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
- Sunday 20:00 /
- Wednesday 17:30 /
- Thursday 13:00
MOSCAS (2026)
- Today 16:30 /
- Tomorrow 15:00 /
- Monday 17:00
MINOTAURUS
- Today 18:30 /
- Today 21:10 /
- Tomorrow 19:00
SHAUN DAS SCHAF 3
- Tomorrow 13:00
QUIR
- Tomorrow 17:00 /
- Tuesday 17:00 /
- Wed 18. Nov 17:00
GLAUBE
- Sunday 12:50 /
- Monday 14:50 /
- Tuesday 19:00
DIE MÖLLNER BRIEFE
- Sunday 15:00
VATERLAND
- Wednesday 21:30
Coming soon
WILD HORSE NINE
LE CITTÀ DI PIANURA
Private Veranstaltung
THE MAD DOG OF EUROPE
WIENER BLUES - THE LONELIEST M
RITORNO AL TRATTURO – A journey with Elio Germano
+ Q&A with director Francesco Cordio
In Retrospect + The German People (Das Deutsche Volk)
LA BOLA NEGRA
BRUNELLO
FRANK & LOUIS
NO GOOD MEN
COWARD
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
IL KINO ITALIA
LE CITTÀ DI PIANURA
von Francesco Sossai
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.
Private Veranstaltung
THE MAD DOG OF EUROPE
von Rubika Shah
A documentary exploring the 1933 screenplay of the same name by Citizen Kane co-writer Herman Mankiewicz, which warned of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, but was rejected by Hollywood studios at the time.
WIENER BLUES - THE LONELIEST M
von Rainer Frimmel, Tizza Covi
Früher stand Al Cook fast jeden Abend auf der Bühne, doch seit dem Tod seiner geliebten Frau lebt der Musiker allein in seiner Wiener Altbauwohnung – umgeben von Schallplatten, Videokassetten und Erinnerungen. Hier scheint die Zeit stillzustehen, während sich draußen die Welt weiterdreht und der Blues, der ihm alles bedeutet, langsam in Vergessenheit gerät. Als skrupellose Immobilienhaie das Haus abreißen wollen und ihn unsanft aus der Wohnung drängen, steht Al vor den Scherben seiner Existenz. Doch was als Katastrophe beginnt, entpuppt sich allmählich als Chance für einen Neuanfang.
IL KINO ITALIA
RITORNO AL TRATTURO – A journey with Elio Germano
von Francesco Cordio
Nov 21.11.: Q&A with the director Francesco Cordio
In Italy, there are places where reaching a school or a hospital requires hours of travel. Places where there is no network, no signal. These are the Inner Areas: covering 60% of the national territory and inhabited by 13 million people, a quarter of the population.
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/
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.
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.
FRANK & LOUIS
von Petra Biondina Volpe
Frank, serving a life sentence, takes a prison job caring for aging incarcerated men with Alzheimer’s and dementia. What begins as a self-interested bid for parole becomes a profound, transformative bond with fellow prisoner Louis, offering Frank a glimpse of redemption in an unforgiving place.
NO GOOD MEN
von Shahrbanoo Sadat
Naru arbeitet als Kamerafrau beim Fernsehen und hat gelernt, sich auf niemanden zu verlassen außer sich selbst. Zwischen Redaktionstrubel und dem Sorgerechtstreit um ihren kleinen Sohn hält Naru alle auf Abstand – besonders Männer. Für die geschiedene Frau steht fest: Es gibt keine guten Männer. Doch als sie ausgerechnet mit einem Starreporter zusammenarbeiten muss, die beiden auf der Suche nach der nächsten guten Story quer durch die Stadt jagen und sich Wortgefechte liefern, gerät Narus feste Überzeugung zusehend ins Wanken.Shahrbanoo Sadat wagt in ihrem dritten Spielfilm das Unmögliche: Sie inszeniert eine romantische Komödie in Afghanistan. Der umjubelte Berlinale-Eröffnungsfilm ist ein kraftvolles und gleichsam unterhaltsames Porträt über Frauen in einer durch und durch patriarchalen Gesellschaft. Shahrbanoo Sadat hat nicht nur die Hauptrolle übernommen, sondern lässt auch autobiografische Bezüge in den ebenso präzisen wie gewagten Genremix einfließen.
COWARD
von Lukas Dhont
Surrounded by brutality but bound by tenderness, two World War I soldiers find a fragile sanctuary of love and art amid the shadows of the Belgian trenches.