The flax was in full bloom. It had the loveliest blue flowers ... In this way starts a fairy tale of Hans Christian Andersen, which was not so far ever filmed.

Little Yan from a remote village in northwest China likes going to school. But it has to be paid more tuition fee for the next school year. That isn‘t possible for her mother. So the girl bargains to earn the money. Anyway, education isn‘t very important for a girl and in addition she should marry early. Mother has already chosen a candidate for her.

Rural Greece in the ‘80s. The 16 years old Alexis and his friend like observing girls best. Even dangerous climbing tours aren‘t a barrier for them. But everything changes, when the self-confident Antigone with her brother moves in the little village. Her father, a police officer, is transferred there. Her arrival turns the orderly world of Alexis and his buddies upside down.

Thank God it‘s holiday! The siblings Amalie, Jan, Michael, Pusle and Blop look foreward to their vacation. This year they go to Egypt. But on their arriving at the airport of Cairo, their parents are absent. They missed the plane. The children go begging on their hated neighbour Mrs Flinth, that they haven‘t to go back.

The parents of the 7-years old Lepel start with a hot-air balloon some years ago. Until their return he lives at his greedy grandmother. One day Lebel gets enclosed by mistake in a big store and meets the 12-years old Pleun. They experience great adventures. Finally Pleun begins to search for a mother for the boy.

A circus penguin feels suddenly a deep longing to his mone country.

The king of the dwarfs Lok falls in love with a girl Bee and offers her eternal life in the underground kingdom. But she loves another.

Moving from Frankfurt/Main in Western German to Frankfurt/Oder in the Eastern part is a heavy blow for sixteen year old Georg. He was close to becoming state champion in Taek- wondo and very much in love with Jasmin. By moving, Georg loses everything that‘s important to him. In his new class he is immediately challenged by Thomas, leader of the extremist right-wing gang.

Eleven-year-old Daniel is feeling abandoned. His Mother died a few months ago and his father Mark, still reeling from the shock, has buried himself in his work. A rift of mutual incomprehension grows between son and father. Happily, Daniel can count in his best friends Colin and William, with whom he hangs around regularly.

Two friends, Jáchym, called Lap, and Rendy are champions in snowboarding; but only on computer simulators. Anyway, they want to spend a week in the mountains in order to learn to use the snowboard and have a lot of fun, especially during the New Year's Eve celebration. Besides, they both hope to finally score with a chick.

In 1986, Niels moves after his parents’ divorce with his mum Hanne to a municipality not far from the nuclear power station-building site. For Hanne it is a step to a new world. But Niels feels unwell in this unusual surrounding area. When Hanna has a liaison with Peter, the guru of the municipality, Niels rebels.

Butterfly collector Julien sets out to look for Isabella - a wonderful, very rare twilight butterfly. He is already looking forward to a quiet mountain hike through beautiful forests. Suddenly Elsa stands in front of him, the little bright girl from the neighbourhood. By chance she found out about Julien's plans and climbed into his car unnoticed.

The shepherd boy Laurus finds the nearly starved girl Tinke in the forest. The boy is fascinated by the foundling and takes it into care by the farmer's house. Tinke is accommodated by the farmer's wife friendly, but for the landlord himself she becomes more and more a provocation. He is glad to hear that the child has a wealthy origin.

The evil witch wants to take over the whole kingdom. To realize her insidious plan she needs the good-natured Jacob. The boy refuses and the revenge follows on his heels. Jacob becomes an ugly little dwarf with a huge nose and runs away. After seven years the boy returns home. But nothing is as it was. Jacob's father is dead and his mother does not recognize the deformed boy.

All ten-year-old Marietta really wants is a dog. But her parents just don't want to buy her one because her little brother suffers from an animal hair allergy. With the help of a magic stone she fulfils her most fervent wish. Yet it's her little brother Tobias of all people who turns into the pet. A turbulent adventure story and mix-up comedy is developing from this constellation.

Big mess among the frogs: a new deluge is imminent! According to the prophecy of the frog princess, it is supposed to rain for forty days and forty nights. In the belief that they can avert the disaster, they speak to the humans. But it does not help. The sky darkens, the wind becomes stronger and lightning and thunder alternate.

A snail follows the moonlight, singing a song. Just like a real soloist ...

When his mother and father become victims of "the curse" which is destroying his remote African village, 9-year-old Musa, a Zulu boy, is determined to find his long-lost uncle and earn enough money to help his grandmother to buy a new cow. After crossing the African wilderness, the boy finds himself into the teeming metropolis of Johannesburg.

