Young Talent

A teenager grapples with masculinity amid family splits and first loves, reflecting the rawness of youth in a German town.

In the vast emptiness of the Patagonian steppe, 13-year-old Mora embarks on a journey with an old, indigenous Mapuche gaucho.

Somewhere in the Monchique mountains of Portugal, the Fridayhappiness Associação balances sustainable living with their economic lifeline.

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

Milena Czernovsky and Lilith Kraxner's debut blurs the line between documentary and fiction filmmaking, joining a recent trend in the film industry.

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

New spin on the found footage genre: three friends spend a week in a haunted castle to investigate supernatural phenomena.

A grieving teenage girl is drawn to the young man blamed for her brother's death.

A Delhi woman's rocky road to her own cab license.

When Jonas loses his job at a Hamburg startup he doesn’t have the heart to tell his girlfriend Katharina.

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

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

A Tinder date encourages young Leonid to live out his own definition of "masculinity" in a world of changing gender roles.

The sky is their canvas, the airplane their brush. The Stinis family has been making history in skywriting and painting messages on the sky.

The air smells like summer. A potpourri of suntan lotion lawn and lime blossom fries, of water polo melon and chlorine lemonade hovering in the air.

Mark and Antonia have a long-distance relationship and are taking a joint holiday in Paris. Their last visit was a long while back. How will it go?

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

What would kids do if they didn't have to go to school? Five young people follow their interests in a world without compulsory education.

A German Mumblecore tragicomedy set in a Brandenburg mansion. Three couples, six people, love, deceit, and the question: what's next?

Mara jumps from a bridge to her death - and wakes up in the hospital. But something's wrong. No one recognizes her.

A bearded man with a backpack gets on an airplane and a beardless man without a backpack simply does what a man has to do.

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

Mia and Linda meet again after years in Berlin. Mia is in debt and plans to blackmail the man she has been having an affair with.

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

Leyla, a young woman from Germany, campaigns to become the youngest mayor of Turkey - in the town of Cizre, marked by civil war.

A woman dies in a tragic accident, but her soul remains in the here and now. But how? A quick-witted Berlin repairman has a hand in this...

Akin Sipal explores his family history and the role language and literature play in it.

Three episodes, four characters, two couples and the one moment when everything changes.

Teenaged sex worker Paul finds refuge with a stranger.

All Creatures Welcome explores the world of hackers and nerds and sketches a utopian image of society in the digital era.

Hobo Beate lives with her disabled child in a tent. One day, law enforcement turns their lives upside down. And so the journey begins.

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.

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

Oskar and Masha made a deal: a relationship but no sex. While Oskar soon regrets it, Mascha sleeps indiscriminately with older men. Can this work out?

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

A newbie filmmaker from Hamburg arrives in Berlin, convinced that he'll make it big. Instead, he ends up shooting an 'adult' art movie!

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.

When the elderly and lonely Hanna causes an accident in Germany in which a young man from Kosovo dies, she tries to track down his family.

What is inclusion and what does it mean for the future? Ana Trkulja documents the Brotfabrik Berlin inclusion project Two Suns.

Essayistic film about the Camorra clan that has been dominating the city of Naples for centuries.

A reclusive man must break out of his self-imposed prison. But neither he nor the outside world is ready for it.

A lesbian bachelorette’s night out with "the guys", including, alas, her future sperm donor. A mumblecore comedy on a raft.

Carried by poetry and tension, this documentary portrays the three-year voyage of a young sailing beginner from Europe to Australia.

The director is drawn into the conflict-ridden marriage of her parents by an inheritance issue.

SPEAKING OF LOVE tells of being in love and friendship, reluctance and overcoming obstacles, giving things a shot and of failing to get things right.

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

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.

In this documentary we follow four people in Berlin - three men and a woman – who live their daily lives under the sign of drug addiction.

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

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

Denny lives in in the city, boozes and dances through the night, and sleeps with one girl after another.

A bunch of men go on a short vacation and set their inhibitions aside.

