A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the "West German" friends and relatives who come to visit, and of the East German border guards, all serve to illustrate the absurdity of everyday life on the Sonnenallee, and therefore throughout the former East Germany.
When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the cons...
A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she ho...
Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his wife. It's the first "no-f...
Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep...
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares...
Justin Cobb, a teenager in suburban Oregon, copes with his thumb-sucking problem, romance, and his d...
18-year-old school boy Helmut falls in love with fellow pupil Britta. He starts working for a Peace ...
The brothers Kipp and Most set off to inherit their grandmother's estate. Along the way, they meet V...
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an al...
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, sixteen year old high-schooler, Juno MacGuff, makes an unusual de...
When stubborn, spotty Kevin and his equally hopeless best friend Perry go on holiday to the party is...
The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town
Randy Daytona was a child ping pong prodigy who lost his chance at Olympic gold when his father is m...
The life and career of shock-jock superstar Howard Stern is recounted from his humble beginnings to ...
Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnis...
Two twin brothers are living on a different sides of Berlin Wall after being separated after birth.
Somewhere in the GDR, in 1988: young soldier Henrik Heidler starts his service in the National Peopl...
Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three y...