Amara terra mia - Bitter Land Of Mine

Docudrama about the first generation of so-called Gastarbeiter in Germany. Carla and Maria Grazia meet for the first time outside the crematorium, …

Another Round

Would being born with a small amount of alcohol in our blood allow us to be more open to the world? In Thomas Vinterberg's new film, four friends …

Antigone

[⏵] A young migrant woman’s fight against an inhuman immigration system: a provocative adaptation of the Ancient Greek tragedy with an …

Apples

[⏵] In the midst of a pandemic which leads to memory loss, a man takes part in a test programme for a new treatment. An intelligent and at the …

Aswang

[⏵] DOCUMENTARY In his war on drugs, the Philippine crypto-dictator Duterte has turned the streets of Manila into a battlefield, setting his …

At the Bottom of the Sea

[⏵] The South-West of Texas was once part of the sea bed and has over time become mountains, prairie and desert. With almost archaeological …

Bad Boy Lemke

[⏵] Hamburg has him to thank for formative Kiez classics like Rocker and Paul. Klaus Lemke, the Wild One of German cinema, turns 80 – and …

Bad Roads

[⏵] Four short stories from the streets of Donbass. An introduction to a world in which chaos rules and humanity has capitulated. East Ukraine …

Billie

[⏵] DOCUMENTARY Billie Holiday was one of the great voices of jazz. Billie presents hitherto unpublished recordings and shows the singer for …

Bread and People

[⏵] ESSAY The daily bread of the oppressed: the film puts an artistic, combative finger in the wound of capitalism. Brazil is marked by social …

Caged Birds

[⏵] Walter Stürm is seen as the break-out king of Switzerland and was an idol of the left. The film portrays the criminal legend – and the very …

Caterpillars

[⏵] DOCUMENTARY Everyone should have the right to go to school! Two young Aka pygmies in Central Africa fight against the discrimination of their …

Chaco

[⏵] An army in inhospitable territory between Bolivia and Paraguay seeks the enemy – and finds the biggest adversary in itself. A war film …

City Hall

DOCUMENTARY For the good of the people: in his new film, doyen Frederick Wiseman observes the complex work of the city administration in Boston …

The Cloud in her Room

A fascinating debut which illustrates with poetic brutality the condition in which the world continues to turn, even when one is not yet ready to let …

Cortex

Two men, two lives, one fateful encounter: Moritz Bleibtreu’s directorial debut, for which he also wrote the screenplay, is a tense, labyrinthine …

Curveball - A True Story. Unfortunately.

[⏵] To know more than the CIA for a change! This biting spy satire is based on real events and lampoons the German intelligence agency BND, which …

Dark Waters

[⏵] A tense industrial thriller tells the true story of lawyer Rob Bilott, who takes on one of the biggest chemical companies in the world. …

Dark Woods

A three-parter with an excellent cast about one of the most mysterious criminal cases in German post-war history. In the summer of 1989, the …

Elsewhere, Everywhere

[⏵] DOCUMENTARY The collected documents of a young Iranian man reveal the facts of a real migration – and the fiction of a success story. A …

Ema

[⏵] Pablo Larraín powerfully tests the limits of modern cinema. Ema is the portrait of a woman in flames. Their lives are as experimental and …

Enfant Terrible

Oskar Roehler’s homage to film icon Rainer Werner Fassbinder can rely 100% on its charismatic leading actor: Oliver Masucci doesn’t just play …

Enthusiasmus

In 1931, the first Soviet sound film was shown in full: Vertov, who also gave a speech in Yiddish, put Enthusiasm on for an audience of 1800 workers …

The Father

[⏵] A Bulgarian family story about loss, mourning and guilt reminiscent of the absurd comedy of Toni Erdmann. Vasil has just lost his wife. At …

First Cow

[⏵] Once again, Kelly Reichardt offers us her take on the Western and counterposes a sensitive story of male friendship with the mythology of …

Gagarine

[⏵] Between tower block and orbit: the story of a young fan of space travel from the banlieue is an expedition into the power of the imagination …

Gaza mon amour

[⏵] An absurd comedy from Gaza. At the centre: an old man in love and the god of male beauty. A Hamburg co-production which ran in Venice in …

Genus Pan

[⏵] An in-depth study of human nature, a possible evolution of our animalistic urges. Hugaw is a god-forsaken island in the Philippine …

Gull

[⏵] In her impressive debut film, director Kim Mijo takes on a subject that in South Korea is a highly controversial taboo: #metoo in Seoul. Obok …

Gunda

DOCUMENTARY Burrowing in mud, looking for worms, flicking away insects: Gunda captures the reality of the animals we eat every day. A warm, visually …

