Theater

  • Ramba Zamba

    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.


  • Lucie Loses Her Horse

    Lucie Loses Her Horse

    2021

    1h.22min

    16+

    From one moment to the next, actress Lucie is a knight, sword in hand, donned in armor and setting off on quixotic quests.


  • 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.


  • Gasman

    Gasman

    2021

    1h.27min

    12 FSK

    A melancholic, darkly humorous examination of the theater world and the culture industry.


  • To Live to Sing

    To Live to Sing

    2019

    1h.47min

    16+

    Faced with the imminent destruction of their opera house, a traditional Sichuan opera troupe plans a big show to save their opera house.


  • Der Wolf

    Der Wolf

    2021

    1h.24min

    16 FSK

    Emma's father was a lighting technician at a theater in the Alps until his accidental death. Since then, she has suffered from stage fright.


  • Freakstars 3000

    Freakstars 3000

    2003

    1h.15min

    6 FSK

    Christoph Schlingensief's answer to "Pop Idol" was "Freakstars 3000".


  • Madeline's Madeline

    Madeline's Madeline

    2018

    1h.33min

    16+

    Madeline is teenager who loves to act on stage. She fights with her mother and suffers from a illness which makes her believe she's a cat.


  • The Revolution Eats its Children

    The Revolution Eats its Children

    2020

    1h.14min

    16+

    A European theater director wants to stage a play about revolution in Burkina Faso and gets caught up in a real revolution.


  • Alle in einem Boot

    Alle in einem Boot

    2020

    1h.31min

    16+

    This cleverly staged low-budget film takes a humorous approach to the topic of flight and migration and dispenses with striking messages.


  • Lower Upper Cut

    Lower Upper Cut

    2011

    1h.32min

    6 FSK

    In this self-reflective improv film, an acting class prepares for a crucial final audition that will decide the rest of their careers.


  • Eleven Uncles

    Eleven Uncles

    2010

    1h.41min

    16 FSK

    Volksbühnen actor and director Herbert Fritsch and celebrity cast transform the classic Hamlet tale into a hilarious, multimedia fever dream.


  • Liberté

    Liberté

    2019

    2h.2min

    18

    An erotic nirvana somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin shortly before the French Revolution in 1774.


  • That Most Important Thing: Love

    That Most Important Thing: Love

    1975

    1h.49min

    16 FSK

    Romantic drama with Romy Schneider, Klaus Kinski and Jacques Dutronc, directed by Andrzej Żuławski.


  • Jesus of Montreal

    Jesus of Montreal

    1989

    2h.0min

    16+

    This Oscar-nominated drama about a reinterpretation of the Passion of Christ shines in new splendor after being restored and digitized.


  • Russian Red

    Russian Red

    2016

    1h.31min

    16+

    Inspired by the diary of actress Martha Nowill, RUSSIAN RED recounts the soul searching trip of two young Brazilian actresses in Moscow.


  • Call Me Marianna

    Call Me Marianna

    2015

    1h.13min

    16+

    Marianna is an 40-year-old woman who has just sued her parents in order to obtain a gender reassignment.


  • A Bunch of Love - Ein Haufen Liebe

    A Bunch of Love - Ein Haufen Liebe

    2016

    1h.32min

    12

    Esther, Anneliese, Ruth and Ulla are all over 70 and reflect on a more or less fulfilled (sex) life.


  • Cowboys

    Cowboys

    2013

    1h.44min

    16+

    The black-humored comedy about an inept theater troupe united only by their love of Westerns was Croatia's Oscar contender.


  • Brecht

    Brecht

    2018

    3h.0min

    12 FSK

    East Berlin, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary of the theater and poet of the state, looks back.


  • Hotel Ausschwitz

    Hotel Ausschwitz

    2018

    1h.15min

    16+

    A disavowed theatre group undertakes a research trip to what was once the largest extermination camp in the world and become their own downfall.


  • 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.


  • It's All Good

    It's All Good

    2018

    1h.10min

    16+

    For years, Venezuela has been fighting the collapse of its public health system. How do you survive in a country that is in chaos?


  • One Ticket Please

    One Ticket Please

    2017

    1h.5min

    16+

    A monument for one of New Yorks most singular theater enthusiast.


  • The Cockettes

    The Cockettes

    2002

    1h.39min

    16+

    A flamboyant ensemble of gender-bending hippies created a series of LSD-fueled musicals in early 1970s San Francisco.


  • Interruption

    Interruption

    2015

    1h.51min

    16+

    A group of armed men storms the stage at a theatre. It's unclear, if this is part of the play or the brutal reality.


  • Pierrot Lunaire

    Pierrot Lunaire

    2014

    50min

    16 FSK

    Musical drama about a woman who dresses like a man and falls in love with a young girl. Soundtrack with Arnold Schoenberg's music.


  • Lifetimeshort

    Lifetimeshort

    2009

    1h.27min

    12 FSK

    These self-assured ladies have everything under control, but in a world dominated by high tech communications and competition even they get the blues.


  • When I Dance

    When I Dance

    2016

    1h.7min

    16+

    In Daniela Lucatos docu WHEN I DANCE, four dancers from Israel, Spain and Italy attempt to interpret the stories of refugees.


  • Lucky Devils

    Lucky Devils

    2013

    1h.35min

    16+

    A circus gives the street children of St. Petersburg hope and a chance for a better life.


  • Naked Opera

    Naked Opera

    2013

    1h.21min

    16 FSK

    The documentary accompanies the living man Marc on his travels around the world to staging his favorite operas – and inspired by it, in search of joie ...


  • Les brigands

    Les brigands

    2015

    1h.24min

    12 FSK

    To protect his father, a banker who allegedly embezzled money, Karl took the blame and went behind bars for three years.


  • Unmensch

    Unmensch

    2016

    26min

    16+

    Three young actors are rehearsing a play called 'Youth is Shit' at the Vienna Theater Experiment. The situation quickly becomes explosive.


  • Under Snow

    Under Snow

    2011

    1h.43min

    0 FSK

    Renowned German visual artist Ulrike Ottinger explores Japanese snow region Kabuk, Japan. Poetry and reality in the half documentary, half fictional. In ...


  • Andres Veiel: Balagan

    Andres Veiel: Balagan

    1994

    1h.29min

    16 FSK

    A play about the Holocaust is being staged in Israel. The actors are descendants of Holocaust survivors and Palestinian. A documentation about the coexistance ...


  • The Wheel

    The Wheel

    2017

    9min

    16+

    A dance film blending philosophy, exploring life's cycles through an inspired adaptation of Dogville's themes by Sara Fortuna and Daniela Lucato.


  • Brundibar Revisited

    Brundibar Revisited

    2014

    1h.24min

    0 FSK

    Greta Klingsberg, a cheerful Holocaust survivor, creates an incredible fascination with her stories.


  • Kurt Gerron's Carousel

    Kurt Gerron's Carousel

    1999

    1h.5min

    0 FSK

    An award-winning, authentic film about the Holocaust. "It’s a well done, very moving documentary." (Roman Polanski)