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On this page you will find an overview of all films we have produced or published. Most of them can be watched online, but some are also available exclusively on DVD or only in the movie theater.

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GER 2024, 115 min.

Following a protest against loggers, a young activist falls into a ravine. Injured and stranded, she...

GER 2024, 100 min

Germany, shortly before elections – a mysterious disease outbreak afflicting only men strikes. Differences between the sexes long believed...

GER 2024, 86 min

The film tells the story of a planned transformation of the former military base Wünsdorf into an ecological campus.

Chad 2023

After a deadly accident, the life of Dane, a driver for a humanitarian NGO in N'Djamena, is turned upside down. Director Achille Ronaimou...

GER/MAR 2023

A grotesque drama about the last days of the ancient philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca and the beginnings of Emperor Nero's despotic...

GER 2024, 92 min

A wave of evictions grips Berlin. The squatting scene dissolves and it’s members feel like they are supposed to leave the city. The film...

GER 2023

The 42-year-old actress Marga has passed the zenith of her career and, due to advancing age and as a woman, collides with the limits of...

GER 2023

Home song with harmonium. Collected and edited by Hans Jürgen Syberberg. From the restored kitchen of the former estate house in N.

FR, ES, DE, PT 2022, 165 min

A thriller shot in Tahiti and set in the shadow of nuclear testing.

GER 2022, 80 min

The quasi-fascist architecture of Francisco Salamone's slaughterhouses in the Argentine pampas, the utopian buildings by Freddy...

GER 2022, 62 min

Architecture as Autobiography. Photography and beyond – Part 34. Twenty-five buildings by Argentine architect Francisco Salamone (1897-...

GER 2022, 95 min

Photography and beyond – Part 35. The film shows numerous choletts of the Bolivian civil engineer, architect and founder of neo-Andean...

GER 2022, 105 min

To concentrate on her ballet career, Nadja let her son, Mario, grow up with her mother and hardly ever saw him for years. When she meets...

GER 2020, 124 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s “Heimat” films, performance art, installations and provocative theatrical, television, operatic and artistic...

GER/Argentina 2020, 76 min

A sardonic distillation of themes revolving around death, consciousness and human relationships. The sequel to DIE LETZTE STADT – morbid,...

GER 2020, 100 min

A revelation stuffed with every kind of surprise except the ones you expect.

GER 2019, 80 min

Max Linz’s satire on the university business, stuck into third-party funding and evaluation.  

GER 2018, 36 min

The Grundtvigs Church (1913-1940) in Copenhagen, designed by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint and built by six master bricklayer and...

DE/FR/PT/ES 2019, 132 min

A forest between Potsdam and Berlin becomes a stage for a beautiful provocation against Puritanism.

GER 2019, 93 min

The renovation, demolition and reconstruction of different parts of the Kunsthalle Mannheim between 2013 and 2018. The before and the...

ROI SOLEIL, Spain 2018, 62 min

The last hour of the French monarch Louis XIV as a gallery performance.

GER 2018, 71 min

In a small German town near the edge of the Ruhr region, a farmboy tries to find his place in the world. Torn back and forth between city...

LA MORT DE LOUIS XIV, F/Spain/Portugal 2016, 115 min

Suffering and dying do not stop at the most powerful, even the absolute.

GER/ISR 2017, 92 min

22 buildings by the Kibbutz architect Samuel Bickels, filmed in Israel in 2015. As prologue, the Casa do Povo in São Paulo, as...

GER/FR/PL 2017, 118 min

A disturbing hoax in a no-man’s-land in Germany, two weeks...

GER 2017, 132 min

There are streets, paths, motorways, alleys, boulevards and promenades. And there are life paths, intersections and dead ends.

GER 2017, 95 min

A cinematic documentation of 29 buildings by the Uruguayan architect and shell-construction master Eladio Dieste (1917-2000). As prologue...

GER 2017, 88 min

Documentation on the recordings of KREIDLERS LP “ABC” filmed at Kartuli Pilmis Studia Tbilisi and in the streets of Tbilisi,...

GER 2017, 81 min

“What is to be done?“ Three women, their demand for political action and the question of how to put it into a reality.

GER/Peru 2017, 92 min

A justice thriller of a different kind.

GER 2016, 106 min

A documentary turns into a cinematic REVISION. Like a puzzle, the film puts together the facts around the death of two men on a field at...

D 2016, 94 min

AND-EK GHES... means: ONE FINE DAY... A song, a promise to the beloved, to the children, to oneself. Members of the Velcu family from Faţa...

D 2016, 15 min

The last days of the German photographer August Sander (1876-1964).

GER 2016, 30 min

A disturbing role play.

GER 2016, 86 min

Two couples suffer the failure of their relationships 30 years apart.

GER 2016, 93 min

On 14.09.2012 at 2:56pm, the cruise liner Adventure of the Seas reports to the Spanish Maritime Rescue Centre the sighting of a...

GER 2016, 85 min

A middle aged couple hire young men to act as their son.

GER 2015, 100 min

Two bodies and two worlds collide. Driven by her passion, the aid worker Dorothea loses more and more control.

GER/DEN 2015, 29 min

Two buildings and the ideologies of their creators in confrontation.

F/Haiti/N 2015, 130 min

The exploration of the fundamental questions of citizenship, responsibility, and justice that have challenged Haitian society ever since...

DK 2015, 107 min

Documentation based on a rediscovered interview with Rainer Werner Fassbinder from the 70s.

GER 2014, 84 min

A political manifesto in feature film format.

GER 2014, 95 min

Kreuzberg’s quicksand.

GB/GER 2014, 96 min

Stella Miles travels from Glasgow to Berlin to claim ownership of a house which is dramatically steeped in the history of the 20th century...

GER 2009-2014, 239 min

state-theatre is a modular art project of Berlin theater and filmmaker Daniel Kötter and Constanze Fischbeck on the urban...

GER/USA 2014, 56 min

Four real-life adult film performers at a working day in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California  a hybrid...

GER 2014, 108 min

An architectural journey from Berlin back to Berlin – into the abyss.

Spain 2014, 18 min

A tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his actor Günther Kaufmann.

GER 2014, 87 min

A sophisticated duel between two strong female characters.

USA 2013, 90 min

„Best of Sundance, a true original!“ (Indiewire)

GER 2013, 80 min

At the age of 14 Roland Klick was certain: cinema was what his soul was longing for. Filmmaking as an adventure, existential experience...

Haiti/BEL/F/USA 2013, 100 min

Raoul Peck explores the situation after the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010.

GER 2013, 172 min

A film about the virtue of love, the virtue of curiosity, the virtue of joy.

CDN/DK/MEX/PHI 2013, 88 min

An experimental, emotional comedy that relates the end of cinema with the end of the world.

GER 2013, 18 min

A study of two museums: The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, and its predecessor, the Museum of Art, Ein Harod,...

​HISTÒRIA DE LA MEVA MORT, F/Spain 2013, 148 min

Together with his new servant, Casanova embarks on a journey to the Carpathian Mountains, to meet Dracula.

GER 2012, 3 min

A study for Corporate, the third part of the Women and Work trilogy.

GER 2012, 110 min

30 buildings and architectural ensembles of the French architects and construction engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret.

GER 2012, 106 min

An African Bayreuth? An Opera in Burkina Faso?

GER 2012, 86 min

On the search for his missing daughter, Lothar discovers that more and more children and adolescents disappear under inexplicable...

GER 2012, 81 min

CAUSE I HAVE THE LOOKS intertwines a vibrant coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old girl from Columbia with the exceptional situation of...

GER 2012, 100 min

PARABETON presents 17 in Italy and France extant buildings by Italian master-builder Pier Luigi Nervi and ten examples of Ancient Roman...

A 2012, 90 min

After LA PIVELLINA another brilliant mix of documentary and fiction.

GER 2012, 41 min

Coming home from Afghanistan.

GER/USA 2011, 30 min

The fictional restaging of a drone pilots unfinished story.

GER 2011, 23 min

Sometimes there is a good moment to say goodbye to the story ...

GER 2011, 83 min

Alexander represents a generation that set out into the new post-cold war world without ever stopping to look back.

GER 2011, 97 min

The life and work of this artist who was as acutely sensitive to beauty as to death, was determined by the forces of Eros and passion. Not...

CH 2011, 107 min

A fictitious autobiography.

H/GER/FR 2011, 98 min

After a Romany family was killed in a Hungarian village, a neighbours family trys to manage the day after the crime. Based on an actual...

GER 2011, 83 min

A tour de force through the African Okavango swamp, blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary.

GER 2011, 86 min

A family’s routine spinning out of control with the arrival of a stranger.

EL SENYOR HA FET EN MI MERAVELLES, Spain 2011, 146 min

A road movie – on the trail of Don Quixote's mythical locations.

GER 2011, 90 min

A group of acting students fighting their angst and the school system.

GER 2010, 323 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs last play, performed with artists from Burkina Faso, where his “Opera Village Africa” lives on as his legacy to...

ELS NOMS DE CRIST, Spain 2010, 193 min

Episodic film, divided into 14 chapters, based on the play "De los nombres de Cristo" (1586), by Fray Luis de Leon and intended...

GER 2010, 97 min

John Cassavetes A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE in the 21st Century.

GER 2010, 100 min

A political wildlife film that centres around a country where the border between war and peace fades.

GER 2010, 64 min

An outstanding German zombie film.

GER 2010, 82 min

The gangster film’s structures brought to light.

GER 1986-2010, 152 min

A series including seven films by Heinz Emigholz. It is the name Heinz Emigholz gave to films that have forced themselves upon him wanting...

GER 2007, 87 min

In the city of Wünsdorf near Berlin Scheffner follows the traces of the past. The starting point are voice recordings of colonial soldiers...

GER 2010, 105 min

A very powerful and original documentary on youth.

GER 2010, 101 min

Camp meets art in Herbert Fritsch's take on Hamlet.

GER 2010, 90 min

A one-night stand with consequences.

USA 2010, 89 min

North America’s new generation X. Matt Porterfield’s celebrated festival-hit! 

GER 2009, 11 min

Isabelle Stever visits a fourth grade class in Munich and their young teacher, who instituted a 'class council' according to the Freinet...

Haiti/F 2009, 107 min

Peck’s searing critique of absolute power within the most elegant chamber drama.

