A Single Man

USA 2009 | Drama | R: Tom Ford | FSK: 12

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin

Deutschland 2015 | Documentary, Music Films | R: Jörg A. Hoppe, Klaus Maeck, Heiko Lange | FSK: 16

A fast paced montage of TV-features, videos and Super-8-films, B-MOVIE tells the story of one of the most exciting periods of the West-Berlin music scene, from the perspective of Mark Reeder, an Englishman from Manchester, who moved to Berlin in ...

Before Night Falls

USA 2000 | Biography | R: Julian Schnabel | FSK: 16

Before Stonewall

USA 1984 | Documentary | R: Robert Rosenberg, Greta Schiller, Andrea Weiss | FSK: 16

Belfast

Großbritannien 2021 | Drama | R: Kenneth Branagh

Nine year old Buddy grows up in 1960s Belfast in a Protestant family who are thinking about moving to England while the “Troubles“ escalate around them.

Bettina

Deutschland 2022 | Documentary, Biography | R: Lutz Pehnert | NEW RELEASE

A documentary about singer Bettina Wegener.

Bloodsuckers

(Blutsauger – Bloodsuckers) | Deutschland 2021 | Comedy | R: Julian Radlmaier

The surreal, historical discourse pop comedy takes the vampire metaphors found in Marx‘ Kapital seriously and interrogates how valid Marxist categories are today.

C'mon C'mon

(C'mon C'mon) | USA 2021 | Drama | R: Mike Mills

Radio journalist Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) interviews children in different cities about their plans, worries, and also, what makes them happy. When his sister Vivien has to take care of her mentally distressed ex-husband, Johnny takes Vivien‘s ...

Compartment No. 6

(Hytti nro 6) | Finnland/ Russland/ Estland/ Deutschland 2021 | Drama, Roadmovie | R: Juho Kuosmanen | FSK: 12

Finnish archeology student Laura and Russian miner Ljoha have to share a train compartment during the long journey from Moscow to Murmansk.

Premiere: Das starke Geschlecht , m. Gästen

Deutschland 2021 | Semi-documentary Film | R: Jonas Rothlaender

Nine alternating talking men. A questioner. A black background. It‘s about rape fantasies, desires, the role of their own mother, projections, constellations during sex, weaknesses, hopes, feminism.

Death of a Ladies' Man

Kanada/Irland 2020 | Drama | R: Matt Bissonnette | FSK: 16

Sam (Gabriel Byrne) is an alcoholic and a university professor and an old charmer, even if that doesn‘t totally work anymore. Recently, he‘s been having strange hallucinations and is haunted by memories of his father.

Doctor Strange 2

(Doctor Strange 2) | USA 2022 | Adventure, Action, Comic book movie | R: Sam Raimi | FSK: 12

More manic multiverse-hopping from surgeon/sorcerer Stephen Strange and his friends.

Domestic Violence

(Domestic Violence) | USA 2001 | Documentary, Essay Film | R: Frederick Wiseman

Downton Abbey: A New Era

(Downton Abbey: A New Era) | Großbritannien 2022 | Drama, Historical Film | R: Simon Curtis

The residents and staff at Downton Abbey have to face new challenges as society changes around them.

Everything Everywhere All at Once

(Everything Everywhere All at Once) | USA 2022 | Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure | R: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

Considering all of its absurd ideas, butt plug jokes, martial arts sequences, wobbly eyes and parallel universes, EEAAO is a very moving and charming family film.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

(Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore) | USA/GB 2022 | Family Film, Fantasy | R: David Yates

Final Account

USA/Großbritannien 2020 | Documentary | R: Luke Holland

Luke Holland asked the perpetrator generation about their memories of the Nazi regime, their involvement and guilt for over 10 years.

Grosse Freiheit

Österreich/Deutschland 2020 | Drama | R: Sebastian Meise | FSK: 16

From the concentration camp directly to prison: Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski) is gay and that is still considered a crime in post-war FRG. He meets Viktor (Georg Friedrich) there, who is in prison for murder.

Happening

(L'événement) | Frankreich 2021 | Drama | R: Audrey Diwan

France in the 1960s. Anne is in her early 20s, a gifted student who is working towards becoming a teacher. But then she gets unexpectedly pregnant and all of the doors that were open to her are now closing.

Cheun gwong tsa sit

(Cheun gwong tsa sit) | HK 1997 | Love-story | R: Wong Kar-Wai | FSK: 12

Gekijouban Jujutsu Kaisen 0

(Gekijouban Jujutsu Kaisen 0) | J 2021 | Action, Animation, Fantasy | R: Seong-Hu Park

Alte Münze: King Richard

USA 2021 | Biography, Drama, Sportfilm | R: Reinaldo Marcus Green

Richard Williams (Will Smith) has carefully planned out the tennis careers of his two daughters Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena (Demi Singleton). Nevertheless, Richard scandalizes the rich, white upper class ball sport world.

