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Digital Life
2023
1h.31min
16
A digital flat share in the middle of the pandemic. Everyone is always reachable. Love and hate are close together. A comic nightmare by Malte Wirtz.
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?
Desire Will Set You Free
2016
1h.32min
16 FSK
In the hedonistic Berlin of the 2010s, a writer drifts through the party scene. With Nina Hagen, Peaches, Rosa von Praunheim and Blixa Bargeld.
The Wondrous World of Laundry
2009
1h.36min
12 FSK
A look behind the scenes: This documentary reveals the hidden efforts and globalized processes behind clean hotel linen.
The Third Guest
2024
1h.12min
16
A lonely hostel hides more than just silence - a secret that needs to be uncovered.
Kick It Like a Girl
2023
0 FSK
"Girls can't play soccer" - Pauline, Chayenne, Eriona and Liv prove that this is obviously nonsense in this documentary series.
Europa Passage
2022
1h.29min
16+
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.
Talk to Me
2023
1h.19min
16+
When a mother and her daughter take a vacation at the Baltic Sea, it quickly turns into a journey into the past that opens up old wounds.
One Hundred Four
2024
1h.33min
12 FSK
How agonizingly long can it take to rescue ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR people from an inflatable boat? Find out in this one-shot documentary.
All Through the Hall
2022
1h.14min
16+
Ben, a night watchman with a troubled past, struggles to survive in a warehouse when three intruders challenge his routine.
Don't Call Me Bro
2018
18min
16+
In her harsh milieu study, Gina Wenzel tells the story of youth violence from the perpetrator's perspective.
House of Silence
2023
1h.24min
16 FSK
The long shadow of Sorel's stalker ex-boyfriend seems to extend to every last corner of the Lüneburg Heath.
Berlin Bytch Love
2024
1h.26min
12 FSK
When homeless children become parents - a documentary with the narrative intensity of a feature film.
Get Home Safe
2022
13min
16+
The employee of a Way-Home-Phone service experiences the nightly horror of a young woman who is followed by a stranger on her way home.
Good Monsters
2021
12
Heartfelt musical comedy about a woman trying to save her drug-addicted husband.
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.
A Fish Swimming Upside Down
2020
1h.43min
16+
In a tense love triangle, a woman's presence stirs dark desires and complex emotions in a father and son, challenging moral norms.
Schlamassel
2023
1h.55min
12 FSK
A multi-layered drama that skillfully explores how both feelings and memories stay locked away in post-reunification East Germany.
In Between Fridays
2023
1h.37min
16+
Somewhere in the Monchique mountains of Portugal, the Fridayhappiness Associação balances sustainable living with their economic lifeline.
What the Fuck is Going On Between Us, Fuck?
2022
9min
16+
Lola's hidden love for teammate Zoe challenges her both on and off the soccer field. Will she score or lose her chance?
Heavy Girls
2012
1h.15min
12 FSK
With a budget of 517 euros, Axel Ranisch created his debut, a tragicomedy in a warm-hearted, improvisational style.
Janine F.
2004
1h.20min
16+
The tragic story of an artist who was torn between passion and obsession and died under mysterious circumstances.
Our Fathers
2021
1h.15min
16+
About the missing and the found. About the silent and the roaring. About cuddling and sneezing. Six stories about fathers.
Allesandersplatz
2021
53min
16+
In the heart of Berlin, a GDR ruin is given a new lease on life and becomes a center for art, culture and community.
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017
1h.38min
16 FSK
Romy Haag, Rosa von Praunheim, Ades Zabel and Udo Walz talk about their fascination with the dream destination West Berlin.
Monolith
2023
1h.12min
12 FSK
A 24-hour odyssey through Berlin, full of subtle tension and existential questions.
The Death of My Mother
2022
2h.15min
12 FSK
In her moving feature film, Jessica Krummacher tells the story of dying without fear of contact, just as it happens in reality.
Im Spinnwebhaus
2015
1h.31min
12 FSK
Reality and fantasy are interwoven in this fascinating drama about three children in a mystical world of isolation.
The Red Mountain
2022
1h.50min
16+
Is it fact or is it fiction? A documentary-fiction hybrid about the Red Mountain near Trier and the people who dwell there.
Joker
2019
1h.30min
16+
Three solo entertainers share a passion for entertaining. For them, it is not just a profession, but a vocation to which they subordinate everything.
Youth Topia
2023
1h.25min
16 FSK
In a world driven by algorithms, a group of "forever teenagers" rebel against the dictates of self-optimization.
Seelenlandschaften Schottland
2023
56min
16+
After England and Wales, Rüdiger Sünner explores the spiritual side of Scotland's breathtaking landscapes in the second part of his trilogy.
Just a Friday
2022
26min
12 FSK
When Germany surrenders in 1945, two reckless teenagers put their families' escape on the line to save their friendship.
Junk Space Berlin
2023
1h.45min
16 FSK
Welcome to the marginal deviation of reality. An inexplicable rift runs through the dystopian Berlin and four outsiders venture to find their friend.
Pix
2017
8min
0 FSK
Baby photos, Christmas snapshots, school enrollment photos, wedding photos - our lives are an endless succession of photogenic moments.
