Comedy

  • Digital Life

    Digital Life

    2023

    1h.31min

    16+

    A digital flat share in the middle of the pandemic. Everyone is always reachable. Love and hate are close together. A comic nightmare by Malte Wirtz.


  • Everything has an end

    Everything has an end

    2022

    15min

    16+

    Helen no longer wants to be a modern Sisyphus and is breaking the chains of the capitalist grillwalker corset.


  • Burning Beds

    Burning Beds

    1988

    1h.23min

    16+

    Hamburg's housing shortage forces car inspector Gina and British pyromaniac Harry to move into the same apartment.


  • Ain't Nothin' Without You

    Ain't Nothin' Without You

    1985

    1h.28min

    16+

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


  • Duologue

    Duologue

    2016

    4min

    16+

    The German Angst of the unknown - a reluctant dialogue.


  • Notes of Berlin

    Notes of Berlin

    2021

    1h.43min

    16+

    A film in episodes based on the trend blog "Notes of Berlin" that sheds light on the urban madness of everyday life.


  • Gender Crisis

    Gender Crisis

    2021

    1h.20min

    16+

    Samson and Delilah: The Old Testament story of a man with irrepressible strength - as a silent film, told in a modern way.


  • Ostravaganza

    Ostravaganza

    2022

    1h.43min

    16+

    Pittiplatsch, star of GDR children's television has a dark secret. Pitti was an avant-garde artist and informer for the state security service.


  • Second Thoughts

    Second Thoughts

    2021

    1h.25min

    16+

    In poetic tableaux, filmmaker Zora Rux tells a surrealistic-comic story about the search for the true self.


  • Dancing Quietly

    Dancing Quietly

    2016

    1h.21min

    16+

    An authentic and quietly directed personal love letter to all those whose greatest struggle is to just get out of bed every day.


  • Strassenkaiser

    Strassenkaiser

    2017

    1h.25min

    16+

    Noah (12) arrives in Berlin to visit his father and gets caught up in adventures at the Carnival of Cultures.


  • The Massacre of Anroechte

    The Massacre of Anroechte

    2021

    1h.0min

    16+

    This German indie film is a satirical declaration of love for the German small-town crime thriller.


  • Lichter der Stadt

    Lichter der Stadt

    2020

    1h.42min

    16+

    Joscha is on high alert. He wants to take a pill, but chance encounters with old friends keep him from swallowing it. Shot in a single t ake!


  • Lower Upper Cut

    Lower Upper Cut

    2011

    1h.32min

    16+

    In this self-reflective improv film, an acting class prepares for a crucial final audition that will decide the rest of their careers.


  • Mann im Spagat: Pace, Cowboy, Pace

    Mann im Spagat: Pace, Cowboy, Pace

    2017

    1h.29min

    16+

    A delightfully absurd Berlin comedy about bicycle messengers, new age esoterica, and saving the world.


  • Datsche

    Datsche

    2018

    1h.34min

    16+

    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.


  • Everything Always All the Time

    Everything Always All the Time

    2019

    1h.26min

    16+

    What happens when your girlfriend suddenly has a penis?


  • Family Fever

    Family Fever

    2014

    1h.18min

    16+

    A German Mumblecore tragicomedy set in a Brandenburg mansion. Three couples, six people, love, deceit, and the question: what's next?


  • Only One Day in Berlin

    Only One Day in Berlin

    2018

    1h.14min

    16+

    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.


  • Hard & Ugly

    Hard & Ugly

    2017

    1h.11min

    16+

    Ridiculously funny analysis of metropolitan hipsterism in Berlin, the German capital.


  • Orpheus Rhapsodie

    Orpheus Rhapsodie

    2017

    1h.14min

    16+

    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...


  • Thanks Dead Cat

    Thanks Dead Cat

    2017

    1h.24min

    16+

    Hobo Beate lives with her disabled child in a tent. One day, law enforcement turns their lives upside down. And so the journey begins.


  • Love Steaks

    Love Steaks

    2013

    1h.30min

    16+

    LOVE STEAKS is the poster child of the German mumblecore genre, showcasing Franz Rogowski.


  • Kaptn Oskar

    Kaptn Oskar

    2013

    1h.21min

    16+

    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?


  • Klappe Cowboy!

    Klappe Cowboy!

    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!


  • Absurdistan

    Absurdistan

    2008

    1h.27min

    16+

    An allegorical comedy about two childhood sweethearts destined for one another until the women of their village go on a sex strike that threatens the couple's ...


  • Floating!

    Floating!

    2015

    1h.26min

    16+

    A lesbian bachelorette’s night out with "the guys", including, alas, her future sperm donor. A mumblecore comedy on a raft.


