Akiko, der fliegende Affe

Deutschland 2024 | Comedy | Veit Helmer

The adult monkey is played by a human in costume, the animated animals of the city speak with a Berlin dialect and the star cast passionately overacts.

An den Rändern der Welt

Deutschland 2018 | Documentary | Thomas Tielsch | oA

Photographer Markus Mauthe and his film team visited 10 indigenous tribes in South Sudan, Ethiopia, the Amazon, and the sea nomads living on the water in Borneo.

Bitter Gold – Oro amargo

Oro amargo | Deutschland/Uruguay/Chile/Mexiko 2024 | Drama | Juan Francisco Olea | 12

Pacifico has just begun to show his daughter Carola the gold vein in a disused copper mine when a worker threatens her. In the fight, Pacifico is injured, and his daughter is forced to replace him as foreman. A neo-Western from Uruguay.

The Bitter Taste – The Taste of Prey

The Bitter Taste – The Taste of Prey | Deutschland 2024 | Horror | Guido Tölke | 18

The successful pentathlete Marcia, whose career is on hold due to a leg injury, comes across a mysterious estate during a hunting trip and gets into trouble with an undead countess.

Caught Stealing

USA 2025 | Action, Thriller, Crime Drama, Comedy | Darren Aronofsky

Coen-like black crime comedy. Aronofsky's least cerebral but rather visceral (on several levels) film in a while.

Und dann passiert das Leben

Und dann passiert das Leben | Deutschland 2025 | Drama | Neele Leana Vollmar

Engelke and Tukur act as if they had actually lived together for 40 years in the house that seems to be out of time, where neither technical innovations nor modern furniture have a place.

Evil Does Not Exist

Aku wa sonzai shinai | Japan 2023 | Drama | Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Interview

Hamaguchi takes his time for every shot, every piece of dialogue, and every little activity of the characters.

Ezra

Ezra | USA 2023 | Drama, Comedy | Tony Goldwyn

When his autistic son Ezra is transferred to a special school after an accident, comedian Max kidnaps the boy and goes on a road trip to LA with him.

The First Slam Dunk

Japan 2022 | Animation, Comedy, Sportfilm | Takehiko Inoue

After the death of his older brother, Ryota Miyagi becomes point guard of his basketball team of Shohoku High School. THE FIRST SLAM DUNK by Takehiko Inoue is a spin-off of his manga “Slam Dunk.“

Following

Großbritannien 1998 | Crime Drama | Christopher Nolan | 16

Neo-noir debut film by Christopher Nolan (OPPENHEIMER).

For the Time Being

For the Time Being | Deutschland 2024 | Documentary | Nele Dehnenkamp

FOR THE TIME BEING sheds light on the private life of a confident woman who is fighting for the release of her husband from prison.

Freelance

USA 2023 | Action, Comedy | Pierre Morel | 12

Ex special forces soldier Mason Pettis is meant to accompany journalist Claire Wellington in an interview with his dictator in a fictional Latin American country.

Fremont

USA 2023 | Drama, Comedy | Babak Jalali

Young Afghan Donya fled to Fremont in northern California, where she spends her days between a fortune cookie factory, weekly therapy sessions, and the loneliness in her small apartment.

The Gate – Amerikas verlorene Krieger

The Gate | Deutschland 2023 | Documentary | Jasmin Herold, Michael David Beamish | 12

THE GATE documents the everyday lives of four men whose different destinies are linked by the American military and the Dugway Proving Ground weapons test site in Utah.

Perlimps

Perlimps | Brasilien 2022 | Animation, Children's Film, Adventure | Alê Abreu | 6

I a hauntingly beautiful forest the orange wolf Claé and the blue bear Bruô are looking for their evasive rulers: the perlimps.

A l'ancienne

À l'ancienne | Frankreich 2024 | Comedy | Hervé Mimran

On an island in Brittany, someone has hit the jackpot. When slyboots Jean-Jean and Henri discover that the winner died immediately after the drawing, they hatch a plan to cash in the lottery ticket with the help of the entire village.

