Berlinale - Panorama

In this section, the stories are in the foreground: they are political, controversial, uncompromising. They come from courageous newcomers and from established masters of cinema. There is never a dull moment and the Panorama section is always the crowd puller of the festival.
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  • My Wonderful West Berlin

    My Wonderful West Berlin

    2017

    1h.38min

    16+

    Romy Haag, Rosa von Praunheim, Ades Zabel and Udo Walz talk about their fascination with the dream destination West Berlin.


  • Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence

    Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence

    2020

    2h.4min

    16+

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


  • Talk Straight – The World of Rural Queers

    Talk Straight – The World of Rural Queers

    2003

    1h.39min

    16+

    How is life as a gay in the Swabian province? An intimate insight into a hitherto unknown terrain between church and Stammtisch.


  • Menmaniacs - The Legacy of Leather

    Menmaniacs - The Legacy of Leather

    1994

    1h.26min

    16+

    An intense trip into the gay bondage and leather scene: We meet contestants, bondage film actors, uniform fetishists and long-term slaves.


  • Welcome to the Dome

    Welcome to the Dome

    1992

    15min

    16+

    During the final prayer of the German Catholic Bishops' Conference in 1991, one of the most spectacular protest actions takes place.


  • Bungalow

    Bungalow

    2002

    1h.24min

    16+

    The Bundeswehr is looking for him, his girlfriend Kerstin breaks up with him, and unexpectedly his older brother Max shows up


  • Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter

    Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter

    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.


  • Vacation

    Vacation

    2007

    1h.32min

    16+

    Jealousy and biting jokes about old wounds start slowly, but build until bald-face confessions and hand-to-hand scuffles take over.


  • Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

    Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

    2015

    1h.47min

    16+

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


  • Loverfilm

    Loverfilm

    1997

    22min

    16+

    Berlin filmmaker Michael Brynntrup exposes his own sex life in a radical, relentless yet humorous invasion of privacy.


  • Happiness Is a Warm Gun

    Happiness Is a Warm Gun

    2001

    1h.30min

    16+

    Green Party icon Petra Kelly is shot in her sleep by her partner Gert Bastian, an ex-Federal Armed Forces general, before he kills himself.


  • East/West – Sex and Politics

    East/West – Sex and Politics

    2008

    1h.35min

    16+

    A snapshot of the multifaceted life in the megapolis Moscow, with the focus on lesbians and gays who take to the streets for their rights.


  • Postcard To Daddy

    Postcard To Daddy

    2010

    1h.26min

    16+

    While growing up, filmmaker Michael Stock was sexually abused by his own father. Two decades later he confronts his family.


  • The GDR Complex

    The GDR Complex

    2016

    1h.30min

    16+

    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.


  • The Good American

    The Good American

    2009

    1h.32min

    16+

    A portrait of Tom Weise, one of the initiators of HustlaBall, a project to promote the acceptance of male prostitutes.


  • Stepping Out

    Stepping Out

    1999

    1h.1min

    16+

    This documentary accompanies a woman on her erotic expeditions through clubs and barracks of the US Army in Frankfurt am Main.


  • Kurt Gerron's Carousel

    Kurt Gerron's Carousel

    1999

    1h.5min

    16+

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


  • The Ovo (Ovo - the Video)

    The Ovo (Ovo - the Video)

    2005

    17min

    16+

    THE OVO (OVO - THE VIDEO) is a short film by Berlin film artist and icon Michael Brynntrup. "It's not about how a drag queen moves, it's about what she ...


  • NY 'NY 'n why not

    NY 'NY 'n why not

    1999

    4min

    16+

    WALK / DON'T WALK / WALK. The rhythm of the nineties. A musical stroll along Christopher Street.


  • All You Can Eat

    All You Can Eat

    1993

    5min

    16+

    This short film "takes the ‘cum-shot’ to new heights with a montage of some of the wildest, orgasmic, facial expressions." (Boys On Film #6)


  • Narcissus and Echo

    Narcissus and Echo

    1989

    14min

    16+

    Long seemed invalid the Prophet's word, / But honored it was, by the outcome at last: / How odd the madness, how strange a death! (Ovid, Metamorphoses) NARCISSUS ...