Eastern europe

  • Liuben

    Liuben

    Drama, Queer

    2024

    1h.49min

    12 FSK

    When Victor returns to his Bulgarian home village, a summer romance blossoms between two young men from different worlds.


  • Women Do Cry

    Women Do Cry

    Drama, Queer

    2021

    1h.46min

    16

    Between stigma, depression, and role models, women fight for dignity, closeness, and truth—courageous, angry, and full of resilience.


  • Tomorrow I Leave

    Tomorrow I Leave

    Documentary, Independent

    2024

    1h.15min

    16

    In Austria, more than 60,000 people from Eastern Europe work in the care sector. You don't see them and you don't know them, but they are there.


  • Circles

    Circles

    Drama

    2013

    1h.52min

    12 FSK

    In a war-torn city, a story of courage and heroism unfolds that profoundly shapes the lives of those involved.


  • Dark Paradise

    Dark Paradise

    Crime, Drama

    2023

    1h.51min

    16

    An unembellished look at the depths of human desires – intense, uncomfortable and deeply impressive.


  • The Investigator

    The Investigator

    Documentary, Independent

    2023

    1h.13min

    16

    An ex-investigator of the Hague Tribunal searches for justice in the Balkans. He shows his mission and its influence on the collective memory.


  • Storm

    Storm

    Drama

    2009

    1h.45min

    12 FSK

    The war crimes tribunal in The Hague is fighting with itself and war criminals from the former Yugoslavia.


  • And Along Come Tourists

    And Along Come Tourists

    Drama, Independent

    2007

    1h.25min

    0 FSK

    In the shadow of Auschwitz, a touching story of reconciliation takes place between a young German and a concentration camp survivor.


  • Body

    Body

    Drama

    2015

    1h.32min

    12 FSK

    Olga, who is grieving for her mother and also anorexic, is sent to a psychiatrist who is dealing with her own losses in an unusual way.


  • Europa Passage

    Europa Passage

    Documentary, Independent

    2022

    1h.29min

    16+

    A movie about people who have no chance but still try to make the best of it. And about the price they have to pay for it.


  • Signs of War

    Signs of War

    Documentary, Independent

    2022

    1h.20min

    16+

    To document the imment conflict in eastern Ukraine, photographer Pierre Crom traveled to the Donbass in 2014.


  • Captain Volkonogov Escaped

    Captain Volkonogov Escaped

    Thriller, Drama

    2021

    2h.6min

    16

    A gripping, thrilling drama-thriller with captivating cinematography about Stalin's political purges in 1938.


  • Infinity According to Florian

    Infinity According to Florian

    Documentary, Independent

    2022

    1h.10min

    16+

    Before the war, one of Kyiv's hottest subject was one of Trump’s cronies turning a masterpiece concert hall into a shopping mall.


  • Klondike

    Klondike

    Drama, Action & Adventure

    2022

    1h.40min

    16+

    A gripping film by Ukraine's Maryna Er Gorbach about the tragic events of the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014.


  • Poppy Field

    Poppy Field

    Drama, Queer

    2020

    1h.21min

    12 FSK

    The threat of being outed causes an explosion of violence: Cristi, a gay Romanian policeman lives under the threat of being outed against his will.


  • Fortuna Valentyn

    Fortuna Valentyn

    Documentary, Independent

    2022

    1h.5min

    16+

    After the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, Valentyn decided to become politically active and run for city council in his home town.


  • The 9th Step

    The 9th Step

    Drama

    2022

    1h.33min

    16+

    A touching portrayal of seventeen-year-old Ieva and her ex-alcoholic father’s attempt at rebuilding their tenuous relationship.


  • Achrome

    Achrome

    Drama

    2022

    1h.36min

    16+

    Haunting anti-war parable about collaboration in the Nazi-occupied Baltics, based on the controversial work of author Rūta Vanagaitė.


  • Caps

    Caps

    Drama, Independent

    2017

    1h.20min

    16+

    After a stroke of fate, a manager escapes his former live to a magical place, rich in ancient customs, at the Danube delta.


  • Factory to the Workers

    Factory to the Workers

    Documentary

    2022

    1h.46min

    16+

    This thought-provoking documentary sheds light on the challenges faced by worker-owned factories in a capitalist, post-socialist, economy.


  • Krai

    Krai

    Documentary

    2021

    2h.3min

    16+

    This black and white film portrays the life and stories of a village on the Russian-Ukrainian border, combining elements of fiction and documentary.


  • Museum of the Revolution

    Museum of the Revolution

    Documentary, Independent

    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.


  • Colors of Tobi

    Colors of Tobi

    Documentary, Queer

    2021

    1h.21min

    16+

    The powerful and inspiring story of a transgender teenager and his family in Orbán's Hungary.


