Christoph Oertel Movies

In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees...

Washed up British film director, Emil, who is invited by a nascent state to make a national Epic in an obscure Caucasus Republic ruled by an...

Theres and Kenneth are both young when they first meet whilst on holiday. They fall in love but are unable to prevent themselves from losing each...

Experienced judge Lena Kalbach works at the district court in Frankfurt, the capital of Hesse. She is a woman with moral principles - and when she...

The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that...

Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl explores of the dark underside of the human psyche by entering Austrian basements fitted out as private domains for secrets...

Johan, a loner with horses and explosives, is never accepted by the local community. We follow his struggle for belonging in the village and the...

During a stopover in Buenos Aires on her way to Chile, 31-year-old Maria recognizes a nursery rhyme. Maria doesn't speak a work of Spanish, but...

Love and loss are closely linked in MY SON, an emotional drama about a teenager and his mother who go on a journey together after nearly having lost...

This family drama deals with a case of Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy, a fabricated illness. Stephanie is an apparently happy single mother of two...

Ingaló is helping her father on his small fishing boat, but he's an obstinate character and relations between them are tense. After a dance in...

When married couple Egon and Maren lose their adult son, their family, which includes their daughter Lily, is paralyzed with grief. As it turns out,...

The attractive young Franka runs the traditional porcelain manufactory Rhomberg with her father. In contrast to her fun-loving sister Joe, the...

When two teenage fans learn that the bust of the legendary Jim Morrison ("The Doors") has been stolen from his grave in the Pêre Lachaise...

15-year-old Moritz lives with his father near East Berlin, helping at his gas station and drifting through life after his girlfriend leaves him. He...