Die Mucklas ... und wie sie zu Pettersson und Findus kamen

Deutschland, Luxemburg 2019 | Children's Film | R: Ali Samadi Ahadi, Markus Dietrich

Aftersun

USA/Großbritannien 2022 | Drama | R: Charlotte Wells

Sophie remembers her trip to Turkey with her father Calum 20 years ago by watching old video footage and traces chasms that she didn‘t perceive as a child.

Alle reden übers Wetter: Talking About the Weather

(Alle reden übers Wetter: Talking About the Weather) | Deutschland 2022 | Comedy, Drama | R: Annika Pinske

Clara, a philosophy PhD student and divorcee from a working-class family in Brandenburg, is travelling to a family celebration with her daughter. A film about the bad conscience of an academic who is from a non-academic background.

Another Round

(Druk) | Dänemark 2020 | Drama | R: Thomas Vinterberg | FSK: 12 | Interview

Male friendship and an obsession: Martin and his friends test the Norwegian philosopher Finn Skårderud‘s theory. According to him, people with half a mil of alcohol in their blood are able to perform at the peak of their mental ability.

3D: Antarctica

(Antarctica) | GB 2020 | Documentary | R: Fredi Devas

Lars von Triers Antichrist

(Lars von Triers Antichrist) | DK 2009 | Psychodrama | R: Lars von Trier | FSK: 18

Armageddon Time

(Armageddon Time) | USA 2022 | Drama | R: James Gray

ARMAGEDDON TIME tells a coming-of-age story set in the 1980s in Queens, New York with a keen sense for the nuances and fractures. 12 year old Paul is supposed to pursue a successful career at any cost, but he prefers to dream about a life as an ...

Liebe, D-Mark und Tod - Ask, Mark ve Ölüm

(Ask, Mark ve Ölüm) | Deutschland 2022 | Documentary | R: Cem Kaya | FSK: 12

Director Cem Kaya‘s documentary about the music production of Turkish-Germans from the 1950s to the present is a fast-paced ride through more than half a century of Turkish-German history.

3D: Avatar 2: The Way of the Water

(Avatar 2: The Way of the Water) | USA 2022 | Animation, Fantasy | R: James Cameron

Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER tells the story of further adventures of the Sully family, treading pretty much the same ground as the first film, just with better water animation.

Babylon

(Babylon) | USA 2022 | Drama | R: Damien Chazelle | FSK: 12

Period comedy/drama about a number of people caught in the chaos of Hollywood moving from silent to sound film. Some rise, some fall but most of them party.

Belle et Sebastien: Nouvelle generation

(Belle et Sébastien : Nouvelle génération) | Frankreich 2021 | Adventure, Geschichte einer Freundschaft, Tierfilm | R: Pierre Coré

Blueback

(Blueback) | Australien 2022 | Drama, Family Film | R: Robert Connolly

A tale of Abby who fell in love with the sea when she was a young girl and grew up wanting to protect it. But at the same time she is strugling to get through to her mother who is increasingly affected by dementia.

Bones and All

(Bones and All) | USA 2022 | Drama, Horror, Love Stories | R: Luca Guadagnino

Shy cannibal Maren (Taylor Russell) is searching for her mother and finds vagabond Lee (Timothée Chalamet), a soul mate, along the way,

Breaking the Waves

S 1996 | Drama | R: Lars von Trier | FSK: 16

Caveman

(Caveman) | Deutschland 2021 | Comedy, Theateradaption | R: Laura Lackmann | FSK: 12 | NEW RELEASE

Close

Belgien/Niederlande/Frankreich 2022 | Drama | R: Lukas Dhont | FSK: 12 | NEW RELEASE

Léo and Rémi are best friends as children. But after switching schools and the start of puberty, their friendship is suddenly put into question.

Crash

(Crash) | USA 1996 | Drama, Thriller | R: David Cronenberg | FSK: 16

Adaptation of a Ballard novel about a group who act out fatal car crashes.

