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.
Two Girls and a Boat
2021
13min
12
Twins Jade and Kaisa are going for a rowing trip. But social media influencer Jade actually has something else in mind.
It Works II
2022
1h.43min
16+
IT WORKS II shows the lives of three people with disabilities - grown up and self-determined, 20 years after the first film.
L' "il y a" du rapport sexuel
2023
1h.35min
16+
Two strangers, Lisa and Jos, go to San Francisco to find out, if there is sexual intercourse - based on french philosopher Jean-Luc Nancys text.
Foreplay
2021
52min
16+
In 2000, Julie Talon made the film "Baiser certain", about the first kiss as a rite of passage. What has changed in the last 20 years?
Respectable Girls
2019
16+
For Carys, the end of her relationship is also the end of the world. Single for the first time in ages. And now?
One in a Million
2022
1h.24min
0 FSK
Two girls, a fan and an idol, struggle to balance their vulnerability and strength, and their outer image with their inner truth
The End of Wonderland
2021
1h.25min
18
Artist and sex-industry veteran Tara Emory tries to finish her video porn opus before her landlord kicks her out of her Wonderland studio.
Feels Good Man
2020
1h.32min
16+
How did Pepe the Frog become the symbol of hatred and racism online?
Enigma
2018
1h.20min
16+
A mother wants justice for her dead daughter and takes part in a True Crime TV show – an action which will change her life and those of her family.
Necktie Youth
2015
1h.26min
16+
At pool parties in the richest part of South Africa, the post-apartheid dreams of an entire generation perish in a drug-fueled dystopia.
Welcome to the Dome
1992
15min
0 FSK
During the final prayer of the German Catholic Bishops' Conference in 1991, one of the most spectacular protest actions takes place.
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.
Anatolian Leopard
2022
1h.49min
16+
A geriatric leopard and an aging zoo director are the only ones who can still prevent the sale of the zoo in Ankara to foreign investors.
Nightlife
2015
1h.25min
16+
After winning a highly charged case, a lawyer is found seriously injured on the side of the road.
Herzsofort.Setzung II (autogene Manipulationen)
1996
7min
16+
Michael Brynntrup investigates artwork in the age of artificial reproducibility by means of transmedial self-portraits.
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.
Asta Upset
2014
1h.24min
0 FSK
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.
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
MySELFie
2019
50min
16+
At the age of 12 Maya starting losing her hair. Within a few weeks she was completely bald. The diagnosis: Alopecia areata.
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.
Yugoslavia – How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
2013
1h.2min
16+
The film looks at how ideology performed itself in public space through mass performances in socialist Yugoslavia.
Mass Ornaments
2013
1h.19min
16+
This work investigates a controversial mass performance from the late Yugoslav era – the Youth Day celebration (“slet”) in 1987.
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?
Kabatas | Fillmore | Atlanten
2013
13min
16+
Fleeting glimpses into the inner life of private and public spaces, intimacy and spectacle.
Don't Work (1968-2018)
2018
1h.28min
16
In turbulent and disorienting times, a pair of artists uses experimental means to create a hypnotically vibrating portrait of the generations.
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Examen
37min
0
Video technology provided the opportunity to create an amazingly innovative production that matched Stockhausen's music, libretto, dance actions and gestures. ...
Heiner Goebbels - Black on White
2019
59min
0 FSK
Heiner Goebbels creates an impressive web of interlocking musical episodes as a homage to the dramatist and director Heiner Müller.
Goebbels has a genius ...
The Marvin Case
2020
1h.10min
12
In this absurd interpretation of reality, the disappearance of a cat triggers a financial crisis.
Olafur Eliasson - Notion Motion
2005
29min
0
An introduction to the work and aesthetic theories of the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, which also documents one of his largest exhibitions.
The focus ...
Slam
2018
1h.55min
16+
In a climate of mistrust and racism, the disappearance of a young woman promotes wild speculation and racist suspicions.
Searching Eva
2019
1h.34min
16 FSK
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.
Lord of the Toys
2018
1h.36min
16 FSK
Max "Adlersson" Herzberg from Dresden, 20 years old, has over 300,000 subscriptions on YouTube and reviews knives and gangsta rap fan boxes.
Virality
2017
1h.51min
12 FSK
The young policeman Kari gets into a chase when shots are fired. Videos of the circulate on the Internet and the criticism from the public is harsh.
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait
2013
1h.43min
18
Horrifying videos of the Syrian civil war, taken with mobile phones in the besieged city of Homs, show the horrors of war unfiltered.
Bikes vs Cars
2015
1h.30min
0 FSK
Bikes vs Cars highlights a global crisis that we have long been aware of and should be talking about: The climate and mobility crisis....
Thank You for Bombing
2015
1h.40min
16 FSK
Barbara Eder's impressive war drama shows the very unique world of war correspondents and their relationship to war.
Face_It!
2019
1h.20min
16+
An exploration of facial recognition, a modern fingerprint that provides access to a person's personality like a secret code.
Day Is Done
2011
1h.51min
16+
A 35mm camera films from a window, with messages from the answering machine in the background. Slowly an imaginary biography unfolds.
Friedkin Uncut
2018
1h.47min
16+
The unusual and offbeat director himself shows for the first time which themes have influenced his artistic work.
Playland USA
2019
1h.28min
12 FSK
A poetic time travel fantasy through the imagined history of the United States as a modern fairyland, along the traces of our desire for escapism.
Dance Fight Love Die: With Mikis On the Road
2017
1h.27min
12 FSK
Composer Mikis Theodorakis is the enfant terrible of contemporary European music history - an exceptional artist in a dramatic century.
The Cleaners
2018
1h.28min
16 FSK
Dive into the hidden industry of digital cleaning, which rids the Internet of unwanted violence, porn and political content. Who is controlling what we ...
