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Matadoras

Matadoras

2021 | 26 min | Shorts

Caught between German stuffiness and Argentinian religiosity, Madi discovers her own sexuality.

Working On It

Working On It

2008 | 50 min | Queer

Explore the contemporary queer arts scene in Berlin and how perceptions of femininity and masculinity are constructed.

Love and 50 Megatons

Love and 50 Megatons

2020 | 44 min | Sci-Fi & Fantaisie

A grotesque, political, and socially satirical film about an unusual love story in the populist age.

Siska Deluxe

Siska Deluxe

2015 | 111 min | Comedy

Three wacky slacker guys open a pizzeria in Slovenia's capital. To grow their business, they offer to make a wish come true for every ordered pizza.

Faltenrock

Faltenrock

2019 | 82 min | Independent

A film about staying young without anti-wrinkle creams. It's about life choices, independence, and an active retirement.

Ein Oktopus hat den Mond zerstört

Ein Oktopus hat den Mond zerstört

2024 | 90 min | Dokumentarfilm

A shattered moon, maggots, and a vocational school: a year in the life of a diverse group through calm, clear images.

The Invisibles

The Invisibles

2014 | 77 min | Independent

A story about the grind of examination and verifying in the German bureaucracy.

Surviving Brandenburg

Surviving Brandenburg

2024 | 80 min | Comedy

László reluctantly stands as a candidate for mayor to prevent his village in Brandenburg from sinking into the right-wing swamp.

We Are Me

We Are Me

2012 | 19 min | Drama

This fakedocumentary tells of Jasper's search for truthfulness, which is doomed to failure when he turns from observer to participant.

Jan - Challenge at the Net

Jan - Challenge at the Net

2013 | 94 min | Independent

A portrait of a teen tennis pro in the making - a sports documentary as dramatic as fiction films such as “Jerry Maguire”.

Mär - A German Tale

Mär - A German Tale

2019 | 70 min | Drama

In dystopian Germany - just a breath away from our current reality - the return of the wolf triggers a mysterious fascination among the citizens.

Oh Yeah, She Performs

Oh Yeah, She Performs

2012 | 97 min | Independent

A doc about four extraordinary women pursuing the same dream: composing, producing and living from their own music, without compromising their ideals

Undersea

Undersea

2022 | 52 min | Documentary

To deal with the trauma she endured during her work as photojournalist, Nanna Kreutzmann turns to underwater photography.

[Out of Fra]me

[Out of Fra]me

2015 | 19 min | Shorts

An entertaining and ambiguous film that illuminates the connection between cinematic art and human experience.

Only One Blink

Only One Blink

2020 | 10 min | Shorts

This student film about the power of chance was lost for years and only rediscovered by chance.

Soldatin

Soldatin

2024 | 23 min | Independent

A military doctor prepares for deployment abroad: a fascinating contrast emerges between the barracks and the beauty salon.

Blue Eyed

Blue Eyed

1996 | 93 min | Timeless

An eye-opening experience about deep engrained behaviour we barley are aware of in our every day life.

Meanwhile in Mamelodi

Meanwhile in Mamelodi

2011 | 74 min | Documentary

In Extension 11, a part of the township of Mamelodi in Pretoria, South Africa, the Mtsweni family hopes for good business during the 2010 World Cup.

Make Up the World

Make Up the World

2024 | 99 min | Independent

Props play a crucial role in every movie, yet they are rarely consciously noticed - the big and small things on the set.

The Impossible Picture

The Impossible Picture

2016 | 70 min | Drama

1956: 13-year-old Johanna, a polio sufferer, uses her camera to document family life, her coming of age and what really happens behind closed doors.

Am Cu Ce - Pride

Am Cu Ce - Pride

2019 | 20 min | Drama

Eastern European truck drivers are the backbone of German trucking companies and take high risks because of the enormous deadline pressure.

God is not Working on Sunday!

God is not Working on Sunday!

2015 | 82 min | Independent

After the bloody genocide 20 years ago, Rwanda made a remarkable turnaround, which was primarily made possible by the country's women.

Be There

Be There

2017 | 81 min | Drama

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

Bintou

Bintou

2014 | 64 min | Documentary

Far from the catwalks of the European fashion world, BINTOU runs a successful label in Burkina Faso.

Anqa

Anqa

2023 | 91 min | Independent

The survival story of three women in Jordan, who escaped near fatal male violence and got stuck at the blurred line between life and death.

Walter Arlen’s First Century

Walter Arlen’s First Century

2019 | 94 min | Documentary

Multifaceted portrait of the composer and music critic Walter Arlen, who musically processed the horrors of the Nazi era.