GER 2009, 60 min

Reframing CYCLING THE FRAME. Cynthia Beatt and Tilda Swinton once again go on the trail of the Berlin Wall. 

GER/A 2009, 168 min

The description of a lifeline through architecture.

A 2009, 95 min

„Peter Kern explores the tension between nationalistic phrases and latent homosexuality.“ (tip Berlin) With legendary actor Helmut Berger...

A/I 2009, 105 min

A foundling in the outskirts of Rome. A circus family. A new preliminary home.

GER 2008, 42 min

Wild, risky, dangerous: German cinema needs more Torpedos!

FR/GER/Portugal 2008, 118 min

One night to find an ever-escaping truth fhe last film of Werner Schroeter.

D 2008, 375 min

Whoever shows his wound will be healed.

EL CANT DELS OCELLS, Spain 2008, 93 min

The Magi travel in search of the Messiah who has just been born.

GER/Morocco 2008, 95 min

Tangiers, Morocco. A complicate love triangle between a young Moroccan woman and a German couple. Money, dishonesty and prostitution occur...

GER 2008, 6 min

A dance video

A 2008, 72 min

27 still-existing buildings and interiors by Austrian architect and pioneer of European Modernist architecture Adolf Loos in order of...

GER 2007, 91 min

Four generations meet in a summer mansion as past resentments are vented the idyllic atmosphere slowly starts to...

GER 2007, 95 min

Victory of the invisible the predecessor of ORLY.

GER 2007, 429 min

The legendary opera performance at the Amazon in Manaus.

A 2007, 99 min

40 buildings by the Austro-American architect Rudolph Schindler from the years 1931 to 1952. Schindler’s pioneering work in Southern...

CDN 2007, 79 min

A multilayered journey through the hometown in his head, Guy Maddin’s MY WINNIPEG is a vigorous caprice of fact and fiction.

GER 2014, 94 min

The second part of Tatjana Turanskyj's trilogy about women and work is a film narration about the complex body and gender politics in the...

GER 2007, 75 min

A love story between art, capital and marketing.

GER 2007, 95 min

An ambivalent childhood ...

GER 2007, 120 min

The critically acclaimed follow-up of Maria Speth’s debut THE DAYS BETWEEN.

GER 2006, 89 min

A personal travelogue, a documentary about a trip through Turkey.

TND/MAD/F/GER 2006, 115 min

Nouri Bouzid's award-winning film about the making-of a terrorist.

GER 2006, 88 min

Precise observation and bizarre comedy – Ulrich Köhler’s second feature film after his celebrated BUNGALOW.

GER 2006, 82 min

Henner Wincklers second feature film after his exceptional debut SCHOOL TRIP.

USA 2006, 65 min

Two summer days in the suburbs of Baltimore. Matthew Porterfield’s debut and the puristic prequal of his celebrated PUTTY HILL.

HONOR DE CAVALLERIA, Spain 2006, 107 min

Based on the novel "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantes.

GER 2005, 399 min

Lost in Namibia – a documentary about Christoph Schlingensief’s last, unfinished film – commented by himself.

GER 2005, 90 min

A love triangle.

L/IT/A 1989-2005, 45 min

Four experimental movies by the artist Bady Minck, located somewhere between Salzburg and Alfred Loos' spinal marrow, between dream and...

GER 2005, 87 min

Christoph Schlingensief's first ur-animatograph installation.

GER 2005, 100 min

How must be a person who gives informations to the secret service? The much acclaimed debut of Benjamin Heisenberg hits a nerve.

GER 2005, 93 min

Three episodes between stage and life – exciting young German cinema and a true Berlin film!

GER 2005, 232 min

“The Animatograph” is a conglomeration of various media: cinema, theater, performance, installation, painting and opera.

GER 2005, 52 min

15 rooms of the Villa Cargnacco in Gardone on Lake Garda, where Gabriele D’Annunzio moved in 1921 and lived until his death.

GER 2004, 95 min

A slice of life in 75 shots.

GER 2004, 283 min

Schlingensief’s attempt at self-therapy after the trauma of directing PARSIFAL in Bayreuth.

GER 2003-2004

Hamlet in the labyrinth. 11 films by Herbert Fritsch in cooperation with the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. After texts by William...

GER 2003, 962 min

Part one of Schlingensief’s Atta trilogy – set between his parents’ home, an amateur film club and studio.

GER 2003, 110 min

Heinz Emigholz’ congenial approach to Bruce Goff’s works.

GER 2003, 94 min

A woman abandons her two stepchildren in Poland. A modern adaption of the fairy tale “Hänsel and Gretel”.

GER 2003, 87 min

A delightfully offbeat black comedy about a guy who first loses a testicle to cancer and then has a ball trying to steal it back from the...

GER 2003, 75 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s answer to the Talent Show frenzy!

GER 2002, 372 min

Quiz 3000 presents what is for him the only acceptable form of serial dramatic art in this theatrical “televisionary” TV quiz...

GER 2002, 82 min

Bottle-turning with undressing - The debut of Henner Winckler (LUCY).

GER 2004, 77 min

An Interviewfilm-portrait from the first untill the last film!

GER 2002, 92 min

A young couple is fighting on their own wedding party.

A 2002, 90 min

Austria 2000: Right after the FPÖ under Jörg Haider had become part of the government, the first time an extreme right wing party became...

A 2002, 80 min

Peter Kern documents Schlingensief’s Hamlet.

GER 2001, 24 min

14 works of the swiss artist, civil engineer and legendary bridge builder Robert Maillart designed between 1910 and 1935.

GER 2001, 79 min

With inevitable intensity – the portrait of a young woman, wandering around in the urban setting of Berlin. 

GER 2001, 7 min

The series girls & boys in history is a surreal historical document.

GER 2001, 7 min

The series girls & boys in history is a surreal historical document.

GER 2001, 349 min

His staging of “Hamlet” at Schauspielhaus Zurich takes shots at the right-wing populist Swiss People’s Party (SVP).

GER 2001, 75 min

The third part in Arslan’s trilogy about Turkish youth growing up in Germany, focusing on 21-year-old Deniz during one long, labyrinth-...

GER 2001, 85 min

Cinema and reality coming close.

GER 2000, 7 min

The series girls & boys in history is a surreal historical document.

GER 2000-2001, 305 min

U3000 – the underground talk.

GER 1993-2000, 38 min

Eight buildings designed and furnished by famous architect Louis H. Sullivan at the end of his career.

GER 1998, 74 min

If you don’t want to fall out of grace with your contacts as a dealer, you must never be seen with an undercover cop. If you don’t want...

GER 1999, 82 min

A day in the life of a dead man.

GER 1999, 95 min

An eerily stunning and haunting film about the social and emotional demise of a man who is not able to adapt to life in post-...

GER 1976-1998, 263 min

The DVD brings together for the first time the cinematic oeuvre by Riki Kalbe.

GER 2017, 131 min

For the 1998 general election Schlingensief organized an “election campaign circus” in Berlin and founded the party CHANCE 2000. An...

GER 1997, 84 min

The everyday live of three German-Turkish teenagers in their neighbourhood Berlin-Kreuzberg. The first part of Thomas Arslan's "Berlin...

GER 1997, 60 min

The surviver of the Fassbinder family meet on Potsdamer Platz for the shooting of the Last New German Film – a remake of Pasolini’s THE...

GER 1997, 177 min

Interviewfilm with Roland Klick from 1997 about all his films.

F/D/I 1996, 105 min

A dark vision of comic star Enki Bilal.

GER/FR 1996, 125 min

Werner Schroeter’s exceptional documentation on the art of singing and how it is brought into existence.

GER 1995, 77 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs grotequely erotic, blasphemous, ultraviolent, incestuous,...

GER 1995, 93 min

Three episodes based on three short stories and commented by famouse American writer Paul Bowles.

GER 1979-1995, 296 min

Klaus Telscher is one of the most important German experimental filmmakers of the 1980s and 90s. His sophisticated work is atmospherically...

GER 1995, 45 min

The biographies of the two photographers Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach.

GER 1994, 87 min

The first feature film by Thomas Arslan portrays a group of young people in Essen in the 1990s.

GER 1994, 80 min

With his own poems, music and images from 13 years, Klaus Wyborny has composed a / his biography as a film: texts and perceptions that are...

GER 1993, 30 min

Based on the story "The Story of Lahcen and Idir" by the famous American writer Paul Bowles.

GER 1980-93, 330 min

Rüdiger Neumann is a filmmaker and professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg whose teaching has influenced two...

GER 1992, 92 min

After a wedding party three friends from Hamburg strand in newly reunited Berlin. A restless odyssey through the wastelands of a big city...

GER 1992, 79 min

They sought love and found only hatred the even more disgusting, more evil and more perverse peak of the German...

GER 1992, 45 min

A film portrait for the WDR! Perhaps one of the best films by Christoph Schlingensief? Unsparing, cheeky persiflage on all homestories and...

GER 1991, 81 min

After his success THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER Michael Klier once again deals with the situation of people during changing times after Fall...

GER 1991, 89 min

The death of a friend provokes a goup of artists to take a serious look at their own survival. THE HOLY BUNCH examines the manifold...

GER 1990, 94 min

Passion story on the open sea with Tilda Swinton and Hanns Zischler.

GER 1990, 60 min

After the German reunification-syrup, here comes the film to wake you up! Loud and aggressive! Christoph Schlingensief’s unscrupulous...

GDR 1989, 66 min

Andreas Kleinert’s award-winning graduation film at the film school “Konrad Wolf”.

GER 1989, 78 min

A documentary-like introspection into the low dives and low-lives of the marginals and petty criminals found in the dead-end parts of...

GER 1989, 92 min

From ugly duckling to swan. Roland Klick does not stick to clichés, but in recourse to the fairy tale once again formulates a declaration...

GER 1989, 55 min

One light, one day, one leader. Five men, four women, dragged out of the darkness by a hand-held spotlight. We see the last hour in the...

USSR, EG, SUD, GDR 1964-1989, 174 min

Eight films by directors Suliman Elnour, Eltayeb Mahdi, Ibrahim Shaddad of the Sudanese Film Group (SFG).

GER 1988, 110 min

After the essay “On Marionette theatre” by Heinrich von Kleist.

