Small town

  • Öte

    Öte

    2023

    1h.48min

    16+

    A love letter to the unique magic of solo traveling.


  • Borderland

    Borderland

    2021

    1h.37min

    0 FSK

    A moving journey through a landscape and its history: from the border triangle of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic up to the Oderhaff.


  • Beyond the Horizon

    Beyond the Horizon

    2020

    1h.33min

    12

    The Sutter family can no longer earn a living from their Swiss mountain farm in the 1970s. A family catastrophe is brewing.


  • Snow and the Bear

    Snow and the Bear

    2022

    1h.33min

    16+

    In a snowy Turkish village, a nurse faces a web of power, mystery, and suspicion, where a missing man and rumored bears blur reality.


  • Junkyard Dog

    Junkyard Dog

    2023

    1h.33min

    12

    Set in a remote village, Dog and Mirales face a test with the arrival of a young woman, who shatters the monotony of their lives.


  • Forces

    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.


  • Home Game

    Home Game

    2023

    30min

    16+

    Hometowns, neighborhoods, community spirit, energy security and a lot of money are at stake here.


  • Foxfire

    Foxfire

    2011

    2h.23min

    16+

    A gang of five teenage girls in a small American town make a pact to live by their own rules and become the Foxfire gang.


  • YT

    YT

    2021

    1h.42min

    16+

    A crazy anthology from Yakutia consisting of seven funny, dramatic and complex stories about the relationships of families, neighbors and relatives.


  • 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.


  • Krai

    Krai

    2021

    2h.3min

    16+

    This black and white film portrays the life and stories of a village on the Russian-Ukrainian border, combining elements of fiction and documentary.


  • Les Enfants Terribles

    Les Enfants Terribles

    2021

    1h.33min

    16+

    Incredibly close and emotional, the film tells the stories of emancipation, love and struggle within a Turkish family.


  • The Noise of Engines

    The Noise of Engines

    2021

    1h.19min

    16+

    In this comedy with a Kafkaesque twist, a customs officer on forced leave and an drag performer from Iceland strike up an unlikely friendship.


  • Queen Lear

    Queen Lear

    2019

    1h.24min

    16+

    Heartwarming doc about the transformative experience of an all-woman theater group touring rural Turkey performing Shakespeare’s King Lear.


  • All of a Sudden

    All of a Sudden

    2016

    1h.48min

    12 FSK

    In her first German-language film, Aslı Özges creates a cruel picture of the middle class in the Kafkaesque experimental laboratory of the small town.


  • Colors of Tobi

    Colors of Tobi

    2021

    1h.21min

    16+

    The powerful and inspiring story of a transgender teenager and his family in Orbán's Hungary.


  • The Postman's White Nights

    The Postman's White Nights

    2014

    1h.37min

    16+

    Quiet drama about the Russian soul, corruption and the postman from Lake Kenozero in northern Russia.


  • Angels of Revolution

    Angels of Revolution

    2014

    1h.48min

    16+

    Soviet heroine Polina Schneider gathers a group of avant-garde artists to convert the remote pagan tribes of Siberia to communism.


  • The Gulls

    The Gulls

    2015

    1h.27min

    16+

    Elza lives in a small town on the Caspian Sea. While her husband catches fish illegally, she dreams of breaking out of her small world.


  • Another Way to Make a Living

    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.


  • Wild Roses

    Wild Roses

    2017

    1h.29min

    16+

    Anna Jadowska's fifth feature film illustrates the inner struggle of a woman who comes into conflict with patriarchal power structures.


  • MansFeld

    MansFeld

    2013

    1h.38min

    6 FSK

    A magical film about the mysteries of childhood and an old custom: In the village of MANSFELD, the ritual banishment of the old takes place every year


  • The Massacre of Anroechte

    The Massacre of Anroechte

    2021

    1h.0min

    16+

    This German indie film is a satirical declaration of love for the German small-town crime thriller.


  • Bloody Milk

    Bloody Milk

    2017

    1h.27min

    16+

    A dairy farmer and his sister, who is a veterinarian, get into a conflict over how to deal with a dangerous cattle disease.


