Berlin

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.

In part 1 of Thomas Arslan's Trojan trilogy, the eponymous protagonist Trojan wants to do one last big thing and retire.

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

"Challenging Identities" - A lesbian non-binary artist's documentary on gender, self-love, and narcissism, honored at Berlin Pornfilmfestival.

A transgender person's journey of self-discovery in early 1930s Berlin just as the Nazis rise to power is magnificently told in this animated short.

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

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

Romy Haag, Rosa von Praunheim, Ades Zabel and Udo Walz talk about their fascination with the dream destination West Berlin.

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

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

Welcome to the marginal deviation of reality. An inexplicable rift runs through the dystopian Berlin and four outsiders venture to find their friend.

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

To live inclusion and not just to play it is the declared goal of the Theater Rambazamba from Berlin.

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

A group of radical climate activists takes matters into their own hands and eliminates suspected climate sinners.

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a 15-year-old girl tries to find a home in the Berlin of wastelands and ruins.

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

In the documentary, which was successfully screened in the Panorama section of the Berlinale, gays and lesbians from the former GDR have their say.

Samson and Delilah: The Old Testament story of a man with irrepressible strength - as a silent film, told in a modern way.

When Luis travels to the Berlinale for the premiere of his film, he is dismayed that Latin American films are considered nothing but misery porn.

An intense trip into the gay bondage and leather scene: We meet contestants, bondage film actors, uniform fetishists and long-term slaves.

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

Christians on the one hand, and gays and lesbians on the other. Direct Cinema in short form.

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

The groundbreaking members of the legendary Berlin club SchwuZ talk about their career, political activism in drag, and 'doing it' for the first time.

A post-porn multimedia artwork of bodily fluids that challenges gender norms.

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.

This authentic documentary follows male sex workers from Bahnhof Zoo in Berlin as they work, shedding light on the issue of male prostitution.

With 'Die Bettwurst', Rosa von Praunheim established the camp film genre in Germany. The sequel follows the couple through an odyssey of bourgeoisie.

Director Rosa von Praunheim experiments with alternative medicine and seeks out faith healers to cure his ailments and experience enlightenment.

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

A funeral director who aspired to be an entertainer is now the last escort of people in Berlin who have died in solitude.

Two years before his death, the HIV-positive Baldiga reviews his life, in selected episodes.

Christoph Schlingensief's answer to "Pop Idol" was "Freakstars 3000".

A hospital in Berlin-Neukölln at midnight. A patient is being admitted. TV journalists are on the scene. The beginning of a story that tells itself.

A bitter satire on the university business and its evaluation madness and third-party funding stupidity.

In search of her daughter, Agnes meets a bon vivant in the juggernaut that is Berlin.

A political and sociological look at the transformation and gentrification of Berlin through teenage eyes.

Deniz, 21 works as a dubbing artist and has just ended her relationship with Jan. In one short day, she goes through a separation and a new beginning.

Based on a true story: The film examines the German justice system and its structural bias.

A curator of contemporary art, is in trouble with her sponsors because of remarks she made in a radio interview. Public funding is put on hold.

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.

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

"For me, Berlin died when the Volksbühne dismantled the wheel and a cross was erected at Berlin Castle." Antonio Nábolo

After the death of her grandmother Kati meets her biological mother Iris, who is just twice as old as she is and also a professional pickpocket.

A position-finding exercise: where does feminism stand today in relation to reproduction?

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.

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.

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

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.

Eva, 25, living in Berlin, leads a public life with all the consequences. At 14 she took a new name and declared privacy an outdated concept.

What happens when your girlfriend suddenly has a penis?

On the outskirts of Berlin, a culture clash is brewing. A Muslim community wants to build a mosque on a vacant lot.

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?

This student film about the power of chance was lost for years and only rediscovered by chance.

Cordt Hammer, a journalist, is possibly the last man on earth. He seems to be in the midst of a feminine revolution. Is this a dream?

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.

The merciless analysis of their failed relationship brings a newly separated couple closer together than ever before.

Cult director Rosa von Praunheim tells a true-crime story based on a real case about knockout drops in the Berlin party scene.

What would kids do if they didn't have to go to school? Five young people follow their interests in a world without compulsory education.

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

How deeply can you really know someone - or are you just falling in love with a dream?

Together with the dancer Fine Kwiatkowski, Lutz Dammbeck rehearses some elements for the planned performance of his media collages.

A modern fairy tale from Berlin, somewhere between patchwork family life, precarious acting jobs and superheroism.

A year in the life of an ordinary street in Berlin. With narration by Clemens Schick and music by Till Merten.

At the end of the Second World War, the German capital was filled with an underground labyrinth of bunkers. These are the stories of the people who stayed ...

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.

The five protagonists, all 70+, take the audience along on their journey through life and describe what has shaped their lives and what they regret.

This doc follows a group of young German politicians over a period of five years starting with their first legislature period as Bundestag delegates.

The love and life suffering of young people between Cologne and Berlin, with Woody Allenesque lightness.

A coming-of-age tale with a difference about the grumpy doctor Annebarbel Buschhaus donning her ice skates again at the age of 58 after an absence of 40 ...

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

An insight into the world of gay porn stars and nude models - behind the scenes and undiscovered fields of a creative part of social reality.

The semi-fictional documentary indie series KINSHASA COLLECTION sheds light on the development of the Congolese metropolis as the capital of new urban ...

A woman dies in a tragic accident, but her soul remains in the here and now. But how? A quick-witted Berlin repairman has a hand in this...

Three young new-Berliners dream of the good life in the form of art studies, a rap career or simply a work permit.

Only armed with a phone number and a blurry profile picture, Lene searches the streets of Berlin an online acquaintance.

The moving life story of Mario Röllig, who fell in love with a gay West German politician in the mid-80s and was imprisoned for it.

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?

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

Berlin, summer 2016: Nola, Katja and Martina live near Hauptbahnhof. Time is running out - they are going to lose their flat. "What now?" they ask.

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

An unusual portrait film about ex-punk Scumeck Sabottka, who has been a trailblazing tour and concert promoter for 30 years.

Lena Morgenroth, sex worker and computer scientist, is the opposite of the miserable cliché of prostitutes and offers an insight into her live.

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

What is inclusion and what does it mean for the future? Ana Trkulja documents the Brotfabrik Berlin inclusion project Two Suns.

A reclusive man must break out of his self-imposed prison. But neither he nor the outside world is ready for it.

The director is drawn into the conflict-ridden marriage of her parents by an inheritance issue.

SPEAKING OF LOVE tells of being in love and friendship, reluctance and overcoming obstacles, giving things a shot and of failing to get things right.

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

Ralf is crazy and scary. But he's also funny and disgusting. A portrait of an exuberant individual – who's too intense for his surroundings.

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

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.

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