GER 1988, 27 min

Berlin-based British filmmaker Cynthia Beatt and actress Tilda Swinton follow the Wall on the west side of Berlin.

GER 1988, 85 min

Visconti meets “Dallas” in Schlingensief’s official remake of Veit Harlan’s OPFERGANG (1944)!

GER 1988, 88 min

The Chronicle of a farewell.

GER 1988, 100 min

Between gentle poetry and exciting narration the award-winning feature debut by Christian Wagner.

GER 1988, 83 min

Harry (Ian Dury), a drummer and pyromaniac who likes to play with fire, and German car mechanic Gina (Pia Frankenberg) are forced to share...

USA/BRD 1976–1987, 194 min

Movies of Sheila McLaughlin and Lynne Tillman released on DVD for the first time!

GER 1986, 84 min

Dr. Faustus in eternal ice: Udo Kier as the devil's aunt and Tilda Swinton as Brünhilde. A young couple trapped in eternal ice, bound to...

IND 1986, 95 min

The movie-political pioneered by Deepa Dhanraj, for the first time in the restored version on DVD.

GER 1986, 81 min

Meat, Your Parents: A morbidly wicked parade of ghosts of the past, packed with black humour!

GER 1986, 85 min

A bullet rained love story in Berlin.

GER 1986, 21 min

Alfed Edel and Udo Kier in front of Schlingensief’s virtuoso handheld camera for the first time!

GER 1985, 13 min

Between Broadway act, classical music and operetta – cinema never came that close to the good old mixtape!

DDR 1985, 15 min

Andreas Kleinert’s short documentary about a cashier in Clärchen’s ballroom.

GER 1985, 88 min

“Destiny put her on the wrong side. She is rich, but wants to be poor. She’s well on her way, she’s making movies.“ A revealing (social)...

GER 1985, 367 min

A six-hour monologue composed of poems, prose, letters, speeches and dramatic texts, performed by Edith Clever. In a setting approximating...

GER 1985, 6 min

As a goodbye from the HfG Offenbach, Schlingensief and his students converted a projector into a camera.

GER 1984, 9 min

A city (Hamburg) is afflicted by a series of slaps in the face. Pia Frankenberg’s short film proves that cinema can strike back!

GER 1984, 84 min

Open voyeurism dominates the scene. Wherever one has the chance, people work themselfes into the ground through feelings and drive the...

GER 1984, 7 min

“‘Why not’ is not an argument.” Schlingensief’s direct attempt to explore new forms of narration. Instead of logical argumentation and...

GER 1984, 130 min

Based on the tragedy “The feud of the Schroffensteins” by Heinrich von Kleist.

GER 1984, 71 min

Schlingensief’s way of getting even with German avant-garde film.

GER 1983, 144 min

After the tragedy “Penthesilea” by Heinrich von Kleist.

GER 1983, 25 min

1980s Berlin: A personal and cathartic composition of destroyed buildings, post-war architecture and the discordant character of Maurice...

GER 1983, 92 min

One of the most intense, ruthlessly unadulterated performances Hopper has ever put to screen!

GER 1983, 13 min

The cinema takes off to new possibilities. Part two of the “Trilogy on Film Criticism”.

GER 1983, 82 min

An omnipresent giant who sees everything, but can’t be seen himself ... An 82-...

GER 1983, 9 min

Schlingensief shouts into the camera: Everything will be different now! The first film of the “Trilogy on Film Criticism”.

USA/GER 1982, 109 min

Beautiful things shouldn't really come from Karstadt, but they do.

GER 1982, 4 min

One of Schlingensiefs first 16 mm short films.

GER 1982, 2 min

Christoph Schlingensief, 22, on the state of the nation.

AL/MOZ/USA 1969-1982, 311 min

As a multi-layered contribution to an aesthetic of resistance to colonial violence, the edition is also of current interest. Six films by...

FR/GER 1982, 244 min

Syberberg’s film adaptation of Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal”.

GER 1981, 13 min

A young woman strolls through the night, then boards a train. Seeking closeness to others she chooses an unusual method by searching...

GER 1980, 55 min

„Mr. Money“ is watching you.

GER 1980, 170 min

Germany is a foreign country where you have to make an effort.

GB 1977-1980, 125 min

One of the most important avant-garde films of the seventies, the first time available on DVD.

Org

I 1967–1978, 177 min

Fernando Birri‘s ORG is a monstrous, three-hour long film that has only been screened extremely rarely since it premiered at the Venice...

GSSR 1978, 95 min

As a journalist, Sopiko interviews a wide range of different women about their living conditions and desires.

GER 1977, 21 min

Watching filmmaking through the lens of the camera.

GER/FR/GB 1977, 442 min

Syberberg’s controversial film essay on Hitler as possible projection of the secret wishes of the German.

GER 1977, 40 min

The „second biggest film so far“ of the Amateur-Film-Company-2000.

IND 1977, 107 min

Schemes, assassinations and espionage in the old Indian empire on the eve of colonialization

GER 1975-1977, 56 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial...

GER 1975-77, 56 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial...

GER 1972-75, 142 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial...

NIG 1976, 137 min

SHAIHU UMAR by Adamu Halilu is one of the first feature films in Hausa. The film is based on the eponymous 1955 novella by Abubakar Tafawa...

GER 1972-1975, 142 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial...

GER 1975, 92 min

Berlin during Cold War. A man gets between the fronts and ends up as a double agent.

GER 1974, 84 min

Between THE FRENCH CONNECTION and REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, SUPERMARKET is rightfully regarded as a cult classic of German cinema.

GER 1974, 187 min

The last ten years in Karl May’s life. A man fighting for his work, which lets him become an iconic figure of his time.

GER 1974, 65 min

Based on a pulp novel of the same title.

GER 1972, 139 min

The last king of the old type, within the setting of his fantasies, at the beginning of the industrial age.

GER 1970, 85 min

Klick’s psychedelic endgame in noman’s land.

GER 1969, 13 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s short educational play about school. A real rarity for all Schlingensief fans!

GER 1968, 87min

A strange case keeps the police and the inhabitants of a small town busy. A little girl has disappeared. There are suspects, innocents, a...

GER 1968, 10 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs first film.

GER 1966, 52 min

A stroll through St. Pauli at night – cult director Roland Klick lets a young love flare up between nouvelle vague, German beat and total...

Two

GER 1965, 24min

A day in the life of an office worker and an aging striptease dancer who both live in the same house. Normally they don’t notice each...

GER 1964, 16 min

Roland Klick chases young Otto Sander through the tristesse of a small farming village. A masterpice and short film...

GER 1963, 10 min

A little boy in pre-Christmas season. Roland Klicks first movie!

GER 1974-1983 / 1995-2000 / 1986-2004, 94 min

The films THE BASIS OF MAKE-UP (I-III) are the starting point of over 30 film works of the series “Photography and beyond”, which also...

GER 2014, 7 min

In April of 2013, American singer Patti Smith travels to the grave of French writer Jean Genet in Larache, Morocco. She brings him three...

Filter
GER 2024, 115 min.

Following a protest against loggers, a young activist falls into a ravine. Injured and stranded, she...

GER 2024, 100 min

Germany, shortly before elections – a mysterious disease outbreak afflicting only men strikes. Differences between the sexes long believed...

GER 2024, 86 min

The film tells the story of a planned transformation of the former military base Wünsdorf into an ecological campus.

Chad 2023

After a deadly accident, the life of Dane, a driver for a humanitarian NGO in N'Djamena, is turned upside down. Director Achille Ronaimou...

GER/MAR 2023

A grotesque drama about the last days of the ancient philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca and the beginnings of Emperor Nero's despotic...

GER 2024, 92 min

A wave of evictions grips Berlin. The squatting scene dissolves and it’s members feel like they are supposed to leave the city. The film...

GER 2023

The 42-year-old actress Marga has passed the zenith of her career and, due to advancing age and as a woman, collides with the limits of...

GER 2023

Home song with harmonium. Collected and edited by Hans Jürgen Syberberg. From the restored kitchen of the former estate house in N.

FR, ES, DE, PT 2022, 165 min

A thriller shot in Tahiti and set in the shadow of nuclear testing.

GER 2022, 80 min

The quasi-fascist architecture of Francisco Salamone's slaughterhouses in the Argentine pampas, the utopian buildings by Freddy...

GER 2022, 62 min

Architecture as Autobiography. Photography and beyond – Part 34. Twenty-five buildings by Argentine architect Francisco Salamone (1897-...

GER 2022, 95 min

Photography and beyond – Part 35. The film shows numerous choletts of the Bolivian civil engineer, architect and founder of neo-Andean...

GER 2022, 105 min

To concentrate on her ballet career, Nadja let her son, Mario, grow up with her mother and hardly ever saw him for years. When she meets...

GER 2020, 124 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s “Heimat” films, performance art, installations and provocative theatrical, television, operatic and artistic...

GER/Argentina 2020, 76 min

A sardonic distillation of themes revolving around death, consciousness and human relationships. The sequel to DIE LETZTE STADT – morbid,...

GER 2020, 100 min

A revelation stuffed with every kind of surprise except the ones you expect.

GER 2019, 80 min

Max Linz’s satire on the university business, stuck into third-party funding and evaluation.  

GER 2018, 36 min

The Grundtvigs Church (1913-1940) in Copenhagen, designed by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint and built by six master bricklayer and...

DE/FR/PT/ES 2019, 132 min

A forest between Potsdam and Berlin becomes a stage for a beautiful provocation against Puritanism.

GER 2019, 93 min

The renovation, demolition and reconstruction of different parts of the Kunsthalle Mannheim between 2013 and 2018. The before and the...

ROI SOLEIL, Spain 2018, 62 min

The last hour of the French monarch Louis XIV as a gallery performance.

GER 2018, 71 min

In a small German town near the edge of the Ruhr region, a farmboy tries to find his place in the world. Torn back and forth between city...

LA MORT DE LOUIS XIV, F/Spain/Portugal 2016, 115 min

Suffering and dying do not stop at the most powerful, even the absolute.

GER/ISR 2017, 92 min

22 buildings by the Kibbutz architect Samuel Bickels, filmed in Israel in 2015. As prologue, the Casa do Povo in São Paulo, as...

GER/FR/PL 2017, 118 min

A disturbing hoax in a no-man’s-land in Germany, two weeks...

