessly subjugating all living creatures. Mark, Memo and Becky seem destined to put an end to this reign of terror. Together, the young people face the dark magic and grow beyond themselves.

Curveball (2020)

Although he already has searched Iraq unsuccessfully for weapons of mass destruction as a member of a UN mission, German bio-weapons expert Arndt Wolf is still obsessed with the idea that Saddam Hussein is hiding something. Nobody around him is interested in this topic any more. This changes abruptly when an Iraqi asylum seeker claims to have been involved in the manufacture of chemical weapons ... (more)