Psychology

Two strangers, Lisa and Jos, go to San Francisco to find out, if there is sexual intercourse - based on french philosopher Jean-Luc Nancys text.

"Challenging Identities" - A lesbian non-binary artist's documentary on gender, self-love, and narcissism, honored at Berlin Pornfilmfestival.

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

A parasitic fungus infects humanity. It triggers visions and also enables communication with the dead.

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

A chance examination delivers the frightening diagnosis of brain aneurysm. The director himself documents the months leading up to the operation.

In Stammheim, right next to the old RAF prison, an educational center for future correctional officers is located next to the prison wall.

What sounds like a case study from "The Drama of the Gifted Child" is the true story of the son of famed psychologist Alice Miller.

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

A cinematic journey into the biography of the psychiatrist C. G. Jung (1875−1961) and into his powerful world of myths, dreams and symbols.

Is homeopathy a hoax or medicine? Here, homeopaths are allowed to share their very different views.

One of the biggest taboos in society is the rehabilitation of sex offenders. This film takes the offender perspective.

Hanan fled with her family from northern Iraq across the Mediterranean Sea. At that time, she did not know how to swim. She now overcomes the trauma.

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

Jakob Fisch confesses to a murder he did not commit. Police psychologist Dr. Alea Anzu then tries to convict him of lying.

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 film immerses us directly into the daily lives of three women who are trapped in violent, abusive relationships.

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.

An eye-opening experience about deep engrained behaviour we barley are aware of in our every day life.

In a strange, dark asylum, a brilliant physicist without memory is imprisoned. One thing occupies his mind: escape.

A film about funny and serious games, therapies of re- and self-re-education as well as the history of ideas of the permanent revolution.

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

Three brothers embark on a search for traces left by their deceased brother, Jakob, who committed suicide.

Birgit Gohlke has stuttered since early childhood. She deals well with it, but after watching "The King's Speech", Birgit decides to take action.

Only armed with a phone number and a blurry profile picture, Lene searches the streets of Berlin an online acquaintance.

A German Mumblecore mystery and pyschodrama about two couples, a polyamorous relationship, and nightmarish reality shifts.

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

Dark psycho thriller about a Danish incel.

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

This is both a documentary and an attempt at self-therapy for Lebanese director Bassem Fayad and his dog 'Zen'.

How a Holocaust survivor and Dürckheim student became a pioneer of Zen Buddhism in Ecuador.

Rune and Pernille find their living room table unexplainably broken. But buying a new table at IKEA seems to be a bigger challenge than expected.

The stories of two women, who could only through acts of violence, claim visibility.

In the short drama STILL LIFE two sisters try to encourage their mother not to give up after the death of their father.

Gripping psycho thriller based on real stories of people in a Berlin youth detention center.

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

Who would have thought that a second Angie might be hiding behind a Lübeck housewife? An examination of the phenomenon of the double.

Along with several courageous psychiatrists and their clients, the author sets out to film a doc road movie that takes him to Europe and the U.S.

An intense two-person drama about a dysfunctional love relationship featuring cult actor and musician Lars Rudolph ("Run Lola Run").

This silent, black and white short film accompanies a young woman in a quiet zoo. Time passes, the woman becomes more and more restless...

A funny and complex examination of the psychotherapy boom.