
The Third Guest
By Malte Wirtz
2024 | 72 min | Horror
A lonely hostel hides more than just silence - a secret that needs to be uncovered.


By Malte Wirtz
2024 | 72 min | Horror
A lonely hostel hides more than just silence - a secret that needs to be uncovered.

2025 | 80 min | Documentary
BERLIN RHAPSODY looks at Berlin as a city of constant motion, where tradition and innovation, history and the present, noise and calm coexist in uneasy balance. Inspired by Walter Ruttmann's 1927 silent classic, the film observes the modern metropolis through images rather than dialogue, turning streets, parks and transit lines into a living portrait. The camera moves through rush-hour subway carriages, follows bicycle couriers through dense traffic and lingers in parks where people step away from ...

2020 | 102 min | Drama
The conversations with his chance encounters give deeper and deeper insights into Joscha's past and his chaotic life. When he's finally alone and takes the pill, his journey finally begins and he wonders if it was the right decision. The film was shot in a single take, with no cuts. The camera follows Joscha through a winter night on the banks of the Rhine in Cologne.

2024 | 84 min | Horror
A successful streamer plans a special live event for Halloween. Together with a group of young paranormal investigators, he wants to turn the night into an exciting experience for his numerous followers. But what starts as an entertaining show quickly turns into a nightmare. Inexplicable phenomena pile up, and those involved are confronted with increasingly disturbing events. The line between entertainment and reality blurs, and the night takes a dark turn. STREAM by Sergio Pereda is a Spanish horror ...

2024 | 72 min | Horror
Carolina lives with her absent husband Hugo in an old, dilapidated mansion where it is quiet, the rooms are empty, and some doors are always locked. But one evening, everything goes wrong. When she comes home, there is a strange woman standing there with a gift: a sealed, mysterious box. As soon as she opens the box, the house comes alive... and something inside is watching her. Director Cristian Bidone stages a psychological thriller that explores the disintegration of an identity through dense ...

2015 | 82 min | Independent
Love and career prospects open up, but things turn out differently than expected... With an imagination that pours 90 million visual ideas into 90 minutes, and a young, likeable cast, Malte Wirtz succeeds in putting a new spin on the urban romcom. The film follows Paula, Louise, Max, Randolf and Donnie over the course of four days as they struggle to master the chaos in their love and professional lives. The comedy 5 STORIES IN 4 DAYS is Malte Wirtz's the feature debut, an exciting new voice in ...

2008 | 22 min | Drama
A shimmering summer story in a holiday home on the Baltic Sea. Sixteen-year-old Suse feels like a fifth wheel alongside her young mother and her new boyfriend and withdraws into herself. But then she discovers how she can change things in her favor. She just has to use the right means... Using a mixture of youthful naivety and growing cunning, Suse tries out various strategies to win back her mother's attention and undermine the unwanted presence of her new boyfriend. Each day brings new insights ...

2021 | 30 min | Drama
Young Colombian Luz hopes for a better life when she takes a job as a maid for a diplomatic couple in Germany. Full of anticipation for a secure position and the opportunity to support her family in Bogotá, she begins her new life. But soon the perfect façade of her new environment begins to crumble. At first, she is rejected by the older housekeeper Alba, but a crisis they experience together brings the two women closer. When Alba suddenly disappears the next morning, Luz begins to look behind ...

2022 | 79 min | Horror
A group of three young people go into the forest, having heard that there is a stone altar, they search until late at night and suddenly a young woman disappears from the group. The two men stay in the forest but can't find her. Initially, Malte Wirtz had wanted to shoot a romantic comedy in Cologne's Königsforst. But the local circumstances, no light, no cell phone reception, and the actual, temporary disappearance of the main actress, then moved the Berlin and Cologne-based director to try his ...

2006 | 93 min | Drama
REQUIEM begins in a small town in southern Germany in the early 1970s, where Michaela Klingler finally leaves a strict Catholic home after repeated stays in hospital for epilepsy. At university in Tübingen, she tastes a wider life through Stefan and her friend Hanna, and REQUIEM follows the fragile hope that freedom might last. That hope cracks when Michaela collapses in her residence hall. What seems at first like another attack becomes something far more frightening to her: inner voices, grotesque ...

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, ...