Das Hamlet-Syndrom

(Das Hamlet-Syndrom) | Deutschland 2022 | Documentary | R: Elwira Niewra, Piotr Rosolowski

When the war broke out in eastern Ukraine in 2014, five actors had to make a decision: Fight or not? Stay or flee? The film documents rehearsals for a play based on their reflections on that decision.

Der Räuber Hotzenplotz

Deutschland 2022 | Adventure, Children's Film, Literary Film Adaptations | R: Michael Krummenacher | FSK: oA

Der verzauberte Tag

D 1943/1944 | Melodram | R: Peter Pewas

Die drei ??? - Erbe des Drachen

D 2023 | Family Film, Literary Film Adaptations, Mystery | R: Tim Dünschede | NEW RELEASE

Die Legende von Paul und Paula , m. Gästen u. Gespräch

DDR 1973 | Drama | R: Heiner Carow | FSK: 16

The most popular DEFA film. The film is a portrayal of everyday life in East Berlin. Paula is a single mother who works in a supermarket. She meets Paul and they fall in love. But Paul is married and can't bring himself to go through with a divorce. ...

Die Schule der magischen Tiere: Voller Löcher!

(Die Schule der magischen Tiere: Voller Löcher!) | Deutschland 2022 | Fantasy, Family Film | R: Sven Unterwaldt Jr. | FSK: oA

Die stillen Trabanten - Dark Satellites

(Die stillen Trabanten – Dark Satellites) | Deutschland 2022 | Drama | R: Thomas Stuber

The third collaboration between author Clemens Meyer and director Thomas Stuber is a film about their hometown Leipzig, about the margins of the boomtown, the losers of the reunification, who just keep going.

3D: Walking with Dinosaurs

(Walking with Dinosaurs) | GB/USA/AUS 2013 | Animation | R: Barry Cook, Neil Nightingale | FSK: 6

Dogville

DK/S/F/N 2003 | Drama | R: Lars von Trier | FSK: 12

E.T.: The Extraterrestrial

(E.T.: The Extraterrestrial) | USA 1982/2002 | Fantasy | R: Steven Spielberg | FSK: 6

Ennio

(Ennio) | Italien 2020 | Documentary, Biography | R: Giuseppe Tornatore

In his documentary, Giuseppe Tornatore works out what made Ennio Morricone‘s music so powerful using a smart composition of talking heads and film scenes.

EO

Polen 2022 | Drama | R: Jerzy Skolimowski

Jerzy Skolimowski‘s EO is a homage to Bresson‘s AU HASARD BALTHASAR: donkey EO takes an apocalyptic journey across a world that has been turned into hell by humans.

Escape from New York

(Escape From New York) | USA 1981 | Action, Thriller, Crime Drama, Science Fiction | R: John Carpenter | FSK: 16

Everything Everywhere All at Once

(Everything Everywhere All at Once) | USA 2022 | Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure | R: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

Considering all of its absurd ideas, butt plug jokes, martial arts sequences, wobbly eyes and parallel universes, EEAAO is a very moving and charming family film.

Five Fingers for Marseilles

(Five Fingers for Marseilles) | Südafrika 2017 | Drama, Thriller, Western | R: Michael Matthews | FSK: 12

Good meets evil in this atmospheric Western set in modern-day South Africa.

Flickering Lights

(Blinkende Lygter) | DK 2000 | Comedy | R: Anders Thomas Jensen | FSK: 12

Pinocchio

(Pinocchio) | USA/MEX/F 2022 | Animation, Family Film, Musical | R: Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song

(Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song) | USA 2021 | Documentary, Music Films | R: Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine

The documentary follows the story behind what is probably Leonard Cohen‘s most well-known song.

