Media

  • Digital Life

    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.


  • Two Girls and a Boat

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Feels Good Man

    2020

    1h.32min

    16+

    How did Pepe the Frog become the symbol of hatred and racism online?


  • Enigma

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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)

    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)

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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)

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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!

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Tesis

    1996

    2h.10min

    16 FSK

    The cult film was named best film of the year at the Goya Awards.


  • Kinshasa Collection

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Khodorkovsky

    2011

    1h.51min

    12 FSK

    Khodorkovsky, the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins.


  • Mit dem Wort Wende

    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

    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

    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

    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™)

    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

    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)

    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)

    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)

    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

    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)

    Achtung - Respect (concentration chair)

    2002

    13min

    16 FSK

    A look back at body modifications in the early 2000s.


  • Gender Agenda

    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

    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 )

    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

    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)

    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)

    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

    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

    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)

    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.