Déjà-vu FILM

déjà-vu-films stands for political and aesthetic films - stories and images that neither bore nor lie. In the labels own words: We think politically. We think aesthetically. We think in images. We think in stories. We won't bore and we won't lie.
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  • Notes on a Summer

    Notes on a Summer

    2023

    1h.23min

    16+

    A summery film about lust and love and choices you have to make (or not).


  • Schlamassel

    Schlamassel

    2023

    1h.55min

    12 FSK

    A multi-layered drama that skillfully explores how both feelings and memories stay locked away in post-reunification East Germany.


  • Brother's Keeper

    Brother's Keeper

    2021

    1h.25min

    16+

    A provincial boarding school for Kurdish boys becomes the flashpoint of a society riddled with power imbalances.


  • Jackie the Wolf

    Jackie the Wolf

    2023

    1h.33min

    16+

    Jacqueline Jencquel has decided to end her life before her 75th birthday. Her son accompanies her last year with the camera.


  • 153 Meter

    153 Meter

    2022

    1h.11min

    16+

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


  • Rock Chicks

    Rock Chicks

    2023

    1h.18min

    16+

    Women have been an integral part of rock music from the beginning, but have been successfully repressed from the collective memory.


  • The Dust of Modern Life

    The Dust of Modern Life

    2021

    1h.21min

    16+

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


  • Stop-Zemlia

    Stop-Zemlia

    2022

    2h.2min

    12 FSK

    Delightfully light-hearted and wonderfully honest coming-of-age story that flows seamlessly between fiction to documentary.


  • Anatolian Leopard

    Anatolian Leopard

    2022

    1h.49min

    16+

    A geriatric leopard and an aging zoo director are the only ones who can still prevent the sale of the zoo in Ankara to foreign investors.


  • Short Order

    Short Order

    2005

    1h.41min

    12 FSK

    Life becomes an all-you-can-eat buffet in this ensemble comedy full of quirky characters and culinary delights. Dig in!


  • Museum of the Revolution

    Museum of the Revolution

    2022

    1h.31min

    16+

    In the basement of the never completed Museum of the Revolution, Belgrade dwell the outcasts of a society that is being transformed by capitalism.


  • Recycling Medea: Not an Opera Ballet Film

    Recycling Medea: Not an Opera Ballet Film

    2013

    1h.15min

    16+

    The Greek composer and national hero Mikis Theodorakis settles accounts on stage with a society that robs its children of their future.


  • Untimely

    Untimely

    2020

    1h.17min

    16+

    In this Iranian debut feature, the dilemma of a young soldier unfolds into a visually stunning coming-of-age story spanning several time levels.


  • Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

    Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

    2021

    1h.27min

    16 FSK

    Deeply humanist drama centred on the strength and resilience of women in the face of a dangerously patriarchal society.


  • Thirty

    Thirty

    2019

    1h.54min

    16+

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


  • Bungalow

    Bungalow

    2002

    1h.24min

    12 FSK

    The Bundeswehr is looking for him, his girlfriend Kerstin breaks up with him, and unexpectedly his older brother Max shows up


  • Stand Up My Beauty

    Stand Up My Beauty

    2022

    1h.49min

    0 FSK

    Heidi Specogna (Cahier africain) accompanies the Ethiopian singer Nardos Wude Tesfaw, who combines traditional singing and emancipation, over 5 years.


  • Lichter der Stadt

    Lichter der Stadt

    2020

    1h.42min

    16+

    Joscha is on high alert. He wants to take a pill, but chance encounters with old friends keep him from swallowing it. Shot in a single t ake!


  • Chasing Paper Birds

    Chasing Paper Birds

    2020

    2h.3min

    16+

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


  • Come Closer

    Come Closer

    2021

    1h.15min

    16+

    The focus is on the relationship between the two directors Bella and Andreas, who explore themes of love, sex, friendship and desire.


  • Mary Bauermeister - One and One is Three

    Mary Bauermeister - One and One is Three

    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.


  • 1986

    1986

    2019

    1h.17min

    16+

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


  • Berlin 4 Lovers

    Berlin 4 Lovers

    2019

    1h.12min

    16+

    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


  • Sex: Speak

    Sex: Speak

    2015

    1h.20min

    16 FSK

    Sex is the most beautiful thing in the world. But talking about it without straying into lasciviousness or becoming inhibited remains tricky.


  • Naked Animals

    Naked Animals

    2020

    1h.24min

    12 FSK

    Lost in the German province and searching for stability, 5 young people find each other and live by their own rules.


  • Uferfrauen - Lesbian Life and Love in the GDR

    Uferfrauen - Lesbian Life and Love in the GDR

    2020

    1h.56min

    12

    Six very different lesbian women talk about their lives and loves in the socialist system of the GDR.


  • Eight Hundred Times Lonely

    Eight Hundred Times Lonely

    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.


