A Chiara

(A Chiara) | Italien/ Frankreich/ Schweden/ Dänemark 2021 | Drama | R: Jonas Carpignano | FSK: 12

Neo-realist drama about a young Italian who discovers that her whole family is heavily involved in local mafia activities.

AEIOU - Das schnelle Alphabet der Liebe

(AEIOU – Das schnelle Alphabet der Liebe) | Deutschland 2022 | Drama | R: Nicolette Krebitz

60 year old actress Anna takes a job as a language trainer. Her first client is 17 year old Adrian who stole her wallet shortly before. The two quickly develop a playful, flirty dynamic.

Axiom

Deutschland 2022 | Drama | R: Jöns Jönsson | NEW RELEASE

Julius is a compulsive liar. He processes information and overheard conversation snippets and turns them into events, anecdotes and a biography that he changes as often as others change their shirts.

Basic Instinct

USA 1992 | Thriller, Crime Drama, Erotic Film | R: Paul Verhoeven | FSK: 16

An erotic thriller starring Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas.

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.

Boku no Hero Academia 3: World Heroes Mission

(Boku no Hero Academia 3: World Heroes Mission) | J 2021 | Animation

Borga , m. Gast

Ghana/Deutschland 2021 | Drama | R: York-Fabian Raabe | FSK: 12

Brothers Kofi and Kojo are growing up on the electronic scrap landsfill by the gates of Accra, but they dream of a good life like the ones the “Borga“ have, the Ghanaians who have made money abroad.

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 ...

Cabaret

USA 1972 | Drama, Musical | R: Bob Fosse | FSK: 16

Das starke Geschlecht

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.

3D: 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.

Drive My Car

(Doraibu mai kâ) | Japan 2021 | Drama | R: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | FSK: 12

The reserved, very controlled people that this adaptation of a Haruki Murakami short story depicts are very slow to open up. The moments in which pure emotion breaks through are that much more staggering because of it.

Elvis

USA 2022 | Drama, Biography | R: Baz Luhrmann

Baz Luhrmann isn‘t a storyteller, he‘s a showman. The actual protagonist of the film isn‘t Elvis, but rather Elvis‘ manager Colonel Tom Parker, one of the most hated villains in show business.

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.

Preview: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

(Good Luck To You, Leo Grande) | Großbritannien 2022 | Comedy, Drama | R: Sophie Hyde | FSK: 12

Emma Thompson plays 55-year-old widow Nancy who feels like she missed out on having great sex in her life and threfore hires sex worker Leo Grande.

Heiko's World

(Heiko's World) | Deutschland 2021 | Comedy | R: Dominik Galizia | FSK: 12

North Berliner local bar hero Heiko has to win at darts in order to be able to pay for his mother‘s eye surgery.

Inshallah - Stories from the European Border , m. Gespräch

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.

Lieber Thomas

Deutschland 2021 | Drama | R: Andreas Kleinert | FSK: 16

In their Thomas Brasch biopic, director Andreas Kleinert and writer Thomas Wendrich playfully work with facts, widely shake things up, leave things out, bulk things up, exaggerate and underplay.

Lightyear

USA | Adventure, Animation, Family Film | R: Angus MacLane

In-Universe origin story for TOY STORY's Buzz Lightyear. Here he truly is a hero who will inspire a toy.

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.

Poppy Field

RO 2020 | Drama | R: Eugen Jebeleanu

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.

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.

Stand Up! Was bleibt wenn alles weg ist

(Stand Up! Was bleibt wenn alles weg ist) | Deutschland 2021 | Tragicomedy | R: Timo Jacobs | FSK: 12

The Black Phone

USA 2021 | Horror, Thriller | R: Scott Derrickson | FSK: 16

Supernatural horror based on a short story by Joe Hill.

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 Outfit

USA 2022 | Crime Drama, Drama | R: Graham Moore

Brit Leonard‘s (Mark Rylance) tailor shop is used as a dead drop by a gangster organization. The tailor soon finds himself caught in the crossfire of rival gangs.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

(The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent) | USA 2022 | Comedy, Crime Drama | R: Tom Gormican

Nicolas Cage plays Nick Cage, a washed-up actor who wants to end his career. Before that, he takes on one more lucrative entertainment job – which involves the drug mafia and the CIA.

Mobile Kino: The Worst Person in the World

(Verdens verste menneske) | Frankreich/Norwegen 2021 | Drama, Comedy, Romance Films | R: Joachim Trier

Julie, in her late 20s, is a woman without a plan. She changes careers and relationships and realizes that something has to change.

Thor: Love and Thunder

USA 2022 | Adventure, Action | R: Taika Waititi | NEW RELEASE

Top Gun Maverick

(Top Gun Maverick) | USA 2022 | Action, War Film | R: Joseph Kosinski

Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell has to train the next generation of TOPGUN for a secret mission against an evil nation. What might be his last mission has him meet old rivals, sons of friends and new challenges.

Cinepoetics: Traite de bave et d'eternite

(Traite de bave et d'eternite) | F 1951 | Drama, Experimental film | R: Isidore Isou

Virus Tropical

CO 2017 | Animation, Biography, Drama | R: Santiago Caicedo

Volksvertreter

D 2021 | Documentary | R: Andreas Wilcke | FSK: 12

Wet Sand

Schweiz/Georgien 2021 | Drama | R: Elene Naveriani

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

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.