A Bigger World

Release Date 09.07.2020 Sound engineer Corine takes a job in Mongolia to escape her grief after losing her husband. While there she discovers she has the ability to go into a ritual trance. read more

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

Release Date 07.09.2017 AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER is Al Gore’s answer to climate change deniers who currently make up the US government. The film follows Al Gore during his tireless campaign, gives evidence of climate change, and commends the development of ... read more

And Then We Danced

Release Date 23.07.2020 Levan Gelbakhiani as Merab frolics with unrestrained energy and a disarming smile in this Georgian love drama about two ballet students. read more

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

Release Date 10.09.2020

Beautiful Thing

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Berlin Alexanderplatz

Release Date 16.07.2020 In Burhan Qurbani‘s new adaptation of Döblin‘s “Berlin Alexanderplatz,“ Franz Biberkopf is replaced by Francis, a migrant from Guinea-Bissau who feels responsible for his wife‘s drowning in the Mediterranean and wants to become a good ... read more

Biriyaani

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Black Milk

Release Date 23.07.2020 Wessie has lived in Germany for years, her sister Ossie stayed in the Gobi Desert as a nomad. In Uisenma Borchu‘s BLACK MILK, which ran in this year‘s Panorama section at the Berlinale, two women and two cultures encounter each other. read more

Black Panther

Release Date 15.02.2018 A US comic book adaptation. read more

Breaking Barriers – The Casteless Collective

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Cocoon

Release Date 13.08.2020 14-year-old Nola has body issues and shuts herself off more and more while her older sister goes out on the town. This changes when Nola falls for the new girl in class.

Collateral

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Corpus Christi

Release Date 03.09.2020 A harsh, beautiful exploration of religion and redemption in small-town Poland. read more

Dabangg 3

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Die Känguru-Chroniken

Release Date 02.07.2020 Scatter-brained artist Marc-Uwe and his anarchist roommate, the Kangaroo, have to outwit a property speculator who wants to rebuild Kreuzberg. An adaptation of Marc-Uwe Kling‘s cult classic “The Kangaroo Chronicles.“ read more

Edie

Release Date 23.05.2019 Edie Moore took care of her paralyzed husband for 30 years. When he dies, the octogenarian continues with her daily routine – until an old postcard falls into her lap and she remembers an old dream of hers. read more

Exile

Release Date 20.08.2020 Xhafer, an academic in his mid-40s who is of Bosnian origin suspects he is being mobbed at work. His wife thinks he is imagining things. EXIL is a slow burning psycho thriller.

For Sama

Release Date 18.06.2020 Director Waad Al-Kateab made a film about her daughter Sama so she‘ll be able to remember the Syria that Al-Kataeb left and so her daughter will be able to see and perhaps understand why she wanted to stay but ultimately did flee. read more

Guldasta

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Harriet

Release Date 09.07.2020 Biography of Harriet Tubman, one of the most prominent figures of the Underground Railroad. read more

If Beale Street could talk

Release Date 07.03.2019 IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK is a 2018 American romantic drama film directed and written by Barry Jenkins, based on James Baldwin's novel of the same name. read more

Il Traditore – The Traitor

Release Date 13.08.2020 Former Sicilian mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta decides to go on record as a chief witness and discuss all the details about the “honorable society“. The resulting “Maxi trial“ took six years in a bulletproof room and resulted in the indictment ... read more

Jojo Rabbit

Release Date 23.01.2020 Ten-year-old Jojo discovers that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl. Not even his imaginary friend Hitler knows what to do. Taika Waititi‘s garish comedy offers jokes in volleys, but it also contains an emotionally moving story. read more

Josef – Born in Grace

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Kastoori – Musk

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Knives Out

Release Date 02.01.2020 A homage to good old-fashioned whodunnits including a famous victim, a dysfunctional family, and a flamboyant master detective (Daniel Craig) with the nice name of Benoit Blanc. read more

Kurzfilmprogramm I

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La Haine

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La vérité

Release Date 05.03.2020 Fabienne Dangeville (Catherine Deneuve) is an established actress and diva who has just published her memoir. However, her daughter Lumir (Juliette Binoche) remembers her childhood very differently... read more

Les plus belles années d'une vie

Release Date 02.07.2020 In Claude Lelouch‘s film UN HOMME ET UNE FEMME from 1966 Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant played one of the most beautiful, romantic, and glamorous couples of the 60s. Now the couple is meeting again after 50 years. read more

Little God

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Little Women

Release Date 30.01.2020 Greta Gerwig's adaptation of the 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott. The four March sisters are moving from childhood to adulthood, briefly stuck in a transitory state as "little women". read more

Love Sarah

Release Date 10.09.2020 After her mother dies, 19 year old Clarissa wants to fulfill her biggest dream together with her grandmother and her mother‘s old friend Isabella: to open a bakery in London‘s hipster neighborhood Notting Hill. read more

Mai Ghat: Crime No. 103/2005

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My Name is not Ali

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Narcissus and Goldmund

Release Date 12.03.2020 An opulent adaptation of Hermann Hesse‘s novel set in the Middle Ages about two boys who meet each other in monastery school. Narziss wants to join the monastery while Goldmund wants to explore the world. read more

Nasir

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Nirvana Inn

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On the Basis of Sex

Release Date 07.03.2019 Mimi Leder‘s biopic is about Ruth Bader Ginsberg‘s beginnings – her studies, her job as a professor, and the precedent case in which she enforced gender equality before the law for the first time. read more

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Release Date 15.08.2019 Though the Manson murders serve as the hook – Tarantino‘s ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD is less about Charles Manson, Sharon Tate, and Roman Polanski and more about the myth of Hollywood. read more

Parasite

Release Date 17.10.2019 Bon Joon-ho‘s Cannes winner PARASITE is a film about the bourgeoisie‘s worst nightmare. Working-class family Kim seem to be merged with trash, but they creep into the life of beauty, goodness, and cultivated elegance that the Park family is ... read more

Pareeksha

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Piazzolla – The Years of the Shark

Release Date 07.11.2019 An intimate portrait of tango revolutionary Astor Piazzola in super 8 family films, recordings of conversations with his daughter Diana from the 80s, and current stories from his son Daniel.

