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08.05.2025

Dreams

Release Date 08.05.2025 DREAMS is a very simple film, on one hand. On the other hand, DREAM is a very complex film that meditates on how texts, the reality that they describe, and the people who write and receive them, are connected to each other. read more

Islands

Release Date 08.05.2025 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.“ read more

No Beast. So Fierce

Release Date 08.05.2025 Burgan Qurbanis’ new film NO BEAST SO FIERCE is based on the Shakespeare drama RICHARD III, however Richard becomes Rashida here, a woman who is part of the milieu of the Arab clans. read more

When The Light Breaks

Release Date 08.05.2025 Una loves her classmate Diddi, who is officially in a long-distance relationship with Klara. When Diddi dies in an accident, she can’t tell anyone about her grief. read more

Last Breath

Release Date 08.05.2025 LAST BREATH is an excellent thriller that shows the process of the dangerous work on and under the North Sea so precisely that every action seems clear and plausible. read more

01.05.2025

The Other Way Around

Release Date 01.05.2025 Filmmaker Ale and actor Alex want to separate amicably and celebrate with a big party at the end of the summer. read more

Einfach machen! She Punks von 1977 bis heute

Release Date 01.05.2025 Musicians of female punk bands Östro 430, Kleenex, Mania D, and Malaria! talk about the beginnings and endings of their careers. read more

The Master and Margarita

Release Date 01.05.2025 The devil himself visits Soviet Moscow. Mochael Lockshin has made a maximally opulent film adaptation of Michail Bulgakow’s cult novel in a mixture of satire and fantasy. read more

24.04.2025

The Penguin Lessons

Release Date 24.04.2025 In 1976, Brit Tom Michell takes a job as an English teacher in Argentina. At one point, a penguin comes to him and, in the midst of a military coup, becomes the school's mediator and confidant. read more

Toxic

Release Date 24.04.2025 The portrait of two teen girls caught between precarious living conditions and exploitative fashion ideals is a fast-paced and partially drastically depicted toxic spiral of self-exploitation and eating disorders. read more

17.04.2025

Ernest Cole – Lost and Found

Release Date 17.04.2025 Ernest Cole photographed, often secretly and at considerable risk, everyday life in apartheid South Africa. read more

Was Marielle weiss – What Marielle Knows

Release Date 17.04.2025 After getting slapped, Marielle develops telepathic abilities and sees everything that her parents do. This is a problem. read more

Warfare

Release Date 17.04.2025 Alex Garland’s military chamber play about a special unit that is ambushed is based on the personal memories of co-director Ray Mendoza during the second US invasion of Iraq. read more

10.04.2025

The Girl From Tomorrow

Release Date 10.04.2025 In the 1960s, Lia Crimi is kidnapped and raped by her suitor Lorenzo, a member of the village mafia gang. She takes him to court in a historic case. read more