GER 2017, 132 min

There are streets, paths, motorways, alleys, boulevards and promenades. And there are life paths, intersections and dead ends.

GER 2017, 95 min

A cinematic documentation of 29 buildings by the Uruguayan architect and shell-construction master Eladio Dieste (1917-2000). As prologue...

GER 2017, 88 min

Documentation on the recordings of KREIDLERS LP “ABC” filmed at Kartuli Pilmis Studia Tbilisi and in the streets of Tbilisi,...

GER 2017, 81 min

“What is to be done?“ Three women, their demand for political action and the question of how to put it into a reality.

GER/Peru 2017, 92 min

A justice thriller of a different kind.

GER 2016, 106 min

A documentary turns into a cinematic REVISION. Like a puzzle, the film puts together the facts around the death of two men on a field at...

D 2016, 94 min

AND-EK GHES... means: ONE FINE DAY... A song, a promise to the beloved, to the children, to oneself. Members of the Velcu family from Faţa...

D 2016, 15 min

The last days of the German photographer August Sander (1876-1964).

GER 2016, 30 min

A disturbing role play.

GER 2016, 86 min

Two couples suffer the failure of their relationships 30 years apart.

GER 2016, 93 min

On 14.09.2012 at 2:56pm, the cruise liner Adventure of the Seas reports to the Spanish Maritime Rescue Centre the sighting of a...

GER 2016, 85 min

A middle aged couple hire young men to act as their son.

GER 2015, 100 min

Two bodies and two worlds collide. Driven by her passion, the aid worker Dorothea loses more and more control.

GER/DEN 2015, 29 min

Two buildings and the ideologies of their creators in confrontation.

F/Haiti/N 2015, 130 min

The exploration of the fundamental questions of citizenship, responsibility, and justice that have challenged Haitian society ever since...

DK 2015, 107 min

Documentation based on a rediscovered interview with Rainer Werner Fassbinder from the 70s.

GER 2014, 84 min

A political manifesto in feature film format.

GER 2014, 95 min

Kreuzberg’s quicksand.

GB/GER 2014, 96 min

Stella Miles travels from Glasgow to Berlin to claim ownership of a house which is dramatically steeped in the history of the 20th century...

GER 2009-2014, 239 min

state-theatre is a modular art project of Berlin theater and filmmaker Daniel Kötter and Constanze Fischbeck on the urban...

GER/USA 2014, 56 min

Four real-life adult film performers at a working day in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California  a hybrid...

GER 2014, 108 min

An architectural journey from Berlin back to Berlin – into the abyss.

Spain 2014, 18 min

A tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his actor Günther Kaufmann.

GER 2014, 87 min

A sophisticated duel between two strong female characters.

USA 2013, 90 min

„Best of Sundance, a true original!“ (Indiewire)

GER 2013, 80 min

At the age of 14 Roland Klick was certain: cinema was what his soul was longing for. Filmmaking as an adventure, existential experience...

Haiti/BEL/F/USA 2013, 100 min

Raoul Peck explores the situation after the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010.

GER 2013, 172 min

A film about the virtue of love, the virtue of curiosity, the virtue of joy.

CDN/DK/MEX/PHI 2013, 88 min

An experimental, emotional comedy that relates the end of cinema with the end of the world.

GER 2013, 18 min

A study of two museums: The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, and its predecessor, the Museum of Art, Ein Harod,...

​HISTÒRIA DE LA MEVA MORT, F/Spain 2013, 148 min

Together with his new servant, Casanova embarks on a journey to the Carpathian Mountains, to meet Dracula.

GER 2012, 3 min

A study for Corporate, the third part of the Women and Work trilogy.

GER 2012, 110 min

30 buildings and architectural ensembles of the French architects and construction engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret.

GER 2012, 106 min

An African Bayreuth? An Opera in Burkina Faso?

GER 2012, 86 min

On the search for his missing daughter, Lothar discovers that more and more children and adolescents disappear under inexplicable...

GER 2012, 81 min

CAUSE I HAVE THE LOOKS intertwines a vibrant coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old girl from Columbia with the exceptional situation of...

GER 2012, 100 min

PARABETON presents 17 in Italy and France extant buildings by Italian master-builder Pier Luigi Nervi and ten examples of Ancient Roman...

A 2012, 90 min

After LA PIVELLINA another brilliant mix of documentary and fiction.

GER 2012, 41 min

Coming home from Afghanistan.

GER/USA 2011, 30 min

The fictional restaging of a drone pilots unfinished story.

GER 2011, 23 min

Sometimes there is a good moment to say goodbye to the story ...

GER 2011, 83 min

Alexander represents a generation that set out into the new post-cold war world without ever stopping to look back.

GER 2011, 97 min

The life and work of this artist who was as acutely sensitive to beauty as to death, was determined by the forces of Eros and passion. Not...

CH 2011, 107 min

A fictitious autobiography.

H/GER/FR 2011, 98 min

After a Romany family was killed in a Hungarian village, a neighbours family trys to manage the day after the crime. Based on an actual...

GER 2011, 83 min

A tour de force through the African Okavango swamp, blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary.

GER 2011, 86 min

A family’s routine spinning out of control with the arrival of a stranger.

EL SENYOR HA FET EN MI MERAVELLES, Spain 2011, 146 min

A road movie – on the trail of Don Quixote's mythical locations.

GER 2011, 90 min

A group of acting students fighting their angst and the school system.

GER 2010, 323 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs last play, performed with artists from Burkina Faso, where his “Opera Village Africa” lives on as his legacy to...

ELS NOMS DE CRIST, Spain 2010, 193 min

Episodic film, divided into 14 chapters, based on the play "De los nombres de Cristo" (1586), by Fray Luis de Leon and intended...

GER 2010, 97 min

John Cassavetes A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE in the 21st Century.

GER 2010, 100 min

A political wildlife film that centres around a country where the border between war and peace fades.

GER 2010, 64 min

An outstanding German zombie film.

GER 2010, 82 min

The gangster film’s structures brought to light.

GER 1986-2010, 152 min

A series including seven films by Heinz Emigholz. It is the name Heinz Emigholz gave to films that have forced themselves upon him wanting...

GER 2007, 87 min

In the city of Wünsdorf near Berlin Scheffner follows the traces of the past. The starting point are voice recordings of colonial soldiers...

GER 2010, 105 min

A very powerful and original documentary on youth.

GER 2010, 101 min

Camp meets art in Herbert Fritsch's take on Hamlet.

GER 2010, 90 min

A one-night stand with consequences.

USA 2010, 89 min

North America’s new generation X. Matt Porterfield’s celebrated festival-hit! 

GER 2009, 11 min

Isabelle Stever visits a fourth grade class in Munich and their young teacher, who instituted a 'class council' according to the Freinet...

Haiti/F 2009, 107 min

Peck’s searing critique of absolute power within the most elegant chamber drama.

GER 2009, 60 min

Reframing CYCLING THE FRAME. Cynthia Beatt and Tilda Swinton once again go on the trail of the Berlin Wall. 

GER/A 2009, 168 min

The description of a lifeline through architecture.

A 2009, 95 min

„Peter Kern explores the tension between nationalistic phrases and latent homosexuality.“ (tip Berlin) With legendary actor Helmut Berger...

A/I 2009, 105 min

A foundling in the outskirts of Rome. A circus family. A new preliminary home.

GER 2008, 42 min

Wild, risky, dangerous: German cinema needs more Torpedos!

FR/GER/Portugal 2008, 118 min

One night to find an ever-escaping truth fhe last film of Werner Schroeter.

D 2008, 375 min

Whoever shows his wound will be healed.

EL CANT DELS OCELLS, Spain 2008, 93 min

The Magi travel in search of the Messiah who has just been born.

GER/Morocco 2008, 95 min

Tangiers, Morocco. A complicate love triangle between a young Moroccan woman and a German couple. Money, dishonesty and prostitution occur...

GER 2008, 6 min

A dance video

A 2008, 72 min

27 still-existing buildings and interiors by Austrian architect and pioneer of European Modernist architecture Adolf Loos in order of...

GER 2007, 91 min

Four generations meet in a summer mansion as past resentments are vented the idyllic atmosphere slowly starts to...

GER 2007, 95 min

Victory of the invisible the predecessor of ORLY.

GER 2007, 429 min

The legendary opera performance at the Amazon in Manaus.

A 2007, 99 min

40 buildings by the Austro-American architect Rudolph Schindler from the years 1931 to 1952. Schindler’s pioneering work in Southern...

CDN 2007, 79 min

A multilayered journey through the hometown in his head, Guy Maddin’s MY WINNIPEG is a vigorous caprice of fact and fiction.

GER 2014, 94 min

The second part of Tatjana Turanskyj's trilogy about women and work is a film narration about the complex body and gender politics in the...

GER 2007, 75 min

A love story between art, capital and marketing.

GER 2007, 95 min

An ambivalent childhood ...

GER 2007, 120 min

The critically acclaimed follow-up of Maria Speth’s debut THE DAYS BETWEEN.

GER 2006, 89 min

A personal travelogue, a documentary about a trip through Turkey.

TND/MAD/F/GER 2006, 115 min

Nouri Bouzid's award-winning film about the making-of a terrorist.

GER 2006, 88 min

Precise observation and bizarre comedy – Ulrich Köhler’s second feature film after his celebrated BUNGALOW.

GER 2006, 82 min

Henner Wincklers second feature film after his exceptional debut SCHOOL TRIP.

USA 2006, 65 min

Two summer days in the suburbs of Baltimore. Matthew Porterfield’s debut and the puristic prequal of his celebrated PUTTY HILL.

HONOR DE CAVALLERIA, Spain 2006, 107 min

Based on the novel "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantes.

GER 2005, 399 min

Lost in Namibia – a documentary about Christoph Schlingensief’s last, unfinished film – commented by himself.

GER 2005, 90 min

A love triangle.

L/IT/A 1989-2005, 45 min

Four experimental movies by the artist Bady Minck, located somewhere between Salzburg and Alfred Loos' spinal marrow, between dream and...

GER 2005, 87 min

Christoph Schlingensief's first ur-animatograph installation.

GER 2005, 100 min

How must be a person who gives informations to the secret service? The much acclaimed debut of Benjamin Heisenberg hits a nerve.