Vika, Max and Artyom have to get used each other. Until now they are not yet a real family and "Dad" as well as "Mom" no real parents for the three. The adventure Holidays should forge a bond between the three. But they take the promised snow person strictly for a legend. Just if the kids get lost in a mysterious cave it becomes really exciting.

Marie and Inga have been friends for a long time and experience the same problems and joys as other girls their age. Yet they are very different in one way. The two passionate music-lovers are blind. In the boarding school being blind is no problem. However, beyond this security, in the world of the "viewers", everything seems to be a bit more complicated.

The assembly of fairies judges handsome Malvína to leave her magic world. As an illmannered fairy she has fooled around on the earth, and now she has to assert in the human world, aimless forever. But lonely and alone Malvína cannot be happy there. Only the third kiss of a human who invites her into his home and thus into his heart can break the spell.

Tomek and Del are youths in the second generation of Polish and Moroccan immigrants. They make friends with Minh, who is Vietnamese. His naive and unconventional nature gets them going. Huge conflicts are on the way, however, when Minh starts to accompany his new friends on their night-time graffiti and drug forays.

After moving into another city seven-year-old Laura has difficulties finding new friends. One day she discovers a little star that has fallen down from the sky. She fixes a plaster with loving care - the beginning of a fantastic friendship. But Laura must learn to let the star go for love and to give it back to the universe because on earth it is threatened to become extinct.

Günther and Paul want to enjoy life to the full and without any compromises - they have the same attitude towards love. They spend the weekend in the country with Günther's sister Hilde. Paul is fascinated by the girl and falls in love with her. But Hilde loves many others. High on alcohol, music, ardent desire and their craving for life they are all caught up in the whirlpool of deadly events.

Tobi and Achim are 17 and inseparable. They train in Starnberg rowing club preparing for a summer camp und regatta. While Tobi wants to spend his time with Achim, the latter dreams of finally having sex with Sandra. In the camp they meet the "Queerschlag" rowing club from Berlin who confidently appear as a gay team. Complicated relationships are in the offing.

15year-old Mareike lives with her mother, her sister Franca and her brother Tim in a Mannheim suburb. She dreams of being a model. But she hasn't got the money for the expensive training. Moreover, Mareike is a bit too chubby for this job. Nevertheless, she is absolutely determined to make her dream come true.

Dejan is a 26-year-old refugee from Bosnia living in Germany now. As a youth he experienced the first years of the war and has problems finding his way back to normal life. The images from the war torment him. His delusions are becoming more and more dominant. When he falls in love with Anna, he wants to escape from his "yugotrip".

Julia is 17, good-looking and tough. This is why she wants to be called Kroko. She hangs around with her gang and spends her time shoplifting, styling and going to parties. One night, she severely injures a cyclist in a joy ride and is sentenced to 60 hours of service in a community of disabled people.

After father's death Vika lives together with her sick stepmother Sofia. Always they are hard up. So they sublet one room of their flat to Sofia's niece. But the supposed lovely girl turns out to be a tyrannical cow, who treats Vika like a servant maid. Soon the dark goals of Sofia's domineering sister become clear: Sofia has to move into a nursing home and Vika into a orphanage.

Two kids are teached how water mills work, and how they make paper out of hempen rope and old rags.

How you can help the gnome, that it would be easier to bring presents?

Love on the game board - two players between rules and chances

A small monkey and the weather. Sure that there are sometimes some problems.

Sometimes home things display a mysterious poetry.

What a good boy?! But the dog, the cat and the parrot have quite another opinion.

A bat and a woodpecker's Family live in a tree as neighbours. But which strange things happen after change of shift?

As a 9-years old boy you are having a rough time, especially if your parents are divorced. Da-Jun still lives with his father, who dates and plans to marry a ditsy starlet. The boy's mother is a flight stewardess, hence often away. So Da-Jun's chubby cousin Yi-Fen is often hird in as a child-minder. The relationship between Da-Jun and Yi-Fen is, to say the least, abrasive.

Akbar has been held in a rehabilitation centre for committing murder a young woman when he was sixteen. He was sentenced to death. Legally speaking, he had to reach the age of eighteen so that the sentence could be carried out. Now, the day after his 18th birthday Akbar is transferred to prison to await the day of his execution.

One shooting star night something falls through Sven's window, rolls under his bed an cheeps. Suddenly it changes into an excitingly lively hologram - the exact image of Sven's soft toy rabbit. The holly requires healthy food and assigns a difficult task. In just five days Sven has to find two other hollies. They can only leave the earth together, or they will die.