Film about film

The Ukranian grandson of filmmaker Leonid Burlaka draws a rich picture of Soviet history with archive footage of his grandfather.

Katharina and Steffen have everything but still want to escape the comforting predictability of their lives. Will they dare to take that one step?

Props play a crucial role in every movie, yet they are rarely consciously noticed - the big and small things on the set.

An entertaining and ambiguous film that illuminates the connection between cinematic art and human experience.

The German realities of the 80s, spontaneously captured with sarcastic wit and occasionally parodied to the point of absurdity.

A tribute to director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his actor Günther Kaufmann.

Albert Serra stages Jesus' Way of the Cross in his usual subversive style.

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.

A filmmaker returns to the village where she was born – a hamlet in the north of France – to investigate a strange story about a terrorist threat.

The glory days as Kreuzkölln-cops are long gone, but these two aging ex-Youtube stars want to do it again.

The "German indie machine" Malte Wirtz turns to horror and does it so successfully that the audience left the cinema hall in fear.

Never-before-seen insights into the work of Federico Fellini, the grand master of Italian cinema.

Jean-Gabriel Périot asks students on the outskirts of Paris to reenact iconic films from the '68 era and share their thoughts.

Filmmaker Hasan is seething with rage. He is banned from working and a serial killer is killing all the other directors in town. All except Hasan.

In this atmospheric horror movie, film student Alina Grimm wants to film her graduation movie in an old castle, but fiction turns into reality.

Roland Klick is a film history legend. He made movies with Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, then mysteriously faded away after only six films.

Friends and colleagues reminisce about the controversial actor Volker Spengler, who was dubbed the "Downfall of the West".

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.

The people living in the German village Genkingen in the Swabian Alps want to re-enact the famous scene from Herzog's Fitzcarraldo.

Can a documentary depict reality? Should it even try? Constanze Ruhm examines how reality and the construction of reality are different.

Re-interpretation of Chaplin's The Kid. Set in a claustrophobic world, it transports the classic tale into a dystopian, grotesque masquerade ball.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder has never been shown with such openness and introspection.

The European self-image, the colonial gaze and the concept of 'noble savages': for decades, René Gardi (1909-2000) shaped our colonial image of Africa

This film tells the story those photojournalists and the world of cinema. Of two seemingly opposite worlds – fiction and reality.

The second largest film industry in the world is called Nollywood and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

In the early 1970s, actress Delphine Seyrig and video artist Carole Roussopoulos became icons of feminist video activism in France.

Ziva Postec was the editor of one of the most earth-shattering films in history: she spent six years editing the footage of Claude Lanzmann's Shoa.

We are accumulating more and more data, images and sound snippets. But how can we remember when digital materials marked by decay fail?

In an abandoned house, an aging actor and a group of aspiring filmmakers meet.

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.

Edward Montgomery Clift, four-time Academy Award nominee, was one of the first method actors and known for his roles as "moody, sensitive young men".

REALFilm is Lutz Dammbck's examination of film and filmmaking, a film in real time, a collage in space involving the audience.

From 3 to 7 September 1929, a congress of independent avant-garde-filmmakers took place at La Sarraz castle in Switzerland.

A raw, honest look at the relationship between filmmakers, actors, and the characters they jointly create.

Bernadette Lafont embodied the unyielding desire for freedom and independence like hardly any other actress in her time.

The unusual and offbeat director himself shows for the first time which themes have influenced his artistic work.

A Palestinian director uses the story of legendary Syrian entertainer ASMAHAN to offer a fresh take on Middle Eastern history and the Arab Spring.

WANNABE tells the story of a young YouTuber, who builds herself a fictitious world on the Internet.

Salim Shaheen defied the Soviets and the Taliban and is the most prolific Afghan filmmaker you've never heard of.

Werner Nekes (1944-2017) is one of the most important contemporary experimental filmmakers. His oeuvre includes 100 avant-garde films.

A documentary about the moon landing and its faking.

In the performance-oriented Japanese metropolis of Tokyo, the loose Tetsuo keeps his head above water by shooting cheap soft porn.

The cult film was named best film of the year at the Goya Awards.

Film journalist Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed.

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

A struggling actor faced with constant rejection is pushed to his limit. Meet Paul Kaplan, an unremarkable actor going nowhere.

This comical satire on the movie business and its pitfalls is a very modern interpretation of a German literature classic, Heinrich von Kleist’s “Michael ...

Jaffa, home of the world famous cakes, is a bustling metropolis and focus of this fascinating documentary.

A portrait of El Hedi ben Salem, the actor of the Arab guest worker Ali from Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film "Ali – Fear Eats The Soul".

Thomas Brasch (1945-2001), was a charismatic and aggressive artist, he loved conflicts. The documentary offers a unique insight into the fascinating life ...

What happened to the men who performed in Jochen Hicks SEX/LIFE IN L.A. in 1998? A long-term observation of actors in gay "Adult Movies".

Petter S. Holmsen's metafictional short film QUIET ON SET deals with a romantic encounter at the bottom of the film world ladder.

The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and combines them into feature film story.

This fakedocumentary tells of Jasper's search for truthfulness, which is doomed to failure when he turns from observer to participant.

An indictment against the system of compulsory formatting and lack of imagination of public broadcasting.

Icelandic film legend Ásgrímur Sverrissons has created a laconic homage to the film nerd in all of us with his Drama Reykjavik.

Lorenza Mazzetti's extraordinary life story touches many points in twentieth century history.

The Bellaria is a small Viennese art house cinema where time seems to stand still. Here, the movies are as old as the audience.

An award-winning, authentic film about the Holocaust. "It’s a well done, very moving documentary." (Roman Polanski)