The edge

  • 2551.02 – The Orgy of the Damned

    2551.02 – The Orgy of the Damned

    2023

    1h.22min

    16+

    The dark, dystopian horror cabinet with BDSM vibes about the man in the monkey mask enters its second round.


  • Narcissism: The Auto-Erotic Images

    Narcissism: The Auto-Erotic Images

    2023

    1h.30min

    16+

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


  • 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.


  • The Skin of Others

    The Skin of Others

    2018

    1h.52min

    16+

    Despite its disarmingly strange erotic scenes, The Skin of Others is a deeply romantic love story.


  • Highfalutin

    Highfalutin

    2021

    1h.36min

    16+

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


  • 2551.01

    2551.01

    2021

    1h.5min

    16+

    Re-interpretation of Chaplin's The Kid. Set in a claustrophobic world, it transports the classic tale into a dystopian, grotesque masquerade ball.


  • 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


  • Sex: Speak

    Sex: Speak

    2015

    1h.20min

    16+

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


  • Chronic

    Chronic

    2017

    1h.27min

    16+

    Omar, a photographer, lost his male lover in an explosion. He turns his experience of loss into an art project.


  • For the Daemon

    For the Daemon

    2020

    1h.16min

    16+

    Cordt Hammer, a journalist, is possibly the last man on earth. He seems to be in the midst of a feminine revolution. Is this a dream?


  • The Net_A Visit to 'Hakim Bey'

    The Net_A Visit to 'Hakim Bey'

    2004

    35min

    16+

    Lutz Dammbeck talks with Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) about T.A.Z., Ted Kaczynski, Islam, Marvin Minsky, Cusanus and natural philosophy.


  • 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.


  • My Brother, My Love

    My Brother, My Love

    2018

    1h.54min

    16+

    Lena (16) is in love with her brother and would rather indulge in this fantasy than face reality.


  • Wannabe

    Wannabe

    2017

    30min

    16+

    WANNABE tells the story of a young YouTuber, who builds herself a fictitious world on the Internet.


  • Whatever Happened to Gelitin

    Whatever Happened to Gelitin

    2016

    1h.23min

    16+

    The Dadaist artist collective Gelitin is known for its sensational, worldwide art happenings.


  • Femme Brutal

    Femme Brutal

    2015

    1h.10min

    16+

    The farewell show of queer performers at the Burlesque Brutal club in Vienna.


  • The unman documentary

    The unman documentary

    2018

    1h.5min

    16+

    The life story of a charismatic but questionable figure from Vienna's red light milieu, Heinz Sobota.


  • Gallino, the Chicken System

    Gallino, the Chicken System

    2012

    1h.22min

    16+

    Alucinio wanders aimlessly through an ice desert. A poulterer saves him from freezing to death and leads Alucinio into the world of porn philosophy.


  • Maximum Shame

    Maximum Shame

    2010

    1h.20min

    16+

    A man dives into a parallel dimension. A place in a state of suspension between reality and fantasy, where neither space nor time have meaning.


  • Ants Pact

    Ants Pact

    2014

    20min

    16+

    Teenaged sex worker Paul finds refuge with a stranger.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • Needle Boy

    Needle Boy

    2016

    1h.16min

    16+

    Dark psycho thriller about a Danish incel.


  • DeXit: The Next Refugee Is You

    DeXit: The Next Refugee Is You

    2016

    1h.35min

    16+

    Germany in the near future: a group flees from violent demonstrations, night curfews and bomb attacks out of Berlin.


  • 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.


  • Saila - Punk Dystopia from Berlin

    Saila - Punk Dystopia from Berlin

    2008

    1h.34min

    16+

    Filmmaker Julia Ostertag creates a cinematic parallel universe, an odyssey through a doomsday scenario on the brink of apocalypse.


  • 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.


  • Black Panther – The Story of Emilie and Jacob

    Black Panther – The Story of Emilie and Jacob

    2013

    1h.19min

    16+

    Siblings Emilie and Jacob cannot help feeling a deep love for each other. After being apart for many years, they meet in the mountains.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • Cycles of Porn – Sex/Life 2

    Cycles of Porn – Sex/Life 2

    2004

    1h.44min

    16+

    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".


  • Five Sex Rooms and One Kitchen

    Five Sex Rooms and One Kitchen

    2007

    1h.19min

    16+

    This documentary is a down to earth look into the everyday life of a female-run brothel.


  • Best Buddies

    Best Buddies

    2015

    31min

    16+

    The friendship of two boys is at stake when one falls in love with the other's sister.


  • Man Loves Dog

    Man Loves Dog

    2010

    30min

    16+

    The controversial portrait of two zoophile men and their relationship with their four-legged friends.


  • Face It! (Cast Your Self™)

    Face It! (Cast Your Self™)

    2007

    4min

    16+

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


  • Unpublished! - A Bonus Track

    Unpublished! - A Bonus Track

    2006

    3min

    16+

    UNPUBLISHED!- A BONUS TRACK is a bonus interview from the Michael Brynntrup film THE OVO, which appeared on the special edition DVD 'Berlinale Rolle 2', ...


  • 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 ...


  • Blue Box Blues (Staging a Photo Shoot)

    Blue Box Blues (Staging a Photo Shoot)

    2004

    8min

    16+

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


  • Ipanema lip-synch

    Ipanema lip-synch

    2003

    3min

    16+

    IPANEMA LIP SYNC is a queer karaoke video short from Berlin filmmaking icon Michael Brynntrup.


  • Achtung - Respect (concentration chair)

    Achtung - Respect (concentration chair)

    2002

    13min

    16+

    A look back at body modifications in the early 2000s.


  • Gender Agenda

    Gender Agenda

    1999

    1h.16min

    16+

    GENDER AGENDA is a compilation of eight queer short films by Berlin experimental filmmaking icon Michael Brynntrup.


  • 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)


  • Homo Erectus

    Homo Erectus

    1989

    1h.16min

    16+

    An amusing journey through the Berlin Drag-Queen scene of the 80s in five short films by Michael Brynntrup.