While cleaning out the basement, Tobi and Marina come across an old video recording. In it, Tobi—as an 8-year-old boy—hosts a show he created himself on his favorite topic: the soil beneath our feet. The video ends with a riddle—the very first Checker question: Who leaves the deepest marks in the soil? Unfortunately, Tobi no longer remembers the answer. So, in true Checker style, he embarks on an elementary journey around the world that takes him to Madagascar, Spitsbergen, and Mexico. Across three continents, he discovers what connects these different soils and finally finds the answer he’s been searching for so long. But we won’t give that away here. In answering the “Checker question,” he’s helped by scientists, good friends, and local people, such as Hanitra, a Madagascan biologist; Malte, a geologist; Samara, a student; Nicolaus, an archaeologist; and a grumpy employee at a recycling center.

A prank gone wrong by Chinese exchange student Xi Zhōu throws Lucas and his family into chaos. A switched pizza box full of money not only brings a crew of gangster rappers led by the famous Miss Nelly onto the scene, but also the real mafia and a bumbling pair of cops. The wild adventure pulls the two 12-year-old boys into a whirlwind of escalating, increasingly dangerous events. Together with his crush Charly and Xi, Lucas tries to untangle the chaos. It quickly becomes clear: to get rid of the ghosts they’ve summoned, they need one last, brilliant prank. But what begins as a harmless April Fool’s joke ends in utter chaos...

Akiko, a little capuchin monkey, lives with his family at the zoo. But because his grandfather keeps wistfully reminiscing about their former life in the wild, they decide to send Akiko out into the world: his mission is to round up his relatives in the forest and free all the animals locked up in the zoo. Using a remote-controlled toy plane that accidentally lands in his enclosure, Akiko sets off into the wild. On his mission, he befriends an eagle, a raccoon, a meerkat, a ferret, and a chameleon, but also gets into a wild car chase with the police in a mini race car. With so much help, Akiko’s mission can’t possibly fail, can it?

AKIKO, THE FLYING MONKEY won the 2025 German Film Award for Best Children’s Film.