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Kaptn Oskar
2013 | 81 min | Independent
Oskar's not doing great. His ex-girlfriend Alex set his apartment on fire and now he's alone in his shabby basement. Then Masha shows up. She's not feeling so great either. Masha dates older men, but none give her the intimacy she craves. Together Oskar and Masha fight loneliness and drift through Berlin nights. Soon Oskar regrets their no sex deal and before you know it he ends up drunk back in Alex's bed. German Mumblecore celebrates improvisation, low-budget, agile hand camera, a volatile and ...

Blind & Ugly
2017 | 98 min | Independent
What Ferdi doesn't suspect: She's just pretending to be blind. Her aim is to be able to live cheaply in subsidized housing. How long can she maintain her charade? Can love, which is supposed to make you blind, even work out that way? Director Tom Lass takes a closer look, shooting with blind actors and old Berlin buddies, acting the lead himself – paying tribute to a way of life beyond our way of seeing the world.

Hard & Ugly
2017 | 71 min | Independent
Et just got fired from his job and he's sick of life. At that moment, he meets Carla, who was just dumped without warning by her fiancé. Malte Wirtz (FULL PAULA) mercilessly dissects the world of hipsters. HARD AND UGLY was filmed in Kreuzberg and Neukölln in only 13 days, with a minimal budget, and was screened at the Achtung Berlin - new Berlin film award. "With HARD AND UGLY Malte Wirtz succeeds in telling a metropolitan story in the tradition of modern social novels, such as Berlin Alexanderplatz ...

Notes of Berlin
2021 | 103 min | Comedy
While the clubs are still pounding out the music, Berlin is emerging from the twilight. A note is stuck to a lamppost: "For one minute. Please, just stand here in silence and look at the sky, and contemplate how amazing life is." A lone drunk stops and follows the instruction... A not-so-young "Man with Van" wakes up in the morning hungover next to last night's flirt and it dawns on him that it's slowly time for a change. An original Berliner decides at a bizarre WG casting to no longer take part ...

Family Fever
2014 | 78 min | Independent
Maja's and Uwe's marriage is stuck in a rut. However, Alina, their daughter, is head over heels in love with Nico. She invites both sets of parents to meet in Brandenburg, but a clandestine and surprising love affair wrecks havoc on the apparent harmony in the group. A German mumblecore tragicomedy set in a Brandenburg mansion. Three couples, six people, love, deceit, and the question: What's next?

Lotte
2016 | 75 min | Drama
He flatmate threw her out and she spends all of her energy trying to find a place to stay. This is LOTTTE's colorful life on the streets of Berlin, stumbling from man to man, and flat to flat. Lotte is direct and edgy, yet kind, and above all she has plenty of big city snark. Winner of Best Feature at the 2016 achtung berlin new berlin film award, LOTTE by Julius Schultheiß is about cheeky wit and verve and surviving Berlin. "LOTTE convinces me with its powerful main character and the light-footed ...

Love Steaks
2013 | 90 min | Independent
A luxury hotel. Steaks are sizzling. Love handles are getting massaged. Boy meets Girl in a hotel kitchen. A surprise hit comedy by mumblecore star Jakob Lass. Sweet young Clemens is a newbie at this hotel spa. Tough cookie Lara has to fight it out in the kitchen pecking order. The elevator brings them together. Hanging out in the bliss of co-dependency, the friction builds... and ignites. "I still remember how I hung the film posters of LOVE STEAKS in Berlin pubs with Jakob Lass in a night and ...

Party of Eight
2013 | 93 min | Drama
"Waiting for Godot" meets "Festen" in PARTY OF EIGHT, the feature debut of German director John Kolya Reichart. Eight people come together on a farm in the middle of nowhere. All of them are related by blood, friendship or love to Anton, who escaped his old life and disappeared some years ago and who has now invited them to celebrate his 30th birthday. Anticipating the reunion with their lost son, they put old grievances and injuries aside at first. Yet as time passes without Anton showing up, ...

Klappe Cowboy!
2011 | 84 min | Independent
KLAPPE COWBOY is a trashy, funny and partly autobiographical film 'made in Berlin'. Directors Timo Jacobs and Ulf Behrens reflect on the pros and cons of independent film making. Their ironic and partly autobiographical low budget flick is a self-financed ode to their humble beginnings. this low budget indie ethos is often referred to as German Mumblecore.

Rocket Perelman
2017 | 108 min | Independent
The gimmicks in the fashion industry got on Jen's nerves (Liv Lisa Fries). So she goes on the road looking for new horizons and ends up at the "Rocket Perelman", a commune in the Brandenburg sand box, where a different way of life is preached by Tobias (Tobias Lehmann): live free, be creative and follow your instincts. Oliver Alaluuka's first feature film was nominated at the Max Ophüls Film Festival for the prize for best feature film and the prize for best young actor. "Director debutant Oliver ...