  • Alimamy

    Alimamy

    2020

    40min

    16+

    To pay for his children's education, Sierra Leonean farmer Alimamy is taking a gamble: he wants to sell the entire cassava harvest at the next market.


  • Class Struggle

    Class Struggle

    2021

    1h.27min

    16+

    Based on his origins and personal background, director Sobo Swobodnik analyzes the social fabric of society and the German education system.


  • Sow the Wind

    Sow the Wind

    2020

    1h.32min

    16+

    A young Italian student of agriculture wants to save her family's olive trees from pollution, parasite infestation, and corruption.


  • Dark Dreamer

    Dark Dreamer

    2020

    1h.33min

    12 FSK

    A grieving teenage girl is drawn to the young man blamed for her brother's death.


  • Fire Will Come

    Fire Will Come

    2019

    1h.26min

    16+

    The strange loner Amador was blamed for a devastating forest fire. After serving his prison sentence, he is now no longer welcome in his village.


  • Reported Missing

    Reported Missing

    2012

    1h.27min

    12 FSK

    A reactor safety engineer follows the trail of his disappearing daughter through the Kafkaesque West German province.


  • Mama

    Mama

    2020

    2h.13min

    16+

    In the meditative quiet of a small Chinese village, 12-year-old Xiaoxian experiences three deaths and two births in seven days.


  • Thing I Don't Get

    Thing I Don't Get

    2018

    1h.11min

    6 FSK

    Growing up in a rural idyll on his father's farm, teenager Johannes searches for his place in life.


  • Light as Feathers

    Light as Feathers

    2018

    1h.26min

    16+

    This impressive debut from Dutch filmmaker Rosanne Pel examines manipulative sexual abuse among teenagers from the perpetrator’s point of view.


  • As I Am

    As I Am

    2020

    2h.5min

    16+

    Set in the rolling hills of the English countryside, Philophobia by Guy Davies takes a fresh look at the high school film genre.


  • Seducing Doctor Lewis

    Seducing Doctor Lewis

    2003

    1h.49min

    0 FSK

    To convince an investor to build a factory in their remote village in northern Canada, the villagers first have to find a company doctor.


  • Do Not Fear

    Do Not Fear

    2019

    1h.6min

    0 FSK

    Germany's only trans* pastor.


  • Of Neo-Nazis and Superheroes – How the Far Right is Changing a Small German Town

    Of Neo-Nazis and Superheroes – How the Far Right is Changing a Small German Town

    2018

    56min

    16+

    In the summer of 2017, 6,000 neo-Nazis from all over Europe gathered in Themar for the largest right-wing rock concert of the German post war era.


  • Honeygiver Among the Dogs

    Honeygiver Among the Dogs

    2016

    2h.16min

    16+

    Buddhist noir: In Buthan the undercover police officer Kinley investigates the disappearance of a Buddhist abbess, who is known as "the demon".


  • The Bees and the Birds

    The Bees and the Birds

    2018

    1h.32min

    6 FSK

    From crowded Berlin to the Uckermark: A family documents the self-experiment on the "post-capitalist individual" itself.


  • My Lake

    My Lake

    2020

    1h.48min

    16+

    On the picturesque shores of Lake Prespa, in the tri-border area of Albania, northern Macedonia and Greece, drug smugglers fight for supremacy.


  • Naked Animals

    Naked Animals

    2020

    1h.24min

    12 FSK

    Lost in the German province and searching for stability, 5 young people find each other and live by their own rules.


  • Humanity

    Humanity

    1999

    2h.22min

    16 FSK

    A brutal sex crime reveals the monstrous nature of humans, while a police officer must preserve his humanity.


  • Sound of Heimat

    Sound of Heimat

    2012

    1h.29min

    0 FSK

    In a quest to find the sound of the German homelands (“Heimat”), a musician from New Zealand crisscrosses the country.


  • Nakom

    Nakom

    2016

    1h.30min

    16+

    After his father’s sudden death, Iddrisu, a talented medical student, returns to his home village of northern Ghana.


