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![]() | LARP THE MOVIE is a captivating coming-of-age story that blends humor and intelligence to explore the trials of adolescence, the journey to independence, and the pursuit of dreams while staying true to oneself. Sergius, a 17-year-old often dismissed as a loser, finds solace and strength in live action role-playing (LARP) games. Alongside his friends, he escapes into a fantastical world of epic battles and heroic quests. However, at school, they hide their passion to avoid bullying. Everything changes when Helena, a new girl who shares his love for LARP and fantasy books, arrives at school. Enchanted by her, Sergius is determined to win her heart, even though she quickly becomes part of the popular crowd. To prove his worth and fight for love in real life, Sergius must confront his family, his biggest school adversary, and most importantly, his own fears and insecurities. |
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![]() | When the starship Nostromo receives a distress call from a lifeless planet on its way to Earth, the crew is obliged by their regulations to investigate the signal. During their explorations, they come across an abandoned spaceship, and the analysis of the signal reveals that it is not a distress call, but a warning. They find strange eggs in the spaceship, and by the time they figure out what they are, it's already too late. |
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![]() | In 2007, filmmaker Massoud Bakhshi first met sisters Mahya and Zahra. The girls grew up in a loving family in Tehran. Over the next eighteen years, Bakhshi repeatedly visited the family and the two girls. Eventually, a third sister, Maleka, joined the family. The film depicts what it is like to grow up as a young woman in a traditional Iranian family. |
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![]() | B-MOVIE is a documentary about music, art, and chaos in the wild West Berlin of the 80s. Before the Iron Curtain fell, artists and communards, squatters and hedonists of every color roamed here. The walled-in city was a creative melting pot for subculture and pop culture, "Genial Dilletantes" and world stars. B-MOVIE tells the final decade of the divided city, from punk to the Love Parade, with authentic film material and original interviews. Featuring Annette Humpe, Blixa Bargeld, Nena, Nick Cave, David Bowie, Gudrun Gut, Westbam, Joy Division, Zazie de Paris, Die Toten Hosen, the "real" Heino, Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Ärzte, The Unknown, Malaria!, Notorious Reflexes and many more. |
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![]() | Die Basler Architektin Barbara Buser rettet Gebäude vor dem Abriss und baut diese mit wiederverwendetem Material um. Sie verwandelt ehemalige Industrieareale zu urbanen Lebensräumen, die für einen sorgfältigen Umgang mit der Umwelt und dem Miteinander von Mensch und Umgebung stehen. Als Frau, die in einer Männerdomäne erfolgreich ihren eigenen Weg geht, ist Barbara Buser Vorbild für die junge Generation, die für eine nachhaltigere, gerechtere Welt kämpft. |
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![]() | German filmmaker Susanne, married to Jeong Rae Kim (a Korean man), turns her camera—with humor and tenderness—on her own intercultural marriage and family. While juggling the roles of wife, mother, and artist, she stages humorous and poetic performances—quiet acts of rebellion that give expression to her feelings and inner world. Through a blend of observation and staged moments, the film delves into the chaos of love, identity, and the clash of cultures. |
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![]() | A moving story about a woman and a family tested by a world of violence, unfulfilled ambitions, and mounting chaos. Fourteen-year-old Dawid cares for his younger brother and tries to meet the expectations of his mother, who wants to break free from a toxic past and start anew, without her imprisoned husband. Although the boy possesses talent and strength, his daily life, juxtaposed between school, home, and the streets, increasingly struggles to maintain control. Everything becomes even more complicated when Konrad - the only adult Dawid truly trusts - enters their lives. However, this is only the beginning of a turbulent series of events that could ultimately tear this family apart... or save it. |
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![]() | The precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet) enjoys the Northern Italian summer of 1983 in the 17th-century villa of his family. The Italian-American boy spends his time playing and transcribing classical music, reading, and flirting with his girlfriend Marzia (Esther Garrel). Elio is closely connected to his parents. His father (Michael Stuhlbarg), a respected professor, specializes in Greco-Roman culture. Elio's mother Annella (Amira Casar) works as a translator. Together they introduce their son to the achievements of high culture and provide him a carefree life with all its advantages... |
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![]() | Rick's Cafe in Casablanca is a meeting place for many people from Europe who want to flee to America during World War II. Rick Blaine, the owner of the cafe, reunites with Ilsa here, with whom he had an affair in Paris. But a revival of their old feelings is doomed to fail, as Ilsa's husband Victor must be saved from the Nazis. |
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![]() | Two angels watch over Berlin. Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) are silent observers, accompanying people through the city's rooftops and streets. They hear their thoughts and feelings, without being able to feel them themselves. Ever since Damiel fell in love with the trapeze artist Marion (Solveig Dommartin), he struggles with his fate. He would love to become human. To do this, he would have to become mortal, with all the consequences. A former angel (Peter Falk) advises him to take the plunge into life. |
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![]() | Love, Sex & Cinema Film Festival is dedicated to bold, thoughtful cinema that treats intimacy as storytelling, not spectacle. From subtle moments of closeness to raw explorations of love, sex and longing, its films aren’t afraid to look closer at what it means to be human. Don’t miss out on the After Dark program, a late-night showcase of the festival’s boldest and most transgressive shorts. |
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![]() | The AfrikaBurn festival—the largest offshoot of the world-famous Burning Man festival—takes place in the middle of the South African desert. Here, a diverse group of friends is planning a unique experiment: the construction of their "LOVEBOX" spaceship. On board, two strangers meet for a few minutes, look into each other's eyes, and share what love means to them, forging a deep connection between them. |
