Young Talent

Fifteen-year-old Gina grew up in a loving family on the edge of a forest. She admires and loves her father Jimmy, an unpredictable and whimsical man.

Katharina and Steffen have everything but still want to escape the comforting predictability of their lives. Will they dare to take that one step?

In the hedonistic Berlin of the 2010s, a writer drifts through the party scene. With Nina Hagen, Peaches, Rosa von Praunheim and Blixa Bargeld.

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

In the vast emptiness of the Patagonian steppe, 13-year-old Mora embarks on a journey with an old, indigenous Mapuche gaucho.

Somewhere in the Monchique mountains of Portugal, the Fridayhappiness Associação balances sustainable living with their economic lifeline.

With a budget of 517 euros, Axel Ranisch created his debut, a tragicomedy in a warm-hearted, improvisational style.

A parasitic fungus infects humanity. It triggers visions and also enables communication with the dead.

Reality and fantasy are interwoven in this fascinating drama about three children in a mystical world of isolation.

A touching portrayal of seventeen-year-old Ieva and her ex-alcoholic father’s attempt at rebuilding their tenuous relationship.

In a religious summer camp, three youths who are torn between ideology, independence and falling in love.

Three mismatched friends meet over the course of three summers and the story builds into a profound analysis of human nature.

A refreshingly realistic, contemporary, and self-ironic look at the lives of 10 lesbian women in Montreal, Canada.

13-year-old Rodrigo's entire world revolves around his mother, but it all begins to fall apart when she brings home a new boyfriend.

A socially awkward teen falls asleep at her disastrous and unwanted 15th birthday party and enters a fantasy world.

Delightfully light-hearted and wonderfully honest coming-of-age story that flows seamlessly between fiction to documentary.

Milena Czernovsky and Lilith Kraxner's debut blurs the line between documentary and fiction filmmaking, joining a recent trend in the film industry.

Tense psychological drama and mesmerizing portrait of adolescence set in South Africa brims with religious motives and impending doom.

In the 1970s, Peter Brückner was an iconic figure of the German New Left and was the first university professor to lose tenure for political reasons.

Nico, who is both German and Persian, is attacked by racists and beaten to the point of hospitalization. She intends to never be a victim again.

Compassionate mumblecore-style drama about a young woman's struggles with the expectations placed on her by her partner and friends.

Queer meets Gothic meets Fantasy. On her journey to sexual awakening, Emilia must confront her past in order to slay a beast.

New spin on the found footage genre: three friends spend a week in a haunted castle to investigate supernatural phenomena.

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.

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

A Delhi woman's rocky road to her own cab license.

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

It's summer. Zou and Anselm are newly in love and spend their afternoon at the lake. A fairy tale seems to have come true.

When Jonas loses his job at a Hamburg startup he doesn’t have the heart to tell his girlfriend Katharina.

The story of an orphan with albinism is told in an unusual blend of neorealism and magical realism.

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

Paul Aivanaa Manaté makes film history as the first Franco-Polynesian director ever and was able to enlist Sebastian Urzendowsky for the role.

After her drug addicted step-father passes away, teenager Jo gets the chance to take her life into her own hands.

Tinder users in Berlin talk openly and honestly and about real-life encounters, both the good and the bad, with dates made using the famous dating app

With camera angles reminiscent of paintings, up-and-coming star from Brazil Afonso Uchôa explores the beauty of everyday gestures and moments.

FELDARBEIT tells of an encounter between a young woman and her father which takes place on his asparagus farm to the west of Berlin.

This film immerses us directly into the daily lives of three women who are trapped in violent, abusive relationships.

A Tinder date encourages young Leonid to live out his own definition of "masculinity" in a world of changing gender roles.

10-year-old Valentina lives in a rundown one-room shack with her family of 12. A loving, unsparing and touching family portrait.

The sky is their canvas, the airplane their brush. The Stinis family has been making history in skywriting and painting messages on the sky.

The air smells like summer. A potpourri of suntan lotion lawn and lime blossom fries, of water polo melon and chlorine lemonade hovering in the air.

Silke is pushed off a bridge yet survives. There is no trace of an assailant. The police suspect that the crime was a random attack by a drunk person.

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

Mark and Antonia have a long-distance relationship and are taking a joint holiday in Paris. Their last visit was a long while back. How will it go?

A very personal trip around the world, where strangers became friends and curiosity became memories.

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

In a strange, dark asylum, a brilliant physicist without memory is imprisoned. One thing occupies his mind: escape.

What would kids do if they didn't have to go to school? Five young people follow their interests in a world without compulsory education.

A German Mumblecore tragicomedy set in a Brandenburg mansion. Three couples, six people, love, deceit, and the question: what's next?

A fling, as it could happen anywhere in the world, takes on a dangerous political dimension in the divided city of Jerusalem.