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

The documentary SHALOM SALAM tells about the conflict in the Middle East through the eyes of Israeli and Palestinian children.

The largely unknown story of the GDR contract workers from Namibia.

Seven female criminals have to work off their community service hours in a cursed forest.

In a quest for self-directed living, ten artists near Berlin join forces to start the artist's colony 'Rakete Perelman'. But, they need money.

Dark psycho thriller about a Danish incel.

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

Yagub, a carpenter, earns most of his money from the coffins he makes. He also has to look after his son, who has a disability.

The Hasenheide in Berlin is a inner-city park that plays home to a colorful mix of urban dwellers: from people walking their dogs to drug dealers.

These self-assured ladies have everything under control, but in a world dominated by high tech communications and competition even they get the blues.

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.

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

By chance, Kai is thrown into an agency for creatives and a love story that is treading water somewhere between art, capital and marketing.

A playful romanticist has been waiting for the love of her life to return – when suddenly her newly separated mother moves in.

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

The story of four Chinese boys and their hopes, dreams and the challenges they face.

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

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.

The documentary VIACRUCIS MIGRANTE – MIGRANT CROSSING by Hauke Lorenz gives people a voice who are on the arduous path to "the promised Land".

After the catastrophic events in Fukushima, the transition to renewable energy was placed firmly on the political agenda in Germany.

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

THE JACKPOT: 4.12 Billion Euro. Five hungry mouths. Nobody wants to share. A short film by Malte Wirtz (5 Stories in 4 Days).

The lives of Paula, Louise, Max, Randolf and Donnie are getting out of hand.

What should have been a ordinary job in the Czech Ore Mountains, becomes a mysterious expedition for the aging engineer Julius Schmitke.

Years ago Anton disappeared. Out of the blue he invited his family and friends to a party. But everyone's joyful expectation soon fades.

FRONTALWATTE is like running against a wall and falling softly. Franz, Adrian and Anastasia stumble through a world without consequences.

A documentary set in Berlin about people who do things nighttime.

Join real legends of the Berlin graffiti underground culture on a trip through the city.

BEHIND FORTUNE by Malte Wirtz (FULL PAULA) is a story about a father attempts to get in touch with his estranged son at any cost.

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

Inspired by the ideas of Professor Eisenstein, inventor SCHWEINEVOGEL builds his own time machine-space capsule in his cellar.

The filmmaker portrays an elderly woman who has not given up the fight for living independently. A film about everyday life and aging.

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

Filmmaker Juliane Henrich explores the term "Wende" (course change) by means of a speech by Christa Wolf, which she gave shortly before the fall of the ...

In this celebration of childhood, a 10-year-old girl struggles to find her place in a 'boys' world.

When I face death – I face myself. A boy spends hours on a busy holiday beach. His impressions and thoughts circle around the idea of transience.

After a plane crash Martin goes on a search for traces from the Dolomites over Brazil to the ocean floor.

Lucie is waiting at a bus stop in the middle of nowhere. But instead of a bus, only strange people turn up.

Wilfried has sold umbrellas all his life but he can no longer keep up with the technological requirements of the modern day.

Jürgen Blin, who ran away from home at the age of 14 to go to sea, talks openly about his life and his years at a boxing school in Hamburg.

A short biography about analogue vinyl records.

In his short film VUE POINTE, Arne Körner looks at an island - the rushing sea, bays, unusual plants and buildings.

Hans is a bike messenger from Berlin-Kreuzberg, going about with his daily life, trying to escape from the truth in supposed ordinariness.

Guillo left his comfortable city life and went to live in the jungle, near the border to Panama. Lonely, without electricity and far from society.

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

Simon Dolensky's graduation film from the International Film School Cologne was nominated for the First Steps Award.

When a young man enters the idyllic but secluded life of the mother Lilli and her daughter Ilvy, the bond between mother and child is threatened.

During WWI the war reaches a small village and changes the fate of an older woman and her 12 year old friend.

When Mika enters 15-year-old Alicia life, she is confused by their appearance.