Achtung berlin – new berlin film award

An eye-opening reflection on male sexuality, its power structures and stereotypes of masculinity in our present day.

Katharina and Steffen have everything but still want to escape the comforting predictability of their lives. Will they dare to take that one step?

In the hedonistic Berlin of the 2010s, a writer drifts through the party scene. With Nina Hagen, Peaches, Rosa von Praunheim and Blixa Bargeld.

When a mother and her daughter take a vacation at the Baltic Sea, it quickly turns into a journey into the past that opens up old wounds.

A teenager grapples with masculinity amid family splits and first loves, reflecting the rawness of youth in a German town.

When homeless children become parents - a documentary with the narrative intensity of a feature film.

With a budget of 517 euros, Axel Ranisch created his debut, a tragicomedy in a warm-hearted, improvisational style.

The tragic story of an artist who was torn between passion and obsession and died under mysterious circumstances.

About the missing and the found. About the silent and the roaring. About cuddling and sneezing. Six stories about fathers.

In the heart of Berlin, a GDR ruin is given a new lease on life and becomes a center for art, culture and community.

A 24-hour odyssey through Berlin, full of subtle tension and existential questions.

Is it fact or is it fiction? A documentary-fiction hybrid about the Red Mountain near Trier and the people who dwell there.

After a wedding party, three friends from Hamburg are stranded Berlin. A fast-paced odyssey through the urban wasteland of this once divided city.

The German Angst of the unknown - a reluctant dialogue.

A film in episodes based on the trend blog "Notes of Berlin" that sheds light on the urban madness of everyday life.

Two prefabricated buildings facing each other, three women, three generations, one video camera. The story of an obsession.

Hometowns, neighborhoods, community spirit, energy security and a lot of money are at stake here.

Either the grass is greener, or the houses are bigger, or the sun is warmer ... anywhere else is better.

To honor the archaic lifestyles of his ancestors and to preserve tradition, Liêm spends several days each year in the Vietnamese jungle.

From YouTube to the cinemas: In this loving homage to Berlin's pub culture, Berlin original Heiko must win a darts tournament.

The glory days as Kreuzkölln-cops are long gone, but these two aging ex-Youtube stars want to do it again.

A senistive drama that authentically and lovingly captures the lifestyle of a group of young urbanites on the brink of a quarter-life crisis.

Nico, who is both German and Persian, is attacked by racists and beaten to the point of hospitalization. She intends to never be a victim again.

An authentic and quietly directed personal love letter to all those whose greatest struggle is to just get out of bed every day.

In this autobiographical doc, Biene Pilavci portrays her family life, which during childhood was often marked by violence at the hands of her parents.

Noah (12) arrives in Berlin to visit his father and gets caught up in adventures at the Carnival of Cultures.

This German indie film is a satirical declaration of love for the German small-town crime thriller.

One of the biggest taboos in society is the rehabilitation of sex offenders. This film takes the offender perspective.

Journalist Ina Borrmann chronicles her own infertility treatment and in the process unsparingly documents what she and her partner experience.

Teens Elisa and Anthea devise a sinister and destructive game as a way to sustain their mismatched friendship.

Five young veterans of the Afghanistan war, outwardly unscathed but inwardly hurting, feel misunderstood upon their return to civilian life.

This cleverly staged low-budget film takes a humorous approach to the topic of flight and migration and dispenses with striking messages.

9 LIVES portrays the fate of young people who decided at the age of 11, 12 or 13 to leave home and to live on the streets.

A haunting psychogram of an entire generation of ex-GDR citizens who have not yet fully accepted that they now live in the Federal Republic of Germany

Growing up in a rural idyll on his father's farm, teenager Johannes searches for his place in life.

It's summer. Zou and Anselm are newly in love and spend their afternoon at the lake. A fairy tale seems to have come true.

Driven by their obsessions and fears, three Berliners lose themselves in the urban jungle.

A young woman ventures into the deadly beauty of the Chernobyl exclusion zone to save her father from prison.

Tinder users in Berlin talk openly and honestly and about real-life encounters, both the good and the bad, with dates made using the famous dating app

Children have to memorize 6,234 Koran verses by heart, 12 hours/day for two years to become a "hafiz". This is life in the Koran schools, the madrasas

A delightfully absurd Berlin comedy about bicycle messengers, new age esoterica, and saving the world.

In this nocturnal urban fairy tale about drifting millennials, in which reality and fiction merge.

From crowded Berlin to the Uckermark: A family documents the self-experiment on the "post-capitalist individual" itself.

Silke is pushed off a bridge yet survives. There is no trace of an assailant. The police suspect that the crime was a random attack by a drunk person.

A declaration of love to music and to that one pub that everyone knows, the extended living room where you feel at home.

From an early age, Sebastian had to be self-reliant. This film follows him through three stages of his life on the path to discovering his true self.

Against the backdrop of open air festivals, a passionate amour fou develops between Georg, Vera and the bon vivant Dave.

The weather goes completely crazy in a small house. Yes, in the house.

A naïve New Yorker retreats to his dead grandfather's summer cottage (datsche in German) but instead of peace he finds Adam, a refugee in hiding.

Susan is a glamorous train wreck: a delusional drug-addict and psychotic who compares herself to the likes of Maria Callas and Romy Schneider.

A young Irish musician immerses himself into Berlin nightlife after a concert and loses more than just his friends in the process.

