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- Philadelphia
- Planet Terror
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- Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush
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- Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
- Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes
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- The Other Side of the River – No Women No Revolution
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A Hero – Gharehman
Release Date 31.03.2022 In Asghar Farhadi‘s film A HERO, Rahim, who is in prison due to his debt, could bail himself out with the help of a found wallet but decides to return it. read more
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B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin
Release Date 21.05.2015 A fast paced montage of TV-features, videos and Super-8-films, B-MOVIE tells the story of one of the most exciting periods of the West-Berlin music scene, from the perspective of Mark Reeder, an Englishman from Manchester, who moved to Berlin in ... read more
Batman Returns
When a corrupt businessman and the grotesque Penguin plot to take control of Gotham City, only Batman can stop them, while the Catwoman has her own agenda. read more
Becoming Astrid
Release Date 06.12.2018 Before Astrid Lindgren became the most famous children‘s author in the world, she spent many tough years as a working mother of an illegitimate child. read more
Bis wir tot sind oder frei
Release Date 31.03.2022 Swiss escape king Walter Stürm is known all over town in the 80s. When activist and lawyer Barbara Hug takes on his case, a turbulent romantic relationship develops between them. read more
Bloodsuckers
Release Date 12.05.2022 The surreal, historical discourse pop comedy takes the vampire metaphors found in Marx‘ Kapital seriously and interrogates how valid Marxist categories are today. read more
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C'mon C'mon
Release Date 24.03.2022 Radio journalist Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) interviews children in different cities about their plans, worries, and also, what makes them happy. When his sister Vivien has to take care of her mentally distressed ex-husband, Johnny takes Vivien‘s ... read more
Call Me By Your Name
Release Date 01.03.2018 Italy, 1983. Young American Oliver spends his vacation with the Perlmans and their 17 year old son Elio. A summer with antique art and very contemporary desires. read more
Compartment No. 6
Release Date 31.03.2022 Finnish archeology student Laura and Russian miner Ljoha have to share a train compartment during the long journey from Moscow to Murmansk. read more
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Death of a Ladies' Man
Release Date 07.04.2022 Sam (Gabriel Byrne) is an alcoholic and a university professor and an old charmer, even if that doesn‘t totally work anymore. Recently, he‘s been having strange hallucinations and is haunted by memories of his father. read more
Doctor Strange 2
More manic multiverse-hopping from surgeon/sorcerer Stephen Strange and his friends. read more
Drive My Car
Release Date 23.12.2021 The reserved, very controlled people that this adaptation of a Haruki Murakami short story depicts are very slow to open up. The moments in which pure emotion breaks through are that much more staggering because of it. read more
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Everything Went Fine
Release Date 14.04.2022 When art collector André realizes he will probably never be as self-sufficient as he was after having a stroke, he decides to end his life. His daughter Emmanuèle is meant to organize the assisted suicide. read more
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Fabian or Going to the Dogs
Release Date 05.08.2021 Dominik Graf has filmed Erich Kästner‘s saddest novel. A future Berlin classic. read more
Face/Off
While super-terrorist Castor Troy is in a come, FBI-agent Sean Archer has to wear his face to find a bomb Troy set before his accident. But then Troy wakes up and takes over Archer's life and face.
