NAZA
von Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel's calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are revealed by the people who designed and operated them.
Programm
ARTHOUSE CINEMA with BAR and BISTRO in the heart of NEUKÖLLN
Günstiger ins Kino
Wähle das Modell, das zu dir passt – gültig bei uns und in vielen weiteren Kinos!
This week
NAZA
- Tomorrow 18:30 /
- Thursday 21:00 /
- Saturday 17:20
SHAUN DAS SCHAF 3
- Tomorrow 15:20 /
- Friday 14:00 /
- Saturday 15:50
BAD APPLES
- Today 17:00
MOSCAS (2026)
- Today 19:00 /
- Tomorrow 21:10 /
- Thursday 17:00
PRIMETIME
- Today 20:50
EMIL UND DIE DETEKTIVE
- Tomorrow 13:30 /
- Thursday 15:00 /
- Saturday 14:00
WHISTLEBLOWER
- Tomorrow 16:50
THE SHORTS SHOW
- Tomorrow 20:00
GLAUBE
- Thursday 18:50 /
- Friday 15:30 /
- Friday 21:20
VATERLAND
- Friday 17:30 /
- Tuesday 14:00
LA BOLA NEGRA
- Sunday 14:10 /
- Sunday 17:00 /
- Thu 26. Nov 16:00
SNEAK PREVIEW
- Sunday 19:45
LE CITTÀ DI PIANURA
- Sunday 21:50 /
- Fri 13. Nov 17:00
QUIR
- Monday 21:10 /
- Tue 03. Nov 19:00 /
- Wed 04. Nov 17:00
Coming soon
MINOTAURUS
DIE MÖLLNER BRIEFE
WILD HORSE NINE
In Retrospect + The German People (Das Deutsche Volk)
BRUNELLO
SHAUN DAS SCHAF 3
von Steve Cox, Matthew Walker
On Halloween Eve at Mossy Bottom Farm, excitement turns to dismay when the clumsy Farmer ruins the pumpkin patch. Shaun tries fixing it with science experiments, but things go wrong when a wild beast appears in the woods.
BAD APPLES
von Jonatan Etzler
A struggling primary school teacher begins to make some questionable decisions after one of her students is injured.
MOSCAS (2026)
von Fernando Eimbcke
Olga lives a strictly regulated life without attachments in a vast apartment block. When out of financial necessity she rents a room in her apartment to a man who also sneaks-in his nine-year-old son, an unlikely bond forms. Her carefully controlled world begins to shift, and their lives become intertwined against her will.
PRIMETIME
von Lance Oppenheim
In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.
EMIL UND DIE DETEKTIVE
von David Dietl
Emil is spending his summer vacation with his grandmother in Berlin. But on the train there, he is robbed by the ruthless con artist Max Grundeis and a wild adventure begins! Together with his friends Pony, Gustav, Dienstag, Anh, and Jason, Emil sets off in pursuit and embarks on a fast-paced detective hunt across Berlin.
WHISTLEBLOWER
von Marc Bauder
A great-nephew of Lumumba exposes corruption in the Congo. US drone pilot reveals that innocent people are systematically being killed in attacks. Marc Bauder profiles people who expose widespread injustices—accompanied by Panama Papers authors Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer, as well as whistleblower advocate Delphine Halgand-Mishra. S.B.
MOVIE NERDS MONTHLY SCREENING
THE SHORTS SHOW
The Shorts Show is the event the Berlin film scene was missing: a real cinema night, but not for Hollywood blockbusters; for SHORTS! Started in 2026, our curated monthly screenings have been enthusiastically received by the local community of filmmakers and moviegoers.
We welcome films of all genres and filmmakers of all levels of experience. A big name or budget won’t help you here; we simply choose the best. We have hosted award-winning directors, and directors who were with us watching their film on the silver screen for the very first time.
The Shorts Show has become more than just a film festival screening; one evening of the month, it’s where all Berlin film lovers come to digest the best the short form has to offer. Your film will be enjoyed and dissected frame by frame by people obsessed with the art of cinema.
GLAUBE
von Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
17-year-old Ainara is a student at a Catholic secondary school, and is about to take her final year exams and choose her future university course. To everyone’s surprise, this brilliant young girl announces to her family that she wants to take part in an induction period at a convent in order to embrace the religious life. Nobody was expecting this. While her father seems to be won over by his daughter’s aspirations, for Maite, Ainara’s aunt, this unexpected vocation is the manifestation of a deeper problem.
VATERLAND
von Paweł Pawlikowski
In 1949, German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.