Happy Old Year

A clear-out becomes a melancholic reflection on keeping hold and letting go. Jean has a new philosophy: long live minimalism! She plans to radically …

Helga - Die Zwei Gesichter der Feddersen

Moving portrait of an extraordinary woman. In the 1960s, Helga Feddersen became known as a comedy actress far beyond the borders of Hamburg. But …

Hope Gap

[⏵] Scenes from a marriage: Annette Bening and Bill Nighy star in a razor-sharp drama about a couple united in the pain of separation. It's …

I Am Greta

From a cardboard sign in the street to the podium of the UN Climate Summit: a portrait of Greta Thunberg. »Skolstrejk för klimatet« – school …

If it Were Love

[⏵] How do you transform a dance performance of layered movements and time shifts into a kind of loose literary adaptation for the cinema? …

Im Wahn

DOCUMENTARY Chrononology of a current nightmare. The USA are experiencing several levels of catastrophe: no country has been harder hit by the Corona …

Just don't think I'll scream

Loneliness at the end of a relationship. Withdrawal into the smallest space. 400 films accompanied by depression, drug consumption, mid-life crisis. …

Kajillionaire

[⏵] The new film from multimedia artist Miranda July is a comedy about a family of tricksters, as original as it is moving. Petty criminals Theresa …

Kein einfacher Mord

Psychothriller about a couple in crisis who, faced with a crime, close ranks. A man (Sebastian Becker) is dead, killed by the woman (Laura …

Knittelfeld

PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK "GERHARD FRIEDL. EIN ARBEITSBUCH" AND FILM SCREENING The narrator tells the story of the Pritz family, a narrative that …

Kuessipan

[⏵] A declaration of love to Quebec‘s Innu community: the adaptation of the eponymous novel is a humorous and moving coming-of-age story …

Kurz und Schmerzlos

In his brilliant debut, Fatih Akin brought the American gang film to Hamburg. 22 years after its premiere at FILMFEST HAMBURG, Kurz und …

Love Poem

HYBRID A drama about a messed-up marriage – or a meta-film about filmic truth and the staging of a private life? Father, mother, baby. A car. …

Martin Margiela: In His Own Words

[⏵] DOCUMENTARY Belgian designer Martin Margiela is the »Banksy of Fashion«. 12 years after his departure from the world stage, he reveals …

Mayor

[⏵] DOCUMENTARY When local politics dictate world events– and vice versa: welcome to Ramallah! Musa Hadid shares similar worries to millions …

Meek's Cutoff

[⏵] In her fourth film, Kelly Reichardt returns to the early days of the USA and gives the Western a female makeover. 1845, Oregon. Three …

Mome

[⏵] A Kurdish woman is suspected of being a terrorist: a tense political thriller that goes deep into Turkey‘s paranoid surveillance …

My Family and the Wolf

[⏵] 9-year old Hugo is spending the summer holidays with his Granny Sara, who is celebrating her 80th birthday. The whole family has made the …

Nach zwei Stunden waren zehn Minuten vergangen

[⏵] Rituals of waiting: sitting on the bed, lying, sleeping. Routines of vigilance: searching cisterns, opening presents, reading letters. A …

Never Gonna Snow Again

[⏵] A profound Polish social satire about a masseur who becomes a guru for Warsaw’s high society. The Ukrainian migrant Zhenia works as …

No

[⏵] »Chile, joy awaits us!« Pablo Larraín’s third film on the Pinochet regime is a witty David-vs-Goliath story. In 1988, Chilean dictator …

Nomadland

A woman loses everything and leaves her old life behind. A fascinating road movie on the dark side of the American dream with Frances McDormand in …

Nowhere Special

A heart-rending drama in which single Dad James Norton seeks a new family for his young son. John (James Norton) is 35 and loves his 4-year old …

Orphea

[⏵] ESSAY The second collaboration between Kluge and Khavn is an aesthetic mash-up – with a wonderful accomplice in Lilith Stangenberg. While in …

The Peppercorns - Poisoned

Old Frau Lüders collapses and Lou saves her life. Jonny is impressed. Wouldn’t Lou make a brilliant Pfefferkorn? The first case for the new …

The Peppercorns - Wonderland

The young refugee Femi is accused of theft at the Miniaturwunderland model railway exhibition and is summarily sacked by Jon. When the truth comes …

Perfect 10

[⏵] Leigh lives with her father on the outskirts of Brighton. A talented gymnast, the 14-year old is busy preparing for her first tournament. …

Piqueuses

[⏵] Marie Louise Édouard lives on the island of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean. She’s stopped diving for octopus, which used to be her …

Plötzlich so still

The drama of a young mother in the face of an inconceivable loss. A few days before the return of her husband Ludger (Hanno Koffler) from a training …

Poppie Nongena

[⏵] In the film version of the novel by author Elsa Joubert, a mother gets caught up in the machinery of the apartheid system. South Africa 1976. …

Present Perfect

[⏵] Live streaming has been huge in China since 2016, a market worth billions. In so-called showrooms, self-publicists known as anchors …

Purple Sea

[⏵] The boat has sunk, people are in the water. Only occasionally does the camera briefly surface, as if coming up for air – only to then …

Quo vadis, Aida?

