Sport

  • The Aerobics Project

    The Aerobics Project

    2022

    16

    Experience how a colorful aerobics whirlwind and a spy scandal shake up Toulouse in the 80s.


  • R U There

    R U There

    2010

    1h.23min

    6

    Pro-gamer Jitze has to take a forced break from a tournament in Taipei and meets a young woman who changes his view of the world.


  • Kick It Like a Girl

    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.


  • Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limits

    Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limits

    2022

    1h.17min

    16+

    Climber Adam Ondra, best in his field, is known for his fearless, record-breaking ascents. An intimate portrait explores his life beyond the headlines


  • Babyboy

    Babyboy

    2023

    48min

    16

    A teenager grapples with masculinity amid family splits and first loves, reflecting the rawness of youth in a German town.


  • 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.


  • Night to Be Gone

    Night to Be Gone

    2024

    1h.31min

    16+

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


  • What the Fuck is Going On Between Us, Fuck?

    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?


  • 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


  • Little Big Fighters

    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.


  • A Game of Three Halves: Where the F%*ck Is Hamish?

    A Game of Three Halves: Where the F%*ck Is Hamish?

    2021

    22min

    16+

    A five-part animated documentary series from inside the world of football fandom.


  • Undersea

    Undersea

    2022

    52min

    16+

    To deal with the trauma she endured during her work as photojournalist, Nanna Kreutzmann turns to underwater photography.


  • Motorcity

    Motorcity

    2021

    1h.27min

    16+

    A compelling exploration of the complexities of American life, history, and society through the lens of the unique and fascinating sport drag racing.


  • Heiko's World

    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.


  • 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.


  • Looking For Sunshine

    Looking For Sunshine

    2018

    1h.35min

    16+

    A year in Lara Gut’s universe, from the victory of the Alpine Ski World Cup title in 2016 to the comeback after an injury at the peak of her career.


  • Slalom

    Slalom

    2021

    1h.32min

    16

    Director Charlène Favier deals with her own experiences of abuse as a young junior athlete in this compelling and haunting drama.


  • For the Glory

    For the Glory

    2022

    1h.15min

    16+

    This documentary follows full-contact athlete Lukas Kroiss on his cinematic path to the K1 European Championship title.


  • Teddy Bear

    Teddy Bear

    2012

    1h.32min

    16+

    Because he can't find love in Denmark, painfully shy bodybuilder Dennis sets off for Thailand to escape his domineering mother and find a wife.


  • Meanwhile in Mamelodi

    Meanwhile in Mamelodi

    2011

    1h.14min

    16+

    In Extension 11, a part of the township of Mamelodi in Pretoria, South Africa, the Mtsweni family hopes for good business during the 2010 World Cup.


  • Eye Candy

    Eye Candy

    2019

    1h.0min

    16+

    In the formerly male-dominated world of wrestling, a courageous woman struggles to be taken seriously as an athlete and performer.


  • Tom meets Zizou

    Tom meets Zizou

    2011

    2h.15min

    0 FSK

    Thomas Broich, a promising young player from Bavaria, was celebrated as the new Schweinsteiger. But he ended up pursuing a different career.


  • Glory to the Queen

    Glory to the Queen

    2020

    1h.23min

    16+

    A film about victory and defeat, on the chessboard and in life, and a cinematographic reflection on the struggle for female self-determination.


  • Libero

    Libero

    1973

    1h.20min

    0 FSK

    Semi-documentary feature film about "Kaiser" Franz Beckenbauer.


  • The Other Rio

    The Other Rio

    2018

    1h.28min

    16+

    The spectacle of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro are in full swing. But the grim contrast of poverty is only a few blocks away.


  • Fortuna!

    Fortuna!

    2015

    1h.30min

    6

    The unlikely story of the fall and rise of SC Fortuna Köln.


  • Theatre of War
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    Theatre of War

    2018

    1h.13min

    16+

    British and Argentinian veterans of the Falklands/Malvinas War meet in a swimming pool.


  • Swimmers

    Swimmers

    2015

    1h.17min

    16+

    The doc about the cult surrounding a Soviet physicist Boris Zolotov was awarded the ARTE documentary award.


  • Trails Across the Steppe

    Trails Across the Steppe

    2014

    1h.23min

    16+

    The three young Mongolian cross-country skiers Usukhbayar (17), Oyunchimeg (11) and Gerelt-Od (27) defy all odds to become part of the international sports ...


  • Football From Below - A Season with Genclikspor Recklinghausen

    Football From Below - A Season with Genclikspor Recklinghausen

    2013

    1h.35min

    12

    A documentary look into the world of Genclikspor Recklinghausen, an amateur soccer club in Germany with immigrant roots.


  • You'll Never Walk Alone

    You'll Never Walk Alone

    2017

    1h.40min

    0 FSK

    In many soccer stadiums, fans sing "You'll Never Walk Alone"; the song is part of fan culture. But the lyrics don't actually mention soccer.


  • Time Trial

    Time Trial

    2017

    1h.21min

    0 FSK

    An exhilarating and terrifying look at David Millar's final races including his last Tour de France.


  • Liberation

    Liberation

    2017

    24min

    16+

    Jane is preparing for a the boxing championship while her girlfriend wants to start a family.


  • Warrior Father King

    Warrior Father King

    2015

    1h.22min

    16 FSK

    Ismail, Kamil and Carlos have fought hard for their place in German society – professional mixed martial artists.


