achtung berlin – new berlin film award

Bags of Time

Bags of Time | Deutschland 1998 | , Drama | Matl Findel

Antons Fest

Deutschland 2013 | Drama | John Kolya Reichart | 12

Anton has invited his family for a party. Most of them can't really stand each other and have deep conflicts burried somewhere in their past. While tension rises, the only one that's missing is Anton himself.

Back to Nothing

Back to Nothing | Deutschland 2015 | Drama | Miron Zownir

A group of freaks subsist as city nomads in an uncontrolled ghetto, doomed for demolition. Kongo, Strasser, Bobby and Jackie are heading out – back to nothing.

Berlin-Hausvogteiplatz

Deutschland 1994 | Dora Heinze

Bist du Beatles oder Stones? – Neuköllner Jungs

D 2016 | Documentary | Wolfgang Ettlich

Blank

Blank | Deutschland 2015 | Documentary | Sarah Blaßkiewitz

Mila and Charly are struggling with life. They go on a roadtrip to escape their problems but this time they realize there is only one way out.

Deckname Pirat

Deutschland 2013 | Documentary | Eric Asch

Was my father a spy? This question is the starting point for one son's journey through his father's past.

Three Finns

Drei Finnen | Deutschland 2013 | Semi-documentary Film | Nicolai Borger

Jana and Yannick are a young married couple living on the outskirts of Berlin. Jana works in the city, so Yannick is alone for most of the week. Both are happy with this arrangement – until Marie appears...

Foto: Ostkreuz

Deutschland 2015 | Documentary | Maik Reichert

In 1990, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, seven photographers from East Germany founded OSTKREUZ, today one of the most important photo agencies in Germany. The documentary tells the photographers' story with and without the Wall.

Ihr und eure Welt

Deutschland 2014 | Drama | Janin Halisch

At her cousin’s birthday Romy realises that she is no longer the person she pretended to be.

Jetzt ist die Sonne weg

Deutschland 2016 | Drama | Tobias Lenel

Kostya and Beatrice have an argument in the middle of the night. Beatrice leaves Kostya and the baby behind. As the day goes by she reinvents herself as an architect, psychologist, actress and screenwriter. At one point Kostya loses the child. All ...

Korridor Nr. 50

Deutschland 2015 | Drama, Comedy | Evy Schubert

A surreal and fantastic portrait of eight people who have just one thing in common: their small apartments are located on the same corridor of some simple building at the outskirts of some bigger, undefined city.

Kosmonautensehnsucht

Deutschland 2015 | Drama | Catharina Göldner

The stage manager Miriam is waiting for the (female)astronaut she is in love with to return to earth and to spend the summer with her. Finally, she is fed up with waiting and goes to see an astrologist.

Kurzfilmprogramm I

Short-film Programme

A selection of short films

Lakoniker

Deutschland 2015 | Nina Hellmuth

Fragments of a family. Lakoniker tells the story of how a family cries out and is subdued. What once came together falls apart unchecked. Lives become idle and what remains is a longing to be freed from the trepidation of everyday life...

Looping

Deutschland 2016 | Drama | Leonie Krippendorff | 16

Three women of three different generations meet each other in a psychiatric clinic during very relevant points in their lives. A strong connection full of energy, honesty and eroticism arises between them.

Lost in the Living

Irland 2015 | Drama | Robert Manson

Oisín, a musician from Dublin, travels to Berlin with his band. He leaves behind the weight of losing his mother and anger towards his absent father. After freaking out on stage, he meets Sabine, a pretty young Berliner.

Mandy – Das Sozialdrama

D 2017 | Drama, Comedy | Aaron Craemer

Meet Me in Montenegro

Deutschland 2014 | Drama, Comedy, Love Stories | Alex Holdridge, Linnea Saasen

In this globe-trotting, funny romance two ex-lovers, Lina a Norwegian dancer and Anderson an American filmmaker, meet by chance during a visit to Berlin, and their affair is rekindled in spite of the fact that they are both moving to opposite ends ...

Miete essen Seele auf

Deutschland 2016 | Documentary | Angelika Levi

During two years, RENT EATS THE SOUL documents the people´s protests around the Kottbusser Tor. The film links the housing problems to the history of migration and emphasizes a connection between racism and urban displacement.

Mit Fantasie gegen den Mangel – Leben im Schatten der Planwirtschaft

Mit Fantasie gegen den Mangel – Leben im Schatten der Planwirtschaft | Deutschland 2008 | Documentary | Holly Tischman, Sabine Michel

Modell Bianka

DDR 1951 | Comedy | Richard Groschopp

Der Modespiegel

Deutschland 1954/55 | Peter Pewas

Mutti – Punkrock Was My First Love

Deutschland 2015 | Biography, Documentary | Mathias Söhn

A documentary about music, West-Berlin and Mutti, who keeps good live music going with an incredible drive and a heart that beats left.

