Russian Film Week
Pack your vodka, comrade... No, shun those stereotypes and attend the best of Russian cinema in Berlin! All films in original language with German subtitles.
View ArticleCottbus Film Festival
Fancy a Russian flick or a Polish short? If so, make the 120km trip to enjoy this celebration of Eastern and Central European cinema. Opens with "The Kids from Marx and Engels Street".
View ArticleEXBlicks: Art Girls
When three artists come together for an exhibition funded by a biotech firm, things turn surreal. Is it all a front for futuristic experiments?
View ArticleAround the World in 14 Films
The independent festival returns with films from five continents, opening with Stéphane Brizé’s Cannes Best Actor winner The Measure of a Man.
View ArticleFuturale Film Festival
From artificial intelligence to 3D printing to YouTube, seven international documentaries on the future of labour. Opens with Israeli documentary Silicon Wadi following the beginning of start-ups in...
View ArticleOne World Berlin
The human rights festival opens at Moviemento with 3 1/2 Minutes 10 Bullets, a doco on the racially charged murder of Floridian teen Jordan Davis.
View ArticleNo Limits Festival: Das große Glück
A film about an actor with Down's syndrome making a film about an actor with Down's syndrome. And the lead actor has Down's syndrome. This veritable onion of meta-layers is followed by an enormous...
View ArticleInterfilm Festival: Search & Stumble
Berlin's own short film festival presents a slate of animated shorts from around the world. These films are united by the fact that they feature protagonists searching for something; otherwise, prepare...
View ArticleLange Nacht des russischen Nachwuchsfilms: 1. Kurzfilmblock
As part of Berlin's Russian film week, this screening showcases five shorts by promising young graduates of Moscow educational project Kultbüro – from the five-minute "Hosen" to the half-hour "Abhauen...
View ArticleBerlin Feminist Film Week: Gayby Baby
Herself a gayby, Aussie director Maya Newell's documentary follows four children and their same-sex parents as they face struggles, come together, argue and love – just as any family does. Screening...
View ArticleBerlin Art Film Festival kick-off: Focus on Anne Ratte-Polle
Two films featuring the mesmerizing Anne Ratte-Polle kick-off the second installment of the Berlin Art Film Festival. Short "Illusion" and feature Nightsongs.
View ArticleDie Liebe und Viktor
Patrick Banush's low-budget Berlin comedy, described as "Don Quixote meets Prenzlauer Berg", has proven to be quite the long-runner; celebrate its sixth year (!) in cinemas with snacks, wine and, for...
View ArticleBerlin Art Film Festival Opening
The fearlessly experimental film fest, dedicated to presenting Berlin from new angles, opens with work by Lior Shamriz (A Low Life Mythology) followed by Bildnis einer Trinkerin’s drunken stumble...
View ArticleMärry Kristmas Kino: The Nightmare Before Christmas
There's something for everybody at this market, from the obligatory Glühwein via some of Berlin's most popular food trucks to a pop-up cinema showing, among others, Tim Burton's pan-holiday classic The...
View ArticleEXBlicks: When We Are Together We Can Be Everywhere
For some queer holiday cheer, we present Marit Östberg’s sex-filled romp through Berlin.
View ArticleDas Apartment Screening
A Finn, a Canadian and a Frenchman – no, not "walk into a bar" – share the titular apartment in this comedy webseries focusing on the lives of expats in Berlin. The screening celebrates the release of...
View ArticleEXBlicks: Müller Ecke Afrika
Allow us to present Martin Helmbrecht’s ongoing documentary at our January EXBlicks screening, which lets residents of Wedding’s African Quarter tell their stories and reflect on their lives in this...
View ArticleWhen We Are Together We Can Be Everywhere
Did you miss the film that made such waves at the 2015 Porn Film Festival? Couldn't make it to our EXBlicks screening last month? Now's your chance to finally catch up on Marit Östberg's acclaimed...
View ArticleLife is a Moment
Norwegian lesbian cult band Hungry Hearts have made a film... and not just any film: a Nordic-Bollywood love story about an Indian and Pakistani who meet in a gay sauna in Oslo. With plenty of their...
View ArticleStille Hjerte (Silent Heart)
Bille August weaves another one of his deeply personal stories when in his new movie Stille Hjerte a family gets together for a week to bid their LSA-ridden mother farewell. Experience it and a round...
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