Heilige Spiele - Eine Filmwanderung zu Johann Sebastian Bach

D 2022 | Documentary | R: Rüdiger Sünner

Holy Spider

Dänemark/ Deutschland/ Frankreich/ Schweden 2022 | Drama, Crime | R: Ali Abbasi | Interview

HOLY SPIDER blurs the boundaries between social drama and thriller. In the pilgrimage site Mashhad, deeply religious serial killer Saeed is killing prostitutes in order to “purify“ the city.

Igor Levit. No Fear

Deutschland 2021 | Documentary | R: Regina Schilling | FSK: oA

A beautiful portrait of the famous and politically engaged pianist that gets cautiously close to the subject and first and foremost invites viewers to listen.

Il buco

(Il buco) | Italien/Frankreich/Deutschland 2021 | Drama | R: Michelangelo Frammartino

IL BUCO can be seen as both an essay film about the modern demystification of the world and as a portrait of a landscape in which the cave plays the main role.

I mysi patri do nebe: Even Mice Belong in Heaven

(I mysi patri do nebe: Even Mice Belong in Heaven) | F/CZ/PL/SK 2021 | Animation, Family Film | R: Jan Bubenicek, Denisa Grimmova | FSK: 6

In einem Land, das es nicht mehr gibt

Deutschland 2022 | Drama, Historical Film | R: Aelrun Goette

The late 80s in the GDR: Suzie is photographed on the street and discovered as a model. Aelrun Goette‘s autofictional film offers a refreshingly authentic view of GDR‘s fashion scene that goes beyond GDR nostalgia.

In from the Side

(In From The Side) | Großbritannien 2022 | Drama | R: Matt Carter

Two rugby players start an affair. When it comes to light, this revelation also threatens their sports careers.

Inu-Oh

Japan/China 2021 | Animation | R: Masaaki Yuasa | FSK: 16

The monstrous Inu-oh was deformed in the womb as the result of a curse, Tomona the monk goes blind due to a curse. Together they become rock superstars, 600 years ago, by singing about stories of the restless dead.

Kalle Kosmonaut

Deutschland 2022 | Documentary | R: Tine Kugler, Günther Kurth | NEW RELEASE

The long-term documentary KALLE KOSMONAUT about a childhood in East Berlin in the 2010s follows young Pascal, nicknamed Kalle, over 10 years.

Katzenjammer Kauderwelsch - A Comic-Pioneer Story

(Katzenjammer Kauderwelsch – A Comic-Pioneer Story) | D 2019 | Documentary | R: Martina Fluck

Kleine große Kämpfer , m. Gespräch

D 2019 | Documentary, Sportfilm | R: Detlef Bothe

Kollektivet

(Kollektivet) | Dänemark/Niederlande/Schweden 2015 | Drama | R: Thomas Vinterberg | FSK: 12 | Interview

When Erik inherits a gigantic mansion his wife Anna proposes to found a commune. Her dream of a different life turns bitter when Erik falls in love with one of his students and even has her move in with them.

Le otto montagne

(Le otto montagne) | Italien/Belgien 2022 | Drama | R: Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch

Over decades, two friends cross paths, lose touch and find each other again in a small mountain village in the Italian Aosta Valley.

Legacy, notre heritage

(Legacy, notre heritage) | F 2021 | Documentary | R: Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Lemon And Poppyseed Cake

(Pan de limón con semillas de amapola) | Spanien/Luxemburg 2021 | Drama | R: Benito Zambrano

Les passagers de la nuit: The Passengers of the Night

(Les passagers de la nuit) | Frankreich 2022 | Drama | R: Mikhaël Hers | FSK: 12

Director Mikhaël Hers integrated many ruptures in the story of a young woman who is left by her husband, gets a job at a late night radio show and takes in a young homeless person.

Lonesome

Australien 2022 | Drama, Love Stories | R: Craig Boreham

Casey takes in all he can of Sidney's gay nightlife. But when he meets Tib and feels a deep emotional bond, worries and insecurities make themself heard.

