9 Leben

Deutschland 2011 | Documentary | Maria Speth

Bis ans Ende der Nacht – Till the End of the Night

Bis ans Ende der Nacht – Till the End of the Night | Deutschland 2023 | Thriller | Christoph Hochhäusler | 12

Twisted neo noir about a former couple who have to pose as lovers in order to get close to a suspected drug dealer. A story of desire and betrayal.

AEIOU – Das schnelle Alphabet der Liebe

AEIOU – Das schnelle Alphabet der Liebe | Deutschland 2022 | Drama | Nicolette Krebitz

60 year old actress Anna takes a job as a language trainer. Her first client is 17 year old Adrian who stole her wallet shortly before. The two quickly develop a playful, flirty dynamic.

Golden Twenties

Deutschland 2019 | Comedy | Sophie Kluge | oA

Ava moves back in with her mother and her new boyfriend after university. Since she can‘t find a job, she interns at a theater where she meets actor Jonas.

Bright Nights

Helle Nächte | Deutschland/Norwegen 2017 | Drama, Roadmovie | Thomas Arslan | oA

After the death of his father, civil engineer Michael travels to Norway with his own son. Their relationship is difficult, they don’t talk a lot, fog hangs over the mountains. A road movie about speechlessness and fatherhood.

Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse

Deutschland 2021 | Documentary | Maria Speth | oA | Interview

A long-term documentary about an extraordinary teacher and his class.

Die Lügen der Sieger

Die Lügen der Sieger | Deutschland 2014 | Thriller | Christoph Hochhäusler | 12

“The Berlin School“ goes genre. Remiscent of Alan Pakula’s classic ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN, DIE LÜGEN DER SIEGER tailgates a journalistic duo who go after a hot cover story and end up discovering a tangled web. The deeper they delve in, the ...

Merkel – Macht der Freiheit

Großbritannien 2022 | Documentary, Biography | Eva Weber

A portrait of the former German chancellor, her rise to power and particular profile which made her so unique.

Mutter

Deutschland 2022 | Semi-documentary Film, Drama | Carolin Schmitz

Anke Engelke plays a woman who is going through her routine, tying flowers together, washing a blouse. Mothers speak about everday motherhood through her. A documentary experiment.

Töchter

Deutschland 2013 | Drama | Maria Speth | 12

Agnes, a 60-year old teacher from a small town near Frankfurt, has come to Berlin to find her missing daughter. Lost in sadness she wanders the streets of the city until she meets Ines who is herself a runaway.

Der traumhafte Weg

Deutschland 2016 | Drama | Angela Schanelec | 12

Summer vacation. A break-up. A spilled wine glass. A shoe. Angela Schanelec lets her images convey life paths, or rather moments. Radical jumps steer the concentration to the almost tactile materiality of her filmic cosmos.

Superegos

Über-Ich und Du | Deutschland/Schweiz/Österreich 2014 | Tragicomedy | Benjamin Heisenberg | 6

Nick Gutlicht is a small-time con man and owes a lot of people money. Curt Ledig is a retired psychology professor and is struggling with an ambiguous Nazi past. Their meeting results in an absurd kind of therapy. A comedy.

What might have been

Was gewesen wäre | Deutschland 2019 | Drama | Florian Koerner von Gustorf | 6

Paul and Astrid want to spend a romantic weekend in Hungary, but when Astrid recognizes one of the other hotel guests as her childhood sweetheart, the couple‘s trip turns into a trip to the past.

Wild

Deutschland 2016 | Drama | Nicolette Krebitz | 16

Annoyed with her boring job, Ania captures a wolf and lives with it in her flat. Her desire is not to domesticate the animal, but to become wild herself.