Rien ne va plus
2017
15min
12 FSK
Bodo is standing on the top of a roof ready to jump when suddenly his phone rings...
Monday – A German Love Story
2017
5min
16+
Klaus has a new job. And it's brilliant. The best job in the world. There is just one small snag: after work.
Duologue
2016
4min
0 FSK
The German Angst of the unknown - a reluctant dialogue.
Forces
2023
2h.28min
12 FSK
Under the crushing emotional burden of his terminally ill father and violent brother, 14-year-old Daniel seeks refuge with two outcasts.
Notes of Berlin
2021
1h.43min
12 FSK
A film in episodes based on the trend blog "Notes of Berlin" that sheds light on the urban madness of everyday life.
Goosebumps
2022
8min
16+
A singer loses her voice and seeks healing in a shamanistic trance.
Ramba Zamba
2023
1h.29min
6 FSK
To live inclusion and not just to play it is the declared goal of the Theater Rambazamba from Berlin.
Little Big Fighters
2019
1h.22min
16+
Looking to breathe new life into the sport of rugby in Germany, a man has launched an inclusive rugby team.
Bastard in Mind
2022
1h.26min
16+
A chance examination delivers the frightening diagnosis of brain aneurysm. The director himself documents the months leading up to the operation.
153 Meter
2022
1h.11min
16+
Two prefabricated buildings facing each other, three women, three generations, one video camera. The story of an obsession.
From the Ashes
2019
19min
16+
In a former German coal region, a mine gives way to a ghost train, including undead miners.
Home Game
2023
30min
16+
Hometowns, neighborhoods, community spirit, energy security and a lot of money are at stake here.
She Is a Good Boy
2022
26min
16+
When Ava's father Gunter, a classic macho dude, shows up at her door, worlds collide.
Candidates - Training in Stammheim
2020
58min
16+
In Stammheim, right next to the old RAF prison, an educational center for future correctional officers is located next to the prison wall.
The Light at the End
2023
1h.27min
16+
A group of radical climate activists takes matters into their own hands and eliminates suspected climate sinners.
East Cross
1991
1h.23min
12 FSK
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.
The Giant
1984
1h.22min
16+
An omnipresent giant who sees everything, but can’t be seen himself ... An “City Symphony” entirelly composed from material generated by CCTV.
Gisela
2005
1h.30min
16 FSK
Authentic, haphazard and unromantic, three residents of a high-rise housing estate search for love, friendship and sexuality.
Rock Chicks
2023
1h.18min
16+
Women have been an integral part of rock music from the beginning, but have been successfully repressed from the collective memory.
Talk Straight – The World of Rural Queers
2003
1h.39min
12 FSK
How is life as a gay in the Swabian province? An intimate insight into a hitherto unknown terrain between church and Stammtisch.
Prima Mallorca
2019
1h.30min
16+
A new start to a better life? Forty Germans on welfare fly to Mallorca to do internships.
Out in East Berlin
2013
1h.34min
12 FSK
In the documentary, which was successfully screened in the Panorama section of the Berlinale, gays and lesbians from the former GDR have their say.
Gender Crisis
2021
1h.20min
16+
Samson and Delilah: The Old Testament story of a man with irrepressible strength - as a silent film, told in a modern way.
Ostravaganza
2022
1h.43min
16+
Pittiplatsch, star of GDR children's television has a dark secret. Pitti was an avant-garde artist and informer for the state security service.
Menmaniacs - The Legacy of Leather
1994
1h.26min
16 FSK
An intense trip into the gay bondage and leather scene: We meet contestants, bondage film actors, uniform fetishists and long-term slaves.
Me Time
2022
1h.26min
16
Self-determination, women's rights, taboos: ME TIME focuses on child-free life and expectations of mothers.
Seelenlandschaften - England und Wales
2022
53min
16+
Poetic film essay which conveys a sense of the lived spirituality of the British Isles.
Barricade
2021
1h.23min
6 FSK
A striking documentary by renowned photojournalist David Klammer about protesters fighting to stop the clear-cutting at the Dannenröder Forest.
Show Your Wound - Art and Spirituality in the Work of Joseph Beuys
2015
1h.24min
0 FSK
The portrait of an artist who in all his art and with his whole being questioned the existing social system.
Second Thoughts
2021
1h.25min
12 FSK
In poetic tableaux, filmmaker Zora Rux tells a surrealistic-comic story about the search for the true self.
Mystik und Widerstand
2013
1h.10min
0 FSK
The theologian, feminist, and mystic Dorothee Sölle argued that theology is necessarily political.
Adventure Anthroposophy - Rudolf Steiner and his influence
2008
1h.50min
0 FSK
Many people are familiar with Waldorf schools, but few are aware of the life and work of Rudolf Steiner, who in 1919 established them.
The Creative Universe - Science and Spirituality in Dialogue
2010
1h.23min
0 FSK
In an age of ever-increasing scientific knowledge, why do more and more people prefer to adopt alternative lifestyles?
