Location: Berlin

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

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

In the hedonistic Berlin of the 2010s, a writer drifts through the party scene. With Nina Hagen, Peaches, Rosa von Praunheim and Blixa Bargeld.

In the heart of Berlin, a film noir billiard thriller unfolds with deceit, ambition, and suspense.

Heartfelt musical comedy about a woman trying to save her drug-addicted husband.

With a budget of 517 euros, Axel Ranisch created his debut, a tragicomedy in a warm-hearted, improvisational style.

In the heart of Berlin, a GDR ruin is given a new lease on life and becomes a center for art, culture and community.

A 24-hour odyssey through Berlin, full of subtle tension and existential questions.

Welcome to the marginal deviation of reality. An inexplicable rift runs through the dystopian Berlin and four outsiders venture to find their friend.

A film in episodes based on the trend blog "Notes of Berlin" that sheds light on the urban madness of everyday life.

A group of radical climate activists takes matters into their own hands and eliminates suspected climate sinners.

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.

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

In the documentary, which was successfully screened in the Panorama section of the Berlinale, gays and lesbians from the former GDR have their say.

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 senistive drama that authentically and lovingly captures the lifestyle of a group of young urbanites on the brink of a quarter-life crisis.

A post-porn multimedia artwork of bodily fluids that challenges gender norms.

Nico, who is both German and Persian, is attacked by racists and beaten to the point of hospitalization. She intends to never be a victim again.

Lotti Huber, the 77-year-old singer, dancer and actress brimming with the spirit of life, tells of her eventful life in this semi-documenary film.

Noah (12) arrives in Berlin to visit his father and gets caught up in adventures at the Carnival of Cultures.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

It's summer. Zou and Anselm are newly in love and spend their afternoon at the lake. A fairy tale seems to have come true.

Driven by their obsessions and fears, three Berliners lose themselves in the urban jungle.

Stay or go? In the year before the fall of the Wall, a group of dancers have to decide whether to stay in the GDR or flee to the West.

Tinder users in Berlin talk openly and honestly and about real-life encounters, both the good and the bad, with dates made using the famous dating app

A delightfully absurd Berlin comedy about bicycle messengers, new age esoterica, and saving the world.

In this nocturnal urban fairy tale about drifting millennials, in which reality and fiction merge.

Silke is pushed off a bridge yet survives. There is no trace of an assailant. The police suspect that the crime was a random attack by a drunk person.

A declaration of love to music and to that one pub that everyone knows, the extended living room where you feel at home.

A naïve New Yorker retreats to his dead grandfather's summer cottage (datsche in German) but instead of peace he finds Adam, a refugee in hiding.

Susan is a glamorous train wreck: a delusional drug-addict and psychotic who compares herself to the likes of Maria Callas and Romy Schneider.

A young Irish musician immerses himself into Berlin nightlife after a concert and loses more than just his friends in the process.

Eva, 25, living in Berlin, leads a public life with all the consequences. At 14 she took a new name and declared privacy an outdated concept.

A woman walks out on her husband and two children without a word of explanation. She’s driven by an irresistible force. She wants to be free.

The anonymous Berlin concrete building "Excelsior" is only a temporary stop for its residents, yet some have been living there for more than 50 years.

The merciless analysis of their failed relationship brings a newly separated couple closer together than ever before.

Cult director Rosa von Praunheim tells a true-crime story based on a real case about knockout drops in the Berlin party scene.

How deeply can you really know someone - or are you just falling in love with a dream?

Roland Gräf's film P.S. paints a critical counter-image to the workers' and peasants' state of the GDR, which earned him massive criticism.

In this DEFA classic, a young woman, played by Marita Böhme, goes against social constraints to find happiness.

The story about the singer Sunny, co-directed by Konrad Wolf and Wolfgang Kohlhaase, is considered one of the most important contemporary DEFA films.

A modern fairy tale from Berlin, somewhere between patchwork family life, precarious acting jobs and superheroism.

A year in the life of an ordinary street in Berlin. With narration by Clemens Schick and music by Till Merten.

Ridiculously funny analysis of metropolitan hipsterism in Berlin, the German capital.

The love and life suffering of young people between Cologne and Berlin, with Woody Allenesque lightness.

A German Mumblecore movie, an ode to the city of Berlin, a romantic comedy, father-daughter drama, and a portrait of a woman all rolled into one.

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

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.

Lena Morgenroth, sex worker and computer scientist, is the opposite of the miserable cliché of prostitutes and offers an insight into her live.

Award-winning investigative documentary combines live action and animation to show the struggle against unscrupulous realtors.

A tour of 1990s’ Berlin, capturing the unique vibe of the club culture and art scene at a very special time in history.

Ralf is crazy and scary. But he's also funny and disgusting. A portrait of an exuberant individual – who's too intense for his surroundings.

This documentary captures a summer in Berlin and opens a window to the unique and complex park cosmos and its feeling of freedom.

Denny lives in in the city, boozes and dances through the night, and sleeps with one girl after another.

Nico Sommer brilliantly blurs boundaries between fiction and documentary in this story of a 21 year old man looking to lose his virginity.

With a mixture of horror and comedy, this morality tale tells the story of a group of urban nomads fleeing from demolition excavators.

A slice of the live of the undocumented migrant Mikel, working odd jobs in Berlin to survive.

The inspiring story of the hip-hop electro duo "Scream Club!".

Lucy and Derek roam the streets of Berlin. The city is their stage and playground, and life is a never ending post punk hedonism party.

LOTTE, with her snappy, big city attitude, is impulsive and rough around the edges. No wonder she's constantly clashing with everybody.

Rebecca is shaken by life and drifts between her shared room and the retirement home where her father, who suffers from dementia, lives.

Paul has everything he wants to be happy: a stable job, a beautiful and loving wife who is expecting their first child, and a lot of friends.

Mana lives in her own world, smokes weed and all her energy flows into her films. But when she meets Asten at a party, everything changes.

FRONTALWATTE is like running against a wall and falling softly. Franz, Adrian and Anastasia stumble through a world without consequences.

An urban garden and trendy club on the rooftop parking lot of a Neukölln shopping center: Klunkerkranich.

What's reality and what's art? What happens when the tables are turned, and art no longer imitates nature but things go the other way round?

After a night out dancing, Leyla collides with Paul at a construction site because he insists on the validity of the road traffic regulations.

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, while Paula raises two children ...

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences.

Ferdi thinks he's ugly. And he really wants a girlfriend. But he can't, because he's ugly. But one day he meets Jonah and Jonah is blind.

Berlin of the 1990s - somewhere between squatters and the indie scene. Starring and protagonist Yvonne Ducksworth, is the real singer of the cult band ...

Two best friends, one is in love with the other, who in turn, is unaware of the fact.

Why do people fight, if they don't have to? Why do ordinary citizens operate the toughest martial arts ring in the world in a Berlin backyard.

A man - tired, silent, and as transparent as a ghost - is driving a car. In an empty parking lot, a vagrant woman startles him from his sleep.

2004, Kreuzberg at a time before hipsters, beer bikes and pub crawls.

In the Berlin-Kreuzberg microcosm, respect, betrayal and a suitcase full of money provoke great existentialist gestures - including trauma or death.