Filmgalerie 451

Hamburg's housing shortage forces car inspector Gina and British pyromaniac Harry to move into the same apartment.

In part 1 of Thomas Arslan's Trojan trilogy, the eponymous protagonist Trojan wants to do one last big thing and retire.

The mesmerizing world of Albert Serra's PACIFICTION departs from the exotic portrayal of Tahiti, presenting an authentic glimpse into its beauty.

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

A slap in the face as the ultimate answer to all your problems.

A young woman roams through the night. On a train, she rummages through other people's luggage, seeking closeness to them in an unusual way.

After a wedding party, three friends from Hamburg are stranded Berlin. A fast-paced odyssey through the urban wasteland of this once divided city.

The last hour of the French monarch Louis XIV as a gallery performance.

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

Together with his new servant, Casanova embarks on a journey to the Carpathians, to Dracula.

A road movie – on the trail of Don Quixote's mythical locations.

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

The Three Wise Kings travel in search of the Messiah, with unexpected obstacles on the way.

Albert Serra distills the philosophical and spiritual core of Miguel de Cervantes' classic tale.

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a 15-year-old girl tries to find a home in the Berlin of wastelands and ruins.

An omnipresent giant who sees everything, but can’t be seen himself ... An “City Symphony” entirelly composed from material generated by CCTV.

Authentic, haphazard and unromantic, three residents of a high-rise housing estate search for love, friendship and sexuality.

Either the grass is greener, or the houses are bigger, or the sun is warmer ... anywhere else is better.

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

DEADLOCK hints at what German film could have become without all the state subsidized funding of navel-gazing and art for art's sake.

PARABETON shows in chronological sequence 17 buildings by the Italian engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) in Italy and France.

Christoph Schlingensief's answer to "Pop Idol" was "Freakstars 3000".

A new house in a new town could mean the beginning of a phase of domestic bliss for a small family. But the young mother collapses under the burden.

A reactor safety engineer follows the trail of his disappearing daughter through the Kafkaesque West German province.

"MADONNAS paints the astonishingly differentiated picture of a young woman who neglects her children." (taz)

A bitter satire on the university business and its evaluation madness and third-party funding stupidity.

9 LIVES portrays the fate of young people who decided at the age of 11, 12 or 13 to leave home and to live on the streets.

In search of her daughter, Agnes meets a bon vivant in the juggernaut that is Berlin.

In this self-reflective improv film, an acting class prepares for a crucial final audition that will decide the rest of their careers.

A political and sociological look at the transformation and gentrification of Berlin through teenage eyes.

Volksbühnen actor and director Herbert Fritsch and celebrity cast transform the classic Hamlet tale into a hilarious, multimedia fever dream.

A tour de force through the African Okavango swamp that blurs the lines between fiction and documentary.

All this 14-year-old wants is a 'normal' life, but that's not easy to come by given the lifestyle of her hippie parents.

The modernization of post-war style apartment blocks in central Germany becomes a journey into his own GDR past for architect Alexander.

A haunting psychogram of an entire generation of ex-GDR citizens who have not yet fully accepted that they now live in the Federal Republic of Germany

"German cinema can be this exciting: Angela Schanelec's fourth film MARSEILLE" (taz)

Growing up in a rural idyll on his father's farm, teenager Johannes searches for his place in life.

On 3 summer afternoons, a family meets up a beautiful house in an upscale Berlin neighborhood. They come together but ultimately drift further apart.

An erotic nirvana somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin shortly before the French Revolution in 1774.

Jealousy and biting jokes about old wounds start slowly, but build until bald-face confessions and hand-to-hand scuffles take over.

In his debut film Thomas Arslan portrays a group of young people in a decisive phase of upheaval: the last days right before their school year end.

A personal travelogue by Berlin-based director Thomas Arslan about a journey through Turkey.

Deniz, 21 works as a dubbing artist and has just ended her relationship with Jan. In one short day, she goes through a separation and a new beginning.

Life is governed by strict laws. If you don't want to fall out of favor with your backers as a dealer, you can't be seen with plainclothes cops.

The first part of Thomas Arslan's "Berlin Trilogy", which shows young people with a Turkish migration history from their own perspective.

This is a story about a young family - about the virtues of love, curiosity and joy - but also about violence and disassociation.

Based on a true story: The film examines the German justice system and its structural bias.

Documentary filmmaker Heinz Emigholz sketches a biography of the French architects and civil engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret and their buildings.

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

A curator of contemporary art, is in trouble with her sponsors because of remarks she made in a radio interview. Public funding is put on hold.

A man who loses a very personal part of his body to cancer, decides that he wants it back in this weird black comedy.

Christoph Schlingensief's interpretation of German reunification resembles a cannibalistic slaughter house.

Christoph Schlingensief's provocative works are still highly topical even after 20 years.

Berlin, summer 2016: Nola, Katja and Martina live near Hauptbahnhof. Time is running out - they are going to lose their flat. "What now?" they ask.