Hevimpi reissu

Hevimpi reissu | Finnland 2024 | Comedy, Roadmovie | Juuso Laatio, Jukka Vidgren

On their road trip, clearly inspired by the Blues Brothers, that’s full of references to metal subculture, the four band members rush from scene to scene and from silly gags to intelligent meta-criticism.

Roofman

Roofman | USA 2025 | Crime Drama, Drama | Derek Cianfrance

Channing Tatum portrays burglar Jeffrey Manchester as likable, charming, and chaotic as he is described by real witnesses.

Holy Shit: Mit SCH#!$E die Welt retten – Holy Shit: Can Poop Save the World?

Holy Shit: Mit SCH#!$E die Welt retten – Holy Shit: Can Poop Save the World? | Deutschland/Schweiz 2023 | Documentary | Ruben Abruña | oA

Starting at Chicago’s largest treatment plant followed by dry toilet projects in Uganda and models of new constructions in Geneva and Germany: In HOLY SHIT, people introduce their projects centering the processing of human feces.

How to Be Normal und der Versuch, sich selbst zu verstehen – How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World

How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World | Österreich 2025 | Drama | Florian Pochlatko | Interview

Each of the rapidly successive shots are imbued with loving details and pop-cultural references, and the image format changes with every mental leap of the protagonist.

Is Anybody There?

Großbritannien 2008 | Drama | John Crowley | 6

Edward grows up in the mid 80s in a retirement home run by his parents. One day, former magician Clarence (Michael Caine) moves in.

Islands

Deutschland 2025 | Drama, Thriller | Jan-Ole Gerster | Interview

Under a burning sun, Jan-Ole Gerster mixes the dreamy, seemingly aimless wandering of his debut novel OH BOY with the holiday atmosphere and biting social criticism of “The White Lotus.“

Kein Land für Niemand

Kein Land für Niemand | Deutschland 2025 | Documentary | Maik Lüdemann, Max Ahrens | 12

KEIN LAND FÜR NIEMAND offers an overview of the developments of migration politics in the past decade which feels like a kick in the stomach.

Way Home

Vejen hjem | Dänemark 2024 | Drama, Thriller | Charlotte Sieling

Adam, the son of Danish ex-soldier Christian, has disappeared without a trace to join the jihadist militia. Christian sets out to find him.

Kreator: Dystopie und Hoffnung

Kreator: Dystopie und Hoffnung | Deutschland 2025 | Documentary, Music Films | Cordula Kablitz-Post

Kreator, founded in 1982, is the most successful German thrash metal band. Filmmaker Cordula Kablitz-Post followed the band for year.

Kurs Südwest – Das Abenteuer meines Lebens

Deutschland 2023 | Documentary | Lukas Borchers

Empty Nets

Empty Nets | Deutschland/Iran 2023 | Drama | Behrooz Karamizade | 12

Young Iranian Amir has a secret relationship with Narges, a young woman from the upper class. In order to afford the dowry and protect Narges from a forced marriage, he gets a job at a fishery and gets involved in illegal fishing and caviar ...

Lupin The Third: The Castle of Cagliostro

Rupan sansai: Kariosutoro no shiro | J 1979 | Animation | Hayao Miyazaki

La nouvelle femme

La nouvelle femme | Frankreich/Italien 2023 | Drama, Biography | Léa Todorov

Lili d’Alengy, a French courtesan, takes her daugher to Rome to the “Curative Education Institute.“ Maria Montessori is the co-director.

Bitten

La Morsure | Frankreich 2023 | Drama | Romain des Saint-Blanquat

The debut of Romain de Saint-Blanquat is a dreamy look into the mind of an outsider in the 1960s who appears dark both internally and externally.

The Missile

Ohjus | Finnland/Estland 2024 | Tragicomedy | Miia Tervo

It is 1984. A rocket of unknown origin flies over a Lapland village and causes political and military turmoil. There is also a crisis in Nina's family.

Cocorico

Cocorico | Frankreich 2024 | Comedy | Julien Hervé | 12

Director Julien Hervé tries to tie the success of MONSIEUR CLAUDE to OH LA LA. This time a DNA test causes an upheaval in two French families.

Pfau – Bin ich echt?

