The portrait-documentary tells the story of musician, performance artist and scenster Sean DeLear.
The Beautiful Summer
Drama, Queer
2023
1h.51min
16 FSK
Turin, 1938: Gina discovers the artistic circles of Turin's bohemian society, and an overwhelming desire arises in her.
Jeff Koons. A Private Portrait
Documentary
2023
1h.20min
16
Artist, brand, icon! This documentary follows Jeff Koons over several decades, revealing his thinking, his creative process, and the hype surrounding
Asche
Drama, Independent
2024
1h.27min
16
Eight young artists in Linz, Austria, are struggling with their muses, the pursuit of infinity, and the end of their twenties.
Harald Naegeli - The Zurich Sprayer
Biography, Documentary
2021
1h.37min
0 FSK
A tribute to the uncomfortable artist and utopian Harald Naegeli, who was supported by Joseph Beuys and Willy Brandt.
The Poet's Wife
Biography, Documentary
2021
1h.34min
0 FSK
Helke Misselwitz visits the Datça peninsula in Turkey, where artist Güler Yücel has found her refuge.
Make Up the World
Documentary, Independent
2024
1h.39min
0 FSK
Props play a crucial role in every movie, yet they are rarely consciously noticed - the big and small things on the set.
Archipelago
Drama
2011
1h.50min
16+
Deep fractures within a family dynamic begin to surface during a getaway to the British Isles of Scilly.
Janine F.
Documentary, Independent
2004
1h.20min
16+
The tragic story of an artist who was torn between passion and obsession and died under mysterious circumstances.
Allesandersplatz
Documentary, Independent
2021
53min
16+
In the heart of Berlin, a GDR ruin is given a new lease on life and becomes a center for art, culture and community.
Exhibition
Drama
2013
1h.44min
12 FSK
An intimate examination of a contemporary artist couple whose living and working patterns are threatened by the imminent sale of their home.
Show Your Wound - Art and Spirituality in the Work of Joseph Beuys
Biography, Documentary
2015
1h.24min
0 FSK
The portrait of an artist who in all his art and with his whole being questioned the existing social system.
Die Legende vom Nil
Biography, Documentary
1991
58min
0 FSK
This travel diary describes the journey of the painter Paul Klee in Egypt between 1928 and 1929 through his letters and his paintings.
Too Much Pussy! Feminist Sluts, a Queer X Show
Love & Sex, Queer
2010
1h.39min
18 FSK
An indulgent, feminist and quirky docu-road movie about post-pornography and the sex-positive women's movement.
Museum Revolution
Documentary
2014
1h.16min
16+
After the Maidan protests in Kyiv ended, "the revolution's objects started a second life" ... in museums
Angels of Revolution
Romance, Drama
2014
1h.48min
16+
Soviet heroine Polina Schneider gathers a group of avant-garde artists to convert the remote pagan tribes of Siberia to communism.
Fellinopolis
Biography, Documentary
2021
1h.19min
0
Never-before-seen insights into the work of Federico Fellini, the grand master of Italian cinema.
Parov Stelar - Backstage 2022
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2021
58min
12 FSK
Parov Stelar, is regarded as the founder of electro swing. His unique sound has been conquering concert halls around the world for more than 15 years.
Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
Biography, Documentary
2013
1h.19min
12 FSK
Roland Klick is a film history legend. He made movies with Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, then mysteriously faded away after only six films.
Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete
Documentary, Icons & Media Art
2012
1h.39min
0 FSK
PARABETON shows in chronological sequence 17 buildings by the Italian engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) in Italy and France.
Herzsofort.Setzung II (autogene Manipulationen)
Icons & Media Art, Shorts
1996
7min
16+
Michael Brynntrup investigates artwork in the age of artificial reproducibility by means of transmedial self-portraits.
AIDE MÉMOIRE - ein schwules Gedächtnisprotokoll
Biography, Queer
1996
16min
16+
Two years before his death, the HIV-positive Baldiga reviews his life, in selected episodes.
Mary Bauermeister - One and One is Three
Biography, Documentary
2021
1h.42min
16+
As a pioneer of the Fluxus movement she revolutionized the concept of art and made history with contemporaries Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage.
Fall Pinguin
Independent
2021
59min
0
The penguins encounter Swiss alpine cows, swim in the river, walk leisurely through the city center... they are everywhere. An adventure begins.
Loverfilm
Icons & Media Art, Queer
1997
22min
16+
Berlin filmmaker Michael Brynntrup exposes his own sex life in a radical, relentless yet humorous invasion of privacy.
Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum
Documentary
2017
53min
16
This film tells the story those photojournalists and the world of cinema. Of two seemingly opposite worlds – fiction and reality.