Mamma Mu hittar hem

(Mamma Mu hittar hem) | Schweden 2022 | Animation, Family Film | R: Christian Ryltenius Tomas Tivemark | FSK: oA

Maria Into Life

(Maria rêve) | Frankreich 2022 | Romance Films, Comedy | R: Lauriane Escaffre, Yvonnick Muller | FSK: 6

After the old lady who Maria cleaned for dies, Maria finds a cleaning job and new perspectives at the renowned Parisian Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Melancholia

(Melancholia) | DK/S/F 2011 | Drama, Science Fiction | R: Lars von Trier | FSK: 12

Menschen am Kanal

D 1999 | Short-film | R: Bernhard Sallmann

Midwives

Myanmar/Kanada/Deutschland 2022 | Documentary | R: Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing | NEW RELEASE

Midwives accompanies two midwives in a small clinic in western Myanmar - one of the woman is a Buddhist, the other a Muslima.

Mielensäpahoittaja Eskorttia etsimässä

(Mielensäpahoittaja Eskorttia Etsimässä) | Deutschland/Finnland 2022 | Tragicomedy, Roadmovie | R: Mika Kaurismäki

Mika Kaurismäki tells a charming, warm-hearted story of two estranged brothers who reconnect after years of silence on a road trip across Germany.

Mission Ulja Funk

Deutschland/Luxemburg/Polen 2021 | Adventure, Family Film | R: Barbara Kronenberg

12 year old Ulja, the youngest child in a Russian-German family, loves outer space. When she discovers that meteorite VR-24-17-20 is meant to hit Earth in Belarus, she hits the road with her classsmates.

Mittagsstunde

Deutschland 2022 | Drama | R: Lars Jessen | Interview

The adaptation of Dörte Hansen‘s novel MITTAGSSTUNDE is refreshingly laconic. Ingwer Feddersen (Charly Hübner) leaves the academic bohemian world in Kiel and goes to the fictional Northern Low Saxon village Brinkebüll to take care of his ...

David Bowie: Moonage Daydream

(David Bowie: Moonage Daydream) | USA 2022 | Documentary, Music Films | R: Brett Morgen | FSK: 12

Director Brett Morgan (COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK) rooted through the immense archive of video and audio footage of David Bowie and created a unique 140-minute-collage, a trip through the life of the recording artist.

Night of the Living Dead

(Night of the Living Dead) | USA 1968 | Horror | R: George A. Romero | FSK: 16

A handful of people flee from a zombie attack and barricade themselves in an isolated farmhouse. A genre game changer from George Romero, who brought the zombies from the Caribbean into Pittsburgh.

Oskars Kleid

Deutschland 2022 | Comedy, Drama, Family Film | R: Hüseyin Tabak

Petrovy v grippe

(Petrovy v grippe) | Russland 2021 | Drama, Science Fiction | R: Kirill Serebrennikov | FSK: 16 | NEW RELEASE

Petrov, a car mechanic, is plagued by the flu like almost all the residents of the city. He gets medication from a friend that causes him to go into a wild and often tumultous stream of thoughts and memories.

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

(Puss in Boots: The Last Wish) | USA 2022 | Adventure, Animation, Family Film | R: Joel Crawford

Puss in Boots (Banderas) journeys to find the mystical Last Wish and restore the eight of his nine lives that he lost.

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution - Queercore: Liberation Is My Lover , m. Gästen

(Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution – Queercore: Liberation Is My Lover) | Deutschland 2017 | Documentary, Music Films, Sociological Film | R: Yony Leyser | FSK: 16

From 1985 to 1991, Bruce LaBruce and G.B. Jones published the queer punk fanzine “J.D.s“. Since there was no queer punk scene in Toronto, they were inspired by Guy Debord‘s situationist manifesto “The Spectacle and its Society“ and started ...