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![]() | On the fog-drenched Black Sea coast, a woman gives birth to a being that defies nature. As her body and mind begin to unravel, love becomes both her devotion and her disease. MUTTER is an intimate fever dream of motherhood, grief, and transformation - a modern folk parable where tenderness and terror share the same frame. |
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![]() | Caught between a heated dispute over a broken grass trimmer and the exhausting upkeep of her sprawling bed and breakfast in southern Italy, Rosa—a former migrant worker—clings to her family in Germany via video calls. As her long working life draws to a close, she faces an inescapable question: what to do with a legacy that no one wants? |
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![]() | At the end of the 19th century, Zélie lives on a remote farm in the stranglehold of her father Jacob. He appeals to his faith, but that does not keep him from cruelty: beneath pious words, he keeps his daughter small, while her mother has long since been broken by his harshness. But even beyond the farm, the world is falling apart. A mysterious plague, the "Black Veil," is spreading and robbing people of their minds. However, how the infected are dealt with extinguishes any notion of compassion. Director Quarxx conjures a dark, invented era that transplants the rugged loneliness of a Western to Europe. What emerges is a relentless eye-for-an-eye struggle in which familial violence, religious delusion, and a deadly pandemic interlock. This Gothic horror is a feverish descent into a hellish world that leads in only one direction: into the darkness. |
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![]() | A young man from Colombia brings a group of Latin American workers into a forced labor scam in Poland, choosing to be complicit in an exploitative system that has entrapped him as well. When a tragic workplace accident occurs, he is forced to confront the harsh truths behind the deceptions he has accepted since his arrival. |
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![]() | "Beauty and decay" is a documentary about three rebels, who shine even brighter than the rest of the vibrating East Berlin boheme of the 80ies: Sven Marquardt, Dominique Hollenstein (Dome) and Robert Paris. All of them being more mystical creatures than real punks. This movie reveals how little the colorful East Berlin punk-scene had in common with the one-dimensional aesthetic of its western counterpart. The uniqueness, authenticity and offhandedness of this subculture was impressive. |
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![]() | Through the eyes of a 12-year-old Juvi, we experience life of some inhabitants of the oldest mine in Bolivia, whose deaths weigh as much as the mined silver, confronting the limits of human endurance, and the remanence of history's bloodstains. A visual statement on the foundations of modern wealth. |
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![]() | Three sailors on leave (Joe, Al and Davy) head for Paris with one thing on their minds. Joe pursues chanteuse Colette D'Avril who proves to be more than she appears; Davy is pursued by sexy cashier Yvonne; but the blonde Al rescues from a purse snatcher rewards him with kisses, then vanishes without telling him her name. Romantic complications and resolutions follow in true musical comedy fashion. |
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![]() | The adolescent Marija spends the summer with her grandmother in an industrial area in the hinterland of Lithuania. Due to her walking impairment, she quickly becomes a target of bullying and gets into a fight with the same-aged Kristina, who - like many other girls in this marginalized area - attends a model school. Soon, Marija too joins this cult-like institution. With the prospect of a career in the fashion industry, feelings of self-hatred are normalized here and eating disorders are the order of the day. As an intimate friendship develops between Marija and Kristina, the girls get caught up in an ever-accelerating spiral in which they abuse their bodies in extreme ways. |
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![]() | What began in the 1990s as an ironic schlager project among friends in Tübingen developed over decades into a cross-generational cult phenomenon: Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band. In the summer of 2024, the film accompanies the eight-member band on their big open-air tour across Germany – in front of thousands of fans with sunflowers, glitter, and glued-on chest hair toupees. |
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![]() | Following the October 7th massacre and allegations that UNRWA staff were involved in the kidnappings, the agency made headlines around the world. Israel enacted legislation to suspend cooperation with UNRWA, despite the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The film presents a historical examination of UNRWA's role-a temporary agency, initially mandated to resolve the refugee crisis following the 1948 war, which has never ceased its operations and, after 75 years, continues to perpetuate generations of refugees. |
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![]() | "Yo no canto por cantar" follows Mauricia Saavedra, a rural Chilean folk singer, as she navigates life in a deeply conservative environment shaped by machismo and religious traditions. Through her music, Mauricia confronts discrimination, personal loss, and social exclusion, transforming her voice into a tool for resilience and healing. As she connects with other women who share similar experiences, the film explores how traditional singing becomes a space for collective expression, resistance, and empowerment in contemporary rural Chile. |
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![]() | Who doesn't know the feeling of being in the wrong movie? Madoka feels the same way: The theater author sits in the cinema watching a film about the musician Kazuma – who sits in the cinema watching a film about Madoka – who sits in the cinema watching a film about Kazuma. In disbelief, they stare at each other across the screen. How is that possible? What is happening right now? But then they begin to talk to each other and change the official plot. The story gets more and more tangled and becomes increasingly fantastical. Multiverse master Makoto Ueda, following his screenplays for BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES and RIVER, directs for the first time himself with YOU ARE THE FILM. Once again, he outdoes himself with a collection of whimsical ideas in which elements from different galaxies mix and the space-time continuum increasingly dissolves. |









































































































































































































































































