FAMILIENFILM
ZIRKUSKIND
von Julia Lemke, Anna Koch
Santino, a circus kid constantly on the move, listens to his great-grandfather's stories as his own life is just beginning.
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ZIRKUSKIND
- Tomorrow 15:10 /
- Wednesday 14:10 /
- Saturday 15:00
DIE SCHULE DER MAGISCHEN TIERE 4
- Tomorrow 16:50 /
- Friday 15:00
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
- Tuesday 20:40 /
- Wednesday 15:50 /
- Thursday 21:00
AFTER THE HUNT
- Tomorrow 18:40 /
- Tuesday 16:10 /
- Wednesday 18:40
THE MASTERMIND
- Tomorrow 21:10 /
- Tuesday 14:10 /
- Tuesday 18:40
SIRĀT
- Wednesday 21:10 /
- Thursday 19:00
22 BAHNEN
- Thursday 15:00 /
- Friday 17:00 /
- Saturday 16:40
WHEN I SAW YOU
- Sunday 12:00
UPSHOT
- Sunday 14:00
JENIN, JENIN
- Sunday 14:40
A STATE OF PASSION
- Sunday 17:00
DU & ICH UND ALLE REDEN MIT
- Wed 05. Nov 19:00
Coming soon
HYSTERIA
THE SECRET AGENT
YES
FORMEN MODERNER ERSCHÖPFUNG
nitiative Neuköllner Buchläden gegen rechts: DAS DEUTSCHE VOLK + Diskussion
EDDINGTON
PERDUE
Un viaggio tra memoria prenatale e legami invisibili e consapevolezza
DIAMANTI di Ferzan Özpetek
TO A LAND UNKNOWN
mit Gästen
DIE JÜNGSTE TOCHTER
BUGONIA
DIE SCHULE DER MAGISCHEN TIERE 4
von Bernhard Jasper, Maggie Peren
Miriam (Tomomi Themann) wohnt ein paar Monate bei ihrer Freundin Ida (Emilia Maier) und geht in dieser Zeit gemeinsam mit ihr auf die Wintersteinschule. Sie weiß nichts von der magischen Gemeinschaft. Doch gleich an ihrem ersten Schultag übergibt Mr. Morrison (Milan Peschel) der Klasse zwei neue magische Tiere: Max (Thilo Fridolin Matthes) erhält die Eule Muriel (Stimme: Annett Louisan) und zu Miriams größten Erstaunen bekommt sie den energiegeladenen Koboldmaki Fitzgeraldo (Stimme: Daniel Zillmann). Muriel erkennt schnell, dass Max möglicherweise mehr für seine beste Freundin Leonie (Purnima Grätz) empfindet, als er denkt. Miriam vertraut Fitzgeraldo an, dass sie auf ihrer alten Schule die Außenseiterin war. Dann findet Ida durch Zufall heraus, dass die Wintersteinschule geschlossen werden soll. In der anstehenden Schulchallenge erkennen Ida und ihre Klasse ihre letzte Chance, die Schule und damit die magische Gemeinschaft zu retten. Zu ihrem Schrecken erfährt Miriam, dass ihre eigentliche Schule ausgerechnet mit ihrem ehemaligen Mitschüler Torben (Philip Müller) ebenfalls an dem Wettbewerb teilnimmt. Unter Druck gesetzt von ihrer alten Klasse gerät Miriam zwischen die Fronten. Kann die Wintersteinschule die Schulchallenge gewinnen? Und kann die Klasse dadurch die Schulschließung verhindern?
Ukraïnian Film Festival Berlin
WHAT THE SHORT? - YAKOGO SHORTA? - ЯКОГО ШОРТА?
Dreamtracks
Ukraine (2025) 2 minutes
Director: Margaryta Winkler
A train hums along the tracks, a mind drifts off.
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The Last (Final) Take
Ukraine (2024) 22 minutes
Director: Oleh Kibalnyk
In childhood parents predict a great future for us. But could anyone have imagined I would become a clapper?
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Life in between
Ukraine (2025) 4 minutes
Director: Iryna Lytvynova
A cheerful artist wakes up to the reality of war. She tries to escape to a quiet haven, only to be met by her own destructive emotions. This is a story about struggle — and strength.
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Lobbies` Idols
Ukraine (2024) 7 minutes
Director: Severian Lazariev
A reclusive young man encountered mysticism in his entrance - suddenly the phone, which has not worked for many years, rang. Now the whole house lives in fear. Will the young man be able to find out who is calling?
