20,000 Species Of Bees

20.000 especies de abejas | Spanien 2023 | Drama | Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren

The child wants to be called Lucia, but Aitor is his male birth name. In the nature idyll of the Basque Country – grand aunt‘s beehive, with the queen who the child identifies with – a coming out unfolds within a complex family history.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | USA 2022 | Documentary, Porträt | Laura Poitras | 12

Laura Poitras portrays photographer and activist Nan Goldin and her battle against the pharmaceutical company the Sackler Foundation.

When Susan Sontag Was Sitting in the Audience

When Susan Sontag Was Sitting in the Audience | Deutschland 2021 | Documentary | RP Kahl | 12

R P Kahl re-enacts the “A Dialogue on Women‘s Liberation“ discussion panel from 1971 in which moderator and egomaniac Norman Mailer met feminist icons Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, Jacqueline Ceballos and Diana Trilling. Susan Sontag was in ...

America

America | Israel/ Deutschland/ Tschechische Republik 2022 | Drama | Ofir Raul Graizer | 12

When he travels to Tel Aviv from the US after the death of his father, Eli meets his kindergarten friend Yotam again, and his fiance Iris. An atmospheric love triangle film.

L'ours en moi

L'ours en moi | Schweiz 2019 | Documentary, Tierfilm | Roman Droux | 6

Body of Truth

Deutschland/Schweiz 2019 | Documentary | Evelyn Schels | 12

Four artists that work with bodies: Marina Abramović, Shirin Neshat, Sigalit Landau, and Katharina Sieverding.

Daido Moriyama

Daido Moriyama | Japan 2019 | Documentary | Gen Iwama | oA

Daido Moriyama is over 80 years old and is considered the “godfather of Japanese street photography.“ The film accompanies the production of a reissue of his out of print masterpiece “Japan, a Photo Theater“ from 1968, which was Moriyama‘s ...

Three Floors

Tre Piani | Italien 2021 | Comedy, Drama | Nanni Moretti

Nanni Moretti adapted the novel “Three Floors Up“ by Eshkol Nevo about crises and conflicts in a housing community in Tel Aviv and moved the plot to Rome.

Mu and the Vanishing World

Mu and the Vanishing World | Deutschland 2019 | Drama, Tale of a friendship, Metropolitan Movie | Simona Kostova

A homage to a generation that philosophizes about the meaning of life but by no means wants to be too strict with themselves.

Elbow

Ellbogen – Elbow | D 2024 | Drama, Literary Film Adaptations | Asli Özarslan

Enkel für Anfänger

Deutschland 2019 | Comedy | Wolfgang Groos | 6

Pensioner Karin wants to become a grandmother. Luckily it‘s never too late, even if you never had kids yourself, because today there‘s an entire database of grandmas and grandpas to rent. A situational comedy with a celebrity cast.

Mama Weed

La daronne | Frankreich 2020 | Comedy, Crime Comedy | Jean-Paul Salomé | 12

As the interpreter of a drug squad, Patience (Isabelle Huppert) translates the wiretapped phone calls of the scene. When her mother‘s expensive nursing home threatens to kick the old woman out, Patience uses her knowledge and enters the business...

Eine Frau

Deutschland 2021 | Documentary | Jeanine Meerapfel

Jeanine Meerapfel uses her own mother to grapple with what memory means: piecing together the old and the new.

Helmut Newton – The Bad and the Beautiful

Deutschland 2020 | Documentary | Gero von Boehm

A biography of photographer Helmut Newton who would have turned 100 this year and who was never afraid of being controversial.

Peaceful

De son vivant | Frankreich 2021 | Drama | Emmanuelle Bercot

Teacher Benjamin (Benoît Magimel) is dying. Neither his engaged acting class nor the care of his mother (Catherine Deneuve) can change anything about that.

It Must Be Heaven

It Must Be Heaven | Frankreich 2019 | Drama | Elia Suleiman | oA

Elia Suleiman plays himself as an Palestinian in exile who encounters the same absurdities everywhere he travels to.

Joyland

Pakistan 2022 | Drama | Saim Sadiq | 12 | Interview

JOYLAND begins like a modern fairy tale and soon paints an all too realistic picture of Pakistan's morals. While Haider takes refuge in the nightlife with trans dancer Biba, his wife Mumtaz despairs of her role as a housewife and expectant mother.

Kirschblüten & Dämonen

Deutschland 2019 | Drama | Doris Dörrie | 12

10 years after the success of KIRSCHBLÜTEN – HANAMI, Doris Dörre returns to the family story situated between Germany and Japan and recounts how “Karli,“ the youngest, is being haunted by the ghosts of the past.