Vengeance

(Vengeance) | USA 2022 | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller | R: B.J. Novak | FSK: 12

Raquel 1,1

(Raquel 1,1) | BR 2022 | Thriller | R: Mariana Bastos

Rebellinnen - Fotografie. Underground. DDR

(Rebellinnen – Fotografie. Underground. DDR) | Deutschland 2022 | Documentary | R: Pamela Meyer-Arndt | FSK: 12

In REBELLINNEN, Pamela Meyer-Arndt portrays three East German artists who were working and living in the GDR in the 70s: Cornelia Schleime, Gabriele Stötzer and Tina Bara.

Retour a Seoul

(Retour à Séoul) | Belgien/ Deutschland/ Frankreich/ Qatar 2022 | Drama | R: Davy Chou | NEW RELEASE

Freddie was adopted by a French married couple as a baby, but her roots are in South Korea. Following an impulse, she travels to the country of her biological parents.

Rise Up!

(Rise Up!) | Deutschland 2022 | Documentary | R: Marco Heinig, Steffen Maurer, Luise Burchard, Luca Vogel | FSK: 12

RISE UP is a portrait of five activists: Kali Akuno fights against racism in Jackson, Shadia Issel fought against Apartheid in South Africa, Camila Cárcers organizes feminist demonstrations in Chile, Judith Brabant was a part of the citizen‘s ...

Seaside Special

Deutschland 2022 | Documentary | R: Jens Meurer

Director Jens Meurer filmed a very personal and loving film about Europe‘s last “End-of-Pier-Show,“ in the seaside resort Cromer in Norfolk and England during the fatal Brexit decision.

Sharaf

Deutschland/ Frankreich/ Tunesien/ Luxemburg 2021 | Drama | R: Samir Nasr | FSK: 12 | NEW RELEASE

Sharaf, who allegedly committed murder, quickly learns how to assert himself in prison. He skillfully navigates between the fronts, adapts when he has to, and is protective when he can be.

She Said

USA 2022 | Drama | R: Maria Schrader

An adaptation of the eponymous book that journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey wrote about their research into Harvey Weinstein.

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Sonne

Österreich 2022 | Drama | R: Kurdwin Ayub | FSK: 12

Yesmin, Bella, and Nati perform “Losing My Religion“ wearing a hijab. Only one of them, Kurdish Yesmin, wears a headscarf in real life, and she gives the directions. But when Bella posts the video online without asking Yesmin, the act of freedom ...

Storks

(Storks) | USA 2016 | Animation | R: Nicholas Stoller, Doug Sweetland | FSK: oA

Storks bring babies, at least that’s how it was in the past. Today they are parcel deliverers of an online shipping service. Then stork jr. starts the baby machine up again by mistake.

Strange World

USA 2022 | Animation | R: Don Hall

A legendary family of explorer has to band together for a trip to a mysterious and faintly surreal planet.

Ta'igara: An Adventure in the Himalayas

(Ta'igara: An adventure in the Himalayas) | Italien 2022 | Adventure | R: Brando Quilici | FSK: 6

Flammen og citronen: Flame & Citron

(Flammen og citronen: Flame & Citron) | DK/D 2008 | Thriller | R: Ole Christian Madsen | FSK: 12

Tara

Deutschland/Italien 2022 | Documentary, Drama | R: Francesca Bertini, Volker Sattel

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond

(Gekijoban Tensei shitara slime datta ken) | J 2022 | Animation, Fantasy, Literary Film Adaptations | R: Yasuhito Kikuchi | FSK: 12 | NEW RELEASE

The Banshees of Inisherin

Irland/Großbritannien/USA 2022 | Drama | R: Martin McDonagh

Once upon a time, musician Colm quit his friendship with his best friend, Pádraic the farmer. Just like that. An existential folk fairy tale directed by Martin McDonagh.