  • Sebastian Jumping Fences

    Sebastian Jumping Fences

    2020

    1h.10min

    16+

    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.


  • Thinking like a mountain

    Thinking like a mountain

    2019

    1h.31min

    16+

    The Arhuacos are the guardians of the forest and the glacial ice of Colombia's highest mountain range - the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.


  • Lemonade

    Lemonade

    2018

    1h.28min

    16+

    A film about the harsh reality behind the dreams of emigrants who are confronted with abuse of power.


  • Hotel Ausschwitz

    Hotel Ausschwitz

    2018

    1h.15min

    16+

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


  • Only One Day in Berlin

    Only One Day in Berlin

    2018

    1h.14min

    16+

    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.


  • Dance Fight Love Die: With Mikis On the Road

    Dance Fight Love Die: With Mikis On the Road

    2017

    1h.27min

    12 FSK

    Composer Mikis Theodorakis is the enfant terrible of contemporary European music history - an exceptional artist in a dramatic century.


  • Messi and Maud

    Messi and Maud

    2017

    1h.32min

    16+

    After an argument with her boyfriend, Maud travels alone through Chile and meets a boy named Messi.


  • Shot In The Dark

    Shot In The Dark

    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.


  • Arrhythmia

    Arrhythmia

    2017

    1h.56min

    16+

    In the usually grueling everyday life of Moscow, a city of millions, ambulance driver Oleg tries to preserve a remnant of humanity.


  • Gutland

    Gutland

    2017

    1h.47min

    16 FSK

    Early one summer morning a man, with a secret stashed away in a duffel bag, emerges from the forest. In a nearby village he asks around for work.


  • 8:30

    8:30

    2017

    1h.10min

    16+

    A sales rep find himself stranded in an abstract space and time loop. Trapped in a non-place, between urban misunderstandings and Google Street View.


  • Hard & Ugly

    Hard & Ugly

    2017

    1h.11min

    16+

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


  • Wrinkles - Confronting The Process Of Aging

    Wrinkles - Confronting The Process Of Aging

    2016

    1h.28min

    16+

    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.


  • Cahier Africain

    Cahier Africain

    2016

    1h.59min

    0 FSK

    A small notebook filled with the courageous testimonies of 300 people reporting on the atrocities of Congolese mercenaries.


  • The Wounded Angel

    The Wounded Angel

    2016

    1h.53min

    16+

    In his surreal drama, award-winning Kazakh director Emir Baigazin deals with youth in an eroding society.


  • What Are We Waiting For?

    What Are We Waiting For?

    2016

    1h.59min

    12 FSK

    All of France is powered by nuclear reactors and oil. All of France? No, a small village takes steps to transition into the post-oil era.


  • Europe – She Loves

    Europe – She Loves

    2016

    1h.40min

    16+

    Crises, grievances, fear of the future and hope: eight young people search for their place in society in various European countries.


  • Family Film

    Family Film

    2015

    1h.35min

    12 FSK

    A couple embark on vacation. Left alone, their children cut loose until the boy gets caught for skipping school and things take an unexpected turn.


  • Above and Below

    Above and Below

    2015

    1h.53min

    12 FSK

    A rough roller coaster ride with unique survivalists in a world full of challenges and beauty - from the sewers of Las Vergas to Mars.


  • Café Waldluft

    Café Waldluft

    2015

    1h.19min

    12 FSK

    After the big influx of refugees to Europe in 2015, even the most Bavarian villages the picturesque mountains had to adapt.


  • Elected

    Elected

    2014

    1h.42min

    0 FSK

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


  • Near and Elsewhere

    Near and Elsewhere

    2019

    1h.24min

    16+

    How can our society develop in the face of current social, economic and cultural challenges?


  • All About Rita

    All About Rita

    2019

    1h.17min

    12

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


  • It's All Good

    It's All Good

    2018

    1h.10min

    16+

    For years, Venezuela has been fighting the collapse of its public health system. How do you survive in a country that is in chaos?


  • The Symphony of Uncertainty

    The Symphony of Uncertainty

    2018

    1h.35min

    16+

    This is a far-reaching interrogation of something that’s usually regarded as the undoubted precondition of life and filmmaking: an objective, at best yet ...


  • Making the Grade

    Making the Grade

    2017

    1h.22min

    16+

    Welcome to the world of the piano lesson. Every year teachers and students in Ireland prepare for graded musical exams. It can be fun for some students ...


  • Hotel Yugoslavia

    Hotel Yugoslavia

    2017

    1h.18min

    16+

    A journey through the times and spaces of the Hotel Jugoslavija. Belgrade's cityscape is still haunted by the Hotel like a mirror held up to a Serbia ...


  • Those Who Are Fine

    Those Who Are Fine

    2017

    1h.11min

    16+

    Alice works in a call center on the outskirts of Zurich. Inspired by her job, she calls lonely grandmothers and pretends to be a granddaughter in need ...