Documentary, Shorts
2007
14min
16+
What does the night do to people? A documentary with a poetic look at three Berlin night workers and their very own rhythm.
Love & Sex, Queer
2023
1h.30min
"Challenging Identities" - A lesbian non-binary artist's documentary on gender, self-love, and narcissism, honored at Berlin Pornfilmfestival.
Documentary, Independent
2004
1h.20min
The tragic story of an artist who was torn between passion and obsession and died under mysterious circumstances.
2021
53min
In the heart of Berlin, a GDR ruin is given a new lease on life and becomes a center for art, culture and community.
Documentary, Queer
2017
1h.38min
Romy Haag, Rosa von Praunheim, Ades Zabel and Udo Walz talk about their fascination with the dream destination West Berlin.
Drama, Thriller
1h.12min
A 24-hour odyssey through Berlin, full of subtle tension and existential questions.
Drama
1992
1h.32min
After a wedding party, three friends from Hamburg are stranded Berlin. A fast-paced odyssey through the urban wasteland of this once divided city.
Thriller, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
1h.45min
Welcome to the marginal deviation of reality. An inexplicable rift runs through the dystopian Berlin and four outsiders venture to find their friend.
Comedy, Drama
1h.43min
A film in episodes based on the trend blog "Notes of Berlin" that sheds light on the urban madness of everyday life.
1h.29min
To live inclusion and not just to play it is the declared goal of the Theater Rambazamba from Berlin.
Drama, Romance
1h.27min
After a vacation romance, Kenneth and Theres lose sight of each other. But fate brings them together again 30 years later.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thriller
A group of radical climate activists takes matters into their own hands and eliminates suspected climate sinners.
1991
1h.23min
Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a 15-year-old girl tries to find a home in the Berlin of wastelands and ruins.
1989
1h.18min
Either the grass is greener, or the houses are bigger, or the sun is warmer ... anywhere else is better.
Samson and Delilah: The Old Testament story of a man with irrepressible strength - as a silent film, told in a modern way.
Classics, Queer
1994
1h.26min
An intense trip into the gay bondage and leather scene: We meet contestants, bondage film actors, uniform fetishists and long-term slaves.
Queer, Shorts
2006
5min
Christians on the one hand, and gays and lesbians on the other. Direct Cinema in short form.
Drama, Independent
2019
1h.54min
A senistive drama that authentically and lovingly captures the lifestyle of a group of young urbanites on the brink of a quarter-life crisis.
Crime, Comedy
1h.25min
Noah (12) arrives in Berlin to visit his father and gets caught up in adventures at the Carnival of Cultures.
2022
28min
A funeral director who aspired to be an entertainer is now the last escort of people in Berlin who have died in solitude.
Biography, Queer
1996
16min
Two years before his death, the HIV-positive Baldiga reviews his life, in selected episodes.
Independent, Music, Dance, Theater
2003
1h.15min
Christoph Schlingensief's answer to "Pop Idol" was "Freakstars 3000".
Biography, Icons & Media Art
1h.41min
A hospital in Berlin-Neukölln at midnight. A patient is being admitted. TV journalists are on the scene. The beginning of a story that tells itself.
2014
1h.35min
A political and sociological look at the transformation and gentrification of Berlin through teenage eyes.
2001
1h.14min
Deniz, 21 works as a dubbing artist and has just ended her relationship with Jan. In one short day, she goes through a separation and a new beginning.
Crime, Drama
Based on a true story: The film examines the German justice system and its structural bias.
2020
2h.3min
Driven by their obsessions and fears, three Berliners lose themselves in the urban jungle.
Documentary, Love & Sex
Tinder users in Berlin talk openly and honestly and about real-life encounters, both the good and the bad, with dates made using the famous dating app
Independent, Queer
2016
1h.3min
A position-finding exercise: where does feminism stand today in relation to reproduction?
Comedy
A delightfully absurd Berlin comedy about bicycle messengers, new age esoterica, and saving the world.
Independent, Comedy
2018
1h.34min
A naïve New Yorker retreats to his dead grandfather's summer cottage (datsche in German) but instead of peace he finds Adam, a refugee in hiding.