My Partners

My Partners

2024 | 97 min | Love & Sex

MY PARTNERS follows three open couples in a clear-eyed documentary on polyamory, desire and the limits of freedom across Berlin and Estonia.

The Red Mountain

The Red Mountain

2022 | 110 min | Independent

Is it fact or is it fiction? A documentary-fiction hybrid about the Red Mountain near Trier and the people who dwell there.

Soldier Ahmet

Soldier Ahmet

2021 | 76 min | Independent

Ahmet, a champion boxer and professional soldier, starts taking acting lessons. On stage he comes face to face with his own internal battles.

Addiction

Addiction

2012 | 85 min | Independent

In this documentary, we follow four people in Berlin—three men and one woman—whose daily lives are dominated by drug addiction.

A Bed for Three

A Bed for Three

2022 | 17 min | Queer

A movie about the extraordinary and surprising complexity of bedroom furniture and polyamory.

Bonbon

Bonbon

2020 | 16 min | Shorts

Jannis Alexander Kiefer's short, presented as an interfilm 2025 highlight on Sooner, follows a child searching for his father at a carnival parade.

The Ground Beneath Their Feet

The Ground Beneath Their Feet

2007 | 20 min | Drama

Just like Lützerath, Erkelenz and Hambach, the village in this film has to make way for open-cast mining. But one man refuses to leave.

Among the Palms the Bomb

Among the Palms the Bomb

2024 | 85 min | Documentary

At the Salton Sea, a fragile ecosystem reveals the traces of environmental collapse and a landscape shaped by hidden histories.

Character One: Susan

Character One: Susan

2020 | 84 min | Independent

Susan is a glamorous train wreck: a delusional drug-addict and psychotic who compares herself to the likes of Maria Callas and Romy Schneider.

Lower Upper Cut

Lower Upper Cut

2011 | 92 min | Comedy

In this self-reflective improv film, an acting class prepares for a crucial final audition that will decide the rest of their careers.

Biocentrics

Biocentrics

2023 | 108 min | Independent

A film about biomimicry and the people who, by choosing nature as their inspiration, place life at the center of their decisions.

Stuttering – My Constant Companion

Stuttering – My Constant Companion

2017 | 89 min | Independent

Birgit Gohlke has stuttered since early childhood. She deals well with it, but after watching "The King's Speech", Birgit decides to take action.

Wannabe

Wannabe

2017 | 30 min | Independent

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

Another Life

Another Life

2019 | 72 min | Documentary

Alex, a hermit and philosopher, lives on the imposing cliffs of Ireland's Atlantic coast and dedicates his life to animals in need.

Eleven Uncles

Eleven Uncles

2010 | 101 min | Music, Dance, Theater

Volksbühnen actor and director Herbert Fritsch and celebrity cast transform the classic Hamlet tale into a hilarious, multimedia fever dream.

Reihe 6

Reihe 6

2023 | 25 min | Independent

This documentary shows the consequences of the 2008 war for displaced Georgians in a refugee settlement and their struggle to find a new home.

Pornografia

Pornografia

2003 | 117 min | Romance

In Wehrmacht-occupied Poland, two intellectuals flee to a country estate and play a perverse game with its inhabitants.

Deadlock

Deadlock

1970 | 89 min | Timeless

DEADLOCK hints at what German film could have become without all the state subsidized funding of navel-gazing and art for art's sake.

The unman documentary

The unman documentary

2018 | 65 min | Documentary

The life story of a charismatic but questionable figure from Vienna's red light milieu, Heinz Sobota.

Berlin 4 Lovers

Berlin 4 Lovers

2019 | 72 min | Love & Sex

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

Fraulein

Fraulein

2006 | 77 min | Drama

An intimate look at three headstrong women who come from different parts of a country that no longer exists.

Cure - The Life of Another

Cure - The Life of Another

2014 | 83 min | Thriller

After playing a sexually charged game with her best friend, below the cliffs of Dubrovnik, a teenage girl doesn't return home.

Babyboy

Babyboy

2023 | 48 min | Romance

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

Jobcenter

Jobcenter

2009 | 79 min | Independent

Unemployment... Helmut and Sieglinde are over fifty and already considered unemployable. What about young people trying to find work?

Come Closer

Come Closer

2021 | 75 min | Love & Sex

The focus is on the relationship between the two directors Bella and Andreas, who explore themes of love, sex, friendship and desire.

Lucky Devils

Lucky Devils

2013 | 95 min | Documentary

A circus gives the street children of St. Petersburg hope and a chance for a better life.

For The Time Being

For The Time Being

2018 | 44 min | Independent

A life crisis and an encounter make Roman question everything.