CINEVILLE PREVIEW
LA BOLA NEGRA
von Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo
The intertwined lives of three men in three different eras, three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain, and legacy.
IL KINO 12. Geburtstag
SNEAK PREVIEW
To celebrate our 12th birthday we have special sneak preview for you! Trust us, it's well worth the gamble. Come and celebrate with us!
IL KINO ITALIA
LE CITTÀ DI PIANURA
von Francesco Sossai
1)
Sunday 01.11. 21:50
+ free cocktail!
A couple of jovial life-long drunkards run into a shy architecture undergrad, whose way of seeing things will be transformed as the trio wanders from pub to pub in search of a buried treasure.
IL KINO ITALIA SPECIAL
QUIR
von Nicola Bellucci
There is a store in Palermo unlike any other called Quir, a place of love defying any convention. The owners are Massimo and Gino, who have been together for forty-two years, perhaps the longest-lasting gay couple in Italy. Their small leather goods store has become an important meeting place of the local LGBTQI+ scene – here people chat about their love stories or seek advice – fighting for acceptance in Sicily, a stronghold of patriarchal culture.
MINOTAURUS
von Andrey Zvyagintsev
When Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures, an increasingly unstable world, and the discovery of his wife's affair, the collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates toward violence.
DIE MÖLLNER BRIEFE
von Martina Priessner
Germany, November 1992. In a racist attack, three of İbrahim Arslan’s family members perish in a fire. Thirty years later, İbrahim discovers thousands of letters of solidarity, forgotten in the city archive. We accompany the family as they navigate their profound trauma.
WILD HORSE NINE
von Martin McDonagh
Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.
TRANSIT – STORIES OF TRAVELLERS AND MIGRANTS
In Retrospect + The German People (Das Deutsche Volk)
Event 22. November
In Retrospect
Short Film – 15 min., 2025, German with English subtitles
Directors: Mila Zhluktenko and Daniel Asadi Faezi
Migrant workers built a shopping centre for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. In 2016, the same place became the scene of a racist attack. In their 15-minute essayistic documentary In Retrospect, filmmakers Mila Zhluktenko and Daniel Asadi Faezi weave these two historic moments together with West German director Sohrab Shahid Saless’ film Empfänger Unbekannt (1983), revealing with great sensitivity the forces of hatred and racism at work.
The German People (Das Deutsche Volk)
Documentary – 132 min., 2025, German with English subtitles
Director: Marcin Wierzchowski
Marcin Wierzchowski’s documentary The German People accompanies survivors and
bereaved family members of another racist attack – the 2020 attack in Hanau. His
camera stays close to them for four years in the aftermath of the crime, as they grieve
and fight for recognition. Is the German narrative flexible enough? Can it expand to
include the victims of this horrific crime? Does dying in Germany qualify you to belong? Who is allowed to call this country home?
The November edition of our Transit series brings together two films about two of the most serious far-right crimes in recent German history. Although they speak in very different cinematic languages, the films reveal striking parallels. Both zoom in on the crimes and their aftermath while also widening the perspective: They show why these crimes are not isolated incidents, but are deeply embedded in German society and history. Both films raise questions about hatred and racism, home and belonging – while also turning the gaze back on ourselves: What do we, as a diverse society, tell ourselves? How do we remember these events and keep their memory alive?
Program
10:00 am – Doors open
11:00 am – In Retrospect
11:15 am – The German People
ca. 1:45 pm – Conversation in the foyer
Included with your ticket: a bruschetta or a sfogliata.
Conversation
Yael Reuveny and Evgenia Gostrer (curators) with filmmakers Marcin Wierzchowski and Mila Zhluktenko.
Topic
Making films about far-right violence, the films’ protagonists, and the filmmakers’ personal experiences of navigating positions of belonging and outsiderness in Germany.
Language: German
The organisers
The Institut für Neue Soziale Plastik
The film series is presented in cooperation with the Institute for New Social Sculpture. The Institute for New Social Sculpture is an association of Jewish and antisemitism-critical directors, dramaturgs, writers, and artists. Since its founding in 2015, it has developed artistic projects from Jewish perspectives, focusing on contemporary Jewish life and history as well as memory culture and antisemitism. Another key area of its work is advising cultural institutions, independent groups, curators, and artists on issues related to antisemitism.
https://neue-soziale-plastik.de/en/
BRUNELLO
von Giuseppe Tornatore
A farmer's son transforms into a fashion mogul, building a billion-dollar luxury empire while staying true to his humanistic values and commitment to ethical business practices and fine craftsmanship.