Mara jumps from a bridge to her death - and wakes up in the hospital. But something's wrong. No one recognizes her.

A bearded man with a backpack gets on an airplane and a beardless man without a backpack simply does what a man has to do.

WANNABE tells the story of a young YouTuber, who builds herself a fictitious world on the Internet.

Mia and Linda meet again after years in Berlin. Mia is in debt and plans to blackmail the man she has been having an affair with.

Ridiculously funny analysis of metropolitan hipsterism in Berlin, the German capital.

This doc follows a group of young German politicians over a period of five years starting with their first legislature period as Bundestag delegates.

Alex, Fedja, Timo and Lara are four troubled teens who will spend Christmas eve in a psychiatric ward.

Mumblecore maestro Axel Ranisch creates a fabulous tragicomedy about the madness of alcoholism.

The love and life suffering of young people between Cologne and Berlin, with Woody Allenesque lightness.

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution ...

Leyla, a young woman from Germany, campaigns to become the youngest mayor of Turkey - in the town of Cizre, marked by civil war.

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.

A woman dies in a tragic accident, but her soul remains in the here and now. But how? A quick-witted Berlin repairman has a hand in this...

Akin Sipal explores his family history and the role language and literature play in it.

Three episodes, four characters, two couples and the one moment when everything changes.

Teenaged sex worker Paul finds refuge with a stranger.

All Creatures Welcome explores the world of hackers and nerds and sketches a utopian image of society in the digital era.

Hobo Beate lives with her disabled child in a tent. One day, law enforcement turns their lives upside down. And so the journey begins.

A German Mumblecore movie, an ode to the city of Berlin, a romantic comedy, father-daughter drama, and a portrait of a woman all rolled into one.

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

Oskar and Masha made a deal: a relationship but no sex. While Oskar soon regrets it, Mascha sleeps indiscriminately with older men. Can this work out?

LOVE STEAKS is the poster child of the German mumblecore genre, showcasing Franz Rogowski.

A newbie filmmaker from Hamburg arrives in Berlin, convinced that he'll make it big. Instead, he ends up shooting an 'adult' art movie!

Berlin, summer 2016: Nola, Katja and Martina live near Hauptbahnhof. Time is running out - they are going to lose their flat. "What now?" they ask.

Two people, two perspectives, two sets of memories. Did Angela and Christian love each other? Were they ever in a relationship at all?

When the elderly and lonely Hanna causes an accident in Germany in which a young man from Kosovo dies, she tries to track down his family.

What is inclusion and what does it mean for the future? Ana Trkulja documents the Brotfabrik Berlin inclusion project Two Suns.

Essayistic film about the Camorra clan that has been dominating the city of Naples for centuries.

A reclusive man must break out of his self-imposed prison. But neither he nor the outside world is ready for it.

A lesbian bachelorette’s night out with "the guys", including, alas, her future sperm donor. A mumblecore comedy on a raft.

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

The director is drawn into the conflict-ridden marriage of her parents by an inheritance issue.

The snow hid everything beneath itself, until people finally forgot.

SPEAKING OF LOVE tells of being in love and friendship, reluctance and overcoming obstacles, giving things a shot and of failing to get things right.

Award-winning investigative documentary combines live action and animation to show the struggle against unscrupulous realtors.

Robots, working from home, skills shortages, artificial intelligence and biodynamic agriculture. How we work is constantly changing.

Ralf is crazy and scary. But he's also funny and disgusting. A portrait of an exuberant individual – who's too intense for his surroundings.

This comical satire on the movie business and its pitfalls is a very modern interpretation of a German literature classic, Heinrich von Kleist’s “Michael ...

A tour of 1990s’ Berlin, capturing the unique vibe of the club culture and art scene at a very special time in history.

In this documentary we follow four people in Berlin - three men and a woman – who live their daily lives under the sign of drug addiction.

This documentary captures a summer in Berlin and opens a window to the unique and complex park cosmos and its feeling of freedom.

A bunch of men go on a short vacation and set their inhibitions aside.

Denny lives in in the city, boozes and dances through the night, and sleeps with one girl after another.

Nico Sommer brilliantly blurs boundaries between fiction and documentary in this story of a 21 year old man looking to lose his virginity.

The documentary SHALOM SALAM tells about the conflict in the Middle East through the eyes of Israeli and Palestinian children.

The largely unknown story of the GDR contract workers from Namibia.

Seven female criminals have to work off their community service hours in a cursed forest.

In a quest for self-directed living, ten artists near Berlin join forces to start the artist's colony 'Rakete Perelman'. But, they need money.

Dark psycho thriller about a Danish incel.

A new edition of Goethe's material, with a musical Faust in a Kreuzberg setting.

In Berlin, traces of national socialism and Hitlers reign are everywhere, even today.