Documentary, Independent
2024
1h.39min
16+
Props play a crucial role in every movie, yet they are rarely consciously noticed - the big and small things on the set.
Independent, Thriller
1h.31min
In this Berlin thriller, lollipops serve as a gateway to extraordinary adventures and reveal sweet and dangerous secrets.
Biography, Documentary
2022
1h.25min
The Ukranian grandson of filmmaker Leonid Burlaka draws a rich picture of Soviet history with archive footage of his grandfather.
Shorts
2015
19min
An entertaining and ambiguous film that illuminates the connection between cinematic art and human experience.
Comedy
1985
1h.28min
The German realities of the 80s, spontaneously captured with sarcastic wit and occasionally parodied to the point of absurdity.
2020
2h.4min
A feverish Schlingensief documentary by Bettina Böhler, a renowned editor, portraying this exceptional artist in his full range.
Horror, Independent
1h.19min
The "German indie machine" Malte Wirtz turns to horror and does it so successfully that the audience left the cinema hall in fear.
2013
Roland Klick is a film history legend. He made movies with Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, then mysteriously faded away after only six films.
2021
1h.36min
Friends and colleagues reminisce about the controversial actor Volker Spengler, who was dubbed the "Downfall of the West".
Biography, Icons & Media Art
2004
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.
Documentary, Icons & Media Art
1h.12min
Can a documentary depict reality? Should it even try? Constanze Ruhm examines how reality and the construction of reality are different.
Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
1h.5min
Re-interpretation of Chaplin's The Kid. Set in a claustrophobic world, it transports the classic tale into a dystopian, grotesque masquerade ball.
1h.47min
Rainer Werner Fassbinder has never been shown with such openness and introspection.
Documentary
The second largest film industry in the world is called Nollywood and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Icons & Media Art
2018
17min
We are accumulating more and more data, images and sound snippets. But how can we remember when digital materials marked by decay fail?
1h.24min
A warm-hearted yet stylistically radical film portrait in black and white and color about Edgar Reitz and his encounter with a young female filmmaker.
1986
47min
REALFilm is Lutz Dammbck's examination of film and filmmaking, a film in real time, a collage in space involving the audience.
1981
12min
From 3 to 7 September 1929, a congress of independent avant-garde-filmmakers took place at La Sarraz castle in Switzerland.
2002
1h.1min
A raw, honest look at the relationship between filmmakers, actors, and the characters they jointly create.
Drama, Independent
2017
30min
WANNABE tells the story of a young YouTuber, who builds herself a fictitious world on the Internet.
Independent, Comedy
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!
2012
A struggling actor faced with constant rejection is pushed to his limit. Meet Paul Kaplan, an unremarkable actor going nowhere.
2009
1h.27min
Jaffa, home of the world famous cakes, is a bustling metropolis and focus of this fascinating documentary.
1h.32min
A portrait of El Hedi ben Salem, the actor of the Arab guest worker Ali from Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film "Ali – Fear Eats The Soul".
Independent, Queer
1h.44min
What happened to the men who performed in Jochen Hicks SEX/LIFE IN L.A. in 1998? A long-term observation of actors in gay "Adult Movies".
2016
Petter S. Holmsen's metafictional short film QUIET ON SET deals with a romantic encounter at the bottom of the film world ladder.
Classics
1988
1h.35min
The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and combines them into feature film story.
Drama
This fakedocumentary tells of Jasper's search for truthfulness, which is doomed to failure when he turns from observer to participant.
1h.45min
An indictment against the system of compulsory formatting and lack of imagination of public broadcasting.
2001
1h.34min
The Bellaria is a small Viennese art house cinema where time seems to stand still. Here, the movies are as old as the audience.
Documentary, Classics
1999
An award-winning, authentic film about the Holocaust. "It’s a well done, very moving documentary." (Roman Polanski)