GER 2005, 93 min

Three episodes between stage and life – exciting young German cinema and a true Berlin film!

GER 2005, 232 min

“The Animatograph” is a conglomeration of various media: cinema, theater, performance, installation, painting and opera.

GER 2005, 52 min

15 rooms of the Villa Cargnacco in Gardone on Lake Garda, where Gabriele D’Annunzio moved in 1921 and lived until his death.

GER 2004, 95 min

A slice of life in 75 shots.

GER 2004, 283 min

Schlingensief’s attempt at self-therapy after the trauma of directing PARSIFAL in Bayreuth.

GER 2003-2004

Hamlet in the labyrinth. 11 films by Herbert Fritsch in cooperation with the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. After texts by William...

GER 2003, 962 min

Part one of Schlingensief’s Atta trilogy – set between his parents’ home, an amateur film club and studio.

GER 2003, 110 min

Heinz Emigholz’ congenial approach to Bruce Goff’s works.

GER 2003, 94 min

A woman abandons her two stepchildren in Poland. A modern adaption of the fairy tale “Hänsel and Gretel”.

GER 2003, 87 min

A delightfully offbeat black comedy about a guy who first loses a testicle to cancer and then has a ball trying to steal it back from the...

GER 2003, 75 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s answer to the Talent Show frenzy!

GER 2002, 372 min

Quiz 3000 presents what is for him the only acceptable form of serial dramatic art in this theatrical “televisionary” TV quiz...

GER 2002, 82 min

Bottle-turning with undressing - The debut of Henner Winckler (LUCY).

GER 2004, 77 min

An Interviewfilm-portrait from the first untill the last film!

GER 2002, 92 min

A young couple is fighting on their own wedding party.

A 2002, 90 min

Austria 2000: Right after the FPÖ under Jörg Haider had become part of the government, the first time an extreme right wing party became...

A 2002, 80 min

Peter Kern documents Schlingensief’s Hamlet.

GER 2001, 24 min

14 works of the swiss artist, civil engineer and legendary bridge builder Robert Maillart designed between 1910 and 1935.

GER 2001, 79 min

With inevitable intensity – the portrait of a young woman, wandering around in the urban setting of Berlin. 

GER 2001, 7 min

The series girls & boys in history is a surreal historical document.

GER 2001, 7 min

The series girls & boys in history is a surreal historical document.

GER 2001, 349 min

His staging of “Hamlet” at Schauspielhaus Zurich takes shots at the right-wing populist Swiss People’s Party (SVP).

GER 2001, 75 min

The third part in Arslan’s trilogy about Turkish youth growing up in Germany, focusing on 21-year-old Deniz during one long, labyrinth-...

GER 2001, 85 min

Cinema and reality coming close.

GER 2000, 7 min

The series girls & boys in history is a surreal historical document.

GER 2000-2001, 305 min

U3000 – the underground talk.

GER 1993-2000, 38 min

Eight buildings designed and furnished by famous architect Louis H. Sullivan at the end of his career.

GER 1998, 74 min

If you don’t want to fall out of grace with your contacts as a dealer, you must never be seen with an undercover cop. If you don’t want...

GER 1999, 82 min

A day in the life of a dead man.

GER 1999, 95 min

An eerily stunning and haunting film about the social and emotional demise of a man who is not able to adapt to life in post-...

GER 1976-1998, 263 min

The DVD brings together for the first time the cinematic oeuvre by Riki Kalbe.

GER 2017, 131 min

For the 1998 general election Schlingensief organized an “election campaign circus” in Berlin and founded the party CHANCE 2000. An...

GER 1997, 84 min

The everyday live of three German-Turkish teenagers in their neighbourhood Berlin-Kreuzberg. The first part of Thomas Arslan's "Berlin...

GER 1997, 60 min

The surviver of the Fassbinder family meet on Potsdamer Platz for the shooting of the Last New German Film – a remake of Pasolini’s THE...

GER 1997, 177 min

Interviewfilm with Roland Klick from 1997 about all his films.

F/D/I 1996, 105 min

A dark vision of comic star Enki Bilal.

GER/FR 1996, 125 min

Werner Schroeter’s exceptional documentation on the art of singing and how it is brought into existence.

GER 1995, 77 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs grotequely erotic, blasphemous, ultraviolent, incestuous,...

GER 1995, 93 min

Three episodes based on three short stories and commented by famouse American writer Paul Bowles.

GER 1979-1995, 296 min

Klaus Telscher is one of the most important German experimental filmmakers of the 1980s and 90s. His sophisticated work is atmospherically...

GER 1995, 45 min

The biographies of the two photographers Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach.

GER 1994, 87 min

The first feature film by Thomas Arslan portrays a group of young people in Essen in the 1990s.

GER 1994, 80 min

With his own poems, music and images from 13 years, Klaus Wyborny has composed a / his biography as a film: texts and perceptions that are...

GER 1993, 30 min

Based on the story "The Story of Lahcen and Idir" by the famous American writer Paul Bowles.

GER 1980-93, 330 min

Rüdiger Neumann is a filmmaker and professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg whose teaching has influenced two...

GER 1992, 92 min

After a wedding party three friends from Hamburg strand in newly reunited Berlin. A restless odyssey through the wastelands of a big city...

GER 1992, 79 min

They sought love and found only hatred the even more disgusting, more evil and more perverse peak of the German...

GER 1992, 45 min

A film portrait for the WDR! Perhaps one of the best films by Christoph Schlingensief? Unsparing, cheeky persiflage on all homestories and...

GER 1991, 81 min

After his success THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER Michael Klier once again deals with the situation of people during changing times after Fall...

GER 1991, 89 min

The death of a friend provokes a goup of artists to take a serious look at their own survival. THE HOLY BUNCH examines the manifold...

GER 1990, 94 min

Passion story on the open sea with Tilda Swinton and Hanns Zischler.

GER 1990, 60 min

After the German reunification-syrup, here comes the film to wake you up! Loud and aggressive! Christoph Schlingensief’s unscrupulous...

GDR 1989, 66 min

Andreas Kleinert’s award-winning graduation film at the film school “Konrad Wolf”.

GER 1989, 78 min

A documentary-like introspection into the low dives and low-lives of the marginals and petty criminals found in the dead-end parts of...

GER 1989, 92 min

From ugly duckling to swan. Roland Klick does not stick to clichés, but in recourse to the fairy tale once again formulates a declaration...

GER 1989, 55 min

One light, one day, one leader. Five men, four women, dragged out of the darkness by a hand-held spotlight. We see the last hour in the...

USSR, EG, SUD, GDR 1964-1989, 174 min

Eight films by directors Suliman Elnour, Eltayeb Mahdi, Ibrahim Shaddad of the Sudanese Film Group (SFG).

GER 1988, 110 min

After the essay “On Marionette theatre” by Heinrich von Kleist.

GER 1988, 27 min

Berlin-based British filmmaker Cynthia Beatt and actress Tilda Swinton follow the Wall on the west side of Berlin.

GER 1988, 85 min

Visconti meets “Dallas” in Schlingensief’s official remake of Veit Harlan’s OPFERGANG (1944)!

GER 1988, 88 min

The Chronicle of a farewell.

GER 1988, 100 min

Between gentle poetry and exciting narration the award-winning feature debut by Christian Wagner.

GER 1988, 83 min

Harry (Ian Dury), a drummer and pyromaniac who likes to play with fire, and German car mechanic Gina (Pia Frankenberg) are forced to share...

USA/BRD 1976–1987, 194 min

Movies of Sheila McLaughlin and Lynne Tillman released on DVD for the first time!

GER 1986, 84 min

Dr. Faustus in eternal ice: Udo Kier as the devil's aunt and Tilda Swinton as Brünhilde. A young couple trapped in eternal ice, bound to...

IND 1986, 95 min

The movie-political pioneered by Deepa Dhanraj, for the first time in the restored version on DVD.

GER 1986, 81 min

Meat, Your Parents: A morbidly wicked parade of ghosts of the past, packed with black humour!

GER 1986, 85 min

A bullet rained love story in Berlin.

GER 1986, 21 min

Alfed Edel and Udo Kier in front of Schlingensief’s virtuoso handheld camera for the first time!

GER 1985, 13 min

Between Broadway act, classical music and operetta – cinema never came that close to the good old mixtape!

DDR 1985, 15 min

Andreas Kleinert’s short documentary about a cashier in Clärchen’s ballroom.

GER 1985, 88 min

“Destiny put her on the wrong side. She is rich, but wants to be poor. She’s well on her way, she’s making movies.“ A revealing (social)...

GER 1985, 367 min

A six-hour monologue composed of poems, prose, letters, speeches and dramatic texts, performed by Edith Clever. In a setting approximating...

GER 1985, 6 min

As a goodbye from the HfG Offenbach, Schlingensief and his students converted a projector into a camera.

GER 1984, 9 min

A city (Hamburg) is afflicted by a series of slaps in the face. Pia Frankenberg’s short film proves that cinema can strike back!

GER 1984, 84 min

Open voyeurism dominates the scene. Wherever one has the chance, people work themselfes into the ground through feelings and drive the...

GER 1984, 7 min

“‘Why not’ is not an argument.” Schlingensief’s direct attempt to explore new forms of narration. Instead of logical argumentation and...

GER 1984, 130 min

Based on the tragedy “The feud of the Schroffensteins” by Heinrich von Kleist.

GER 1984, 71 min

Schlingensief’s way of getting even with German avant-garde film.

GER 1983, 144 min

After the tragedy “Penthesilea” by Heinrich von Kleist.

GER 1983, 25 min

1980s Berlin: A personal and cathartic composition of destroyed buildings, post-war architecture and the discordant character of Maurice...

GER 1983, 92 min

One of the most intense, ruthlessly unadulterated performances Hopper has ever put to screen!

GER 1983, 13 min

The cinema takes off to new possibilities. Part two of the “Trilogy on Film Criticism”.

GER 1983, 82 min

An omnipresent giant who sees everything, but can’t be seen himself ... An 82-...

GER 1983, 9 min

Schlingensief shouts into the camera: Everything will be different now! The first film of the “Trilogy on Film Criticism”.

USA/GER 1982, 109 min

Beautiful things shouldn't really come from Karstadt, but they do.