Final Account
Release Date 28.04.2022 Luke Holland asked the perpetrator generation about their memories of the Nazi regime, their involvement and guilt for over 10 years. read more
Firestarter
Release Date 12.05.2022 A teenage pyrokinetic and her father are on the run from a sinister government agency. read more
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Grosse Freiheit
Release Date 18.11.2021 From the concentration camp directly to prison: Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski) is gay and that is still considered a crime in post-war FRG. He meets Viktor (Georg Friedrich) there, who is in prison for murder. read more
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Jump Darling
Release Date 17.03.2022 After an embarrassing performance, Russel flees to his grandmother‘s who lives in a small town and finds success with his drag performances there. However, the real star is grandmother Margret, one of Cloris Leachman‘s last roles. read more
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King Richard
Release Date 24.02.2022 Richard Williams (Will Smith) has carefully planned out the tennis careers of his two daughters Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena (Demi Singleton). Nevertheless, Richard scandalizes the rich, white upper class ball sport world. read more
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Licorice Pizza
Release Date 27.01.2022 LICORICE PIZZA is set in 1973, the oil crisis is imminent. In easy-going anecdotes, Paul Thomas Anderson chronicles the life of film producer Gary Goetzman, a friend of Anderson‘s, as well as the water beds, pinballs, celebrities and old records. read more
Lieber Thomas
Release Date 11.11.2021 In their Thomas Brasch biopic, director Andreas Kleinert and writer Thomas Wendrich playfully work with facts, widely shake things up, leave things out, bulk things up, exaggerate and underplay. read more
Loving Highsmith
Release Date 07.04.2022 In the documentary LOVING HIGHSMITH, Patricia Highsmith‘s private life is at the center: the diaries that were published in honor of her 100th birthday give intimate insights, former lovers appear in front of the camera and get a chance to speak. read more
Luchadoras
Release Date 10.03.2022 A documentary about three women who experience violence and sexism every day in their hometown Ciudad Juarez and regularly compete in the Lucha Libre competitions, a combat sport that is similar to wrestling. read more
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Matthias et Maxime
Release Date 29.07.2021 Maxime wants to migrate to Australia for two years. His friend Matthias, with a job and a girlfriend, struggles with the goodbye more than expected. The new Dolan: quick dialogue, a boisterous party atmosphere, and a great soundtrack. read more
Mein wunderbares WestBerlin
Release Date 29.06.2017 West Berlin as a gay place of yearning, a place of refuge, an island, and a tourist magnet. A very personal, moving chronology of gay Berlin history from the police raids under paragraph 175, which declared homosexuality to be illegal, to the AIDS ... read more
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No Hard Feelings
Release Date 24.09.2020 Parvis manouvers between the queer Hildesheim party scene and his liberal, Iranian suburban parental home with aplomb. When he does community service at a refugee home, he meets Amon and his sister Bana and starts roaming the streets with them over ... read more
Notes Of Berlin: The Film
Release Date 09.09.2021 Joab Nist‘s blog NOTES OF BERLIN, which posted the notes found on Berlin street lamps, windscreens, and post boxes was turned into the interactive website “Notes of Berlin Lab“ in 2014, where the stories behind the notes are told: which is ... read more
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One of These Days
Release Date 19.05.2022 Bastian Günther‘s feature is about an endurance competition in which participants have to put their hand on an expensive pickup truck for as long as they can. read more
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Parallel Mothers
Release Date 10.03.2022 Two mothers who meet at a hospital. One is full of fear, the other is overjoyed. Absent mothers, absent fathers, absent children. Past, present, and future. read more
Paris, 13th District
Release Date 07.04.2022 Based on the short stories of American comic illustrator Adrian Tomine, Jacque Audiard‘s film is about four young people in Paris, about sex, love, friendship, life plans and aimlessness. read more
Petite maman
Release Date 17.03.2022 After the death of her grandmother, eight year old Nelly meets a girl in the forest who looks exactly like her. Through magical movie time travel, she gets to know her mother in a completely new way as a child.