  • Papa Gold

    Papa Gold

    2011

    1h.17min

    16+

    Denny lives in in the city, boozes and dances through the night, and sleeps with one girl after another.


  • Silent Spring

    Silent Spring

    2008

    45min

    16+

    Nico Sommer brilliantly blurs boundaries between fiction and documentary in this story of a 21 year old man looking to lose his virginity.


  • Heroes From the Neighbourhood

    Heroes From the Neighbourhood

    2007

    1h.28min

    16+

    This turbulent comedy from Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg is a round dance of relationships, dreams and coincidences.


  • Bearkittens

    Bearkittens

    2018

    1h.11min

    16+

    Seven female criminals have to work off their community service hours in a cursed forest.


  • Rocket Perelman

    Rocket Perelman

    2017

    1h.48min

    16+

    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.


  • Kissing?

    Kissing?

    2017

    1h.17min

    16+

    Danny and Stella, turning thirty soon, feel lost and disorientated. Are they too good for this world, or is the world too bad for them?


  • Lifetimeshort

    Lifetimeshort

    2009

    1h.27min

    16+

    These self-assured ladies have everything under control, but in a world dominated by high tech communications and competition even they get the blues.


  • Saturn Returns

    Saturn Returns

    2008

    1h.33min

    16+

    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.


  • Beat Beat Heart

    Beat Beat Heart

    2017

    1h.27min

    16+

    A playful romanticist has been waiting for the love of her life to return – when suddenly her newly separated mother moves in.


  • Dry Hot Summers

    Dry Hot Summers

    2016

    30min

    16+

    Two lonely people meet in opposing phases of life. On a busy summer day, they happen to be in the same taxi at the same time.


  • Japan Japan

    Japan Japan

    2007

    1h.5min

    16+

    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.


  • Zoe - Long Version

    Zoe - Long Version

    1999

    1h.19min

    16+

    ZOE perfectly encapsulated the lives of drifters in Berlin at the turn of the millennium.


  • 5 Stories in 4 Days

    5 Stories in 4 Days

    2015

    1h.22min

    16+

    The lives of Paula, Louise, Max, Randolf and Donnie are getting out of hand.


  • Schmitke

    Schmitke

    2014

    1h.38min

    16+

    What should have been a ordinary job in the Czech Ore Mountains, becomes a mysterious expedition for the aging engineer Julius Schmitke.


  • Frontalwatte

    Frontalwatte

    2011

    1h.17min

    16+

    FRONTALWATTE is like running against a wall and falling softly. Franz, Adrian and Anastasia stumble through a world without consequences.


  • Gate to Heaven

    Gate to Heaven

    2003

    1h.28min

    16+

    German romantic Bollywood comedy: Nisha is a janitor at the Frankfurt Airport but of dreams of becoming a flight attendant.


  • Pampa

    Pampa

    2017

    18min

    16+

    Lucie is waiting at a bus stop in the middle of nowhere. But instead of a bus, only strange people turn up.


  • 1000 Mexicans

    1000 Mexicans

    2016

    1h.23min

    16+

    Luke and Adam, are best friends and while drunk get involved in shooting a friend's wedding film.


  • Na Sdorowje! Babuschka!

    Na Sdorowje! Babuschka!

    2011

    22min

    16+

    Surprisingly, her Russian relatives arrive on Tatyana's birthday.


  • Unwritten Laws

    Unwritten Laws

    2010

    17min

    16+

    It's not easy for Tom (Mario Mentrup) to find a partner in the big city. With millions of people around, it's easy to feel like an anonymous nobody.


  • A German Loves His Fatherland

    A German Loves His Fatherland

    2011

    20min

    16+

    In Nico Sommer's mockumentary a nazi loves a woman of color.


  • Hither And Thither

    Hither And Thither

    1985

    1h.20min

    16+

    Douglas Wolfsperger presents the perils of small town life in black and white in his debut feature film HITHER AND THITHER.


  • Test Drive to Paradise

    Test Drive to Paradise

    1992

    1h.23min

    16+

    The satire project TEST DRIVE TO PARADISE by Douglas Wolfsperger presents a pastor and his pilgrims with a severe test of faith.


  • City of Light

    City of Light

    2005

    1h.0min

    16+

    In their co-directorial debut, Mario Mentrup and Volker Sattel explore new levels of the American pioneer myths in this experimental Western.


  • Holger and Hanna

    Holger and Hanna

    2013

    1h.24min

    16+

    Holger is unhappily in love with Hanna. Then his parents get a divorce and to top it all off his father flirts with Hanna.