  • Gaza Surf Club

    Gaza Surf Club

    2016

    1h.27min

    0 FSK

    Surfing in this film is a metaphor and expression of freedom. Young people in Gaza have the same desires as anyone else.


  • Man on Wire

    Man on Wire

    2008

    1h.30min

    6 FSK

    In 1974, a young French high-wire artist named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York's twin towers, then the world’s tallest ...


  • Istanbul United

    Istanbul United

    2014

    1h.25min

    16 FSK

    The story of an extraordinary alliance of rival soccer fans in Istanbul during the Gezi protests in 2013.


  • The Swimsuit Issue

    The Swimsuit Issue

    2008

    1h.37min

    0 FSK

    The unemployed field hockey fan Frederik is deep in midlife crisis and looks for a new field of activity: synchronized swimming.


  • The Beginner

    The Beginner

    2017

    1h.38min

    0 FSK

    A coming-of-age tale with a difference about the grumpy doctor Annebarbel Buschhaus donning her ice skates again at the age of 58 after an absence of 40 ...


  • Being Mario Götze

    Being Mario Götze

    2018

    2h.16min

    0 FSK

    Celebrated as a talent of the century at the age of 18, his goal in the 2014 World Cup final at just 22 made him a German football legend.


  • Inside a Volcano

    Inside a Volcano

    2017

    1h.25min

    0 FSK

    Experience the incredible success story of the Iceland national soccer team at Euro 2016.


  • Messner

    Messner

    2012

    1h.48min

    6 FSK

    Biography of the exceptional mountaineer Reinhold Messner.


  • Trainer!

    Trainer!

    2013

    2h.18min

    0 FSK

    There are 80 million of them in Germany for the World Cup - but how do you really become a soccer coach?


  • Between Home - Odyssey of an Unusual Sea Bandit

    Between Home - Odyssey of an Unusual Sea Bandit

    2012

    1h.35min

    16+

    Carried by poetry and tension, this documentary portrays the three-year voyage of a young sailing beginner from Europe to Australia.


  • Home Game

    Home Game

    2009

    22min

    12 FSK

    Wotan Wilke Möhring portrays the ethics teacher Andreas, whose secret life as a football hooligan is under threat of being uncovered.


  • Solo - Out of a Dream

    Solo - Out of a Dream

    2014

    1h.30min

    16+

    Dutch director Jos de Putter once again follows 31-year-old soccer star Leonardo Santiago in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.


  • The Lone Fighter

    The Lone Fighter

    2017

    10min

    16+

    Jürgen Blin, who ran away from home at the age of 14 to go to sea, talks openly about his life and his years at a boxing school in Hamburg.


  • My Skinny Sister

    My Skinny Sister

    2014

    1h.31min

    6 FSK

    Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder, which slowly ...


  • Autumn Gold

    Autumn Gold

    2010

    1h.34min

    0 FSK

    The film follows five senior athletes along their biggest challenge - maturity. As all of them are between 80 and 100 years old it is a race against time ...


  • Walking on a Thin Line

    Walking on a Thin Line

    2015

    55min

    16+

    Ibo is 26. What bothers him most is simple: its time. Dropped out of school, unsettled lifestyle. Now it's time to change before it's all too late.


  • Zero-G

    Zero-G

    2016

    9min

    0 FSK

    "I'm a city kid - born in the smog." Delicately and with great poetry a group of young parcours artists recapture the urban space of their home city of ...


  • Shadow Boxer

    Shadow Boxer

    2015

    18min

    16+

    Kickboxing is 23-year-old Ahmet's life but as personal problems mount he loses control and commits a violent felony at a disco.


  • Cheer Up

    Cheer Up

    2016

    1h.22min

    16+

    The 'Arctic Circle Spirit Ice Queens' from a town in the Arctic Circle are probably the saddest and weakest cheerleading team in Finland.


  • Die Familie mit den Schlittenhunden

    Die Familie mit den Schlittenhunden

    2012

    1h.34min

    0 FSK

    Far from civilization, in the north of Canada, lives a family. She accompanies in this docu the daughter to the mythical Junior Iditarod sled dog race ...


  • Yoga - Die Kunst zu leben

    Yoga - Die Kunst zu leben

    2012

    52min

    0 FSK

    Beyond the commercialization and hype, this doc presents yoga as an ancient and holistic way of life. For today’s society more important than ever.


  • Hugo Koblet - The Charming Cyclist

    Hugo Koblet - The Charming Cyclist

    2014

    1h.37min

    16+

    The rise and fall of Swiss cycling legend Hugo Koblet still fascinates today - with a comb tucked in his jersey, groupies, vanilla ice cream.


  • The Boat God of the Lakeside Sports Club

    The Boat God of the Lakeside Sports Club

    2006

    1h.22min

    16+

    Robert Bramkamp boldly links the most banal Brandenburg present with the mythical depth of the Sumerian Gilgamesh myth.


  • Full Contact - A Way of Living

    Full Contact - A Way of Living

    2012

    1h.23min

    16 FSK

    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.


  • Born at the Borsigsquare: Franz Jacobi and the Cradle of BVB

    Born at the Borsigsquare: Franz Jacobi and the Cradle of BVB

    2015

    1h.46min

    6 FSK

    This sports history-doc recounts the exciting history of the German soccer club Borussia Dortmund (BVB), the German League "champion of hearts".


  • Jan - Challenge at the Net

    Jan - Challenge at the Net

    2013

    1h.34min

    16+

    A portrait of a teen tennis pro in the making - a sports documentary as dramatic as fiction films such as “Jerry Maguire”.