[⏵] After her harrowing drama about systematic rape in the Bosnian war, Jasmila Žbanić’s new film deals with the massacre of Srebrenica …

Rascal

[⏵] With a Satanic main character, this remarkable debut film portrays the destructive fascination of evil. Djé is a man without a history, a …

Reborn

[⏵] Three women carry the wounds and scars of their lives. An intense Israeli drama. Avigail had her first child much too young and is …

Reihe für Minis 2020

[⏵] Die Decke (Blanket)RUS 2020, 5 min., directed and written by Marina MoshkovaFar, far up in the North lives a very, very moody polar …

River of Grass

[⏵] Kelly Reichardt's »amazing first film« (Todd Haynes). In her debut film, which was rarely shown in Germany, the director returns to the …

Run Uje Run

[⏵] Suddenly it’s Parkinson's: Uje Brandelius, singer of the Stockholm pop band Doktor Kosmos, plays himself in this moving Swedish comedy. Uje …

The Seeds We Sow

[⏵] Faces full of sadness, faces full of anger. A very topical political drama. “Macron demission” – “Macron, resign”. Two words …

Son-Mother

[⏵] A piercing Iranian social drama in which a single mother is faced with an impossible choice. The screenplay is by Mohammad Rasoulof. Leila …

Sound of Metal

A musician loses his most essential sense: his hearing. Noise is their life. Ruben is touring the USA in a camper van with his girlfriend Lou. She …

Spring Blossom

[⏵] The debut film of this 20-year old director and lead actor Suzanne Lindon is a tender amour fou between a schoolgirl and an actor. Crackling, …

Sun Inside

[⏵] HYBRID In her semi-documentary film, director Jo Serfaty accompanies her main characters through the shimmering heat of Rio de Janeiro. …

Sune – Best Man

Sune just cannot make up his mind: his class is planning an exciting trip, but on the same weekend his Grandpa Helmer is getting married again. …

Sweat

[⏵] 600,000 followers and one stalker: in this Instagram drama from Poland, staged life collides with unvarnished reality. Sylwia lives …

Sörensen’s Fear

From crime-scene cleaner to CID Chief Inspector: Bjarne Mädel assembles a star ensemble in Katenbüll. Because of an anxiety disorder, CID Chief …

There Is No Evil

Only in China are more people executed every year than in Iran. In four haunting episodes, Mohammad Rasoulof portrays people who are part of the …

This Is My Desire

[⏵] The chronology of a yearning: two moving episodes about two people in the Nigerian capital Lagos and their longing for a new life in Europe. …

This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection

The grapes of wrath: a visually stunning drama from Lesotho which poses questions about grief, ecological destruction and religion. Christmas in the …

Tony Manero

[⏵] In his disturbing study of a loner, Pablo Larraín links the trauma of the Pinochet dictatorship with the disco craze of the 1970s. Santiago, …

Tragic Jungle

[⏵] Jungle, demons and a mysterious yong woman: the new film from Mexican director Yulene Olaizola plunges deep into the mythological world of the …

Un film dramatique

In this film, camera and mike are operated by children, form and content discovered bit by bit. Over four years, the members of the Film Club at the …

Uppercase Print

[⏵] Based on a true story, Radu Jude’s filmi tells of the demoralizing state propaganda and everyday surveillance of the Ceausescu regime. …

The Voiceless

[⏵] A chance for waste: a dialogue-free comedy of the grotesque in which the happiness of a drop-out community depends on the future of a …

Who is afraid of ideology

[⏵] »The destruction of nature is an integral part of the politics of assimilation and incorporation as practised by the dominant states of …

Wo ist die Liebe hin

How much change can one marriage take? »The most harmonious couple in the Western hemisphere« is how friends describe Agnes (Ulrike Tscharre) …

Wunderschein

The Year of the Discovery

[⏵] HYBRID In 1992, it wasn’t just the Olympic flame burning in Spain: a film that reawakens a forgotten past and plays with the conventions of …

Zustand und Gelände

There are traces of Germany’s Nazi past everywhere, but Ute Adamczewski sets out to uncover them in exemplary fashion. Starting in Sachsen, where …

becoming sea

[⏵] HYBRID With docu-fictional elements, the film creates an associative picture of water as a both physical and metaphysical basis for human …