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The Story
Ukraine (2025) 30 minutes
Director: Vadim Mochalov
Working on his screenplay about two guys admitting their feelings for each other, a film directing major from Kyiv Lyonya asks his classmate Andriy, with whom he’s secretly in love, to help with the script editing.
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Usual Day
Ukraine (2024) 1 minute
Director: Heorhii Blinov
After staying in the basement of a high-rise building until the last explosion, the friends go home to continue their usual day. This movie is about what has already been experienced and continues to be lived every day.
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Another Day
Ukraine (2024) 4 minutes
Directors: Ivan Tsupka, Lera Fokina, Elena Sydorenko
Ukrainian woman tries to preserve a sense of normalcy while living under constant threat of Russian missile strikes. A series of short stories about everyday resilience amidst war.
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Love with a Tail
Ukraine (2024) 15 minutes
Director: Eduard Nechmohlod
Behind the facade of a perfect marriage, a devoted wife struggles to keep afloat with her unusual husband.
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Jarred
Ukraine (2025) 5 minutes
Director: Maryna Yanul
A peculiar creature’s quiet routine is disrupted by an unexpected visitor, pulling her toward a new and uncertain world.
PRIVATVERANSTALTUNG
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
von Paul Thomas Anderson
Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.
AFTER THE HUNT
von Luca Guadagnino
A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.
THE MASTERMIND
von Kelly Reichardt
In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.
SIRĀT
von Oliver Laxe
Ein Vater (Sergi López) und sein Sohn kommen auf einem abgelegenen Rave inmitten der Berge Südmarokkos an. Sie sind auf der Suche nach Mar, ihrer Tochter und Schwester, die vor Monaten auf einer dieser niemals endenden, schlaflosen Partys verschwunden ist. Umgeben von elektronischer Musik und einem rohen, ungewohnten Gefühl von Freiheit, zeigen sie immer wieder ihr Foto herum. Die Hoffnung schwindet, doch sie geben die Suche nicht auf und folgen einer Gruppe von Ravern zu einer letzten Party in der Wüste. Je tiefer sie in die glühende Wildnis vordringen, desto mehr zwingt sie die Reise, sich ihren eigenen Grenzen zu stellen.Mit SIRÂT präsentiert der vielfach ausgezeichnete Regisseur Oliver Laxe seinen bislang radikalsten Film. Er führt seine Figuren und das Publikum auf einen erschütternden Weg zwischen Leben und Tod, zwischen Rausch und Offenbarung. Ein Vater sucht in der Wüste Marokkos nach seiner verschwundenen Tochter – und findet dabei eine tiefere Wahrheit über sich selbst. Der Film ist eine spirituelle Reise durch Schmerz, Stille und Ekstase, getragen von hypnotischen 16mm-Bildern und einem treibenden Soundtrack von Kangding Ray. SIRÂT ist Kino als Grenzerfahrung – roh, intensiv und zutiefst menschlich.
22 BAHNEN
von Mia Maariel Meyer
Tilda's days are strictly structured: she studies, works at the supermarket checkout and looks after her little sister Ida - on some days she also has to look after her alcoholic mother. But this summer brings a change: Tilda receives a promising job offer for a doctorate in Berlin. Viktor also turns up, who, like her, always swims 22 laps in the swimming pool. When Tilda begins to believe that everything could be better, the situation at home spirals out of control.
PALINALE FILM FEST
WHEN I SAW YOU
von Annemarie Jacir
Tarek and his mother Ghaydaa number among the tens of thousands of refugees crossing the border from Palestine, having been separated from Tarek's father amidst the chaos of the Six Day War. They ultimately settle at the Harir refugee camp, a makeshift home for a new generation displaced by conflict. Tarek dreams of being reunited with his father, and struggles to adapt to a new life far away from all he previously knew.
PALINALE FILM FEST
UPSHOT
von Maha Haj
Suleiman and Mona are a couple who lead a solitary life in which they care for animals and trees and have constant heated discussions about their children’s life choices. However, one day, their routine is disturbed when a stranger shows around, calling to mind a painful past.
PALINALE FILM FEST
JENIN, JENIN
von Mohammad Bakri
Mohammed Bakri's documentary "Jenin, Jenin" is a heart-rending depiction of the aftermath of Israel's destruction of Jenin refugee camp in 2002, where every scene and interview is profound and distressing in equal measure.
PALINALE FILM FEST
A STATE OF PASSION
von Carol Mansour, Muna Khalidi
A feature-length documentary film by Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi. After 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals, British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, emerged to find himself as a face of Palestinian resistance.
