Art

  • The Life of Sean DeLear

    The Life of Sean DeLear

    Biography, Documentary

    2024

    1h.22min

    16

    The portrait-documentary tells the story of musician, performance artist and scenster Sean DeLear.


  • The Beautiful Summer

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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.

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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)

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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)

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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...

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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 …

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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.