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.
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an al...
In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to ...
Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can...
Elated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock...
The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town
A popular high school athlete and an academically gifted girl get roles in the school musical and de...
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, sixteen year old high-schooler, Juno MacGuff, makes an unusual de...
The brothers Kipp and Most set off to inherit their grandmother's estate. Along the way, they meet V...
A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with th...
Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnis...
The Dijon Story dives with unexpected consequences into the life of four Finnish hipsters in Berlin.
Two twin brothers are living on a different sides of Berlin Wall after being separated after birth.
A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he...
Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three y...
A summer trip to Berlin offers a fleeting glimpse into the lives of the country's youth in this vibr...