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.
After the Fire
2023
1h.38min
12
Following the death of her younger brother during a police intervention, Malika embarks on a legal battle to ensure a trial takes place.
Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You.
2019
1h.16min
16+
A visually stunning journey through love, loss and legacy, as directed by the acclaimed Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese.
The Smoothness of Our Teeth
2021
28min
12
A family visit and a broken tooth raises universal questions about identity, origins and life choices.
Good Life Deal
2022
1h.13min
16+
Gerhard goes all in: He leaves his previous life behind for the Thai girl Amy. Romance and thriller begin to intertwine.
Living Together
2022
1h.30min
16+
An integration course teaches people the finer points of Viennese culture in Chinese, Arabic, Russian and German.
Duologue
2016
4min
0 FSK
The German Angst of the unknown - a reluctant dialogue.
Here and Now
2018
1h.27min
16+
Andrei, a Russian speaking immigrant living in Ashdod, is balancing work, bills, taking care of his kid sister Chris, and rehearsing for a concert.
Prima Mallorca
2019
1h.30min
16+
A new start to a better life? Forty Germans on welfare fly to Mallorca to do internships.
Soldier Ahmet
2021
1h.16min
16+
Ahmet, a champion boxer and professional soldier, starts taking acting lessons. On stage he comes face to face with his own internal battles.
My Body
2021
1h.20min
12 FSK
This documentary-narrative film hybrid tells the story of two Sicilian underdogs in strong, neorealistic Cinemascope images.
Rent Boys
2011
1h.23min
12 FSK
This authentic documentary follows male sex workers from Bahnhof Zoo in Berlin as they work, shedding light on the issue of male prostitution.
The Forbidden Strings
2019
1h.22min
16+
They risk it all: the rock band Arikain, formed by Afghans living in Iran, dreams of performing on a stage one day.
The Silhouettes
2020
1h.20min
16+
Taghi, an Afghan refugees living in Iran, faces the choice of staying in a country where he is not welcome or returning to a country he barely knows.
Hotel Belgrad
1998
14min
16+
A couple makes love in a hotel. She lives in Switzerland, he lives in Belgrad. What’s been destroyed by war will be reborn in this hotel room.
Complicity
2018
1h.56min
16+
An illegal immigrant from China is desperate for work in Japan. He pretends to be someone else to get a job at a traditional soba restaurant.
Learning to Milk a Cow
2016
1h.4min
16+
At the age of 19, Raja was deported to Nazi Germany and was forced to do labor on a Bavarian farm. This documentary is her story.
What You Don't Know About Me
2019
1h.56min
16+
How well can you know your partner? Patricia and Ikendu have a happy relationship until Ikendu's surprise arrest shatters it.
I Am Truly a Drop of Sun on Earth
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.
Andy Warhol
1987
1h.15min
16+
Consumption, glamour, disasters and mass media - the art of Andy Warhol is a reflection of America. Kim Evans portrays Warhol's controversial appearance ...
Waithira
2017
1h.11min
12
Eva Njoki Munyiri left her birth country, Kenya, aged 14 and has lived in 3 different continents since then. Now she reconciles with her roots.
School of Babel
2013
1h.31min
16+
For a year, Julie Bertuccelli filmed a group of students from all over the world who are all taking the same course to learn French.
The Yard
2016
1h.18min
0
A scandal forces literary critic Anders to change careers.
Dear John
2015
42min
16+
A single decision can change the rest of your life - a film about what could have been.
Global Family
2018
1h.31min
0 FSK
A transnational family drama in which four generations of a refugee family pursue their own dreams of family, home and future.
Language Is a Love Story
2019
1h.30min
16+
Ms. Louiseau is a dedicated French teacher at a language school in Montréal for adult immigrants. The names of her students* are as varied as her stories.
Since ...
Warrior Father King
2015
1h.22min
16 FSK
Ismail, Kamil and Carlos have fought hard for their place in German society – professional mixed martial artists.
What Will People Say
2017
1h.42min
12 FSK
Norwegian-Pakistani teen Nisha is torn between two worlds until the worlds colide.
The Most Beautiful Country in the World
2018
1h.41min
16+
A semi-documentary that follows a group of young migrants in Austria as they negotiate the maze of administrative procedures.