GER 1982, 4 min

One of Schlingensiefs first 16 mm short films.

GER 1982, 2 min

Christoph Schlingensief, 22, on the state of the nation.

AL/MOZ/USA 1969-1982, 311 min

As a multi-layered contribution to an aesthetic of resistance to colonial violence, the edition is also of current interest. Six films by...

FR/GER 1982, 244 min

Syberberg’s film adaptation of Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal”.

GER 1981, 13 min

A young woman strolls through the night, then boards a train. Seeking closeness to others she chooses an unusual method by searching...

GER 1980, 55 min

„Mr. Money“ is watching you.

GER 1980, 170 min

Germany is a foreign country where you have to make an effort.

GB 1977-1980, 125 min

One of the most important avant-garde films of the seventies, the first time available on DVD.

Org

I 1967–1978, 177 min

Fernando Birri‘s ORG is a monstrous, three-hour long film that has only been screened extremely rarely since it premiered at the Venice...

GSSR 1978, 95 min

As a journalist, Sopiko interviews a wide range of different women about their living conditions and desires.

GER 1977, 21 min

Watching filmmaking through the lens of the camera.

GER/FR/GB 1977, 442 min

Syberberg’s controversial film essay on Hitler as possible projection of the secret wishes of the German.

GER 1977, 40 min

The „second biggest film so far“ of the Amateur-Film-Company-2000.

IND 1977, 107 min

Schemes, assassinations and espionage in the old Indian empire on the eve of colonialization

GER 1975-1977, 56 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial...

GER 1975-77, 56 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial...

GER 1972-75, 142 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial...

NIG 1976, 137 min

SHAIHU UMAR by Adamu Halilu is one of the first feature films in Hausa. The film is based on the eponymous 1955 novella by Abubakar Tafawa...

GER 1972-1975, 142 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial...

GER 1975, 92 min

Berlin during Cold War. A man gets between the fronts and ends up as a double agent.

GER 1974, 84 min

Between THE FRENCH CONNECTION and REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, SUPERMARKET is rightfully regarded as a cult classic of German cinema.

GER 1974, 187 min

The last ten years in Karl May’s life. A man fighting for his work, which lets him become an iconic figure of his time.

GER 1974, 65 min

Based on a pulp novel of the same title.

GER 1972, 139 min

The last king of the old type, within the setting of his fantasies, at the beginning of the industrial age.

GER 1970, 85 min

Klick’s psychedelic endgame in noman’s land.

GER 1969, 13 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s short educational play about school. A real rarity for all Schlingensief fans!

GER 1968, 87min

A strange case keeps the police and the inhabitants of a small town busy. A little girl has disappeared. There are suspects, innocents, a...

GER 1968, 10 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs first film.

GER 1966, 52 min

A stroll through St. Pauli at night – cult director Roland Klick lets a young love flare up between nouvelle vague, German beat and total...

Two

GER 1965, 24min

A day in the life of an office worker and an aging striptease dancer who both live in the same house. Normally they don’t notice each...

GER 1964, 16 min

Roland Klick chases young Otto Sander through the tristesse of a small farming village. A masterpice and short film...

GER 1963, 10 min

A little boy in pre-Christmas season. Roland Klicks first movie!

GER 1974-1983 / 1995-2000 / 1986-2004, 94 min

The films THE BASIS OF MAKE-UP (I-III) are the starting point of over 30 film works of the series “Photography and beyond”, which also...

GER 2014, 7 min

In April of 2013, American singer Patti Smith travels to the grave of French writer Jean Genet in Larache, Morocco. She brings him three...

Filter
GER 2024, 115 min.

Following a protest against loggers, a young activist falls into a ravine. Injured and stranded, she...

GER 2024, 100 min

Germany, shortly before elections – a mysterious disease outbreak afflicting only men strikes. Differences between the sexes long believed...

GER 2024, 86 min

The film tells the story of a planned transformation of the former military base Wünsdorf into an ecological campus.

Chad 2023

After a deadly accident, the life of Dane, a driver for a humanitarian NGO in N'Djamena, is turned upside down. Director Achille Ronaimou...

GER/MAR 2023

A grotesque drama about the last days of the ancient philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca and the beginnings of Emperor Nero's despotic...

GER 2024, 92 min

A wave of evictions grips Berlin. The squatting scene dissolves and it’s members feel like they are supposed to leave the city. The film...

GER 2023

The 42-year-old actress Marga has passed the zenith of her career and, due to advancing age and as a woman, collides with the limits of...

GER 2023

Home song with harmonium. Collected and edited by Hans Jürgen Syberberg. From the restored kitchen of the former estate house in N.

FR, ES, DE, PT 2022, 165 min

A thriller shot in Tahiti and set in the shadow of nuclear testing.

GER 2022, 80 min

The quasi-fascist architecture of Francisco Salamone's slaughterhouses in the Argentine pampas, the utopian buildings by Freddy...

GER 2022, 62 min

Architecture as Autobiography. Photography and beyond – Part 34. Twenty-five buildings by Argentine architect Francisco Salamone (1897-...

GER 2022, 95 min

Photography and beyond – Part 35. The film shows numerous choletts of the Bolivian civil engineer, architect and founder of neo-Andean...

GER 2022, 105 min

To concentrate on her ballet career, Nadja let her son, Mario, grow up with her mother and hardly ever saw him for years. When she meets...

GER 2020, 124 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s “Heimat” films, performance art, installations and provocative theatrical, television, operatic and artistic...

GER/Argentina 2020, 76 min

A sardonic distillation of themes revolving around death, consciousness and human relationships. The sequel to DIE LETZTE STADT – morbid,...

GER 2020, 100 min

A revelation stuffed with every kind of surprise except the ones you expect.

GER 2019, 80 min

Max Linz’s satire on the university business, stuck into third-party funding and evaluation.  

GER 2018, 36 min

The Grundtvigs Church (1913-1940) in Copenhagen, designed by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint and built by six master bricklayer and...

DE/FR/PT/ES 2019, 132 min

A forest between Potsdam and Berlin becomes a stage for a beautiful provocation against Puritanism.

GER 2019, 93 min

The renovation, demolition and reconstruction of different parts of the Kunsthalle Mannheim between 2013 and 2018. The before and the...

ROI SOLEIL, Spain 2018, 62 min

The last hour of the French monarch Louis XIV as a gallery performance.

GER 2018, 71 min

In a small German town near the edge of the Ruhr region, a farmboy tries to find his place in the world. Torn back and forth between city...

LA MORT DE LOUIS XIV, F/Spain/Portugal 2016, 115 min

Suffering and dying do not stop at the most powerful, even the absolute.

GER/ISR 2017, 92 min

22 buildings by the Kibbutz architect Samuel Bickels, filmed in Israel in 2015. As prologue, the Casa do Povo in São Paulo, as...

GER/FR/PL 2017, 118 min

A disturbing hoax in a no-man’s-land in Germany, two weeks...

GER 2017, 132 min

There are streets, paths, motorways, alleys, boulevards and promenades. And there are life paths, intersections and dead ends.

GER 2017, 95 min

A cinematic documentation of 29 buildings by the Uruguayan architect and shell-construction master Eladio Dieste (1917-2000). As prologue...

GER 2017, 88 min

Documentation on the recordings of KREIDLERS LP “ABC” filmed at Kartuli Pilmis Studia Tbilisi and in the streets of Tbilisi,...

GER 2017, 81 min

“What is to be done?“ Three women, their demand for political action and the question of how to put it into a reality.

GER/Peru 2017, 92 min

A justice thriller of a different kind.

GER 2016, 106 min

A documentary turns into a cinematic REVISION. Like a puzzle, the film puts together the facts around the death of two men on a field at...

D 2016, 94 min

AND-EK GHES... means: ONE FINE DAY... A song, a promise to the beloved, to the children, to oneself. Members of the Velcu family from Faţa...

D 2016, 15 min

The last days of the German photographer August Sander (1876-1964).

GER 2016, 30 min

A disturbing role play.

GER 2016, 86 min

Two couples suffer the failure of their relationships 30 years apart.

GER 2016, 93 min

On 14.09.2012 at 2:56pm, the cruise liner Adventure of the Seas reports to the Spanish Maritime Rescue Centre the sighting of a...

GER 2016, 85 min

A middle aged couple hire young men to act as their son.

GER 2015, 100 min

Two bodies and two worlds collide. Driven by her passion, the aid worker Dorothea loses more and more control.

GER/DEN 2015, 29 min

Two buildings and the ideologies of their creators in confrontation.

F/Haiti/N 2015, 130 min

The exploration of the fundamental questions of citizenship, responsibility, and justice that have challenged Haitian society ever since...

DK 2015, 107 min

Documentation based on a rediscovered interview with Rainer Werner Fassbinder from the 70s.

GER 2014, 84 min

A political manifesto in feature film format.

GER 2014, 95 min

Kreuzberg’s quicksand.

GB/GER 2014, 96 min

Stella Miles travels from Glasgow to Berlin to claim ownership of a house which is dramatically steeped in the history of the 20th century...

GER 2009-2014, 239 min

state-theatre is a modular art project of Berlin theater and filmmaker Daniel Kötter and Constanze Fischbeck on the urban...

GER/USA 2014, 56 min

Four real-life adult film performers at a working day in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California  a hybrid...

GER 2014, 108 min

An architectural journey from Berlin back to Berlin – into the abyss.

Spain 2014, 18 min

A tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his actor Günther Kaufmann.

GER 2014, 87 min

A sophisticated duel between two strong female characters.

USA 2013, 90 min

„Best of Sundance, a true original!“ (Indiewire)

GER 2013, 80 min

At the age of 14 Roland Klick was certain: cinema was what his soul was longing for. Filmmaking as an adventure, existential experience...

Haiti/BEL/F/USA 2013, 100 min

Raoul Peck explores the situation after the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010.

GER 2013, 172 min

A film about the virtue of love, the virtue of curiosity, the virtue of joy.

CDN/DK/MEX/PHI 2013, 88 min

An experimental, emotional comedy that relates the end of cinema with the end of the world.

GER 2013, 18 min

A study of two museums: The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, and its predecessor, the Museum of Art, Ein Harod,...

​HISTÒRIA DE LA MEVA MORT, F/Spain 2013, 148 min

Together with his new servant, Casanova embarks on a journey to the Carpathian Mountains, to meet Dracula.