The Mouth - Our Ultimate Prison
Independent
2017
1h.27min
16+
Jakob Fisch confesses to a murder he did not commit. Police psychologist Dr. Alea Anzu then tries to convict him of lying.
Josep
Animation
2020
1h.14min
16
This sensitive animated film tells of the horrors endured by cartoonist Josep Bartoli in an internment camp.
Afternoon Woman
Drama, Icons & Media Art
2012
59min
16+
With camera angles reminiscent of paintings, up-and-coming star from Brazil Afonso Uchôa explores the beauty of everyday gestures and moments.
Bye Bye Berlin
Documentary, Icons & Media Art
2020
53min
6
"For me, Berlin died when the Volksbühne dismantled the wheel and a cross was erected at Berlin Castle." Antonio Nábolo
Occidental
Drama, Queer
2018
1h.14min
16+
A visually and sonically striking ensemble piece set in a hotel on the city outskirts as Paris is mired in political chaos...
Elfie Semotan, Photographer
Documentary
2019
1h.16min
12
Elfie Semotan, known for her sophisticated visual arrangements, is considered the "grande dame" of Austrian photography.
Fair Wind: Notes of a Traveller
Documentary, Icons & Media Art
2013
1h.22min
0
Shot on Super 8mm, Bernadette Weigel's homage to traveling celebrates the uniqueness of each moment.
This Movie is a Gift
Documentary, Independent
2019
1h.12min
12
Daniel Spoerri is one of the most important representatives of object art, co-founder of the artist group Nouveau Réalisme and inventor of Eat-Art.
Skywriters
Documentary
2016
27min
0
The sky is their canvas, the airplane their brush. The Stinis family has been making history in skywriting and painting messages on the sky.
Performance
Love & Sex, Queer
2014
1h.3min
16+
Paula and Rodrigo are young, queer artists, like many others in Berlin. Outside of their utopian rehearsal room, they have to fight German red tape.
the_other_images
Icons & Media Art
2018
17min
12
We are accumulating more and more data, images and sound snippets. But how can we remember when digital materials marked by decay fail?
Kabatas | Fillmore | Atlanten
Icons & Media Art
2013
13min
16+
Fleeting glimpses into the inner life of private and public spaces, intimacy and spectacle.
Put Grandma in the Freezer
Comedy
2018
1h.39min
6 FSK
Young art restorer Claudia makes ends meet thanks to her beloved grandmother's pension. When the old Nonna dies, Claudia has to come up with something.
Because ...
Don't Work (1968-2018)
Documentary
2018
1h.28min
16
In turbulent and disorienting times, a pair of artists uses experimental means to create a hypnotically vibrating portrait of the generations.
Naked Beauty
Documentary, Independent
2015
1h.44min
16
Multi-talented Mario Schneider, known for his sensitive cinematic portraits (HELBRA, HEINZ UND FRED) devotes his latest work to eternal beauty.
Duane Michals: The Man Who Invented Himself
Biography, Documentary
2012
54min
16+
Self-taught photographer and photography legend Duane Michals is known for the innovation and artistry of his work.
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Examen
Music, Dance, Theater
37min
0
Video technology provided the opportunity to create an amazingly innovative production that matched Stockhausen's music, libretto, dance actions and gestures. ...
Andy Warhol
Biography
1987
1h.15min
16+
Consumption, glamour, disasters and mass media - the art of Andy Warhol is a reflection of America. Kim Evans portrays Warhol's controversial appearance ...
David Parsons and Daniel Ezralow - The Parsons Dance Company
Music, Dance, Theater
1992
1h.57min
6
David Parsons is one of the golden boys of US dance, combining great popular appeal with quality and integrity of ideas.
As artistic director, choreographer ...
Heiner Goebbels - Black on White
Music, Dance, Theater
2019
59min
0 FSK
Heiner Goebbels creates an impressive web of interlocking musical episodes as a homage to the dramatist and director Heiner Müller.
Goebbels has a genius ...
Andreas Gursky: Long Shot Close Up
Documentary
2010
58min
0
A portrait of the famous contemporary photographer Andreas Gursky, who for the first time lets a film crew to follow the genesis of one of his works.
Olafur Eliasson - Notion Motion
Documentary
2005
29min
0
An introduction to the work and aesthetic theories of the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, which also documents one of his largest exhibitions.
The focus ...
Dialogue Earth
Documentary, Independent
2019
1h.18min
0 FSK
A tribute to the exceptional artist Ulrike Arnold, who creates unique images from earth, minerals and stones.
Eight Hundred Times Lonely
Biography, Documentary
2020
1h.24min
0 FSK
A warm-hearted yet stylistically radical film portrait in black and white and color about Edgar Reitz and his encounter with a young female filmmaker.