  • Name Me

    Name Me

    Drama, Action & Adventure

    2014

    1h.30min

    16+

    An adeptly played debut in which a yearning for paternal affection plays out against a background of teenage sexual manipulation.


  • 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


  • The Postman's White Nights

    The Postman's White Nights

    Drama

    2014

    1h.37min

    16+

    Quiet drama about the Russian soul, corruption and the postman from Lake Kenozero in northern Russia.


  • II - Two

    II - Two

    Drama

    2019

    1h.0min

    16+

    An exceptionally candid Belarusian film about three teenagers who are confronted with prejudice from their peers and adults.


  • Songs for a Fox

    Songs for a Fox

    Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

    2021

    2h.5min

    12

    After his lover's death, a rock singer studies the art of lucid dreaming and descends into a netherworld in hopes of being together again.


  • Wild Roses

    Wild Roses

    Drama

    2017

    1h.29min

    16+

    Anna Jadowska's fifth feature film illustrates the inner struggle of a woman who comes into conflict with patriarchal power structures.


  • Under Electric Clouds

    Under Electric Clouds

    Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    2015

    2h.12min

    16+

    This episode film explores Russia's state of mind, which is characterized by disorientation, in a dystopian vision of the future.


  • Nightlife

    Nightlife

    Crime, Drama

    2015

    1h.25min

    16+

    After winning a highly charged case, a lawyer is found seriously injured on the side of the road.


  • Half-Sister

    Half-Sister

    Drama

    2019

    1h.40min

    16+

    When two estranged half-sisters are forced to move in together, they must confront their shared past and decades of pent-up resentment.


  • Acasă

    Acasă

    Documentary, Independent

    2020

    1h.26min

    16+

    In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, a family lives in perfect harmony with nature for 20 years until being chased out.


  • The Disobedient

    The Disobedient

    Drama

    2014

    1h.52min

    16+

    Childhood soul mates Leni and Lazar are reunited after being separated for years. They spontaneously decide to take a bike trip across northern Serbia


  • The World We Live in

    The World We Live in

    Animation, Shorts

    2016

    18min

    6

    Three portraits about the fate of Eastern European migrant workers who have come to Germany in search of prospects.


  • Light as Feathers

    Light as Feathers

    Drama

    2018

    1h.26min

    16+

    This impressive debut from Dutch filmmaker Rosanne Pel examines manipulative sexual abuse among teenagers from the perpetrator’s point of view.


  • The Forgotten

    The Forgotten

    Drama

    2020

    1h.46min

    16

    Before the invasion of 2022 in the occupied Ukrainian city of Luhansk, two people challenge the new regime.


  • 1986

    1986

    Drama

    2019

    1h.17min

    16+

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


  • In Blue

    In Blue

    Drama, Love & Sex

    2017

    1h.38min

    16+

    This tale of two drifting souls who meet in the most unusual and ambiguous circumstances will capture your heart.


  • The Voice

    The Voice

    Drama

    2020

    1h.20min

    16+

    A sheltered teenager rebels against the strict rules, religious beliefs, and conniving classmates at his Catholic boarding school.


  • Deva

    Deva

    Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    2019

    1h.13min

    16+

    The story of an orphan with albinism is told in an unusual blend of neorealism and magical realism.


  • 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.


  • Valentina

    Valentina

    Documentary

    2016

    51min

    16+

    10-year-old Valentina lives in a rundown one-room shack with her family of 12. A loving, unsparing and touching family portrait.


  • Am Cu Ce - Pride

    Am Cu Ce - Pride

    Drama

    2019

    20min

    6 FSK

    Eastern European truck drivers are the backbone of German trucking companies and take high risks because of the enormous deadline pressure.


  • Natasha

    Natasha

    Documentary, Independent

    2008

    1h.24min

    16+

    Who are the (presumably) Eastern European panhandlers working the streets? Filmmaker Ulli Gladik finds out.


  • Yugoslavia – How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body

    Yugoslavia – How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body

    Documentary, Independent

    2013

    1h.2min

    16+

    The film looks at how ideology performed itself in public space through mass performances in socialist Yugoslavia.


  • On the margins

    On the margins

    Documentary, Independent

    2015

    1h.22min

    16+

    We accompany a Roma family in Macedonia in their laborious everyday life, marked by deprivation, humiliation and racism.


  • National Avenue

    National Avenue

    Drama

    2019

    1h.28min

    16 FSK

    In the Czech capital, the chav Vandam rises up against capitalism, gentrification and the closure of his local pub.


  • I Am Truly a Drop of Sun on Earth

    I Am Truly a Drop of Sun on Earth

    Drama

    2017

    1h.0min

    16+

    After a night in jail, April returns to the basement of the luxury hotel where she, along with other women, works as a sex worker.