GER 2012, 3 min

A study for Corporate, the third part of the Women and Work trilogy.

GER 2012, 110 min

30 buildings and architectural ensembles of the French architects and construction engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret.

GER 2012, 106 min

An African Bayreuth? An Opera in Burkina Faso?

GER 2012, 86 min

On the search for his missing daughter, Lothar discovers that more and more children and adolescents disappear under inexplicable...

GER 2012, 81 min

CAUSE I HAVE THE LOOKS intertwines a vibrant coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old girl from Columbia with the exceptional situation of...

GER 2012, 100 min

PARABETON presents 17 in Italy and France extant buildings by Italian master-builder Pier Luigi Nervi and ten examples of Ancient Roman...

A 2012, 90 min

After LA PIVELLINA another brilliant mix of documentary and fiction.

GER 2012, 41 min

Coming home from Afghanistan.

GER/USA 2011, 30 min

The fictional restaging of a drone pilots unfinished story.

GER 2011, 23 min

Sometimes there is a good moment to say goodbye to the story ...

GER 2011, 83 min

Alexander represents a generation that set out into the new post-cold war world without ever stopping to look back.

GER 2011, 97 min

The life and work of this artist who was as acutely sensitive to beauty as to death, was determined by the forces of Eros and passion. Not...

CH 2011, 107 min

A fictitious autobiography.

H/GER/FR 2011, 98 min

After a Romany family was killed in a Hungarian village, a neighbours family trys to manage the day after the crime. Based on an actual...

GER 2011, 83 min

A tour de force through the African Okavango swamp, blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary.

GER 2011, 86 min

A family’s routine spinning out of control with the arrival of a stranger.

EL SENYOR HA FET EN MI MERAVELLES, Spain 2011, 146 min

A road movie – on the trail of Don Quixote's mythical locations.

GER 2011, 90 min

A group of acting students fighting their angst and the school system.

GER 2010, 323 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs last play, performed with artists from Burkina Faso, where his “Opera Village Africa” lives on as his legacy to...

ELS NOMS DE CRIST, Spain 2010, 193 min

Episodic film, divided into 14 chapters, based on the play "De los nombres de Cristo" (1586), by Fray Luis de Leon and intended...

GER 2010, 97 min

John Cassavetes A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE in the 21st Century.

GER 2010, 100 min

A political wildlife film that centres around a country where the border between war and peace fades.

GER 2010, 64 min

An outstanding German zombie film.

GER 2010, 82 min

The gangster film’s structures brought to light.

GER 1986-2010, 152 min

A series including seven films by Heinz Emigholz. It is the name Heinz Emigholz gave to films that have forced themselves upon him wanting...

GER 2007, 87 min

In the city of Wünsdorf near Berlin Scheffner follows the traces of the past. The starting point are voice recordings of colonial soldiers...

GER 2010, 105 min

A very powerful and original documentary on youth.

GER 2010, 101 min

Camp meets art in Herbert Fritsch's take on Hamlet.

GER 2010, 90 min

A one-night stand with consequences.

USA 2010, 89 min

North America’s new generation X. Matt Porterfield’s celebrated festival-hit! 

GER 2009, 11 min

Isabelle Stever visits a fourth grade class in Munich and their young teacher, who instituted a 'class council' according to the Freinet...

Haiti/F 2009, 107 min

Peck’s searing critique of absolute power within the most elegant chamber drama.

GER 2009, 60 min

Reframing CYCLING THE FRAME. Cynthia Beatt and Tilda Swinton once again go on the trail of the Berlin Wall. 

GER/A 2009, 168 min

The description of a lifeline through architecture.

A 2009, 95 min

„Peter Kern explores the tension between nationalistic phrases and latent homosexuality.“ (tip Berlin) With legendary actor Helmut Berger...

A/I 2009, 105 min

A foundling in the outskirts of Rome. A circus family. A new preliminary home.

GER 2008, 42 min

Wild, risky, dangerous: German cinema needs more Torpedos!

FR/GER/Portugal 2008, 118 min

One night to find an ever-escaping truth fhe last film of Werner Schroeter.

D 2008, 375 min

Whoever shows his wound will be healed.

EL CANT DELS OCELLS, Spain 2008, 93 min

The Magi travel in search of the Messiah who has just been born.

GER/Morocco 2008, 95 min

Tangiers, Morocco. A complicate love triangle between a young Moroccan woman and a German couple. Money, dishonesty and prostitution occur...

GER 2008, 6 min

A dance video

A 2008, 72 min

27 still-existing buildings and interiors by Austrian architect and pioneer of European Modernist architecture Adolf Loos in order of...

GER 2007, 91 min

Four generations meet in a summer mansion as past resentments are vented the idyllic atmosphere slowly starts to...

GER 2007, 95 min

Victory of the invisible the predecessor of ORLY.

GER 2007, 429 min

The legendary opera performance at the Amazon in Manaus.

A 2007, 99 min

40 buildings by the Austro-American architect Rudolph Schindler from the years 1931 to 1952. Schindler’s pioneering work in Southern...

CDN 2007, 79 min

A multilayered journey through the hometown in his head, Guy Maddin’s MY WINNIPEG is a vigorous caprice of fact and fiction.

GER 2014, 94 min

The second part of Tatjana Turanskyj's trilogy about women and work is a film narration about the complex body and gender politics in the...

GER 2007, 75 min

A love story between art, capital and marketing.

GER 2007, 95 min

An ambivalent childhood ...

GER 2007, 120 min

The critically acclaimed follow-up of Maria Speth’s debut THE DAYS BETWEEN.

GER 2006, 89 min

A personal travelogue, a documentary about a trip through Turkey.

TND/MAD/F/GER 2006, 115 min

Nouri Bouzid's award-winning film about the making-of a terrorist.

GER 2006, 88 min

Precise observation and bizarre comedy – Ulrich Köhler’s second feature film after his celebrated BUNGALOW.

GER 2006, 82 min

Henner Wincklers second feature film after his exceptional debut SCHOOL TRIP.

USA 2006, 65 min

Two summer days in the suburbs of Baltimore. Matthew Porterfield’s debut and the puristic prequal of his celebrated PUTTY HILL.

HONOR DE CAVALLERIA, Spain 2006, 107 min

Based on the novel "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantes.

GER 2005, 399 min

Lost in Namibia – a documentary about Christoph Schlingensief’s last, unfinished film – commented by himself.

GER 2005, 90 min

A love triangle.

L/IT/A 1989-2005, 45 min

Four experimental movies by the artist Bady Minck, located somewhere between Salzburg and Alfred Loos' spinal marrow, between dream and...

GER 2005, 87 min

Christoph Schlingensief's first ur-animatograph installation.

GER 2005, 100 min

How must be a person who gives informations to the secret service? The much acclaimed debut of Benjamin Heisenberg hits a nerve.

GER 2005, 93 min

Three episodes between stage and life – exciting young German cinema and a true Berlin film!

GER 2005, 232 min

“The Animatograph” is a conglomeration of various media: cinema, theater, performance, installation, painting and opera.

GER 2005, 52 min

15 rooms of the Villa Cargnacco in Gardone on Lake Garda, where Gabriele D’Annunzio moved in 1921 and lived until his death.

GER 2004, 95 min

A slice of life in 75 shots.

GER 2004, 283 min

Schlingensief’s attempt at self-therapy after the trauma of directing PARSIFAL in Bayreuth.

GER 2003-2004

Hamlet in the labyrinth. 11 films by Herbert Fritsch in cooperation with the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. After texts by William...

GER 2003, 962 min

Part one of Schlingensief’s Atta trilogy – set between his parents’ home, an amateur film club and studio.

GER 2003, 110 min

Heinz Emigholz’ congenial approach to Bruce Goff’s works.

GER 2003, 94 min

A woman abandons her two stepchildren in Poland. A modern adaption of the fairy tale “Hänsel and Gretel”.

GER 2003, 87 min

A delightfully offbeat black comedy about a guy who first loses a testicle to cancer and then has a ball trying to steal it back from the...

GER 2003, 75 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s answer to the Talent Show frenzy!

GER 2002, 372 min

Quiz 3000 presents what is for him the only acceptable form of serial dramatic art in this theatrical “televisionary” TV quiz...

GER 2002, 82 min

Bottle-turning with undressing - The debut of Henner Winckler (LUCY).

GER 2004, 77 min

An Interviewfilm-portrait from the first untill the last film!

GER 2002, 92 min

A young couple is fighting on their own wedding party.

A 2002, 90 min

Austria 2000: Right after the FPÖ under Jörg Haider had become part of the government, the first time an extreme right wing party became...

A 2002, 80 min

Peter Kern documents Schlingensief’s Hamlet.

GER 2001, 24 min

14 works of the swiss artist, civil engineer and legendary bridge builder Robert Maillart designed between 1910 and 1935.

GER 2001, 79 min

With inevitable intensity – the portrait of a young woman, wandering around in the urban setting of Berlin. 

GER 2001, 7 min

The series girls & boys in history is a surreal historical document.

GER 2001, 7 min

The series girls & boys in history is a surreal historical document.

GER 2001, 349 min

His staging of “Hamlet” at Schauspielhaus Zurich takes shots at the right-wing populist Swiss People’s Party (SVP).

GER 2001, 75 min

The third part in Arslan’s trilogy about Turkish youth growing up in Germany, focusing on 21-year-old Deniz during one long, labyrinth-...

GER 2001, 85 min

Cinema and reality coming close.

GER 2000, 7 min

The series girls & boys in history is a surreal historical document.

GER 2000-2001, 305 min

U3000 – the underground talk.

GER 1993-2000, 38 min

Eight buildings designed and furnished by famous architect Louis H. Sullivan at the end of his career.

GER 1998, 74 min

If you don’t want to fall out of grace with your contacts as a dealer, you must never be seen with an undercover cop. If you don’t want...

GER 1999, 82 min

A day in the life of a dead man.

GER 1999, 95 min

An eerily stunning and haunting film about the social and emotional demise of a man who is not able to adapt to life in post-...

GER 1976-1998, 263 min

The DVD brings together for the first time the cinematic oeuvre by Riki Kalbe.

GER 2017, 131 min

For the 1998 general election Schlingensief organized an “election campaign circus” in Berlin and founded the party CHANCE 2000. An...