Jean Sibelius - 7 Symphonies
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2015
59min
0
With his seven symphonies the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius marks a high point in the symphonic repertoire of the 20th century.
Yugodivas
Documentary, Independent
2000
58min
16
An actress, a painter and 3 classically trained musicians came to New York from Belgrade before the Balkan War to pursue their art and their dream.
The Last Remix
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2015
1h.24min
6
In his documentary Olaf Held examines the culture behind the remix and interviews net artists, composers, journalists and art professors.
Remixes, mashups ...
Latest News from the Cosmos
Biography, Documentary
2016
1h.25min
0
Hélène writes with biting humor. And yet this poet can't hold a pen, can't speak, and has never learned to read or write.
Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel García Márquez
Biography, Documentary
2015
1h.30min
0
Gabriel García Márquez, known as "Gabo", achieved world fame with his novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967).
Jiri Kylian: Forgotten Memories
Music, Dance, Theater
2011
53min
0
Jiri Kylian is a living legend. He is the creator of more than a hundred works, several of which form part of the repertories of some of the greatest dance ...
Dessine-toi...
Documentary
2010
1h.10min
0
Creative outbursts, reflection, lack of inspiration, tears, laughter. Draw yourself... share the grace of "childhood".
Let the Sunshine In
Comedy, Romance
2017
1h.35min
12 FSK
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.
Durchgangslage
Icons & Media Art
2020
30min
16+
Juliane Ebner embarks on a very personal search for traces of the war in former Yugoslavia. A film about us, our neighbors, neglect and the aftermath.
Saburo Teshigawara: Bound and Other Dance Films
Music, Dance, Theater
2002
0
Absolute Zero is one of Saburo Teshigawara's best known choreographies. It explores the complete motionlessness of 273 degrees below zero.
Yet in dance ...
Master Game
Documentary
1998
1h.46min
16
In the 1990s, Austria was rocked first by paint attacks on paintings and later by bomb attacks on galleries.
Duerer’s Heirs
Documentary, Independent
1996
58min
12
A portrait of a ‘German socialist art’ in the GDR up to the building of the wall in 1961.
Age of the Gods
Documentary, Independent
1993
1h.32min
16
How does a highly talented artist end up in the vicinity of a totalitarian regime? What responsibility does art bear in political systems?
The Cave of Hercules
Icons & Media Art
1990
44min
12
The story of Hercules is well-known: son of Zeus and Alcmene, hero and god, famous for his twelve labours.
The painter of the strange country …
Icons & Media Art
1988
42min
0
A portrait of the artists Cornelia Schleime, Hans-Hendrik Grimmling and Hans Scheib who left the GDR for West Berlin between 1984 and 1985.
GDR Experimental: REALFilm
Icons & Media Art
1986
47min
0
REALFilm is Lutz Dammbck's examination of film and filmmaking, a film in real time, a collage in space involving the audience.
GDR Experimental: First Leipzig Autumn Salon
Icons & Media Art
2006
22min
0
In a revolutionary act of artistic freedom, a group of artists occupied a trade fair building in Leipzig in 1984.
GDR Experimental: Heracles
Icons & Media Art
1984
10min
0
Together with Lutz Dammbeck, dancer Fine Kwiatkowski explores myths, political systems and their impact on society.
GDR Experimental: Homage to La Sarraz
Icons & Media Art
1981
12min
0
Sergei Eisenstein, Hans Richter and Luis Buñuel meet at La Sarraz Castle to explore new ways of independent filmmaking.
GDR Experimental: Metamorphosis 1
Icons & Media Art
1978
6min
0
Because the GDR authorities banned the exhibition, Lutz Dammbeck realized the basic idea independently as an experimental film.
War of Art
Documentary, Independent
2019
1h.42min
0 FSK
What happens when a group of international artists go to North Korea to teach local artists about subversive art and rebellion?
Day Is Done
Documentary
2011
1h.51min
6
A 35mm camera films from a window, with messages from the answering machine in the background. Slowly an imaginary biography unfolds.
The great evolution
Biography, Independent
2016
1h.24min
16+
Fritz Schranz has created an autonomous world for himself in an old vicarage in Bavaria, which he calls a "monastery for modern art and philosophy".
Swim Little Fish Swim
Comedy
2013
1h.38min
16+
The meeting of two extraordinary artistic souls on the streets of New York could be just what they are looking for.
Tranny Fag
Music, Dance, Theater, Queer
2018
1h.15min
16+
A portrait of POC transgender musician and artist Linn da Quebrada, who uses her body and performances to fight sexism, homophobia and racism.
Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2002
1h.30min
16 FSK
Christoph Schlingensief's provocative works are still highly topical even after 20 years.
Eisenberger – Art Must be Beautiful, as the Frog Says to the Fly
Documentary, Independent
2018
1h.34min
16
Where does artistic freedom begin and where does it end? And, does art actually still need artists?
Ink of Yam
Documentary, Independent
2017
1h.15min
6 FSK
In one of Jerusalems oldest tattoo studio Jews, Christians, Muslims and atheists get their tattoos done.
Pension Boulanka
Classics
1964
1h.36min
12 FSK
Murder in the artist's boarding house: the artist Jan Gruyter is dead, Captain Brückner leads the investigation and all residents are suspects.
If I Think About Germany in the Night
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2017
1h.40min
0 FSK
A look at five pioneers of electronic music for whom work is their raison d'etre.
Whatever Happened to Gelitin
Documentary, Independent
2016
1h.23min
16+
The Dadaist artist collective Gelitin is known for its sensational, worldwide art happenings.
Forest of Echoes
Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
2016
30min
16+
A fairytale-like story with tableaux vivants of three macabre, mystical and humorous nymphs.
The Drummer
Crime
2007
1h.53min
12 FSK
Sid got involved with the wife of a crime boss and is will have to pay for it. He flees to the mountains and finds there what was denied him in his hedonistic ...
Shot In The Dark
Documentary, Independent
2017
1h.19min
0 FSK
An intimate portrait of three successful blind artists whose visual impairment has become the starting point for their visual explorations.
The Prince of Nothingwood
Biography, Documentary
2017
1h.26min
12 FSK
15 minutes of standing ovations in Cannes for the Afghan “Steven Spielberg” Salim Shaheen – a film about dreams in the midst of war and hope.
La Chana
Biography, Music, Dance, Theater
2016
1h.25min
0 FSK
The impressive life story of a unique dancer who successfully left her mark on the dance world.
Of the Voice
Documentary, Independent
2018
1h.22min
0 FSK
The Sound of the Voice tells the story of four people who are passionate about exploring the limits of the human voice in new ways.
Renzo Piano, an Architect for Santander
Documentary
2018
1h.31min
0 FSK
Acclaimed Spanish director Carlos Saura documents the birth of the Centro Botín in Santander, designed by architect Renzo Piano.
The Audition
Documentary, Independent
2016
1h.36min
0 FSK
687 applicants, 10 places, 9 examiners, 10 days time: Year after year the entrance examination at the Staatliche Schauspielschule Hannover is a challenge ...
Giovanni Segantini - Magic of Light
Documentary
2015
1h.22min
0 FSK
Discover the monumental works of art by the anarchist Giovanni Segantini in the idealized natural setting of the high mountains.
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
Documentary
2013
1h.26min
0 FSK
The Chinese authorities threaten him to keep his mouth shut. But for Ai Weiwei, silence means not life, but death.
World of Darkness
Documentary
2017
1h.25min
16 FSK
"World of Darkness" and "Vampire: The Masquerade" became pop cultural phenomena in the 1990s.
Ken Russell's View Of The Planets
Classics
1983
50min
6 FSK
Nazis, nudity, Neptune: Ken Russell mixes Holst with stock footage and crosses every boundary of taste in his garish PLANETS collage.
She is the Other Gaze
Documentary
2018
1h.30min
16+
Portrait of five female Viennese artists, who in their pioneering role have left their mark on contemporary art.
Sandgirl
Documentary, Independent
2017
1h.24min
0 FSK
As a child, Veronika Raila was certified with an IQ of zero. Today she studies literature and theology and publishes poetry and prose.
Focus on Infinity
Documentary, Independent
2014
1h.20min
16+
A visit to the breathtaking places and the people who unlock the secrets of the universe.
Ben Berlin
Biography, Independent
2015
1h.30min
0 FSK
Portrait of action artist, environmental activist, natural philosopher, gallery owner and "anarchist" Ben Wagin.
La Sapienza
Love & Sex, Drama
2014
1h.53min
12
After a professional setback, the architect Alexandre and his wife Aliénor, a psychologist, travel to Italy to complete his book.
Nation Estate
Icons & Media Art
2012
9min
16+
In, part one of this sci-fi triology, a vertical solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been found.
Zaha Hadid, An Architect, A Masterpiece
Biography, Independent
2011
52min
16+
Carine Roy's documentary is dedicated to one of the world's most famous architects and the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
VOM JAGEN UND SAMMELN - Beim zentralen Umkreisgestalter Reiner Zitta
Documentary, Biography
2018
1h.16min
16+
The artist Reiner Zitta transforms everyday objects and things left lying around into exciting works of art.