The Ukranian grandson of filmmaker Leonid Burlaka draws a rich picture of Soviet history with archive footage of his grandfather.
Icons of Light
2015
1h.21min
0 FSK
Katharina and Steffen have everything but still want to escape the comforting predictability of their lives. Will they dare to take that one step?
Make Up the World
2024
1h.39min
0 FSK
Props play a crucial role in every movie, yet they are rarely consciously noticed - the big and small things on the set.
[Out of Fra]me
2015
19min
16+
An entertaining and ambiguous film that illuminates the connection between cinematic art and human experience.
Ain't Nothin' Without You
1985
1h.28min
12 FSK
The German realities of the 80s, spontaneously captured with sarcastic wit and occasionally parodied to the point of absurdity.
Cuba Libre
2014
18min
16+
A tribute to director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his actor Günther Kaufmann.
The Names of Christ
2010
3h.13min
16+
Albert Serra stages Jesus' Way of the Cross in his usual subversive style.
The Leading Actor
2019
1h.15min
16+
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.
Excess Will Save Us
2022
1h.40min
16+
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.
Once They Were Stars!
2020
1h.10min
16+
The glory days as Kreuzkölln-cops are long gone, but these two aging ex-Youtube stars want to do it again.
Evil in the Woods
2022
1h.19min
18 FSK
The "German indie machine" Malte Wirtz turns to horror and does it so successfully that the audience left the cinema hall in fear.
Fellinopolis
2021
1h.19min
16+
Never-before-seen insights into the work of Federico Fellini, the grand master of Italian cinema.
Our Defeats
2019
1h.28min
16+
Jean-Gabriel Périot asks students on the outskirts of Paris to reenact iconic films from the '68 era and share their thoughts.
Pig
2018
1h.48min
16+
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.
Rapunzels Fluch
2020
1h.20min
18 FSK
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: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
2013
1h.19min
12 FSK
Roland Klick is a film history legend. He made movies with Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, then mysteriously faded away after only six films.
Highfalutin
2021
1h.36min
16+
Friends and colleagues reminisce about the controversial actor Volker Spengler, who was dubbed the "Downfall of the West".
E.K.G. Expositus (the public and the artistic media)
2004
1h.41min
16+
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.
Genkingen : a Swabian folktale
2016
1h.0min
0 FSK
The people living in the German village Genkingen in the Swabian Alps want to re-enact the famous scene from Herzog's Fitzcarraldo.
The Notes of Anna Azzori / A Mirror that Travels through Time
2020
1h.12min
16+
Can a documentary depict reality? Should it even try? Constanze Ruhm examines how reality and the construction of reality are different.
2551.01
2021
1h.5min
16+
Re-interpretation of Chaplin's The Kid. Set in a claustrophobic world, it transports the classic tale into a dystopian, grotesque masquerade ball.
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
2015
1h.47min
16+
Rainer Werner Fassbinder has never been shown with such openness and introspection.
African Mirror
2019
1h.26min
12
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
Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum
2017
53min
16+
This film tells the story those photojournalists and the world of cinema. Of two seemingly opposite worlds – fiction and reality.
Nollywood – Filmbusiness African Style
2020
1h.5min
12
The second largest film industry in the world is called Nollywood and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Delphine and Carole
2019
1h.10min
12
In the early 1970s, actress Delphine Seyrig and video artist Carole Roussopoulos became icons of feminist video activism in France.
Ziva Postec: The Editor Behind the Film Shoah
2018
1h.30min
16+
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.
the_other_images
2018
17min
12
We are accumulating more and more data, images and sound snippets. But how can we remember when digital materials marked by decay fail?
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
2018
1h.43min
12
In an abandoned house, an aging actor and a group of aspiring filmmakers meet.
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.
Making Montgomery Clift
2018
1h.28min
16+
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".
GDR Experimental: REALFilm
1986
47min
0
REALFilm is Lutz Dammbck's examination of film and filmmaking, a film in real time, a collage in space involving the audience.