Le train en marche u.a.

F 1971 | Documentary | R: Chris Marker

Licorice Pizza

USA 2021 | Drama, Comedy | R: Paul Thomas Anderson | FSK: 12

LICORICE PIZZA is set in 1973, the oil crisis is imminent. In easy-going anecdotes, Paul Thomas Anderson chronicles the life of film producer Gary Goetzman, a friend of Anderson‘s, as well as the water beds, pinballs, celebrities and old records.

Loving Highsmith

Schweiz/Deutschland 2021 | Documentary | R: Eva Vitija

In the documentary LOVING HIGHSMITH, Patricia Highsmith‘s private life is at the center: the diaries that were published in honor of her 100th birthday give intimate insights, former lovers appear in front of the camera and get a chance to speak.

Luzifer

Österreich 2021 | Drama | R: Peter Brunner

Tourism invades the remote Tyrolean mountain world of an occult Christian and her disturbed son. The film of Haneke student Peter Brunner is crude and distressing, but also a deeply impressive mixture of FUNNY GAMES, THE EXORCIST and HEIDI.

Mein wunderbares WestBerlin

(Mein wunderbares WestBerlin) | Deutschland 2017 | Documentary | R: Jochen Hick | FSK: 16

West Berlin as a gay place of yearning, a place of refuge, an island, and a tourist magnet. A very personal, moving chronology of gay Berlin history from the police raids under paragraph 175, which declared homosexuality to be illegal, to the AIDS ...

Memoria

Kolumbien/ Thailand/ Deutschland/ Mexiko/ Qatar 2021 | Drama | R: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Jessica (Tilda Swinton) is woken up by a muffled bang. She‘s the only one who can hear the sound. The sound scares her at first, but then she wants to hear it more and more.

Model

(Model) | USA 1980 | Documentary | R: Frederick Wiseman

Moonlight

USA 2017 | Drama | R: Barry Jenkins | FSK: 12

Barry Jenkins MOONLIGHT, nominated for eight Oscars, is a masterpiece, a daring film about what it means to grow up poor and black, a film about sexuality and masculinity, about damages to the soul, about sensuality and goodness.

Navalny

(Navalny) | USA 2022 | Documentary | R: Daniel Roher

The documentary delves into the background of the arrest and imprisonment of Alexei Navalny in 2021, especially focusing on what happened since the Russian oppositionist was poisoned by agents of the Russian secret service FSB.

Nico

Deutschland 2021 | Drama | R: Eline Gehring | FSK: 12

German-Persian NICO (Sara Fazilat) is brutally attacked on the way home from a party – and with that everything changes for the fun-loving and confident Berliner geriatric nurse.

One of These Days

(One of These Days) | Deutschland/USA 2020 | Drama | R: Bastian Günther | NEW RELEASE

Bastian Günther‘s feature is about an endurance competition in which participants have to put their hand on an expensive pickup truck for as long as they can.

Wilde

(Wilde) | GB 1996 | Biography, Porträt | R: Brian Gilbert | FSK: 12

Parallel Mothers

(Madres Paralelas) | Spanien 2021 | Drama | R: Pedro Almodóvar

Two mothers who meet at a hospital. One is full of fear, the other is overjoyed. Absent mothers, absent fathers, absent children. Past, present, and future.

Philadelphia

USA 1993 | Drama | R: Jonathan Demme | FSK: 12

Alte Münze: Pleasure

Schweden/Niederlande/Frankreich 2021 | Drama | R: Ninja Thyberg | FSK: 18

19 year old Linnéa came to California from Sweden to become a porn star. Carefully researched and shot with a cast of actors and porn stars, PLEASURE is about the compromises that Linnéa makes in order to pursue her dream.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

(Portrait de la jeune Fille en Feu) | Frankreich 2019 | Literary Film Adaptations, Drama | R: Céline Sciamma | FSK: 12

In painterly images of great tranquility and beauty with volcanic passion just beneath the surface, Céline Sciamma has made one of the most beautiful love stories seen in years.

Pride

Großbritannien 2014 | Comedy | R: Matthew Warchus | FSK: 6

England 1984. Based on true events, PRIDE tells the story of an unusual friendship between a group of lesbian and gay activists and a mining community in Wales.

Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush

(Rabiye Kurnaz gegen George W. Bush) | Deutschland/Frankreich 2022 | Drama | R: Andreas Dresen | FSK: 6

Rabiye Kumas, a Turkish housewife and mother who is clueless about legal and political matters, has been fighting for the release of her son from Guantánamo prison for five years with the help of a German human rights lawyer.

