Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin

The war crimes tribunal in The Hague is fighting with itself and war criminals from the former Yugoslavia.

In her harsh milieu study, Gina Wenzel tells the story of youth violence from the perpetrator's perspective.

With destabilising gentleness, Mo Harawe recounts the last hours of the terrorist Farah before his execution.

A poignant tale of lost innocence, young Dib navigates the tumultuous landscape of 1950s Damascus following his father's death.

The tragic story of an artist who was torn between passion and obsession and died under mysterious circumstances.

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

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

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

A slap in the face as the ultimate answer to all your problems.

After a wedding party, three friends from Hamburg are stranded Berlin. A fast-paced odyssey through the urban wasteland of this once divided city.

The German Angst of the unknown - a reluctant dialogue.

Under the crushing emotional burden of his terminally ill father and violent brother, 14-year-old Daniel seeks refuge with two outcasts.

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

Authentic, haphazard and unromantic, three residents of a high-rise housing estate search for love, friendship and sexuality.

Either the grass is greener, or the houses are bigger, or the sun is warmer ... anywhere else is better.

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

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

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

A senistive drama that authentically and lovingly captures the lifestyle of a group of young urbanites on the brink of a quarter-life crisis.

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

Compassionate mumblecore-style drama about a young woman's struggles with the expectations placed on her by her partner and friends.

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

PARABETON shows in chronological sequence 17 buildings by the Italian engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) in Italy and France.

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.

On the river Tetscha in the southern Urals, in the middle of nowhere between Europe and Asia, is the most radioactively contaminated area in the world

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

A political and sociological look at the transformation and gentrification of Berlin through teenage eyes.

On 3 summer afternoons, a family meets up a beautiful house in an upscale Berlin neighborhood. They come together but ultimately drift further apart.

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

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.

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

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

Sex is the most beautiful thing in the world. But talking about it without straying into lasciviousness or becoming inhibited remains tricky.

Karen, a young math teacher, is involved in a traffic accident for which she is not to blame. The accident causes the death of a girl on a scooter.

This documentary tells the incredibly shocking story of how a Nazi officer became a top politician and UN Secretary General.

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.

The film looks at how ideology performed itself in public space through mass performances in socialist Yugoslavia.

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.

A single decision can change the rest of your life - a film about what could have been.

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

An unconventional portrait of a man whose life motto reminds us of the poets of romanticism: The genius writes its own rules.

A banker smuggling black money catapults himself out of his old life with a dip in the cold lake water.

A portrait of a ‘German socialist art’ in the GDR up to the building of the wall in 1961.

At the beginning of the last century, Arno Breker was one of the great hopes of young German sculpture, esteemed by the painter Max Liebermann.

A 35mm camera films from a window, with messages from the answering machine in the background. Slowly an imaginary biography unfolds.

A trenchant image of the complications self-discovery and personality formation can be for adolescents.

An intimate look at three headstrong women who come from different parts of a country that no longer exists.

The film is about love and hate, about right and wrong words. At its centre are Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, who met in post-war Vienna.

The testimonies of former Wehrmacht soldiers collected by Ruth Beckermann are still horrifying today.

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.

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

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

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

A slice of the live of the undocumented migrant Mikel, working odd jobs in Berlin to survive.

Berlin-based independent filmmaker Eva Heldmann interviews five people who cannot pay their electricity bills.

This documentary tells the harrowing story of the global phenomenon of human trafficking.

Angelika Levi explores her German Christian-Jewish family heritage through the archives of photographs, audio tapes and films collected by her mother.

Karin Jurschick examins the reasons for her late mother's suicide.

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

In a temporal twist, this movie tells the story of an intervention into the future perception of a territory’s political history.

The ambitious cello student Jessica and her boyfriend recently moved in together. But soon dark clouds are gathering above the young couple.

15 years ago off the coast of Windholm the sea disappeared and with it, all the children. Since then, the losses hang like a curse over the region.

LOTTE, with her snappy, big city attitude, is impulsive and rough around the edges. No wonder she's constantly clashing with everybody.

In elegant CinemaScope images, this film tells the story of the housekeeper Nadja in times of economic crisis as a tender melodrama.

Against the breathtaking backdrop of the Swiss mountains, 3 extraordinary vocal artists develop traditional yodelling into their own musical language.

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".

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

Fritz Bauer was a public prosecutor, a leading investigator of Nazi history and a pioneer of German civil society.

A portrait of the Berlin bassist Hans Narva, his music, and his ironic denial of all rules – regardless of the authority behind them.

For twelve years she ignored sneers and mockery and stood up for her relationship. But that was probably a mistake. Now her husband is leaving her for ...

A place and its inhabitants have to give way to the open-cast mine.

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

Beckermann's subjects offer a dramatic range of candid opinions about Arab-Jewish relations, immigration, the intifada, religion, and the economy.

A journey through Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann's own family's history and at the same time, the story of Central Europe's Jews and of a region.

This captivating film shows the less-knon sides of the Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, aka Empress Sissi on her travels to Egypt in 1885 and 1891.

Instead of being exploited for its oil, the President of Ecuador suggests to leave the Yasuní national park untouched.

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

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

Berlinale Short Film winner JULIAN by Matthew Moore tells of a fourth grader who feels the strong urge to tell the truth and who runs into trouble for ...

Little Liam becomes a superhero at night with the power of a gemstone.

This short film dares a slightly different view of life in a psychiatric clinic. Screened at Cannes Short Film Corner and Interfilm Berlin.

A car drives through the snow. Behind the wheel is thirteen years old Nelly who wants to go home. Separating her from her goal are three questions, two ...

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

A short film by Berlin-based film icon Michael Brynntrup full of photographs collected from personal profiles in gay chat rooms on the internet.

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 ...

"An outstanding piece by Michael Brynntrup that captures the violence and tenderness, alongside the dominance and submission, that is found in a single, ...

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

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)

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 ...

Sixties legend Lou Castel participates in Rosana Cuellar's German-Mexican short-film fairy tale, about a young woman in a mysterious land.

A funny and complex examination of the psychotherapy boom.