Queen and Slim

Release Date 09.01.2020 QUEEN & SLIM is the rare film that feels both important and super cool. read more

Radioactive

Release Date 16.07.2020 Marjane Satrapi‘s colorful graphic novel adaptation is about Marie Curie and travels across the world of radioactivity from the discovery of radioactive radiation through to cancer therapy to Chernobyl and Hiroshima. read more

RBG

Release Date 13.12.2018 The documentary reconstructs Ruth Bader Ginsberg‘s aka “The Notorious RBG‘s“ path to the Supreme Court and becoming a role model with medial flashbacks and interviews. read more

Richard Jewell

Release Date 25.06.2020 Security guard Richard Jewell discovers a bomb in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and is celebrated at first, but is later grilled by the authorities and the media. read more

Roam Rome Mein

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Sala Budha

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Sea of Shadows

Release Date 23.07.2020 A documentary about a group of scientists and environmentalists going head to head with maritime poachers threatening an entire eco-system. read more

Seberg

Release Date 17.09.2020 SEBERG tells the story of actress Jean Seberg (BREATHLESS), who was driven to numerous suicide attemps by J. Edgar Hoover‘s FBI because she was involved with the black civil rights movement and the Black Panther party. read more

Short films II

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Shorts Attack – Sundance Shorts 2020

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Sneak Preview

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Some Like It Hot

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Release Date 09.07.2020 Portrait of the Rolling Stones' second guitarist - never as much in the limelight as Jagger and Richards but just as fascinating. read more

Sorry We Missed You

Release Date 30.01.2020 Ken Loach takes the ‘I Incorporated‘ world to task: Ricky Turner from Newcastle becomes a self-employed parcel carrier. If everything goes well, he and his wife Abbie, an outpatient geriatric nurse, can pay off their little house…. read more

Stage Mother

Release Date 20.08.2020 A conservative Southern Baptist choir mistress finds herself in charge of a San Francisco drag bar - and liking it. read more

System Crasher

Release Date 19.09.2019 9 year old Benni has been kicked out of every foster home. Anger management trainer Micha tries to help Benni with a lot of personal investment, but he begins to lose his professional distance. read more

Talking About Trees

Tenet

Release Date 27.08.2020 For the most part, TENET is a fun two-and-a-half hours of sci-fi spy-thriller immersion. For better and worse, it finds Nolan in pure entertainment mode while also going all-in on his chrono fetish. read more

That Pärt Feeling

Release Date 10.09.2020 Portrait of the estonian Neo-Classical composer read more

The Current War

Release Date 23.07.2020 A chronicle of the competition between T.A. Edison and N. Tesla and the electrical systems they represented. read more

The Elder One

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The False Eye

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The Photograph

Release Date 10.09.2020 THE PHOTOGRAPH just wants to be a feel-good date movie, and it gets the job done. read more

The Secret: Dare to Dream

Release Date 13.08.2020 Film adaptation of the self-help book by Rhonda Byrne

The White Crow

Release Date 26.09.2019 Ballet dancer Rudolf Nurejew decides to seek political asylum in Paris in June 1961. A cat and mouse game with the Soviet secret service begins. read more

The Wild Goose Lake

Release Date 27.08.2020 A slow-burn Chinese thriller with occasional moments of excess.

Uferfrauen – Lesbisches L(i)eben in der DDR

Release Date 03.09.2020 Barbara Wallbraun depicts a diverse, moving, and often shocking image of lesbian love in the GDR by interviewing six protagonists. read more

Undine

Release Date 02.07.2020 Undine, a nymph who only gets a soul if she‘s loved, works as a historian in the Berlin senate.

Vitalina Varela

Release Date 10.09.2020 Vitalina Varela, 55 years old, Cape Verdean, arrives in Lisbon three days after her husband’s funeral. She had been separated from him for 25 years and now, piece by piece, discovers them life he led and hid from her. read more

Waves

Release Date 16.07.2020 Writer-director Trey Edward Shults’s latest film adds to a small subsection of movies that use a highly stylistized brand of filmmaking to engage with the extreme but familiar emotions of modern life. It also relies heavily on music, sound design, ... read more

What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire?

Release Date 23.07.2020 Roberto Minervini portrays the everpresent violence and threat the local Black Americans in Louisianna are facing from the police as well as the still-active Ku Klux Klan. read more

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Release Date 25.12.2019 In the adaptation of the young adult classic by Judith Kerr, Caroline Link has struck the unsentimental tone of the source. read more

X-Men: New Mutants

Release Date 10.09.2020 read more

XConfessions Night

Release Date 24.09.2020 Sex-positive feminist erotic tales.

Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness

Release Date 27.08.2020 In the fictional reality show “Joy of Forgiveness,“ the 22 year old Iranian Maryam Komijani who has been sentenced to death is fighting for her life: if the family of the aggrieved forgives her, she can be pardoned. read more