The Fire Within - A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft , m. Einführung

(The Fire Within – A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft) | USA 2022 | Documentary | R: Werner Herzog

The Hunt - Jagten

(Jagten) | DK 2012 | Drama | R: Thomas Vinterberg | FSK: 12

The Idiots

(Idioterne) | DK 1998 | Drama, Comedy | R: Lars von Trier | FSK: 16

The Inheritance

(Arven) | DK/S 2003 | Drama | R: Per Fly

The Menu

USA 2022 | Satire, Thriller | R: Mark Mylod | FSK: 16

A high-class dining experience on a remote island turns sinister.

The Salvation

Dänemark/ Großbritannien/ Südafrika 2014 | Western | R: Kristian Levring | FSK: 16

The Danish soldier Jon (Mads Mikkelsen) has built a new life for himself in America and sends for his wife and son to join him. When they are murdered on the journey, Jon seeks revenge and starts a vicious circle of violence.

The Son

Großbritannien 2022 | Drama | R: Florian Zeller | NEW RELEASE

After THE FATHER, Florian Zeller has shot another psychological portrait of a family in crisis. This time it‘s about depressed teen Nicholas, whose suffering is causing his divorced parents to despair.

Three Thousand Years of Longing

(Three Thousand Years of Longing) | USA/Australien 2022 | Drama, Fantasy | R: George Miller | Interview

Literary scholar Alithea (Tilda Swinton) researches myths in pop culture. At a conference in Istanbul, she buys an antique bottle and the jinn (Idris Elba) inside it grants her three wishes. But first, the jinn tells her about his life.

Till

(Till) | USA 2022 | Drama | R: Chinonye Chukwu | NEW RELEASE

TILL tells the story of teenager Emmett Till who was lynched by White people in the 1950s and of his mother Mamie Till who spent her whole life being involved in the civil rights movement.

DAAD-Stipendiatin Shireen Seno: To Pick a Flower u.a. Kurzfilme, m. Einführung

RP 2021 | Short-film | R: Shireen Seno

Triangle of Sadness

(Triangle of Sadness) | Schweden 2022 | Drama, Comedy | R: Ruben Östlund | Interview

Ruben Östlunds target in THE SQUARE was the upper class art world and their empty rituals, and this time it‘s the super rich and super beautiful, in short, people with capital. The dystopian social satire in three acts won the Palm D‘Or at ...

Un peuple: A French Revolution

(Un peuple) | Frankreich 2022 | Documentary | R: Emmanuel Gras | FSK: 12

Historian, cinematographer and director Emmanuel Gras portrays numerous activists of the “Gilet jaunes,“ asking them about their motives and accompanying them to discussions and demonstrations.

Unrest

(Unrueh) | Schweiz 2022 | Drama | R: Cyril Schäublin | Interview

UNRUH is about Kropotkin‘s time in the Jura valley, the upheavel of the watchmaking industry in the 19th century and the anarchist self-organization of the watch workers, but also about the capitalist dictate of time, subtle oppression and quiet ...

Was man von hier aus sehen kann

Deutschland 2023 | Drama, Literary Film Adaptations | R: Aron Lehmann

Aron Lehman‘s adaptation of Mariana Leky‘s beststeller largely plays it safe. What is most memorable are the gloriously weird characters of the template.

White Noise

(White Noise) | USA 2022 | Drama, Horror, Comedy | R: Noah Baumbach

Whitney - Can I Be Me

(Whitney – Can I Be Me) | Großbritannien/USA 2017 | Documentary, Music Films | R: Nick Broomfield, Rudi Dolezal | FSK: 6

Whitney Houson’s strong faith and her façade as the well-behaved, white-washed pop darling collided with her turbulent private life. The documentary by experienced pop documentarian Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal presents this contradiction as ...

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody

(Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody) | USA 2022 | Biography, Music Films | R: Kasi Lemmons

Biopic musical charting the career of Whitney Houston.

Will O' The Wisp

(Fogo-Fatuo: Feu follet) | Portugal/Frankreich 2022 | Comedy, Love Stories | R: João Pedro Rodrigues | FSK: 16