Au bout des doigts

Au bout des doigts | Frankreich 2018 | Comedy, Drama | Ludovic Bernard | oA

Young drifter Mathieu Malinski has a secret talent as a pianist and is discovered by the head of the Parisian conservatory Pierre Geitner when he hears him play at a subway station.

Wicked Little Letters

Wicked Little Letters | Großbritannien 2023 | Thriller, Comedy | Thea Sharrock

In a British seaside resort in the 1920s, obscene letters are making the rounds. The main suspect is single mother Rose.

Loving Highsmith

Schweiz/Deutschland 2021 | Documentary | Eva Vitija

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.

Madame

Madame | Schweiz 2019 | Documentary | Stéphane Riethauser | 12

Stéphane Riethauser portrays the life of his grandmother Caroline – and his own. She resisted the patriarchy at the beginning of the last century and broke out of the heteronormative bourgeois two generations later.

Mamacita

Mexiko 2018 | Documentary | José Pablo Estrada Torrescano | oA

Young filmmaker Jose Pablo Estrada Torrescano documents the dramatic life of his 96 year old grandmother who came into the world as an unwanted child and built a beauty farm empire later on.

Radioactive

Großbritannien 2019 | Biography, Drama | Marjane Satrapi | 12

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.

May, die dritte Frau

The Third Wife | Vietnam 2018 | Drama | Ash Mayfair

Normal

Normal | Italien 2019 | Documentary | Adele Tulli | 12

The documentary shows daily situations and rituals of ultimate (hetero-)normativity without added commentary.

Notes Of Berlin: The Film

Notes of Berlin: Der Film | Deutschland 2019 | Comedy, Episodenfilm, Metropolitan Movie | Mariejosephin Schneider | 12

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 ...

The Perfect Candidate

The Perfect Candidate | Saudi-Arabien/Deutschland 2019 | Comedy, Drama | Haifaa Al-Mansour | oA

Young Saudi Arabian doctor Maryam runs for local office by accident...

Rifkin's Festtival

Rifkin's Festtival | USA/Spanien/Italien 2020 | Comedy, Romance Films | Woody Allen

Married couple Rifkin from New York travel to Europe for a film festival. She begins to have an affair, he escapes into daydreams in the style of some key scenes of European film classics.

Saint Narcisse

Saint Narcisse | Kanada 2020 | Drama | Bruce LaBruce | 16

22 year old Dominique isn‘t attracted to anyone as much as he‘s attracted to himself. When he discovers that he has a twin who grew up in a monastery, a wild melodrama is set into motion.

Schönheit und Vergänglichkeit

Schönheit und Vergänglichkeit | Deutschland 2019 | Documentary, Porträt | Annekatrin Hendel | 6

Annekathrin Hendel portrays the East Berlin bouncer and photographer Sven Marquardt and his circle of friends.

Sa jävla easy going

Så jävla easy going | Schweden/Norwegen 2022 | Drama | Christoffer Sandler | 12

When Joana has to get by without her ADHS pills due to the accumulation of unpaid bills, the teen‘s world spins faster than it already does – and just then she notices the new girl in school.

Stage Mother

Kanada 2020 | Drama, Comedy | Thom Fitzgerald | 12

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

Sundown

Mexiko/Frankreich/Schweden 2021 | Drama | Michel Franco

Neil (Tim Roth) and Alice (Charlotte Gainsbourg) find out about a death in the family while on their luxury vacation in Acapulco. Alice flies back to England, but Neil shirks from returning.

Synonymes

Synonymes | Frankreich, Israel, Deutschland 2019 | Drama | Nadav Lapid | 12

Cryptic, associative, fast-paced, physical, and generally extreme: young Israeli Yoav (Tom Mercier) tries to shed his cultural identity and become French in Paris. The 2019 Golden Bear winner.

Keep An Eye Out

Au poste! | Frankreich 2018 | Comedy | Quentin Dupieux | 12

KEEP AN EYE OUT tells a curious tale of a nightly episode at a police station in a curious way, where a very arduous investigation gets more absurd by the minute, so to speak.

Between Two Worlds

Ouistreham | Frankreich 2021 | Drama | Emmanuel Carrère

Writer Marianne (a brilliant Juliette Binoche) takes a job as a cleaner in the coastal town of Caen to find out more about working-class life.

Yuli

Spanien/Großbritannien 2018 | Biography, Drama, Music Films | Iciar Bollain | 6

Carlos “Yuli“ Acosta was the first internationally successful ballet dancer to come from economic crisis-ridden Cuba in the 90s. But in his heart of hearts he‘s always been a boy who never wanted to dance professionally and just wanted to be a ...