Borders

Borders

2008 | 20 min | Shorts

20 years after her family fled the GDR, a young woman returns to her homeland and is overcome by dark visions.

Art Girls

Art Girls

2014 | 120 min | Sci-Fi & Fantaisie

What's reality and what's art? What happens when the tables are turned, and art no longer imitates nature but things go the other way round?

We will survive

We will survive

2018 | 29 min | Queer

At the Julie-Roger-Haus in Frankfurt am Main, a care facility for seniors of all sexual orientations, "grandpa is finally allowed to be gay" (FAZ).

Schmitke

Schmitke

2014 | 98 min | Comedy

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

Cash & Marry

Cash & Marry

2009 | 76 min | Love & Sex

Two young immigrants from the Balkan are prepared to do almost anything to get a European passport, including a paid marriage.

Polterabend - Stag Party

Polterabend - Stag Party

2005 | 22 min | Comedy

As a patriarchal man, Norbert does not cope well with the fact that his beloved daughter is getting married.

China Reverse

China Reverse

2014 | 91 min | Independent

First- and second-generation Chinese immigrants often end up working primarily in Asian restaurants. This doc is that story.

Talk to Me

Talk to Me

2023 | 79 min | Drama

When a mother and her daughter take a vacation at the Baltic Sea, it quickly turns into a journey into the past that opens up old wounds.

Orpheus Rhapsodie

Orpheus Rhapsodie

2017 | 74 min | Comedy

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...

For Miriam

For Miriam

2009 | 58 min | Drama

Karen, a young math teacher, is involved in a traffic accident for which she is not to blame. The accident causes the death of a girl on a scooter.

Endzeit - End of Time

Endzeit - End of Time

2013 | 90 min | Sci-Fi & Fantaisie

A comet hits earth and wipes out almost all of humanity. A single girl appears to be the only survivor.

Strassenkaiser

Strassenkaiser

2017 | 85 min | Comedy

Noah (12) arrives in Berlin to visit his father and gets caught up in adventures at the Carnival of Cultures.

The Lady Anatomist

The Lady Anatomist

2019 | 55 min | Documentary

Wax portraits of an unknown woman are the focus of this medical-historical thriller which turns rigid 18th century role models on its head.

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Julian

2011 | 13 min | Kids & Family

Berlinale Short Film winner JULIAN by Matthew Moore tells of a fourth grader who feels the strong urge to tell the truth and who runs into trouble for doing so. "Life's not fair, Julian. It's messy" (The headmaster) Nine-year-old Julian is an attentive, precise boy who likes to line up his pens neatly on his desk. When a girl complains to him about the other kids’ misbehaviour, he informs the teacher right away. The teacher sends him off to the headmaster, but Julian doesn’t find that fair at ...

The Sleeper

The Sleeper

2018 | 17 min | Shorts

The stories of two women, who only through acts of violence, could claim visibility.

Mütter

Mütter

2025 | 85 min | Documentary

In a series of intimate kitchen conversations, ten mothers share unfiltered stories about family, identity and the realities of motherhood.

I Knew You Were My Kind

I Knew You Were My Kind

2023 | 18 min | Shorts

Two caregivers go to a client's empty beach house on the Italian coast. There, work and leisure become blurred.

Not Yet Over

Not Yet Over

2016 | 63 min | Independent

A position-finding exercise: where does feminism stand today in relation to reproduction?

Un coup d'oeil

Un coup d'oeil

2015 | 17 min | Shorts

Maryam and Frida are close friends living in a small Swedish town. They invite Monique, a mysterious couch surfer, to stay the night.

Kleptomami

Kleptomami

2017 | 10 min | Shorts

A film about the absurdities of being a mom today.

Character One: Susan

Character One: Susan

2020 | 84 min | Biography

Susan is a glamorous train wreck: a delusional drug-addict and psychotic who compares herself to the likes of Maria Callas and Romy Schneider.

Inside you

Inside you

2008 | 22 min | Drama

In this perceptive coming-of-age drama, 16-year-old Suse feels like a fifth wheel since her mom started dating.

Forest of Echoes

Forest of Echoes

2016 | 30 min | Drama

A fairytale-like story with tableaux vivants of three macabre, mystical and humorous nymphs.

Datsche

Datsche

2018 | 94 min | Independent

A naïve New Yorker retreats to his dead grandfather's summer cottage (datsche in German) but instead of peace he finds Adam, a refugee in hiding.

The Five Cardinal Points

The Five Cardinal Points

2009 | 94 min | Documentary

In his internationally acclaimed documentary director Fridolin Schönwieser charts the journey of Mexican migrants to the U.S.