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Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush
Release Date 28.04.2022 Rabiye Kumas, a Turkish housewife and mother who is clueless about legal and political matters, has been fighting for the release of her son from Guantánamo prison for five years with the help of a German human rights lawyer. read more
Red Rocket
Release Date 14.04.2022 With no money, job, or prospects, ex-porn star Mikey returns to Texas and shows up at Lexi‘s, who is still technically his wife, and begs to sleep on her couch. When he meets 17 year old donut seller Strawberry, he decides to make it big as a porn ... read more
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Release Date 12.07.2018 Ryuichi Sakamoto was part of the Yellow Magic Orchestra in the 70s and later became a Japanese pop superstar, an experimental musician, and a film composer (receiving an Oscar for THE LAST EMPEROR). He explains the motifs of his music with ... read more
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Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes
Release Date 08.06.2017 While searching for love and solidarity, director Julian Radlmeier’s alter ego stumbles along the exploiter’s apple plantation. A “burlesque essay film” about Marxism, Franz von Assissi, and Berlin’s intellectual milieu. read more
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Song from the Sea
Release Date 24.12.2015 SONG FROM THE SEA, told in beautiful, hand painted animated images is the story of a brother and a sister who go through a series of adventures inspired by Irish folk tales and finally become friends. read more
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The Alpinist
Release Date 17.02.2022 The documentary accompanies young Canadian climber Marc-André Leclerc, or tries to at least. Leclerc prefers to climb alone, “solo,“ meaning without protection and “on sight,“ meaning without a test run. read more
The Batman
Release Date 03.03.2022 Matt Reeves (CLOVERFIELD) reboots the BATMAN-franchise, with Robert Pattinson as the caped crusader, Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman and Colin Farrell as the Penguin. The trailer suggests it will get gritty. And who is the Riddler? read more
The Card Counter
Release Date 03.03.2022 William Tell learned how to count cards in prison, where he was serving time for his war crimes in Abu Ghraib. He moves from casino to casino, dispassionately playing poker and black jack according to mathematical probabilities at the low stakes ... read more
The Dark and the Wicked
Release Date 14.04.2022 Director Bryan Bertino (THE STRANGERS) uses elements from the haunted house films of the last 30 years and keeps heightening the scares right until it reaches the last confrontation revolving around old David Straker‘s soul read more
The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain
Release Date 21.04.2022 Cat painter Louis Wain (Benedict Cumberbatch) has a lot of talent and just as many quirks. He sees electric voltage in all living things. Images vibrate and shimmer on the canvas in this tragicomedy. read more
The Father
Release Date 26.08.2021 Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) is a distinguished old man who lives alone in his spacious apartment, but he‘s having more and more glitches. French director Florian Zeller portrays the mental decline from the subjective perspective of the afflicted. read more
The Lighthouse
Release Date 28.11.2019 THE LIGHTHOUSE, a film about two men whose assignment as lighthouse keepers on a lonely rock island takes longer than planned, till food and alcohol becomes scarce, pulls you into a sense of impending doom and doesn’t let up. read more
The Northman
Release Date 21.04.2022 Robert Eggers fulfilled a dream and made a Viking film. THE NORTHMAN is an adaptation of the Nordic saga that went on to inspire Shakespeare to make “Hamlet“ centuries later. read more
The Other Side of the River – No Women No Revolution
Release Date 27.01.2022 German director Antonia Killian portrays soldiers in the autonomous Kurdish region of Rojava. read more
The Reason I Jump
Release Date 31.03.2022 The documentary named after the eponymous book, which was told from 13 year old Naoki Higashida‘s perspective, lends insight into the world of people with autism in a multifaceted and sensitive way. read more
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
This classic horror film has been banned from German screens for decades. Now Leatherface is back from his exile to clandestine screenings, smuggled DVDs and torrent-downloads in a glorious, restored 4k-digital cinema print. read more
This Rain Will Never Stop
Release Date 24.03.2022 Donbass, 2018. Andriy studies and works as a volunteer for the Red Cross, which provides the village regions with modern wood-fired ovens, but also administers first aid at the Russian border. read more
Trouble Every Day
Release Date 03.03.2022 A glamorous couple arrives in Paris, a biker picks up a beautiful, enraptured woman in a parking lot. Claire Denis‘ film with Vincent Gallo, Beatrice Dalle, and music by the Tindersticks. read more
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Vicious Fun
Release Date 04.11.2021 Horror journalist Joel wakes up in a closed bar where serial killers are having a self-help seminar. Everyone has set their sights on him. A horror comedy. read more
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Walchensee Forever
Release Date 21.10.2021 Janna Ji Wonder‘s documentary about her own family takes her from Bavaria to the US, to Rainer Langhan‘s commune, and back to Walchensee. read more
Walter Kaufmann: What A Life!