IL KINO ITALIA PREVIEW
DU & ICH UND ALLE REDEN MIT
von Paolo Genovese
How much do we really know about ourselves when we make a decision? What if there are multiple versions of our I within us, each with something to say?
HYSTERIA
von Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
A film shoot takes a dark turn when the burning of a Quran throws the crew into turmoil. Caught in accusations, intern Elif is drawn into a dangerous game of secrets and lies, finding herself at the heart of an all-absorbing conspiracy.
THE SECRET AGENT
von Kleber Mendonça Filho
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realizes that the city is far from being the non violent refuge he seeks.
YES
von Nadav Lapid
Israel, in the aftermath of October 7. Y., a jazz musician struggling to make ends meet, and his wife Jasmine, a dancer, sell their art, souls and bodies to the elite, and bring pleasure and consolation to a bleeding nation. Soon, Y. is given a mission of the highest importance: setting to music a new national anthem.
ACHTUNG BERLIN - WETTBEWERB
FORMEN MODERNER ERSCHÖPFUNG
von Sascha Hilpert
Die Erzählungen zweier Menschen, die eine Krise durchleben, treffen auf die Realität im letzten Sanatorium seiner Art.¿Seit über hundert Jahren kommen Menschen an diesen Ort, die auf Heilung hoffen. So auch Nina und Henri, beide in der Lebensmitte, ausgebrannt und aus verschiedenen Milieus. Zwischen Speisesaal, Liegekur und Therapie kreuzen sich ihre Wege, in einer Zeit des Ringens um den eigenen Seelenfrieden. Das Haus schneit ein, alles wird langsam und leise. Geister und Geschichten aus den langen Korridoren werden zu Begleitern ihrer Tage. Gleichzeitig forscht eine Historikerin im Hausarchiv nach Dokumenten aus der Frühzeit der Kuranstalt. Das Sanatorium Barner wird zum Schauplatz für eine Archäologie der Erschöpfung.
Initiative Neuköllner Buchläden gegen rechts
nitiative Neuköllner Buchläden gegen rechts: DAS DEUTSCHE VOLK + Diskussion
von Marcin Wierzchowski
The film tells the story of the victims’ relatives and the survivors of the racist attack in Hanau in 2020, in which nine young people were murdered because the perpetrator did not consider them to be German.
EDDINGTON
von Ari Aster
In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.
IRMA TROTTA PRESENTA
PERDUE
Sometimes a pregnancy begins with two beating hearts. But not both always make it to birth.
This phenomenon, known as the vanishing twin syndrome, often remains invisible: the mother may not notice it, medicine barely records it, yet the surviving twin carries it within for a lifetime.
The documentary film Per Due, written by Elisabetta Giuseppina Zecca and directed by Stefano Filippi, tells this silent experience with delicacy and depth. It is a journey through images, testimonies, and reflections that touches on themes of prenatal memory, invisible bonds, unspoken grief, and the possibility of transforming all this into awareness and reconciliation.
Inspired by the book The Vanishing Twin Syndrome by Alfred and Bettina Austermann, therapists who have worked on this subject for many years, the film opens a space of listening and recognition that concerns far more people than one might think.
Because behind a feeling of emptiness, an unexplained nostalgia, or difficulties in relationships, there may be the trace of a sibling who was never born.
"Per Due" is not only a film to watch: it is an experience to live together.
European Arthouse Cinema Day
DIAMANTI di Ferzan Özpetek
von Ferzan Özpetek
A film director gathers his favorite actresses, those he worked with and those he loved. He wants to make a film about women but he doesn’t reveal much: he observes them, takes cue, until his imaginary throw them into another era, in a past where the noise of the sewing machines fills a workplace handled and populated by women, where men have minor and marginal roles and cinema can be told from another point of view: the one of costume. Between loneliness, passions, anxieties, heartbreaking absence and unbreakable bonds, reality and fiction permeate, as well as the lives of the actresses and those of the characters, the competition and the sisterhood, the visible and the invisible.
European Arthouse Cinema Day
TO A LAND UNKNOWN
von Mahdi Fleifel
Cousins Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. When Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan to pose as smugglers in an attempt to get them out of their desperate situation before it is too late.
PREVIEW
DIE JÜNGSTE TOCHTER
von Hafsia Herzi
Fatima, 17, the youngest of three daughters, treads carefully as she searches for her own path, grappling with emerging desires, her attraction to women, and her loyalty to her caring French-Algerian family. Starting university in Paris, she dates, makes friends, and explores a whole new world, all while confronting a timeless and heartrending dilemma: How can one stay true to oneself when reconciling different parts of one’s identity feels impossible?
BUGONIA
von Yorgos Lanthimos
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.