Österreich/Deutschland 2024 | Tragicomedy | Bernhard Wenger | 12

In Bernhard Wenger’s debut, intelligently pointed dialogues meet passionately acted physical comedy.

A Real Pain

USA/Polen 2024 | Comedy, Drama | Jesse Eisenberg | 12

David and Benji Kaplan are cousins who couldn’t be more different. After their grandmother dies, they embark on an ancestral journey to Poland.

Retribution

USA 2023 | Action, Thriller, Crime Drama | Nimród Antal

Matt (Liam Neeson) was meant to quickly drive his children to school, but a morning marital dispute isn‘t his biggest worry: someone put a bomb under his seat.

Rickerl

Rickerl | Deutschland/Österreich 2023 | Tragicomedy, Music Films | Adrian Goiginger | 12

Erich “Rickerl“ Bohacek ekes out a living as a musician in Vienna and also tries to be a good father. Adrian Goiginger’s first comedy RICKERL – MUSIK IS HÖCHSTENS A HOBBY positively reeks of beer cans, schnaps, and cigarettes.

Rock'n'Roll Ringo

Rock'n'Roll Ringo | Deutschland 2024 | Drama, Sportfilm | Dominik Galizia | 16

ROCK ‘N’ ROLL RINGO stumbles through its plot like Ringo stumbles through his life. But that's perfectly fine, because the film's focus is on quirky characters and the situations that arise from the encounters with them.

Gecenin Kiyisi: Edge of Night

Gecenin Kıyısı | Deutschland/Türkei 2024 | Drama | Türker Süer

Sinan, a young lieutenant in the Turkish army, is supposed to hand over his brother Kenan to a military court.

Ghost Trail

Les fantômes | Frankreich 2024 | Drama, Thriller | Jonathan Millet

While Hamid waits in Strasbourg for his asylum application to be processed, he searches for the refugee leaders of the Syrian dictatorship with a shadow organization that only meets via voice chat in a video game.

Schock

Deutschland 2023 | Crime, Drama | Daniel Rakete Siegel, Denis Moschitto

Bruno is a doctor, but he has lost his license. Now he helps all of the people who can’t go to the hospital in the Cologne underworld. A lawyer hires him to treat the head of a mafia family with cancer.

Lucky Winners

Heureux gagnants | Frankreich 2024 | Comedy | Romain Choay, Maxime Govare

Would winning the lottery really be the blessing that one hopes for when playing? LUCKY WINNERS gives several darkly humorous answers to this question.

Soldaten des Lichts

Deutschland 2025 | Documentary | Julian Vogel, Johannes Büttner

The immense tension in the documentary about the internet guru and far right “Dr. Raw” arises solely from the careful selection of scenes and the close proximity to the subjects.

Sonnenplätze

Deutschland 2024 | Drama | Aaron Arens

Family rifts arise in the family holiday home on Lanzarote.

Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis

Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis | Großbritannien 2022 | Documentary | Anton Corbijn

SQUARING THE CIRCLE is about the legendary design agency Hipgnosis that worked with Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, and 10cc.

Rumours

Rumours | Kanada/Deutschland 2024 | Comedy | Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin

While Guy Maddin has perfected the colorful B movie visuals, the dry screenplay is uninspired and lacking in bite.

Total Trust

Niederlande/Deutschland 2023 | Documentary | Jialing Zhang

Cameras directed at private homes installed by the state, the abuse of Covid-19 apps and social media, a social credit system, imprisonment and torture. TOTAL TRUST uses individual fates to paint a picture of omnipresent surveillence in China.

Chojin densetsu Urotsukidoji

Chôjin densetsu Urotsukidôji | Japan 1989 | Animation, Action, Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction | Hideki Takayama

UROTSUKIDOJI is one of the reasons why Japanese animation was primarily known as being overly sexual and violent in the Western world in the 90s.

William Tell

William Tell | Großbritannien/Italien/Schweiz/USA 2024 | Action, Historical Film, War Film | Nick Hamm | 16

Nick Hamm’s Schiller adaptation is primarily visually appealing, with clothes and hair looking quite worn and large battle choreographies being orchestrated, but the content is rather shallow.