Red Rocket

USA 2022 | Comedy, Drama | R: Sean Baker

With no money, job, or prospects, ex-porn star Mikey returns to Texas and shows up at Lexi‘s, who is still technically his wife, and begs to sleep on her couch. When he meets 17 year old donut seller Strawberry, he decides to make it big as a porn ...

River

Australien 2021 | Documentary | R: Jennifer Peedom

RIVER is pure luxury. A hired orchestra, Willem Dafoe as the narrator and footage of rivers that – without exaggeration – are some of the most beautiful and sublime images that a documentary has ever shown.

Sommersturm

(Sommersturm) | D 2004 | Tragicomedy | R: Marco Kreuzpaintner | FSK: 12

Leander Haußmanns Stasikomödie

(Leander Haußmanns Stasikomödie) | Deutschland 2022 | Comedy | R: Leander Haußmann | FSK: 12 | NEW RELEASE

Today he‘s a novelist, in the GDR he was a hero of the resistance. Ludger Fuchs applies to look at his Stasi file – and unveils parts of his life that he has suppressed.

Sunday Bloody Sunday

(Sunday Bloody Sunday) | GB 1970 | Drama | R: John Schlesinger | FSK: 18 | NEW RELEASE

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

(The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) | Australien 1993/1994 | Comedy, Roadmovie | R: Stephan Elliott | FSK: 16

The Batman

USA 2022 | Action, Comic book movie | R: Matt Reeves

Matt Reeves (CLOVERFIELD) reboots the BATMAN-franchise, with Robert Pattinson as the caped crusader, Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman and Colin Farrell as the Penguin. The trailer suggests it will get gritty. And who is the Riddler?

The Celluloid Closet

USA 1995 | Essay Film | R: Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

The Dark and the Wicked

(The Dark and the Wicked) | USA 2020 | Horror | R: Bryan Bertino | FSK: 16

Director Bryan Bertino (THE STRANGERS) uses elements from the haunted house films of the last 30 years and keeps heightening the scares right until it reaches the last confrontation revolving around old David Straker‘s soul

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

(The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain) | Großbritannien 2021 | Biography | R: Will Sharpe | FSK: 12

Cat painter Louis Wain (Benedict Cumberbatch) has a lot of talent and just as many quirks. He sees electric voltage in all living things. Images vibrate and shimmer on the canvas in this tragicomedy.

The French Dispatch

USA/Deutschland 2020 | Comedy | R: Wes Anderson | FSK: 12

In his most recent film Wes Anderson tells stories about the last edition of an imaginary American magazine in an imaginary French town.

The Northman

Großbritannien 2022 | Action, Historical Film, Drama | R: Robert Eggers

Robert Eggers fulfilled a dream and made a Viking film. THE NORTHMAN is an adaptation of the Nordic saga that went on to inspire Shakespeare to make “Hamlet“ centuries later.

The Reason I Jump

(The Reason I Jump) | Großbritannien 2020 | Documentary | R: Jerry Rothwell

The documentary named after the eponymous book, which was told from 13 year old Naoki Higashida‘s perspective, lends insight into the world of people with autism in a multifaceted and sensitive way.

Torch Song Trilogy

USA 1988 | Comedy | R: Paul Bogart | FSK: 16

Vicious Fun

USA 2020 | Horror, Comedy | R: Cody Calahan

Horror journalist Joel wakes up in a closed bar where serial killers are having a self-help seminar. Everyone has set their sights on him. A horror comedy.

Vortex

Frankreich 2021 | Drama | R: Gaspar Noé

VORTEX is about a couple in their 80s, played by Dario Argento and Francoise Lebrun. He tries to maintain the illusion of routine and work, she keeps getting lonelier in her dementia. Gaspar Noé follows the two of them with separate cameras in ...

Wings of Desire

(Der Himmel über Berlin) | BRD/Frankreich 1986 | Drama | R: Wim Wenders | FSK: 6

Otto Sander and Brunco Ganz as angels watching over Berlin. Wim Wender‘s poetic film is also a historic document of the city before the fall of the Wall.

Wunderschön

Deutschland 2020 | Comedy, Drama | R: Karoline Herfurth | FSK: 6

Frauke doesn't feel desirable at almost 60 years old. Her daughter Julie wants to finally start her career as a model. Julie's daughter-in-law Sonja is struggling with her body, which becomes the expression of her life crisis after two pregnancies.

X (2022)

(X) | USA 2022 | Horror | R: Ti West | NEW RELEASE

In 1979, a small, ambitious film crew drives to an isolated farm where they plan on filming THE FARMER‘S DAUGHTER, an “artful“ porn. 24 hours after the team‘s arrival, the local sheriff is confronted with the traces of a bloodbath.