Films by Fabian Winkelmann

2016, 82 min
by Anna Koch

Four German teenage girls are getting ready for an exciting school year. The young wrestlers Janny, Lisa, Debby and Michelle have been accepted to the Elite School of Sports, a boarding school in Frankfurt that follows East German traditions in getting talented athletes to the top. The girls can expect years of exhausting, intensive training schedules, strict diets and extreme pressure to perform. In their free time they hang out together, listen to music and long for home – they aren’t all buil

Germany 2012, 97 min
by Andreas Schaap

In a short moment of self-delusion, former German soap actor Tim Sander bets his buddy and movie star Matthias Schweighoefer that he'll be able to score a role in a Hollywood movie in less than four weeks. Together with his three best friends, Tim travels to tinseltown to finally show the world his real talent and realize his big dream. His entourage chronicles every detail of his ludicrous odyssey on camera.