  • For Those Who Can Tell No Tales

    For Those Who Can Tell No Tales

    Drama

    2013

    1h.13min

    16

    A tourist discovers the silent legacy of wartime atrocities when she arrives in a seemingly idyllic little town on the border of Bosnia and Serbia.


  • My Lake

    My Lake

    Crime

    2020

    1h.48min

    16+

    On the picturesque shores of Lake Prespa, in the tri-border area of Albania, northern Macedonia and Greece, drug smugglers fight for supremacy.


  • By a Sharp Knife

    By a Sharp Knife

    Crime, Drama

    2019

    1h.29min

    16+

    Gripping legal drama about injustice and corruption, filmed in the style of Eastern European social realism.


  • East/West – Sex and Politics

    East/West – Sex and Politics

    Independent, Queer

    2008

    1h.35min

    12 FSK

    A snapshot of the multifaceted life in the megapolis Moscow, with the focus on lesbians and gays who take to the streets for their rights.


  • Daybreak

    Daybreak

    Drama, Independent

    2017

    1h.21min

    16+

    To avoid homelessness, a mother resorts to extreme measures in this accomplished and touching and subtle drama.


  • Cowboys

    Cowboys

    Comedy, Music, Dance, Theater

    2013

    1h.44min

    16+

    The black-humored comedy about an inept theater troupe united only by their love of Westerns was Croatia's Oscar contender.


  • My Girlfriend Sybille

    My Girlfriend Sybille

    Classics

    1967

    1h.20min

    0 FSK

    Tour guide Hurtig has to take over a Black Sea trip head over heels. In addition to a lack of foreign language skills, there is also Sybille.


  • Anishoara

    Anishoara

    Drama

    2016

    1h.44min

    16

    During the melon harvest in the rolling green hills of Moldova, 15-year-old Anishoara experiences the overwhelming feeling of first love.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • When It Blinds, Open Your Eyes

    When It Blinds, Open Your Eyes

    Documentary, Independent

    2014

    1h.15min

    16

    Ivette Löcker accompanies two addicted St. Petersburgers in her documentary chamber play.


  • Fraulein

    Fraulein

    Drama

    2006

    1h.17min

    6 FSK

    An intimate look at three headstrong women who come from different parts of a country that no longer exists.


  • Something Like Happiness

    Something Like Happiness

    Drama

    2005

    1h.40min

    12 FSK

    Monika and Toník live next to a steel mill under a roof full of holes. The two dream of a future elsewhere and seem blind to the happiness on their own ...


  • The Country Teacher

    The Country Teacher

    Love & Sex, Queer

    2008

    1h.55min

    12 FSK

    Petr gets to know Marie, a young widow and farmer. In the sun-drenched fields of Bohemia, a deep friendship develops between them, but Marie hopes for ...


  • Arrhythmia

    Arrhythmia

    Drama, Independent

    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.


  • Hotel Yugoslavia

    Hotel Yugoslavia

    Documentary, Independent

    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 ...


  • Summer Solstice

    Summer Solstice

    Drama, Independent

    2015

    1h.36min

    12 FSK

    The coming-of-age drama by Michal Rogalski tells how everyday life in the WW2 grey zone between normality and terror looked like...


  • A Farewell to Fools

    A Farewell to Fools

    Action & Adventure, Comedy

    2014

    1h.25min

    12 FSK

    World War II, somewhere in Eastern Europe. A German soldier is found dead near the village. The local authorities must find the culprit, or they will be ...


  • Children Below Deck

    Children Below Deck

    Documentary

    2018

    1h.34min

    16+

    This film is the personal story of three generations of a family: grandmother, father and daughter - doctor, psychoanalyst and filmmaker.


  • The Angry Buddha

    The Angry Buddha

    Documentary, Independent

    2016

    1h.38min

    16+

    A Buddhist high school for Roma youngsters in Hungary? A school experiment that seeks to overcome exclusion through education and spirituality.


  • Anya and Seryozha

    Anya and Seryozha

    Documentary, Independent

    2018

    30min

    16+

    Anja and Serjoscha, young adults, live in Mariupol, a city in southeastern Ukraine, which was conquered by separatists in April 2014.


  • The Judgement

    The Judgement

    Drama, Thriller

    2014

    1h.47min

    12 FSK

    Top-class arthouse film from Bulgaria. An unsparing document about despair and guilt - visually stunning and impressive.


  • Pornografia

    Pornografia

    Drama, Romance

    2003

    1h.57min

    16

    In Wehrmacht-occupied Poland, two intellectuals flee to a country estate and play a perverse game with its inhabitants.