My Buddha Is Punk

Deutschland 2015 | Documentary, Music Films | Andreas Hartmann

Young Burmese punk Kyaw Kyaw pursues the dream of seeing the punk scene take off in Myanmar. He travels across the country to promote his own philosophy: A symbiosis of Buddhism and punk that rejects religious dictates and political doctrine.

Nachspielzeit

Deutschland 2014 | Drama | Andreas Pieper

Cem grew up in Berlin-Neukölln and defends his neighborhood against Nazis and speculators. When he gets into it with xenophobic Roman during a football match, Cem swears revenge - and the duel between the two escalates.

Nah am Wasser

Deutschland 1994 | Drama, Love-story | Marc Ottiker

Napps – Memoire of an Invisible Man

Deutschland 2014 | Biography, Documentary | Tami Liberman

Mr. X is a West-­African asylum seeker living in Berlin without a work permit. As his exposure might put him in danger, he is the one holding the camera instead of appearing in front of it.

Nomaden

Nomaden | Deutschland 2015 | Drama | Viktor Brim

A young couple’s journey. They strand at an intersection without any prospect of moving any further. In search of a campsite they end up on a far-off point of the periphery. At dusk the place itself turns into an obscure observer, who exerts ...

Oh yeah. Berlin. Macher aus der Berliner Subkultur

Deutschland 2015 | Documentary | art bumiller

OH YEAH. BERLIN. portrays artists inside of the Berlin alternative and club scene. These folks characterize and reflect the peculiar but attracting lifestyle. An honest Berlin film, personal and real, partly filmed in places where no camera was ...

Oregon Pine

Deutschland 2016 | Drama | Nicolai Max Hahn

Wood engineer RICHARD LÜDERS (Hannes Wegener) lives a life like a construction. Highly engaged in his career his private life consists of nothing but short purely sexual affairs.

Ostkreuz

Deutschland 1991 | Drama | Michael Klier

Pikanterie

Deutschland 1950 | Love Stories, Literary Film Adaptations | Alfred Braun | 18

Rebecca

Rebecca | Deutschland 2014 | Drama | Anna F. Kohlschütter

Rebecca. Between loss and the search for closeness, between the sofa and the big city. Restless until she can finally sleep again.

Schwarzer Panther

D, CH 2013 | Drama | Samuel Perriard

Coping with the death of their parents, Emilie and Jakob meet again after years to sell the cottage in the alps they have inherited. Soon tension starts to rise and the deep bond between the two siblings begins to reform.

Sin & Illy Still Alive

Deutschland/Österreich 2014 | Drama, Family Film, Crime Drama | Maria Hengge

Sin and Illy have a plan: on a Greek island they want to get 'clean' on their own. But is it possible at all to go the way out of heroin addiction together?

So schön wie du

Deutschland 2014 | Drama, Love Stories | Franziska Pflaum

Tina and Marlene. A friendship between two girls in the middle of nowhere in Brandenburg, East Germany. Relentless they head for the night to fulfil their longing for intimacy and recognition.

Somos Cuba

Deutschland 2014 | Documentary | Annett Ilijev

An intimate insight into the lives of three families in a poor neighborhood of Havana, filmed by casual worker Andres over a period of seven years. A moving tribute to the ingenuity of Havana’s underdogs on the eve of change in Cuba.

Sperrmüll

DDR 1990 | Documentary | Helke Misselwitz

Strassenkaiser

Strassenkaiser | D 2017 | Drama, Comedy | Florian Peters

Straßensamurai

Deutschland 2015 | Biography, Documentary | Samer Halabi Cabezón

An insider's view on Berlin's legendary night­life: STREET SAMURAI portrays five bouncers who follow a codex similar to that of the samurai: loyalty towards their employers and colleagues, and respect for their opponents.

Trouble

Trouble | Deutschland 1993 | Musical | Penelope Buitenhuis

Vergrabene Stimmen

Deutschland 2014 | Drama | Numan Acar

Part gangster film, part social drama, VERGRABENE STIMMEN shows the dark parallel world of Kreuzberg away from the flow of tourists.

Viertelmonat

Deutschland 2014 | Katharina Antonia Popov

A melancholy comedy about friendship, the quest for happiness, loneliness, and the rich and complicated reality.

Willkommen im Club

Willkommen im Club | Deutschland 2013 | Tragicomedy | Andreas Schimmelbusch

In a hotel in the middle of the night, the suicidal Kate falls in love with the concierge. As their relationship evolves, a journey through dreamlike situations and poetic dialogues begins.