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  • Night to Be Gone

    Night to Be Gone

    2024

    1h.31min

    16+

    In the heart of Berlin, a film noir billiard thriller unfolds with deceit, ambition, and suspense.


  • Allesandersplatz

    Allesandersplatz

    2021

    53min

    16+

    In the heart of Berlin, a GDR ruin is given a new lease on life and becomes a center for art, culture and community.


  • Monolith

    Monolith

    2023

    1h.12min

    16+

    A 24-hour odyssey through Berlin, full of subtle tension and existential questions.


  • Junk Space Berlin

    Junk Space Berlin

    2023

    1h.45min

    16+

    Welcome to the marginal deviation of reality. An inexplicable rift runs through the dystopian Berlin and four outsiders venture to find their friend.


  • 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.


  • The Light at the End

    The Light at the End

    2023

    1h.27min

    16+

    A group of radical climate activists takes matters into their own hands and eliminates suspected climate sinners.


  • East Cross

    East Cross

    1991

    1h.23min

    16+

    Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a 15-year-old girl tries to find a home in the Berlin of wastelands and ruins.


  • The Grass is Greener Everywhere Else

    The Grass is Greener Everywhere Else

    1989

    1h.18min

    16+

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


  • Thirty

    Thirty

    2019

    1h.54min

    16+

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


  • 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.


  • Highfalutin

    Highfalutin

    2021

    1h.36min

    16+

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


  • 9 Lives

    9 Lives

    2011

    1h.46min

    16+

    9 LIVES portrays the fate of young people who decided at the age of 11, 12 or 13 to leave home and to live on the streets.


  • For Nothing

    For Nothing

    2014

    1h.35min

    16+

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


  • Marseille

    Marseille

    2004

    1h.31min

    16+

    "German cinema can be this exciting: Angela Schanelec's fourth film MARSEILLE" (taz)


  • A Fine Day

    A Fine Day

    2001

    1h.14min

    16+

    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.


  • Siblings - Kardeşler

    Siblings - Kardeşler

    1997

    1h.22min

    16+

    The first part of Thomas Arslan's "Berlin Trilogy", which shows young people with a Turkish migration history from their own perspective.


  • Chasing Paper Birds

    Chasing Paper Birds

    2020

    2h.3min

    16+

    Driven by their obsessions and fears, three Berliners lose themselves in the urban jungle.


  • Berlin 4 Lovers

    Berlin 4 Lovers

    2019

    1h.12min

    16+

    Tinder users in Berlin talk openly and honestly and about real-life encounters, both the good and the bad, with dates made using the famous dating app


  • 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.


  • Character One: Susan

    Character One: Susan

    2020

    1h.24min

    16+

    Susan is a glamorous train wreck: a delusional drug-addict and psychotic who compares herself to the likes of Maria Callas and Romy Schneider.


  • Lost in the Living

    Lost in the Living

    2018

    1h.17min

    16+

    A young Irish musician immerses himself into Berlin nightlife after a concert and loses more than just his friends in the process.


  • Berlin Excelsior

    Berlin Excelsior

    2018

    1h.27min

    16+

    The anonymous Berlin concrete building "Excelsior" is only a temporary stop for its residents, yet some have been living there for more than 50 years.


  • Lovers

    Lovers

    2019

    1h.18min

    16+

    The merciless analysis of their failed relationship brings a newly separated couple closer together than ever before.


  • Lebe schon lange hier

    Lebe schon lange hier

    2019

    1h.38min

    16+

    A year in the life of an ordinary street in Berlin. With narration by Clemens Schick and music by Till Merten.


  • Hard & Ugly

    Hard & Ugly

    2017

    1h.11min

    16+

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


  • Love Me!

    Love Me!

    2014

    1h.23min

    16+

    A German Mumblecore movie, an ode to the city of Berlin, a romantic comedy, father-daughter drama, and a portrait of a woman all rolled into one.


  • 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!


  • The Long Summer Of Theory

    The Long Summer Of Theory

    2017

    1h.22min

    16+

    Berlin, summer 2016: Nola, Katja and Martina live near Hauptbahnhof. Time is running out - they are going to lose their flat. "What now?" they ask.


  • Sexarbeiterin

    Sexarbeiterin

    2016

    1h.36min

    16+

    Lena Morgenroth, sex worker and computer scientist, is the opposite of the miserable cliché of prostitutes and offers an insight into her live.


  • Betongold

    Betongold

    2013

    52min

    16+

    Award-winning investigative documentary combines live action and animation to show the struggle against unscrupulous realtors.


  • Ralf. Sex in the Desert

    Ralf. Sex in the Desert

    2012

    1h.46min

    16+

    Ralf is crazy and scary. But he's also funny and disgusting. A portrait of an exuberant individual – who's too intense for his surroundings.


  • Berlinized

    Berlinized

    2012

    1h.23min

    16+

    A tour of 1990s’ Berlin, capturing the unique vibe of the club culture and art scene at a very special time in history.


  • Mauerpark

    Mauerpark

    2011

    1h.18min

    16+

    This documentary captures a summer in Berlin and opens a window to the unique and complex park cosmos and its feeling of freedom.


  • 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.


  • Back to Nothing

    Back to Nothing

    2016

    1h.36min

    16+

    With a mixture of horror and comedy, this morality tale tells the story of a group of urban nomads fleeing from demolition excavators.


  • Mikel

    Mikel

    2017

    31min

    16+

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


  • 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.


  • Lotte

    Lotte

    2016

    1h.15min

    16+

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


  • A Low Life Mythology

    A Low Life Mythology

    2012

    1h.20min

    16+

    Mana lives in her own world, smokes weed and all her energy flows into her films. But when she meets Asten at a party, everything changes.


  • 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.


  • Live Your Changes - Klunkerkranich

    Live Your Changes - Klunkerkranich

    2015

    1h.30min

    16+

    An urban garden and trendy club on the rooftop parking lot of a Neukölln shopping center: Klunkerkranich.


  • Art Girls

    Art Girls

    2014

    2h.0min

    16+

    What's reality and what's art? What happens when the tables are turned, and art no longer imitates nature but things go the other way round?


  • Do you hear me

    Do you hear me

    2016

    23min

    16+

    After a night out dancing, Leyla collides with Paul at a construction site because he insists on the validity of the road traffic regulations.


  • Blind & Ugly

    Blind & Ugly

    2017

    1h.38min

    16+

    Ferdi thinks he's ugly. And he really wants a girlfriend. But he can't, because he's ugly. But one day he meets Jonah and Jonah is blind.


  • The Birthday

    The Birthday

    2015

    16min

    16+

    Two best friends, one is in love with the other, who in turn, is unaware of the fact.


  • Full Contact - A Way of Living

    Full Contact - A Way of Living

    2012

    1h.23min

    16+

    Why do people fight, if they don't have to? Why do ordinary citizens operate the toughest martial arts ring in the world in a Berlin backyard.


  • Everyday

    Everyday

    2002

    1h.31min

    16+

    In the Berlin-Kreuzberg microcosm, respect, betrayal and a suitcase full of money provoke great existentialist gestures - including trauma or death.