Geheimes Deutschland
2006
1h.1min
0 FSK
Already in 18th century Germany, early Romanticism developed a spiritual worldview that many today seek in Far Eastern spirituality.
Die Legende vom Nil
1991
58min
0 FSK
This travel diary describes the journey of the painter Paul Klee in Egypt between 1928 and 1929 through his letters and his paintings.
Heiko's World
2021
1h.58min
12 FSK
From YouTube to the cinemas: In this loving homage to Berlin's pub culture, Berlin original Heiko must win a darts tournament.
Nachtmeerfahrten - Eine Reise in die Psychologie von C.G. Jung
2011
1h.9min
0 FSK
A cinematic journey into the biography of the psychiatrist C. G. Jung (1875−1961) and into his powerful world of myths, dreams and symbols.
t=E/x²
2020
1h.22min
16 FSK
In this unusual time travel film with a steampunk touch, the protagonists have to escape a time loop, with 90's Pop-Star Jasmin Wagner and Götz Otto.
Magisches Irland
2018
24min
16+
Spiritual travel documentary to the "sacred places" of Ireland and numerous sanctuaries that date back to Celtic times.
Sacred Games
2022
1h.12min
0 FSK
What God did Bach believe in and what was the nature of his spirituality? Did it transcend the confines of his Protestant upbringing?
Black Sun - Mythological Background of National Socialism
1998
1h.35min
6 FSK
The film BLACK SUN illuminates the importance of myths and occult beliefs in the ideology of the "Third Reich".
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.
Hallelujah!
2006
5min
16+
Christians on the one hand, and gays and lesbians on the other. Direct Cinema in short form.
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.
Engel über Europa - Rilke als Gottsucher
2018
1h.22min
0 FSK
Rainer Maria Rilke was not only one of the greatest German poets, but also a spiritual seeker who walked his very own path.
Gottes zerstreute Funken - Jüdische Mystik bei Paul Celan
2016
1h.7min
0 FSK
This film essay traces the life of influential poet Paul Celan, and illuminates his interest in the mystical tradition of Kabbalah.
Wildes Denken
2020
1h.48min
0 FSK
The film clarifies - according to Claude Lévi-Strauss - the "wild thinking" of indigenous cultures based on masks, cult objects, and rituals.
Thirty
2019
1h.54min
16+
A senistive drama that authentically and lovingly captures the lifestyle of a group of young urbanites on the brink of a quarter-life crisis.
Bungalow
2002
1h.24min
12 FSK
The Bundeswehr is looking for him, his girlfriend Kerstin breaks up with him, and unexpectedly his older brother Max shows up
Butenland
2020
1h.18min
12 FSK
An ex-dairy farmer and an animal rights activist start a living farm for cows.
Easy Love
2019
1h.28min
16 FSK
In a successful semi-documentary mix, EASY LOVE tells of crises, moments of happiness, doubts, sex, and unconventional relationship models.
The Ugly Truth
2021
1h.50min
16 FSK
Authentic, honest drama about a family threatened by the downward spiral of depression, alcoholism and jealousy.
Gasman
2021
1h.27min
12 FSK
A melancholic, darkly humorous examination of the theater world and the culture industry.
From the Sideline
2015
1h.52min
0 FSK
In the 1970s, Peter Brückner was an iconic figure of the German New Left and was the first university professor to lose tenure for political reasons.
Fluidø
2017
1h.17min
18 FSK
A post-porn multimedia artwork of bodily fluids that challenges gender norms.
Nico
2022
1h.19min
12 FSK
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.
I Am My Own Woman
1992
1h.31min
16 FSK
Rosa von Praunheim portrays Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, famous transvestite from the former GDR, in a winning mix of documentary and feature film.
Auf der Suche nach Heilern oder Ich bin ein Hypochonder
2014
1h.23min
0 FSK
Director Rosa von Praunheim experiments with alternative medicine and seeks out faith healers to cure his ailments and experience enlightenment.
Praunheim Memoires
2014
1h.24min
0 FSK
PRAUNHEIM MEMOIRES pays tribute to 1950s West Germany for better and for worse and how it shaped the nascent artist.
Another Way to Make a Living
2022
1h.4min
16 FSK
In a small German town, local journalist Eric investigates the drug scene on his own initiative and at great personal risk.
In the Woods
2022
1h.21min
16 FSK
After the success of his series "Ebersberg", director Manuel Weiss takes a father-daughter duo into the gloomy depths of the German forest.
Unsere Geschichten
2020
1h.46min
16+
Young people from the former border region use smartphones to film stories from their personal environment about the topic of German division.
The Skin of Others
2018
1h.52min
16 FSK
Despite its disarmingly strange erotic scenes, The Skin of Others is a deeply romantic love story.
Dancing Quietly
2016
1h.21min
12 FSK
An authentic and quietly directed personal love letter to all those whose greatest struggle is to just get out of bed every day.
Away You Go
2018
1h.16min
6 FSK
Compassionate mumblecore-style drama about a young woman's struggles with the expectations placed on her by her partner and friends.
Dancing Alone
2012
1h.38min
16+
In this autobiographical doc, Biene Pilavci portrays her family life, which during childhood was often marked by violence at the hands of her parents.