The dark, dystopian horror cabinet with BDSM vibes about the man in the monkey mask enters its second round.
Your Beautiful Hell
Drama, Independent
2023
1h.57min
16+
Bond villain Detlef Bothe tells the story of two people who would have been better off never meeting.
Narcissism: The Auto-Erotic Images
Love & Sex, Queer
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
Classics, Queer
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
Drama, Love & Sex
2018
1h.52min
16+
Despite its disarmingly strange erotic scenes, The Skin of Others is a deeply romantic love story.
Highfalutin
Biography, Documentary
2021
1h.36min
16+
Friends and colleagues reminisce about the controversial actor Volker Spengler, who was dubbed the "Downfall of the West".
2551.01
Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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
Documentary, Love & Sex
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
Documentary, Love & Sex
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
Drama, Queer
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
Independent, Music, Dance, Theater
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'
Icons & Media Art
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
Documentary, Independent
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
Drama, Love & Sex
2018
1h.54min
16+
Lena (16) is in love with her brother and would rather indulge in this fantasy than face reality.
Wannabe
Drama, Independent
2017
30min
16+
WANNABE tells the story of a young YouTuber, who builds herself a fictitious world on the Internet.
Whatever Happened to Gelitin
Documentary, Independent
2016
1h.23min
16+
The Dadaist artist collective Gelitin is known for its sensational, worldwide art happenings.
Femme Brutal
Music, Dance, Theater, Queer
2015
1h.10min
16+
The farewell show of queer performers at the Burlesque Brutal club in Vienna.
The unman documentary
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
Icons & Media Art
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
Independent
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
Drama
2014
20min
16+
Teenaged sex worker Paul finds refuge with a stranger.
Sexarbeiterin
Documentary, Independent
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
Documentary, Love & Sex
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
Independent, Comedy
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
Biography, Documentary
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
Drama, Independent
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
Drama, Independent
2016
1h.16min
16+
Dark psycho thriller about a Danish incel.
DeXit: The Next Refugee Is You
Drama, Thriller
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
Comedy, Queer
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
Independent, Music, Dance, Theater
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
Documentary, Love & Sex
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
Independent, Love & Sex
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
Love & Sex, Queer
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
Comedy, Queer
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
Independent, Queer
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
Love & Sex, Documentary
2007
1h.19min
16+
This documentary is a down to earth look into the everyday life of a female-run brothel.
Best Buddies
Drama, Queer
2015
31min
16+
The friendship of two boys is at stake when one falls in love with the other's sister.
Man Loves Dog
Love & Sex, Documentary
2010
30min
16+
The controversial portrait of two zoophile men and their relationship with their four-legged friends.
Face It! (Cast Your Self™)
Icons & Media Art
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
Icons & Media Art
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)
Icons & Media Art
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)
Icons & Media Art
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
Icons & Media Art
2003
3min
16+
IPANEMA LIP SYNC is a queer karaoke video short from Berlin filmmaking icon Michael Brynntrup.
Achtung - Respect (concentration chair)
Icons & Media Art
2002
13min
16+
A look back at body modifications in the early 2000s.
NY 'NY 'n why not
Icons & Media Art
1999
4min
16+
WALK / DON'T WALK / WALK. The rhythm of the nineties. A musical stroll along Christopher Street.
Gender Agenda
Icons & Media Art
1999
1h.16min
16+
GENDER AGENDA is a compilation of eight queer short films by Berlin experimental filmmaking icon Michael Brynntrup.
All You Can Eat
Icons & Media Art
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
Icons & Media Art
1989
1h.16min
16+
An amusing journey through the Berlin Drag-Queen scene of the 80s in five short films by Michael Brynntrup.