Directed by Bernhard Wenger • Drama • With Albrecht Schuch, Anton Noori, Julia Franz Richter • 2025 • 102 minutes

At MyCompanion, the cultured and confident Matthias is available - for a reasonable fee - to fill any social role you desire, from 'the perfect son' to the 'enlightened boyfriend', o...

Directed by Barbara Kulcsar • Drama • With Esther Gemsch, Stefan Kurt • 2024 • 92 minutes

Alice and Peter are celebrating their retirement – and with it, a new phase in their lives. However, shortly after the couple’s retirement party, a sudden tragedy befalls Alice’s best friend Magalie. Peter,...

Directed by Gottfried Kolditz • Drama • With Jana Brejchova, Alfred Muller • 1976 • 95 minutes

A delirious early 1970s space opera produced by the East German state-run studio DEFA and directed by Gottfried Kolditz, the insanely groovy IN THE DUST OF THE STARS (1976) features a nonstop undergrou...

Directed by Robert Schwentke • Drama • With Max Hubacher • 2018 • 118 minutes

Based on the arresting true story of the Executioner of Emsland, The Captain follows a German army deserter, Willi Herold (Max Hubacher), after he finds an abandoned Nazi captain’s uniform in the final weeks of World W...

Directed by Juraj Jakubisko • Drama • With Gerhardt Karzel, Eddie Constantine • 1987 • 100 minutes

A bittersweet, slapstick cross between MONSTER SQUAD, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and the Island of Misfit Toys, FRECKLED MAX is a nostalgic Gothic fairytale from acclaimed Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko a...

Directed by Julia Fuhr Mann • Documentary • 2023 • 79 minutes

In a poetic-radical utopia, the film shakes up stereotypical gender relations in competitive sports. It searches for the queer-feminist potential in the Olympic running disciplines and sketches a world beyond rigid gender images.

If ...

Directed by Michael Schaack • Animation • With Helge Schneider, Frank Röth • 1994 • 82 minutes

A combination feline detective story, Gothic mystery and occult horror, the German animated feature FELIDAE follows cat protagonist Francis and his grizzled, one-eyed companion Blaubart as they unravel...

Directed by Timm Kröger • Drama • With Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross • 2024 • 118 minutes

Set in 1962 at a quantum mechanics conference in an isolated lodge nestled amid the towering landscapes of the Swiss Alps, THE UNIVERSAL THEORY is the story of a gifted young physicist, his curmudgeonly mentor, an...

Directed by Katharina Pethke • Documentary • 2022 • 46 minutes

Lale is a hard-working photo model. Now she’s discovered a way to get more freedom. She can get her body scanned to create a digital clone that can also become a model, in the virtual world. Before leaping into the abyss, she decides...

Directed by Charly Wai Feldman • Documentary • 2023 • 89 minutes

At 20, Sara was already famous. She fled Syria in 2015 with her younger sister Yusra. When their boat broke down as they were crossing the sea to Greece, Sara and Yusra and two others jumped into the waves and swam for three and a ...

Directed by Mat Rappaport • Documentary • With Hasso Spode, Sussanna Misgajski, Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper • 2022 • 72 minutes

Architecture, mass tourism and political ideology come together in Touristic Intents, a new documentary that investigates the never-completed Nazi resort of Prora on Germany'...

Directed by Claire Laborey • Documentary • 2022 • 52 minutes

When Zoo Station – The Story of Christiane F. was published in West Germany in 1979 it shocked the public but became an international best seller. The book tells the true story of Christiane Felscherinow, a West Berlin teenager who pro...

Directed by Stina Werenfels • Drama • With Michael Neuenschwander, Susanne-Marie Wrage, Bettina Stucky • 2005 • 98 minutes

H-P is an investment banker who lives with his wife and son in a luxurious lakeside villa. But things aren’t as perfect as they seem. H-P is involved in some dodgy deals and...

Directed by Jan Ole Gerster • Drama • With Tom Schilling, Friederike Kempter • 2014 • 88 minutes

Jan Ole Gerster’s wry and vibrant feature debut A Coffee in Berlin, which swept the 2013 German Oscar Awards, paints a day in the life of Niko, a twenty-something college dropout going nowhere fast. ...

Directed by Maurizius Staerkle Drux • Documentary • With Gottfried Bohm, Elisabeth Bohm, Stephan Bohm, Peter Bohm, Paul Bohm • 2016 • 88 minutes

Pritzker Prize laureate Gottfried Böhm is widely regarded as Germany’s preeminent architect. The son of a master builder of churches, he’s also the pat...

Directed by Nils Bökamp • Documentary • 2020 • 43 minutes

Day Zero is portraying climate change in a different way - by immersing the viewer in nature’s bounty and by listening to stories told by local people. Filmmaker Nils Bökamp has identified unique spots around the world where nature’s pris...

Directed by Nils Bökamp • Documentary • 2020 • 43 minutes

Day Zero is portraying climate change in a different way - by immersing the viewer in nature’s bounty and by listening to stories told by local people. Filmmaker Nils Bökamp has identified unique spots around the world where nature’s pris...

Directed by Nils Bökamp • Documentary • 2020 • 43 minutes

Day Zero is portraying climate change in a different way - by immersing the viewer in nature’s bounty and by listening to stories told by local people. Filmmaker Nils Bökamp has identified unique spots around the world where nature’s pris...

Directed by Joachim Fest • Documentary • With Stephen Murray (narrator) • 1977 • 150 minutes

"Hitler - A Career" is Joachim Fest's controversial German documentary film about the inevitability of Hitler and Fascism within Germany. Narrated by Stephen Murray, it tells the story of Hitler's rise t...

Directed by Lara Hewitt • Drama • With Zack Segel, Kunle Kuforiji • 2020 • 93 minutes

Valentine, a New York actor, inherits a 'datcha' on a garden allotment in East Germany and goes to spend the summer there. In ist attic he finds Adam, a refugee hiding from deportation. Valentine promises to ke...

Directed by Ayat Najafi and David Assmann • Documentary • 2008 • 86 minutes

The members of the Iranian women's international football (soccer) team possess a dedication to the sport rivaling that of any other group of players in the world. What they lack, however, is a team to play against. When...

Directed by Jonas Bak • Drama • With Anke Bak, Patrick Lo • 2021 • 79 minutes

With seamless grace, shooting on 16 mm, and underscored by a soundtrack from Brian Eno, German director Jonas Bak moves from the tall spires of the Black Forest to the teeming skyscrapers of Hong Kong in his tranquil, ...

Directed by Marcel Wehn • Documentary • With Wim Wenders, Peter Handke, Robby Müller • 2007 • 96 minutes

In intimate conversations Wim Wenders talks about his sheltered upbringing in post-war Germany. The film follows him on a journey into the past that takes him to Paris, where he lived as a yo...

Directed by Jürgen Ellinghaus • Documentary • 2021 • 55 minutes

Every year the War Cemetery Memorial of Wahala / Chra in Togo (West Africa) hosts the 11th November Remembrance Day Ceremony in memory of the First World War and of the African colonial soldiers who died here in August 1914. The fir...