  • The Cursed Ones

    The Cursed Ones

    2015

    1h.41min

    16+

    A disillusioned reporter and an idealistic young pastor, fight to free a girl accused of witchcraft from the clutches of a superstitious village in the ...


  • The Bookshop

    The Bookshop

    2017

    1h.53min

    16+

    England, 1959. A woman decides to open a bookshop, despite protests from the local population.


  • Kati Kati

    Kati Kati

    2016

    1h.15min

    6 FSK

    Atmospheric Kenyan drama about Kaleche, who wakes up in a village of the dead.


  • Anishoara

    Anishoara

    2016

    1h.44min

    16

    During the melon harvest in the rolling green hills of Moldova, 15-year-old Anishoara experiences the overwhelming feeling of first love.


  • Sweat

    Sweat

    2014

    30min

    16+

    Two bored teenage girls go on a rampage through their home village. Will their friendship survive this day?


  • Gutland

    Gutland

    2017

    1h.47min

    16 FSK

    Early one summer morning a man, with a secret stashed away in a duffel bag, emerges from the forest. In a nearby village he asks around for work.


  • Gestrandet

    Gestrandet

    2016

    1h.18min

    0 FSK

    In 2014 a small group of Eritrean refugees are "stranded" in Strackholt amidst the East Frisian emptiness.


  • The Eremites

    The Eremites

    2016

    1h.50min

    12 FSK

    With the onset of the mountain winter, Albert has to decide between preserving old ways of life on the mountain or new perspectives in the valley.


  • Bright Night

    Bright Night

    2014

    1h.23min

    12 FSK

    A German Mumblecore mystery and pyschodrama about two couples, a polyamorous relationship, and nightmarish reality shifts.


  • Heinz und Fred

    Heinz und Fred

    2008

    1h.21min

    0 FSK

    Heinz and Fred have created their own strange world in the province of Saxony-Anhalt - a documentary about loss, time and the value of work.


  • Helbra

    Helbra

    2004

    1h.15min

    0 FSK

    This documentary observes the struggle of three men against their heroin addiction.


  • Ciao Ciao

    Ciao Ciao

    2017

    1h.23min

    16+

    This Chinese comedy sheds light on village life and the social changes that Chinese society is undergoing.


  • 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?


  • Pyromaniac

    Pyromaniac

    2016

    1h.38min

    12 FSK

    A firebug is wreaking havoc in a small Norwegian community - the culprit must come from among them.


  • We Are the Tide

    We Are the Tide

    2016

    1h.24min

    6 FSK

    15 years ago off the coast of Windholm the sea disappeared and with it, all the children. Since then, the losses hang like a curse over the region.


  • Submarine

    Submarine

    2010

    1h.36min

    12 FSK

    In this quiet comedy in the style of Wes Anderson, a 15-year-old Welshman navigates the shoals of first love like a sailor through reefs.


  • visitation

    visitation

    2015

    53min

    16+

    Grandma Lulu has died. Her things are distributed, the bedroom is painted. A survey of family closeness and distance.


  • Queen of Niendorf

    Queen of Niendorf

    2017

    1h.7min

    0 FSK

    In this celebration of childhood, a 10-year-old girl struggles to find her place in a 'boys' world.


  • The Ground Beneath Their Feet

    The Ground Beneath Their Feet

    2007

    20min

    16+

    Just like Lützerath, Erkelenz and Hambach, the village in this film has to make way for open-cast mining. But one man refuses to leave.


  • Aftermath

    Aftermath

    2016

    40min

    16+

    During WWI the war reaches a small village and changes the fate of an older woman and her 12 year old friend.


  • Chances

    Chances

    2014

    1h.34min

    16+

    A love story about two troubled souls from a small town in northern Nevada. CHANCES won the Golden Reel Award.


  • Die Blutritter

    Die Blutritter

    2004

    1h.26min

    6 FSK

    The Blood Ride in the Upper Swabian Weingarten is considered the largest equestrian procession in Europe and was first mentioned in writing in 1529.