  • Eho - Echo

    Eho - Echo

    Drama

    2016

    1h.33min

    16+

    When the elderly and lonely Hanna causes an accident in Germany in which a young man from Kosovo dies, she tries to track down his family.


  • Philanthropy

    Philanthropy

    Comedy, Romance

    2002

    1h.50min

    16+

    This black comedy tells the story of 35-year-old teacher and unsuccessful writer Ovidiu, in post-Ceausescu Romania.


  • Zero

    Zero

    Independent, Comedy

    2015

    1h.22min

    16 FSK

    The honey producer and industrial magnate N. becomes an ecoterrorist after a reawakening experience.


  • Siska Deluxe

    Siska Deluxe

    Independent, Comedy

    2015

    1h.51min

    16+

    Three wacky slacker guys open a pizzeria in Slovenia's capital. To grow their business, they offer to make a wish come true for every ordered pizza.


  • The Fixer

    The Fixer

    Crime, Drama

    2016

    1h.40min

    16+

    Radu is a journalist, who sees his chance to land a big scoop in an international scandal involving an underage prostitute and human trafficking.


  • Pashke and Sofia

    Pashke and Sofia

    Documentary, Queer

    2003

    30min

    16+

    Documentary about an age-old Albanian custom that lets women change their social gender by taking the oath of a “sworn virgin”.


  • Filthy

    Filthy

    Crime, Drama

    2017

    1h.28min

    16+

    A story about sensitive seventeen-year-old Lena whose enchanted teenage world is shattered by a horrific event.


  • The Parade

    The Parade

    Comedy, Queer

    2011

    1h.51min

    12 FSK

    The organizers of the Pride Parade in Belgrade find unexpected allies in the criminal milieu.


  • Balkan Melody

    Balkan Melody

    Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater

    2012

    1h.32min

    0 FSK

    A portrait of the music collector couple Marcel and Catherine Cellier, who already documented the music of Eastern Europe during the Cold War.


  • Rainbow's End

    Rainbow's End

    Documentary, Queer

    2005

    1h.15min

    12 FSK

    The gay movement fought its way from the margins to the center of society. What battles still need to be waged?


  • Tito on Ice

    Tito on Ice

    Animation, Independent

    2012

    1h.16min

    16+

    Follow the mummified former Yugoslavian leader Tito as a guide to alternative culture in the post-Yugoslavian region.


  • Khodorkovsky

    Khodorkovsky

    Biography, Documentary

    2011

    1h.51min

    12 FSK

    Khodorkovsky, the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins.


  • Elektro Moskva

    Elektro Moskva

    Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater

    2013

    1h.26min

    16+

    An essayistic story about the last century of Soviet and post-Soviet electronic music - from Leon Theremin to Putin's Russia.


  • Long Distance Love

    Long Distance Love

    Documentary, Love & Sex

    2009

    1h.16min

    0 FSK

    In order to feed his family, the young Kirghiz Alisher enters into a slavery-like working relationship.


  • How to Shoot a President?

    How to Shoot a President?

    Icons & Media Art

    1991

    34min

    16+

    A fascinating document about the last Polish president not elected democratically.


  • Family Life

    Family Life

    Documentary

    2017

    1h.22min

    16+

    A home in the German countryside, clean and proper. Against this bucolic setting a grandmother talks about the Siberian labor camps and starts to cry.


  • Bon Voyage

    Bon Voyage

    Shorts

    2017

    15min

    16+

    A bus trip in the Balkans becomes a microcosm that captures the simmering conflicts in the region.


  • Little Secret

    Little Secret

    Shorts

    2013

    21min

    16+

    A little lie can have big consequences... huge, monstrous, unimaginable consequences. Inspired by a true story.


  • Frozen Conflict

    Frozen Conflict

    Documentary, Independent

    2018

    1h.0min

    16+

    One of Europe's strangest borders lies between the Republic of Moldova and the de facto autonomous region of Transnistria.


  • My Two Polish Loves

    My Two Polish Loves

    Queer, Documentary

    2016

    50min

    16+

    Berlin-based Israeli filmmaker Tali Tiller embarks on an emotional search for traces of her grandmother in Lodz, Poland.


  • The Paper Bridge

    The Paper Bridge

    Documentary, Classics

    1987

    1h.32min

    16+

    A journey through Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann's own family's history and at the same time, the story of Central Europe's Jews and of a region.


  • Solidarity According to Women

    Solidarity According to Women

    Documentary, Independent

    2014

    1h.43min

    16+

    This film reconstructs the rarely told story of the women involved in Polish Solidarność.


  • Polnische Ostern

    Polnische Ostern

    Comedy

    2011

    1h.30min

    6 FSK

    German-Polish culture clash. A German baker and Polish grand star Grazyna Szapolowska in a battle for the affections of his granddaughter, living Poland. Baker ...