GDR Experimental: Homage to La Sarraz
1981
12min
0
From 3 to 7 September 1929, a congress of independent avant-garde-filmmakers took place at La Sarraz castle in Switzerland.
Happy Too
2002
1h.1min
16+
A raw, honest look at the relationship between filmmakers, actors, and the characters they jointly create.
Bernadette Lafont, and God Created the Free Woman
2016
1h.5min
16+
Bernadette Lafont embodied the unyielding desire for freedom and independence like hardly any other actress in her time.
Friedkin Uncut
2018
1h.47min
16+
The unusual and offbeat director himself shows for the first time which themes have influenced his artistic work.
Asmahan
2014
1h.11min
16+
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
2017
30min
16+
WANNABE tells the story of a young YouTuber, who builds herself a fictitious world on the Internet.
The Prince of Nothingwood
2017
1h.26min
12 FSK
Salim Shaheen defied the Soviets and the Taliban and is the most prolific Afghan filmmaker you've never heard of.
Werner Nekes: The Life Between Images
2017
1h.28min
0 FSK
Werner Nekes (1944-2017) is one of the most important contemporary experimental filmmakers. His oeuvre includes 100 avant-garde films.
Dark Side of the Moon
2002
52min
0 FSK
A documentary about the moon landing and its faking.
Lowlife Love
2015
1h.50min
16 FSK
In the performance-oriented Japanese metropolis of Tokyo, the loose Tetsuo keeps his head above water by shooting cheap soft porn.
Tesis
1996
2h.10min
16 FSK
The cult film was named best film of the year at the Goya Awards.
Hitler's Hollywood
2017
1h.45min
0 FSK
Film journalist Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed.
Klappe Cowboy!
2011
1h.24min
6 FSK
A newbie filmmaker from Hamburg arrives in Berlin, convinced that he'll make it big. Instead, he ends up shooting an 'adult' art movie!
OK, Good
2012
1h.19min
16+
A struggling actor faced with constant rejection is pushed to his limit. Meet Paul Kaplan, an unremarkable actor going nowhere.
Kohlhaas or the Proportionality of Means
2012
1h.32min
6 FSK
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 - The Orange's Clockwork
2009
1h.27min
16+
Jaffa, home of the world famous cakes, is a bustling metropolis and focus of this fascinating documentary.
My Name Is Not Ali
2011
1h.32min
16+
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".
Brasch – Words Of Want, Words Of Fear
2011
1h.33min
12 FSK
Thomas Brasch (1945-2001), was a charismatic and aggressive artist, he loved conflicts. The documentary offers a unique insight into the fascinating life ...
Cycles of Porn – Sex/Life 2
2004
1h.44min
16 FSK
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".
Quiet On Set
2016
12min
16+
Petter S. Holmsen's metafictional short film QUIET ON SET deals with a romantic encounter at the bottom of the film world ladder.
The Case of Mr. Spalt
1988
1h.35min
0 FSK
The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and combines them into feature film story.
We Are Me
2012
19min
16+
This fakedocumentary tells of Jasper's search for truthfulness, which is doomed to failure when he turns from observer to participant.
Compelling Satan
2017
1h.45min
16+
An indictment against the system of compulsory formatting and lack of imagination of public broadcasting.
Reykjavik
2016
1h.32min
0 FSK
Icelandic film legend Ásgrímur Sverrissons has created a laconic homage to the film nerd in all of us with his Drama Reykjavik.
Because I Am a Genius! Lorenza Mazzetti
2016
1h.2min
16+
Lorenza Mazzetti's extraordinary life story touches many points in twentieth century history.
Bellaria – As Long As We Live!
2001
1h.34min
0 FSK
The Bellaria is a small Viennese art house cinema where time seems to stand still. Here, the movies are as old as the audience.
Kurt Gerron's Carousel
1999
1h.5min
0 FSK
An award-winning, authentic film about the Holocaust. "It’s a well done, very moving documentary." (Roman Polanski)