Film about film

  • Make Up the World

    Make Up the World

    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.


  • Pinky Swear - Whatever She Wants

    Pinky Swear - Whatever She Wants

    Independent, Thriller

    2024

    1h.31min

    16+

    In this Berlin thriller, lollipops serve as a gateway to extraordinary adventures and reveal sweet and dangerous secrets.


  • Fragile Memory

    Fragile Memory

    Biography, Documentary

    2022

    1h.25min

    16+

    The Ukranian grandson of filmmaker Leonid Burlaka draws a rich picture of Soviet history with archive footage of his grandfather.


  • [Out of Fra]me

    [Out of Fra]me

    Shorts

    2015

    19min

    16+

    An entertaining and ambiguous film that illuminates the connection between cinematic art and human experience.


  • Ain't Nothin' Without You

    Ain't Nothin' Without You

    Comedy

    1985

    1h.28min

    16+

    The German realities of the 80s, spontaneously captured with sarcastic wit and occasionally parodied to the point of absurdity.


  • Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence

    Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence

    Biography, Documentary

    2020

    2h.4min

    16+

    A feverish Schlingensief documentary by Bettina Böhler, a renowned editor, portraying this exceptional artist in his full range.


  • Evil in the Woods

    Evil in the Woods

    Horror, Independent

    2022

    1h.19min

    16+

    The "German indie machine" Malte Wirtz turns to horror and does it so successfully that the audience left the cinema hall in fear.


  • Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter

    Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter

    Biography, Documentary

    2013

    1h.19min

    16+

    Roland Klick is a film history legend. He made movies with Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, then mysteriously faded away after only six films.


  • Highfalutin

    Highfalutin

    Biography, Documentary

    2021

    1h.36min

    16+

    Friends and colleagues reminisce about the controversial actor Volker Spengler, who was dubbed the "Downfall of the West".


  • E.K.G. Expositus (the public and the artistic media)

    E.K.G. Expositus (the public and the artistic media)

    Biography, Icons & Media Art

    2004

    1h.41min

    16+

    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.


  • The Notes of Anna Azzori / A Mirror that Travels through Time

    The Notes of Anna Azzori / A Mirror that Travels through Time

    Documentary, Icons & Media Art

    2020

    1h.12min

    16+

    Can a documentary depict reality? Should it even try? Constanze Ruhm examines how reality and the construction of reality are different.


  • 2551.01

    2551.01

    Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    2021

    1h.5min

    16+

    Re-interpretation of Chaplin's The Kid. Set in a claustrophobic world, it transports the classic tale into a dystopian, grotesque masquerade ball.


  • Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

    Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

    Biography, Documentary

    2015

    1h.47min

    16+

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder has never been shown with such openness and introspection.


  • Nollywood – Filmbusiness African Style

    Nollywood – Filmbusiness African Style

    Documentary

    2020

    1h.5min

    16+

    The second largest film industry in the world is called Nollywood and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.


  • the_other_images

    the_other_images

    Icons & Media Art

    2018

    17min

    16+

    We are accumulating more and more data, images and sound snippets. But how can we remember when digital materials marked by decay fail?


  • Eight Hundred Times Lonely

    Eight Hundred Times Lonely

    Biography, Documentary

    2020

    1h.24min

    16+

    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.


  • GDR Experimental: REALFilm

    GDR Experimental: REALFilm

    Icons & Media Art

    1986

    47min

    16+

    REALFilm is Lutz Dammbck's examination of film and filmmaking, a film in real time, a collage in space involving the audience.


  • GDR Experimental: Homage to La Sarraz

    GDR Experimental: Homage to La Sarraz

    Icons & Media Art

    1981

    12min

    16+

    From 3 to 7 September 1929, a congress of independent avant-garde-filmmakers took place at La Sarraz castle in Switzerland.


  • Happy Too

    Happy Too

    Documentary

    2002

    1h.1min

    16+

    A raw, honest look at the relationship between filmmakers, actors, and the characters they jointly create.


  • Wannabe

    Wannabe

    Drama, Independent

    2017

    30min

    16+

    WANNABE tells the story of a young YouTuber, who builds herself a fictitious world on the Internet.


  • Klappe Cowboy!

    Klappe Cowboy!

    Independent, Comedy

    2011

    1h.24min

    16+

    A newbie filmmaker from Hamburg arrives in Berlin, convinced that he'll make it big. Instead, he ends up shooting an 'adult' art movie!


  • OK, Good

    OK, Good

    Drama, Independent

    2012

    1h.19min

    16+

    A struggling actor faced with constant rejection is pushed to his limit. Meet Paul Kaplan, an unremarkable actor going nowhere.


  • Jaffa - The Orange's Clockwork

    Jaffa - The Orange's Clockwork

    Documentary, Independent

    2009

    1h.27min

    16+

    Jaffa, home of the world famous cakes, is a bustling metropolis and focus of this fascinating documentary.


  • My Name Is Not Ali

    My Name Is Not Ali

    Biography, Documentary

    2011

    1h.32min

    16+

    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".


  • Cycles of Porn – Sex/Life 2

    Cycles of Porn – Sex/Life 2

    Independent, Queer

    2004

    1h.44min

    16+

    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".


  • Quiet On Set

    Quiet On Set

    Shorts

    2016

    12min

    16+

    Petter S. Holmsen's metafictional short film QUIET ON SET deals with a romantic encounter at the bottom of the film world ladder.


  • The Case of Mr. Spalt

    The Case of Mr. Spalt

    Classics

    1988

    1h.35min

    16+

    The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and combines them into feature film story.


  • We Are Me

    We Are Me

    Drama

    2012

    19min

    16+

    This fakedocumentary tells of Jasper's search for truthfulness, which is doomed to failure when he turns from observer to participant.


  • Compelling Satan

    Compelling Satan

    Drama

    2017

    1h.45min

    16+

    An indictment against the system of compulsory formatting and lack of imagination of public broadcasting.


  • Bellaria – As Long As We Live!

    Bellaria – As Long As We Live!

    Documentary

    2001

    1h.34min

    16+

    The Bellaria is a small Viennese art house cinema where time seems to stand still. Here, the movies are as old as the audience.


  • Kurt Gerron's Carousel

    Kurt Gerron's Carousel

    Documentary, Classics

    1999

    1h.5min

    16+

    An award-winning, authentic film about the Holocaust. "It’s a well done, very moving documentary." (Roman Polanski)