Ma Folie
2015
1h.39min
16 FSK
HANNA loves YANN and the "lettres filmees" that he sends her, short, poetic films recorded with an iPhone. Yann loves Hanna, but mistrusts her. He leaves ...
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.
Pornocracy: The New Sex Multinationals
2017
1h.17min
16 FSK
How is ever-available pornography changing our lives? Ex-porn actress Ovidie explains.
Domian - Interview with the Death
2015
1h.18min
12 FSK
He is Germany's most famous night talker: Jürgen Domian. Thousands of people have been calling him every night for 20 years. They trust him implicitly
The Last Movie
1971
1h.48min
12 FSK
One of the legendary films of New Hollywood: Dennis Hopper's THE LAST MOVIE disappeared so quickly from theaters in 1971 that few have seen it.
After ...
Ken Russell’s View Of The Planets
1983
50min
6 FSK
Ken Russell, Oscar winner and at the same time one of the most controversial British directors of the 70/80s follows Godfrey Reggio's 'Koyaanisqatsi' with ...
Tesis
1996
2h.10min
16 FSK
The cult film was named best film of the year at the Goya Awards.
Kinshasa Collection
2017
16+
The semi-fictional documentary indie series KINSHASA COLLECTION sheds light on the development of the Congolese metropolis as the capital of new urban ...
Making a Mayor - Der Bürgermeister-Macher
2017
44min
12
Local politicians are the spearhead of democracy. But what if they need help themselves?
The Fixer
2016
1h.40min
16+
Radu is a journalist, who sees his chance to land a big scoop in an international scandal involving an underage prostitute and human trafficking.
A Space Exodus
2008
5min
16+
A SPACE EXODUS is the first part of Larissa Sansour’s Palestinian science fiction trilogy.
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".
Khodorkovsky
2011
1h.51min
12 FSK
Khodorkovsky, the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins.
Mit dem Wort Wende
2009
3min
16+
Filmmaker Juliane Henrich explores the term "Wende" (course change) by means of a speech by Christa Wolf, which she gave shortly before the fall of the ...
Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's
2017
1h.21min
6 FSK
Gerald Fox’s film documents Bill Viola and his wife and close collaborator Kira Perov’s odyssey to create two permanent video installations for London’s ...
Because I Am a Genius! Lorenza Mazzetti
2016
1h.2min
16+
Lorenza Mazzetti's extraordinary life story touches many points in twentieth century history.
Neue Natur – Art Girls Intern
2015
1h.10min
16+
The docu-fictional companion piece to Robert Bramkamp's feature ART GIRLS.
Face It! (Cast Your Self™)
2007
4min
16 FSK
A short film by Berlin-based film icon Michael Brynntrup full of photographs collected from personal profiles in gay chat rooms on the internet.
Unpublished! - A Bonus Track
2006
3min
16 FSK
UNPUBLISHED!- A BONUS TRACK is a bonus interview from the Michael Brynntrup film THE OVO, which appeared on the special edition DVD 'Berlinale Rolle 2', ...
The Ovo (Ovo - the Video)
2005
17min
12 FSK
THE OVO (OVO - THE VIDEO) is a short film by Berlin film artist and icon Michael Brynntrup. "It's not about how a drag queen moves, it's about what she ...
E.C.G.1.0.1 (a self-portrait in broadcast and artistic media)
2004
24min
12 FSK
Michael Brynntrup, in his unmistakable style, was already anticipating developments in the media in the early 2000s.
Blue Box Blues (Staging a Photo Shoot)
2004
8min
16 FSK
"An outstanding piece by Michael Brynntrup that captures the violence and tenderness, alongside the dominance and submission, that is found in a single, ...
Ipanema lip-synch
2003
3min
16 FSK
IPANEMA LIP SYNC is a queer karaoke video short from Berlin filmmaking icon Michael Brynntrup.
Achtung - Respect (concentration chair)
2002
13min
16 FSK
A look back at body modifications in the early 2000s.
Gender Agenda
1999
1h.16min
16 FSK
GENDER AGENDA is a compilation of eight queer short films by Berlin experimental filmmaking icon Michael Brynntrup.
NY 'NY 'n why not
1999
4min
12 FSK
WALK / DON'T WALK / WALK. The rhythm of the nineties. A musical stroll along Christopher Street.
Sudden and Unexpected - A Déjà-Revue (Plötzlich und unerwartet )
1993
30min
12 FSK
Udo Kier walks a black-humored, fine line between avant-garde and trash, which is tantamount to an act of unleashing.
All You Can Eat
1993
5min
18 FSK
This short film "takes the ‘cum-shot’ to new heights with a montage of some of the wildest, orgasmic, facial expressions." (Boys On Film #6)
Love, Jealousy and Revenge (Liebe, Eifersucht und Rache)
1991
7min
16 FSK
This short film by Michael Brynntrup, is "a spontaneous, kitschy, unerring, and spicy parable about mutual understanding featuring the world famous underground ...
The Statics - Engineering Memory Bridges (Die Statik der Eselsbrücken)
1990
20min
12 FSK
"A superb biography - a pseudo-scientific collection of curiosities with puns turning artistic somersaults."
Homo Erectus
1989
1h.16min
16 FSK
An amusing journey through the Berlin Drag-Queen scene of the 80s in five short films by Michael Brynntrup.
Narcissus and Echo
1989
14min
12 FSK
Long seemed invalid the Prophet's word, / But honored it was, by the outcome at last: / How odd the madness, how strange a death! (Ovid, Metamorphoses)
NARCISSUS ...
Veronika (vera ikon)
1986
11min
16 FSK
In his short film VERONIKA (VERA IKON) experimental filmmaker Michael Brynntrup takes the biblical prohibition of images literally.