Biography, Independent
1h.24min
Susan is a glamorous train wreck: a delusional drug-addict and psychotic who compares herself to the likes of Maria Callas and Romy Schneider.
1h.17min
A young Irish musician immerses himself into Berlin nightlife after a concert and loses more than just his friends in the process.
What happens when your girlfriend suddenly has a penis?
Shorts
10min
This student film about the power of chance was lost for years and only rediscovered by chance.
1h.16min
Cordt Hammer, a journalist, is possibly the last man on earth. He seems to be in the midst of a feminine revolution. Is this a dream?
The anonymous Berlin concrete building "Excelsior" is only a temporary stop for its residents, yet some have been living there for more than 50 years.
The merciless analysis of their failed relationship brings a newly separated couple closer together than ever before.
What would kids do if they didn't have to go to school? Five young people follow their interests in a world without compulsory education.
A German Mumblecore tragicomedy set in a Brandenburg mansion. Three couples, six people, love, deceit, and the question: what's next?
Icons & Media Art
1984
Together with the dancer Fine Kwiatkowski, Lutz Dammbeck rehearses some elements for the planned performance of his media collages.
A year in the life of an ordinary street in Berlin. With narration by Clemens Schick and music by Till Merten.
Mia and Linda meet again after years in Berlin. Mia is in debt and plans to blackmail the man she has been having an affair with.
1h.11min
Ridiculously funny analysis of metropolitan hipsterism in Berlin, the German capital.
The love and life suffering of young people between Cologne and Berlin, with Woody Allenesque lightness.
Leyla, a young woman from Germany, campaigns to become the youngest mayor of Turkey - in the town of Cizre, marked by civil war.
Drama, Comedy
A woman dies in a tragic accident, but her soul remains in the here and now. But how? A quick-witted Berlin repairman has a hand in this...
Documentary
Three young new-Berliners dream of the good life in the form of art studies, a rap career or simply a work permit.
2013
1h.6min
Only armed with a phone number and a blurry profile picture, Lene searches the streets of Berlin an online acquaintance.
The moving life story of Mario Röllig, who fell in love with a gay West German politician in the mid-80s and was imprisoned for it.
Independent, Love & Sex
A German Mumblecore movie, an ode to the city of Berlin, a romantic comedy, father-daughter drama, and a portrait of a woman all rolled into one.
1h.21min
Oskar and Masha made a deal: a relationship but no sex. While Oskar soon regrets it, Mascha sleeps indiscriminately with older men. Can this work out?
2011
A newbie filmmaker from Hamburg arrives in Berlin, convinced that he'll make it big. Instead, he ends up shooting an 'adult' art movie!
1h.22min
Berlin, summer 2016: Nola, Katja and Martina live near Hauptbahnhof. Time is running out - they are going to lose their flat. "What now?" they ask.
An unusual portrait film about ex-punk Scumeck Sabottka, who has been a trailblazing tour and concert promoter for 30 years.
1h.36min
Lena Morgenroth, sex worker and computer scientist, is the opposite of the miserable cliché of prostitutes and offers an insight into her live.
2015
Portrait of action artist, environmental activist, natural philosopher, gallery owner and "anarchist" Ben Wagin.
46min
What is inclusion and what does it mean for the future? Ana Trkulja documents the Brotfabrik Berlin inclusion project Two Suns.
Queer, Drama
A reclusive man must break out of his self-imposed prison. But neither he nor the outside world is ready for it.
1h.42min
The director is drawn into the conflict-ridden marriage of her parents by an inheritance issue.
19min
SPEAKING OF LOVE tells of being in love and friendship, reluctance and overcoming obstacles, giving things a shot and of failing to get things right.
52min
Award-winning investigative documentary combines live action and animation to show the struggle against unscrupulous realtors.
2012
1h.46min
Ralf is crazy and scary. But he's also funny and disgusting. A portrait of an exuberant individual – who's too intense for his surroundings.
A tour of 1990s’ Berlin, capturing the unique vibe of the club culture and art scene at a very special time in history.
In this documentary we follow four people in Berlin - three men and a woman – who live their daily lives under the sign of drug addiction.
This documentary captures a summer in Berlin and opens a window to the unique and complex park cosmos and its feeling of freedom.