Plato's Academy
2009
1h.43min
0 FSK
Stavros, a shopkeeper in the Akadimia Platonos district in Athens, spends his life complaining about foreigners and hanging out in front of his shop with ...
Fraulein
2006
1h.21min
6 FSK
An intimate look at three headstrong women who come from different parts of a country that no longer exists.
Lemonade
2018
1h.28min
16+
A film about the harsh reality behind the dreams of emigrants who are confronted with abuse of power.
The Other Side of Hope
2017
1h.40min
6 FSK
In Helsinki, two destinies intersect in the midst of racism and loss: Cohesion and humanity can overcome everything.
The Cut
2013
2h.18min
12 FSK
Heartbreaking drama about the Armenian genocide at the beginning of the 20th century.
Los Ángeles
2014
1h.37min
12 FSK
17-year-old Mateo dreams of Los Angeles. He wants to work there and support his family in their small Zapotec village in southern Mexico.
The only way ...
Calabria
2016
1h.57min
16+
A road movie in a hearse. After the death of an Italian man, two undertakers, Jovan and José - themselves emigrants - drive the body to Italy.
Plot 35
2017
1h.7min
12 FSK
Director Eric Caravaca tells the story of his sister, whose existence was hushed up.
Land of My Children
2018
1h.28min
0 FSK
Darío traces his tortuous path from the land of his fathers to the land of his children - a film about being - and becoming - German.
Omulaule Means Black
2003
1h.5min
0 FSK
The largely unknown story of the GDR contract workers from Namibia.
Mikel
2017
31min
16+
A slice of the live of the undocumented migrant Mikel, working odd jobs in Berlin to survive.
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".
When I Dance
2016
1h.7min
16+
In Daniela Lucatos docu WHEN I DANCE, four dancers from Israel, Spain and Italy attempt to interpret the stories of refugees.
Viacrucis Migrante – Migrant Crossing
2015
1h.2min
0 FSK
The documentary VIACRUCIS MIGRANTE – MIGRANT CROSSING by Hauke Lorenz gives people a voice who are on the arduous path to "the promised Land".
Monsieur Lazhar
2011
1h.34min
12 FSK
Simon discovers that a teacher has hung herself in the classroom. Bachir Lazhar, 55, Algerian immigrant is the substitute teacher. The class goes through ...
Exit Right
2015
3min
12
Look away or intervene? When a man is victim of unfounded abuse in a packed bus, there is only one passenger who doesn't ignore the situation like everyone ...
Chaja & Mimi
2009
10min
16+
Chaja Florentin and Mimi Frons have been best friends for 83 years. Born and raised in Berlin, they fled to Palestine with their families in 1934 to escape ...
Family Life
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.
Jeronimo
2019
1h.33min
16+
This documentary focuses on a lesser known part of Cuban history: the Korean Cuban community.
Le Marché d'Aligre
2017
8min
16+
The 12th arrondissement in Paris is home to the Marché d'Aligre - a street market with over forty fruit and vegetable stands. A unique part of Paris!
Na Sdorowje! Babuschka!
2011
22min
16+
Surprisingly, her Russian relatives arrive on Tatyana's birthday.
Nirwana
2013
52min
16+
Simon Dolensky's graduation film from the International Film School Cologne was nominated for the First Steps Award.
Can't Be Silent
2013
1h.22min
0 FSK
The band “The Refugees” consists of refugees between the stage and the asylum seekers' home. They have arrived and yet are still on the run. A docu about ...
Shun Li and the Poet
2010
1h.37min
6 FSK
Chinesische immigrant Shun Li feels lost in Venice. Then she befriends Bepi, an immigrant from eastern Europe, who over the years has learned the ropes ...
West Is West
2010
1h.38min
6 FSK
The British culture clash comedy is the follow up to the massive “East is eas”. Even the soundtrack, the Hindi film music are as delightful like the clash ...
Love
2006
1h.31min
18 FSK
As Yugoslavia disappeared a man, cover name “Uncle Vanja”, goes to New York to works as a contract killer. In the Big Apple, he hopes to meet his great ...
Schnitzel Paradise
2005
1h.22min
6 FSK
Cooking is warfare! That's how it is in this irreverent culture clash comedy. Straight A student Nordip would rather wash dishes than study medicine.
Haebangchon - Chapter 1
2015
1h.42min
16+
A crime drama set in the multicultural, expat district of the same name in Seoul, South Korea.