When Victor returns to his Bulgarian home village, a summer romance blossoms between two young men from different worlds.
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
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
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
Crime, Drama
2023
1h.51min
16
An unembellished look at the depths of human desires – intense, uncomfortable and deeply impressive.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Documentary, Queer
2021
1h.21min
16+
The powerful and inspiring story of a transgender teenager and his family in Orbán's Hungary.
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
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
Drama
2014
1h.37min
16+
Quiet drama about the Russian soul, corruption and the postman from Lake Kenozero in northern Russia.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Drama
2020
1h.46min
16
Before the invasion of 2022 in the occupied Ukrainian city of Luhansk, two people challenge the new regime.
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
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
Drama
2020
1h.20min
16+
A sheltered teenager rebels against the strict rules, religious beliefs, and conniving classmates at his Catholic boarding school.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Drama, Independent
2017
1h.21min
16+
To avoid homelessness, a mother resorts to extreme measures in this accomplished and touching and subtle drama.
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
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
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
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
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
Documentary, Independent
2014
1h.15min
16
Ivette Löcker accompanies two addicted St. Petersburgers in her documentary chamber play.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Independent, Comedy
2015
1h.22min
16 FSK
The honey producer and industrial magnate N. becomes an ecoterrorist after a reawakening experience.
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
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
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
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
Comedy, Queer
2011
1h.51min
12 FSK
The organizers of the Pride Parade in Belgrade find unexpected allies in the criminal milieu.
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
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
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
Biography, Documentary
2011
1h.51min
12 FSK
Khodorkovsky, the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins.
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
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?
Icons & Media Art
1991
34min
16+
A fascinating document about the last Polish president not elected democratically.
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
Shorts
2017
15min
16+
A bus trip in the Balkans becomes a microcosm that captures the simmering conflicts in the region.
Little Secret
Shorts
2013
21min
16+
A little lie can have big consequences... huge, monstrous, unimaginable consequences. Inspired by a true story.
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
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
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
Documentary, Independent
2014
1h.43min
16+
This film reconstructs the rarely told story of the women involved in Polish Solidarność.
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 ...