Denny lives in in the city, boozes and dances through the night, and sleeps with one girl after another.
49min
A bunch of men go on a short vacation and set their inhibitions aside.
Biography, Documentary
2009
A portrait of Tom Weise, one of the initiators of HustlaBall, a project to promote the acceptance of male prostitutes.
1h.28min
This turbulent comedy from Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg is a round dance of relationships, dreams and coincidences.
1h.48min
In a quest for self-directed living, ten artists near Berlin join forces to start the artist's colony 'Rakete Perelman'. But, they need money.
With a mixture of horror and comedy, this morality tale tells the story of a group of urban nomads fleeing from demolition excavators.
26min
In Berlin, traces of national socialism and Hitlers reign are everywhere, even today.
31min
A slice of the live of the undocumented migrant Mikel, working odd jobs in Berlin to survive.
1h.19min
Berlin-based independent filmmaker Eva Heldmann interviews five people who cannot pay their electricity bills.
2010
The Hasenheide in Berlin is a inner-city park that plays home to a colorful mix of urban dwellers: from people walking their dogs to drug dealers.
Germany in the near future: a group flees from violent demonstrations, night curfews and bomb attacks out of Berlin.
Currently, Berlin is experiencing the highest growth rate of tourism in the world, a situation not everyone is happy about.
Classics, Music, Dance, Theater
58min
A stroll through the bizarre tapestry of what was once West Berlin - a city riddled with empty lots and free space and surrounded by a wall.
More and more immigrants have been the landing in Germany since the 1950's. But it wasn't until 2005 that a new immigration law went into effect.
Comedy, Music, Dance, Theater
These self-assured ladies have everything under control, but in a world dominated by high tech communications and competition even they get the blues.
2008
Filmmaker Julia Ostertag creates a cinematic parallel universe, an odyssey through a doomsday scenario on the brink of apocalypse.
Music, Dance, Theater, Queer
50min
Explore the contemporary queer arts scene in Berlin and how perceptions of femininity and masculinity are constructed.
Comedy, Queer
1h.33min
Lucy and Derek roam the streets of Berlin. The city is their stage and playground, and life is a never ending post punk hedonism party.
By chance, Kai is thrown into an agency for creatives and a love story that is treading water somewhere between art, capital and marketing.
Angelika Levi explores her German Christian-Jewish family heritage through the archives of photographs, audio tapes and films collected by her mother.
30min
Documentary about an age-old Albanian custom that lets women change their social gender by taking the oath of a “sworn virgin”.
A playful romanticist has been waiting for the love of her life to return – when suddenly her newly separated mother moves in.
Independent, Thriller
The ambitious cello student Jessica and her boyfriend recently moved in together. But soon dark clouds are gathering above the young couple.
Music, Dance, Theater, Documentary
1h.7min
In Daniela Lucatos docu WHEN I DANCE, four dancers from Israel, Spain and Italy attempt to interpret the stories of refugees.
LOTTE, with her snappy, big city attitude, is impulsive and rough around the edges. No wonder she's constantly clashing with everybody.
23min
Silvia Biagioni's NOTHING ESSENTIAL HAPPENS IN THE ABSENCE OF NOISE is an experimental documentary manifesto about Praxis Records label.
Siblings Emilie and Jacob cannot help feeling a deep love for each other. After being apart for many years, they meet in the mountains.
Mana lives in her own world, smokes weed and all her energy flows into her films. But when she meets Asten at a party, everything changes.
1h.5min
At 19, after finishing the army, Imri moves from a peripheral city in Israel to Tel Aviv. All the while, he saves up so that he can move to Japan.
Classics, Comedy
1999
ZOE perfectly encapsulated the lives of drifters in Berlin at the turn of the millennium.
A house for the needy in Berlin - Schöneweide where 21 men live who have lost everything – is THE BEAUTIFUL HOME for these men.
1h.37min
A documentary set in Berlin about people who do things nighttime.
Join real legends of the Berlin graffiti underground culture on a trip through the city.
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
1h.2min
A portrait of the Berlin bassist Hans Narva, his music, and his ironic denial of all rules – regardless of the authority behind them.