GER 1997, 84 min

The everyday live of three German-Turkish teenagers in their neighbourhood Berlin-Kreuzberg. The first part of Thomas Arslan's "Berlin...

GER 1997, 60 min

The surviver of the Fassbinder family meet on Potsdamer Platz for the shooting of the Last New German Film – a remake of Pasolini’s THE...

GER 1997, 177 min

Interviewfilm with Roland Klick from 1997 about all his films.

F/D/I 1996, 105 min

A dark vision of comic star Enki Bilal.

GER/FR 1996, 125 min

Werner Schroeter’s exceptional documentation on the art of singing and how it is brought into existence.

GER 1995, 77 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs grotequely erotic, blasphemous, ultraviolent, incestuous,...

GER 1995, 93 min

Three episodes based on three short stories and commented by famouse American writer Paul Bowles.

GER 1979-1995, 296 min

Klaus Telscher is one of the most important German experimental filmmakers of the 1980s and 90s. His sophisticated work is atmospherically...

GER 1995, 45 min

The biographies of the two photographers Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach.

GER 1994, 87 min

The first feature film by Thomas Arslan portrays a group of young people in Essen in the 1990s.

GER 1994, 80 min

With his own poems, music and images from 13 years, Klaus Wyborny has composed a / his biography as a film: texts and perceptions that are...

GER 1993, 30 min

Based on the story "The Story of Lahcen and Idir" by the famous American writer Paul Bowles.

GER 1980-93, 330 min

Rüdiger Neumann is a filmmaker and professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg whose teaching has influenced two...

GER 1992, 92 min

After a wedding party three friends from Hamburg strand in newly reunited Berlin. A restless odyssey through the wastelands of a big city...

GER 1992, 79 min

They sought love and found only hatred the even more disgusting, more evil and more perverse peak of the German...

GER 1992, 45 min

A film portrait for the WDR! Perhaps one of the best films by Christoph Schlingensief? Unsparing, cheeky persiflage on all homestories and...

GER 1991, 81 min

After his success THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER Michael Klier once again deals with the situation of people during changing times after Fall...

GER 1991, 89 min

The death of a friend provokes a goup of artists to take a serious look at their own survival. THE HOLY BUNCH examines the manifold...

GER 1990, 94 min

Passion story on the open sea with Tilda Swinton and Hanns Zischler.

GER 1990, 60 min

After the German reunification-syrup, here comes the film to wake you up! Loud and aggressive! Christoph Schlingensief’s unscrupulous...

GDR 1989, 66 min

Andreas Kleinert’s award-winning graduation film at the film school “Konrad Wolf”.

GER 1989, 78 min

A documentary-like introspection into the low dives and low-lives of the marginals and petty criminals found in the dead-end parts of...

GER 1989, 92 min

From ugly duckling to swan. Roland Klick does not stick to clichés, but in recourse to the fairy tale once again formulates a declaration...

GER 1989, 55 min

One light, one day, one leader. Five men, four women, dragged out of the darkness by a hand-held spotlight. We see the last hour in the...

USSR, EG, SUD, GDR 1964-1989, 174 min

Eight films by directors Suliman Elnour, Eltayeb Mahdi, Ibrahim Shaddad of the Sudanese Film Group (SFG).

GER 1988, 110 min

After the essay “On Marionette theatre” by Heinrich von Kleist.

GER 1988, 27 min

Berlin-based British filmmaker Cynthia Beatt and actress Tilda Swinton follow the Wall on the west side of Berlin.

GER 1988, 85 min

Visconti meets “Dallas” in Schlingensief’s official remake of Veit Harlan’s OPFERGANG (1944)!

GER 1988, 88 min

The Chronicle of a farewell.

GER 1988, 100 min

Between gentle poetry and exciting narration the award-winning feature debut by Christian Wagner.

GER 1988, 83 min

Harry (Ian Dury), a drummer and pyromaniac who likes to play with fire, and German car mechanic Gina (Pia Frankenberg) are forced to share...

USA/BRD 1976–1987, 194 min

Movies of Sheila McLaughlin and Lynne Tillman released on DVD for the first time!

GER 1986, 84 min

Dr. Faustus in eternal ice: Udo Kier as the devil's aunt and Tilda Swinton as Brünhilde. A young couple trapped in eternal ice, bound to...

IND 1986, 95 min

The movie-political pioneered by Deepa Dhanraj, for the first time in the restored version on DVD.

GER 1986, 81 min

Meat, Your Parents: A morbidly wicked parade of ghosts of the past, packed with black humour!

GER 1986, 85 min

A bullet rained love story in Berlin.

GER 1986, 21 min

Alfed Edel and Udo Kier in front of Schlingensief’s virtuoso handheld camera for the first time!

GER 1985, 13 min

Between Broadway act, classical music and operetta – cinema never came that close to the good old mixtape!

DDR 1985, 15 min

Andreas Kleinert’s short documentary about a cashier in Clärchen’s ballroom.

GER 1985, 88 min

“Destiny put her on the wrong side. She is rich, but wants to be poor. She’s well on her way, she’s making movies.“ A revealing (social)...

GER 1985, 367 min

A six-hour monologue composed of poems, prose, letters, speeches and dramatic texts, performed by Edith Clever. In a setting approximating...

GER 1985, 6 min

As a goodbye from the HfG Offenbach, Schlingensief and his students converted a projector into a camera.

GER 1984, 9 min

A city (Hamburg) is afflicted by a series of slaps in the face. Pia Frankenberg’s short film proves that cinema can strike back!

GER 1984, 84 min

Open voyeurism dominates the scene. Wherever one has the chance, people work themselfes into the ground through feelings and drive the...

GER 1984, 7 min

“‘Why not’ is not an argument.” Schlingensief’s direct attempt to explore new forms of narration. Instead of logical argumentation and...

GER 1984, 130 min

Based on the tragedy “The feud of the Schroffensteins” by Heinrich von Kleist.

GER 1984, 71 min

Schlingensief’s way of getting even with German avant-garde film.

GER 1983, 144 min

After the tragedy “Penthesilea” by Heinrich von Kleist.

GER 1983, 25 min

1980s Berlin: A personal and cathartic composition of destroyed buildings, post-war architecture and the discordant character of Maurice...

GER 1983, 92 min

One of the most intense, ruthlessly unadulterated performances Hopper has ever put to screen!

GER 1983, 13 min

The cinema takes off to new possibilities. Part two of the “Trilogy on Film Criticism”.

GER 1983, 82 min

An omnipresent giant who sees everything, but can’t be seen himself ... An 82-...

GER 1983, 9 min

Schlingensief shouts into the camera: Everything will be different now! The first film of the “Trilogy on Film Criticism”.

USA/GER 1982, 109 min

Beautiful things shouldn't really come from Karstadt, but they do.

GER 1982, 4 min

One of Schlingensiefs first 16 mm short films.

GER 1982, 2 min

Christoph Schlingensief, 22, on the state of the nation.

AL/MOZ/USA 1969-1982, 311 min

As a multi-layered contribution to an aesthetic of resistance to colonial violence, the edition is also of current interest. Six films by...

FR/GER 1982, 244 min

Syberberg’s film adaptation of Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal”.

GER 1981, 13 min

A young woman strolls through the night, then boards a train. Seeking closeness to others she chooses an unusual method by searching...

GER 1980, 55 min

„Mr. Money“ is watching you.

GER 1980, 170 min

Germany is a foreign country where you have to make an effort.

GB 1977-1980, 125 min

One of the most important avant-garde films of the seventies, the first time available on DVD.

Org

I 1967–1978, 177 min

Fernando Birri‘s ORG is a monstrous, three-hour long film that has only been screened extremely rarely since it premiered at the Venice...

GSSR 1978, 95 min

As a journalist, Sopiko interviews a wide range of different women about their living conditions and desires.

GER 1977, 21 min

Watching filmmaking through the lens of the camera.

GER/FR/GB 1977, 442 min

Syberberg’s controversial film essay on Hitler as possible projection of the secret wishes of the German.

GER 1977, 40 min

The „second biggest film so far“ of the Amateur-Film-Company-2000.

IND 1977, 107 min

Schemes, assassinations and espionage in the old Indian empire on the eve of colonialization

GER 1975-1977, 56 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial...

GER 1975-77, 56 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial...

GER 1972-75, 142 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial...

NIG 1976, 137 min

SHAIHU UMAR by Adamu Halilu is one of the first feature films in Hausa. The film is based on the eponymous 1955 novella by Abubakar Tafawa...

GER 1972-1975, 142 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial...

GER 1975, 92 min

Berlin during Cold War. A man gets between the fronts and ends up as a double agent.

GER 1974, 84 min

Between THE FRENCH CONNECTION and REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, SUPERMARKET is rightfully regarded as a cult classic of German cinema.

GER 1974, 187 min

The last ten years in Karl May’s life. A man fighting for his work, which lets him become an iconic figure of his time.

GER 1974, 65 min

Based on a pulp novel of the same title.

GER 1972, 139 min

The last king of the old type, within the setting of his fantasies, at the beginning of the industrial age.

GER 1970, 85 min

Klick’s psychedelic endgame in noman’s land.

GER 1969, 13 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s short educational play about school. A real rarity for all Schlingensief fans!

GER 1968, 87min

A strange case keeps the police and the inhabitants of a small town busy. A little girl has disappeared. There are suspects, innocents, a...

GER 1968, 10 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs first film.

GER 1966, 52 min

A stroll through St. Pauli at night – cult director Roland Klick lets a young love flare up between nouvelle vague, German beat and total...

Two

GER 1965, 24min

A day in the life of an office worker and an aging striptease dancer who both live in the same house. Normally they don’t notice each...

GER 1964, 16 min

Roland Klick chases young Otto Sander through the tristesse of a small farming village. A masterpice and short film...

GER 1963, 10 min

A little boy in pre-Christmas season. Roland Klicks first movie!

GER 1974-1983 / 1995-2000 / 1986-2004, 94 min

The films THE BASIS OF MAKE-UP (I-III) are the starting point of over 30 film works of the series “Photography and beyond”, which also...

GER 2014, 7 min

In April of 2013, American singer Patti Smith travels to the grave of French writer Jean Genet in Larache, Morocco. She brings him three...