Release Date 30.09.2021 Walter Kaufmann, born in 1924, escaped to England with the Kindertransport and became a travel writer in the GDR thanks to his Australian passport: his journeys took him from Hiroshima to the US civil rights movement, the Cuban revolution, and ... read more
We Are All Detroit
Release Date 12.05.2022 The documentary examines the dismantling of the industrial areas in Detroit and Bochum and looks for the rudiments of a reinvention. read more
What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?
Release Date 07.04.2022 WAS SEHEN WIR… is a poetic film about love and soccer. It‘s a love declaration to the Georgian city of Kutaissi, filmmaking, strolling and humanity. read more
Who is Afraid of Alice Miller?
Release Date 11.11.2021 A documentary about Martin Miller and his mother Alice Miller, the author of “The Drama Of The Gifted Child,“ and their complex relationship. read more
Why Not You
Release Date 07.10.2021 Mario‘s friend Lenz dies in an islamist terrorist attack in Rome. In Mario‘s South Tyrol home village, Nadim, a former classmate and Muslim, is Mario‘s ally. The film explores sexual identity, religious terrorism, survivor guilt, addiction, ... read more
Wings of Desire
Release Date 12.04.2018 Otto Sander and Brunco Ganz as angels watching over Berlin. Wim Wender‘s poetic film is also a historic document of the city before the fall of the Wall. read more
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- A Hero – Gharehman
- A poeta analfabeta
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- B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin
- Batman Returns
- Becoming Astrid
- Before Night Falls
- Before Stonewall
- Belfast
- Bettina
- Bis wir tot sind oder frei
- Bloodsuckers
- Borga
- Brokeback Mountain
- C'mon C'mon
- Cabaret
- Call Me By Your Name
- Carol
- Compartment No. 6
- Death of a Ladies' Man
- Doctor Strange 2
- Domestic Violence
- Donbass
- Drive My Car
- Dune
- Essene
- Everything Went Fine
- Fabian or Going to the Dogs
- Face/Off
- Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore
- Final Account
- Firestarter
- Freier Fall
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
- Gekijouban Jujutsu Kaisen 0
- Go Mental! Film Festival – Programm 2
- Grosse Freiheit
- Happening
- Jump Darling
- King Richard
- Lamb
- Le train en marche
- Licorice Pizza
- Lieber Thomas
- Loving Highsmith
- Luchadoras
- Luzifer
- Matthias et Maxime
- Mein wunderbares WestBerlin
- Memoria
- Model
- Monobloc
- Moonlight
- Navalny
- Nico
- No Hard Feelings
- Notes Of Berlin: The Film
- One of These Days
- Oscar Shorts 2022 – Animation
- Oscar Shorts 2022 – Live Action
- Parallel Mothers
- Paris, 13th District
- Petite maman
- Philadelphia
- Planet Terror
- Pleasure
- Pride
- Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush
- Red Rocket
- River
- Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
- Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes
- Sneak Preview
- Sommersturm
- Song from the Sea
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Terra Femme
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
- The Alpinist
- The Batman
- The Birdcage
- The Card Counter
- The Celluloid Closet
- The Dark and the Wicked
- The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain
- The Father
- The Lighthouse
- The Northman
- The Other Side of the River – No Women No Revolution
- The Reason I Jump
- The Seed
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- This Rain Will Never Stop
- Torch Song Trilogy
- Trouble Every Day
- Vicious Fun
- Walchensee Forever
- Walter Kaufmann: What A Life!
- We Are All Detroit
- What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?
- Who is Afraid of Alice Miller?
- Why Not You
- Wilde
- Wings of Desire
- Without a Promise
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