
Cuba Libre
By Albert Serra
2014 | 18 min | Music, Dance, Theater
A tribute to director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his actor Günther Kaufmann.


By Albert Serra
2014 | 18 min | Music, Dance, Theater
A tribute to director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his actor Günther Kaufmann.

By Albert Serra
2012 | 150 min | Drama
Together with his new servant, Casanova embarks on a journey to the Carpathians, to Dracula.

By Albert Serra
2011 | 146 min | Documentary
A road movie – on the trail of Don Quixote's mythical locations.

By Albert Serra
2008 | 98 min | Drama
The Three Wise Kings travel in search of the Messiah, with unexpected obstacles on the way.

By Albert Serra
2006 | 107 min | Drama
Albert Serra distills the philosophical and spiritual core of Miguel de Cervantes' classic tale.

2017 | 105 min | Drama
In this collaborative film made by students from the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, former public prosecutor and actor Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, sues a public broadcasting station. In documentary and fictional scenes, it follows his trial against a system demanding compulsory conformity and unimaginativeness. Sociopolitical, aesthetical and personal perspectives are clearly defined, developed narratively and confronted with one another. Numerous film professionals have their say. They radically oppose ...

1985 | 88 min | Comedy
Martha lives in Hamburg with her young son. She makes films. " She moves in with a Portuguese family "to be closer to the pulse of society". Teresa helps immigrants deal with administrative formalities. Meanwhile, Martha tries to find romance with Alfred, who doesn't really have a handle on things. In his late thirties, he is still studying architecture, and he won't let go of Martha either. The everyday lives of the three of them reflect the realities of West Germany, captured spontaneously and ...

1999 | 65 min | Documentary
An award-winning, authentic film about the Holocaust. "It’s a well done, very moving documentary." (Roman Polanski) The film title KURT GERRON'S CAROUSEL refers to the cabaret theater that Kurt Gerron started in 1943 while an inmate of the Theresienstadt concentration camp. A star of Berlin theater and cabaret life, and one of the most successful film directers at the UFA, Gerron, who was Jewish, emigrated to Paris in 1933 and then to Amsterdam, where he was interned in 1942, deported to Theresienstadt ...

2008 | 50 min | Music, Dance, Theater
WORKING ON IT: directors Karin Michalski and Sabian Baumann explore the contemporary queer arts scene in Berlin and how perceptions of femininity and masculinity are constructed. The film asks “What happens when you don’t fit firmly into one box or the other?” - Soundtrack featuring Riot Girrrl bands: Lesbians on Ecstasy, Scream Club, Heidi Mortenson and Rhythm King and her friends.

2001 | 94 min | Documentary
Here, old time movies are on the bill, not blockbusters. The audience are old timers too and the meet here every afternoon at four in the afternoon. BELLARIA – AS LONG AS WE LIVE! won numerous awards and played at festivals around the world. There's the lady who is actually quite happy to be a widow and who saves from her food budget to buy her movie ticket. There's the gentleman who, alongside his mother, worships Zarah Leander above all others. And then there's the cinema projectionist who sits ...

2020 | 65 min | Documentary
The opportunities in the burgeoning industry attract diverse characters. Director Abba Makama sees the moment for an intellectual cinematic movement, a sort of Nigerian New Wave. Bastian Gotter, a young investor from Berlin, tells how he and his Nigerian partner – almost by accident succeeded in founding the largest streaming service in Africa. Popcorn cinema producer Don Omope also wants to make use of the positive spirit: „We are here to become the Nigerian Tarantinos and Steven Spielbergs.“

2013 | 79 min | Biography
This is the story of a film maniac who was crushed between the opposing fronts of German cinema and his own lack of compromise. Otto Sander recalls his first screen appearance in "Ludwig." Eva Mattes reviews one of her most memorable roles and recounts the making of "Supermarkt." Hark Bohm commemorates his brother Marquard, who rose to stardom with DEADLOCK. And horror film icon David Hess, who raged alongside Hopper in "White Star," interprets Klick's drama from an American perspective: "He was ...

2016 | 26 min | Drama
In Jasmin Baumgartner's short film, three young actors take part in an experimental play called 'Youth Sucks' at the Vienna Theater. The situation quickly becomes explosive. The main actor is supposed to improvise a monologue that comes across as left-liberal self-abuse of a politically impotent young generation pretending to care about the world. While the ensemble members Dany (Jasna Fritzi Bauer) and Patrick (Dominik Brauweiler) perform appropriately with emotion and expression, Jasper (Daniel ...

2007 | 81 min | Independent
What does a baby's cry have in common with the echo of a mountain yodeler? What connects the head tone of a Tuvan nomad with the stage show of a vocal artist? The answer is: The Voice. Against a backdrop of powerful alpine vistas and modern city landscapes, "Echoes of Home" enters the wondrous sonic world of three exceptional Swiss vocal artists. Their universe of sound extends far beyond what we would describe as singing. As they explore local and foreign traditions, the powerful mountain landscape ...

2020 | 72 min | Documentary
This essay film, based on a prior Berlinale film 'Anna' from 1975, addresses the place of women in a world that was full of discrimination back in the 70s and remains so today. From 1972 to 1975, Italian underground directors Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli, accompanied a pregnant, drug-addicted runaway for their film "Anna". They offered her help and in return made her the main character of their film project, which oscillates between documentation and (re)staging, between empathy, distanced ...