Lászlo, an aging film director, is in a creative crisis. His latest project has been cancelled so he joins his son's band on their tour to Japan.

What happens when your girlfriend suddenly has a penis?

The British punk duo from Nottingham is known for their brutally honest lyrics and DIY-ethos.

A lively, blind Parisian woman with the cosmopolitan name Europe has just found out that she is having a baby. But who is the father of the child?

The anonymous Berlin concrete building "Excelsior" is only a temporary stop for its residents, yet some have been living there for more than 50 years.

Atmospheric Kenyan drama about Kaleche, who wakes up in a village of the dead.

A German Mumblecore tragicomedy set in a Brandenburg mansion. Three couples, six people, love, deceit, and the question: what's next?

The story about the singer Sunny, co-directed by Konrad Wolf and Wolfgang Kohlhaase, is considered one of the most important contemporary DEFA films.

During the French Revolution, in the village of Travers ensconced in neutral Switzerland, Prussian aesthete Herman Beyer is on the verge of divorcing wife ...

An Austrian actor, author, TV personality, failed clergy assistant, gay BDSM enthusiast, a kind of renaissance man. A portrait of Hermes Phettberg.

A disavowed theatre group undertakes a research trip to what was once the largest extermination camp in the world and become their own downfall.

Mia and Linda meet again after years in Berlin. Mia is in debt and plans to blackmail the man she has been having an affair with.

Ridiculously funny analysis of metropolitan hipsterism in Berlin, the German capital.

Kolyma is a long highway that stretches through the deepest Russian North-east. It was the epicentre of the Soviet prison camp system.

Paul Nkamani has made his way from Cameroon through the Sahara to Europe. But even when he arrives in Germany, his future remains uncertain. The Cameroonian ...

Hans and Anna – together they make the Hannas: A hefty couple who love to cook. They meet sisters Kim and Nicola, both anorexic and excitingly different. ...

Leyla, a young woman from Germany, campaigns to become the youngest mayor of Turkey - in the town of Cizre, marked by civil war.

Marie is in her mid-thirties and has been with Sascha for a very long time, sometimes she does not even know for how long exactly.

A small town in Japan's exclusion zone searches for normalcy in the five years following the greatest nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl.

A German Mumblecore movie, an ode to the city of Berlin, a romantic comedy, father-daughter drama, and a portrait of a woman all rolled into one.

Oskar and Masha made a deal: a relationship but no sex. While Oskar soon regrets it, Mascha sleeps indiscriminately with older men. Can this work out?

LOVE STEAKS is the poster child of the German mumblecore genre, showcasing Franz Rogowski.

A newbie filmmaker from Hamburg arrives in Berlin, convinced that he'll make it big. Instead, he ends up shooting an 'adult' art movie!

Two people, two perspectives, two sets of memories. Did Angela and Christian love each other? Were they ever in a relationship at all?

Portrait of action artist, environmental activist, natural philosopher, gallery owner and "anarchist" Ben Wagin.

A lesbian bachelorette’s night out with "the guys", including, alas, her future sperm donor. A mumblecore comedy on a raft.

Carried by poetry and tension, this documentary portrays the three-year voyage of a young sailing beginner from Europe to Australia.

For generations, the Nguyen family has lived on and off the water amid breathtaking natural scenery. Now they are threatened with forced resettlement.

Award-winning investigative documentary combines live action and animation to show the struggle against unscrupulous realtors.

In this documentary we follow four people in Berlin - three men and a woman – who live their daily lives under the sign of drug addiction.

A tour of 1990s’ Berlin, capturing the unique vibe of the club culture and art scene at a very special time in history.

This comical satire on the movie business and its pitfalls is a very modern interpretation of a German literature classic, Heinrich von Kleist’s “Michael ...

This documentary captures a summer in Berlin and opens a window to the unique and complex park cosmos and its feeling of freedom.

Denny lives in in the city, boozes and dances through the night, and sleeps with one girl after another.

A bunch of men go on a short vacation and set their inhibitions aside.

In a quest for self-directed living, ten artists near Berlin join forces to start the artist's colony 'Rakete Perelman'. But, they need money.

With a mixture of horror and comedy, this morality tale tells the story of a group of urban nomads fleeing from demolition excavators.

A slice of the live of the undocumented migrant Mikel, working odd jobs in Berlin to survive.

Currently, Berlin is experiencing the highest growth rate of tourism in the world, a situation not everyone is happy about.

The inspiring story of the hip-hop electro duo "Scream Club!".

Lucy and Derek roam the streets of Berlin. The city is their stage and playground, and life is a never ending post punk hedonism party.

A playful romanticist has been waiting for the love of her life to return – when suddenly her newly separated mother moves in.

Max Hegewald's drama is devoted to a difficult topic: suicide among teenagers.

LOTTE, with her snappy, big city attitude, is impulsive and rough around the edges. No wonder she's constantly clashing with everybody.

The young woman Sin is addicted to heroin and wants to get clean. Her plan is to fly to a Greek island where she will give up drugs.

Rebecca is shaken by life and drifts between her shared room and the retirement home where her father, who suffers from dementia, lives.

Siblings Emilie and Jacob cannot help feeling a deep love for each other. After being apart for many years, they meet in the mountains.

Mana lives in her own world, smokes weed and all her energy flows into her films. But when she meets Asten at a party, everything changes.

ZOE perfectly encapsulated the lives of drifters in Berlin at the turn of the millennium.