Cinemas in Mitte

Balance(2025)

Johannes, a moderately successful musician, receives a visit from his daughter Clara, who lives with her mother in the Netherlands. Everything is prepared for one of their usual brief encounters: the guest room is aired out, and the bathroom has been haphazardly cleaned. Clara is just passing through anyway; she’s planning to travel on to Korea the next day. But when her flight is delayed, father and daughter suddenly have more time than they know how to fill. What happens when there’s suddenly space to truly connect? Johannes suggests spending a few days at the old family cabin by the Baltic Sea. What begins euphorically becomes a journey of discovery, where music plays the leading role.

The Protagonist(2025)

Comedy

Giancarlo Mangiapane is thirty years old and has one single dream: to become a great actor. However, the important roles aren't coming, so Giancarlo ends up acting in his everyday life. One day, his agent tells him he's about to get the opportunity of a lifetime: the lead audition for Clochard, a biopic about the life of Gustavo Noradin, a 1950s tap dance champion who fell from grace due to his addictions. When he discovers that his roommate is also preparing for the same role, a rivalry is born that begins to obsess him. Between exhausting rehearsals, a mother who keeps trying to reach him, and a fearsome casting director, Giancarlo's identification with the character becomes total, to the point of jeopardizing his true identity.

Casino(1995)

Crime, Drama

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

Raging Bull(1980)

Drama, History

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

Laghat - Un sogno impossibile(2025)

Drama

N/A

The Circus(1927)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.

The King of Comedy(1982)

Comedy, Drama

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.

Our Children(1989)

Documentary

From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as goths, skinheads, anti-skins, punks and neo-Nazis were dismissed as social deviations promoted by western countries. Director Roland Steiner had access to such young East Germans in the late 1980s. Over the course of four years, he brought them before the camera in an attempt to understand what drew them to these groups.

Life of Brian(1979)

Comedy

Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.

The Exorcist(1973)

Comedy

When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

Everybody Go Home!(1960)

Comedy, Drama, War

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.

RoboCop(1987)

Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.

Destiny(2006)

Drama

Bekir loves Uğur, who loves Zagor, who is about to get out of jail. An already tense love triangle is thrown into turmoil on a hot summer night, when Zagor kills someone, and Uğur disappears.

21 Grams(2003)

Drama

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.

Ruben Brandt, Collector(2018)

Action, Animation, Crime, Thriller

Psychotherapist Ruben Brandt becomes the most wanted criminal in the world when he and four of his patients steal paintings from the world's most renowned museums and art collections.

Contempt(1963)

Drama, Romance

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.

A Foreign Affair(1948)

Comedy, Romance

In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman investigating her.

Europa Centrale(2024)

Drama

A metaphysical kammerspiel about political fight, betrayal, madness, focusing on a exiled communist couple during a train journey in the early months of WWII.

Avemmaria(2025)

Felice lives in two dark rooms of a crumbling building with his father Raffaele, recently laid off, his mother Antonietta, too young and worn down by grief, his grandmother Filomena, always dressed in black and filled with resentment, and three brothers, with another on the way. In that world of poverty and violence, a boy like him can either be crushed or cling to his dreams. His imagination is his refuge, but in Pianura there's no room for fantasy - being poor and a dreamer is a fault. Yet his teacher, Giulia, recognizes his singing talent and tries to offer him new horizons. When Felice sees Neil Armstrong's footprint in his textbook, he realizes he too might leave Pianura and reach the moon.

The Rabbit Is Me

Drama, Romance

Maria, a young student sees her brother Dieter going to prison for sedition against the state. She starts an affair with Paul, a judge who turns out to be the one who sentenced her brother, which eventually leads to a confrontation.

Nightmare Alley(2021)

Thriller

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.

Hellboy II: The Golden Army(2008)

Action, Fantasy

Hellboy, his pyrokinetic girlfriend, Liz, and aquatic empath, Abe Sapien, face their biggest battle when an underworld elven prince plans to reclaim Earth for his magical kindred. Tired of living in the shadow of humans, Prince Nuada tries to awaken an ancient force of killing machines, the all-powerful Golden Army, to clear the way for fantasy creatures to roam free. Only Hellboy can stop the dark prince and prevent humanity's annihilation.

The Kick(2005)

Documentary

The neo-Nazi brothers Marco and Marcel Schönfeld from Potzlow have their sights set on the 16-year-old Marinus Schöberl, who stutters. They consider Marinus to be a so-called "subhuman".

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond(2022)

Adventure, Animation, Fantasy

A long-running conspiracy is swirling over a mysterious power wielded by the Queen in Raja, a small country west of Tempest. When a slime who evolved into a Demon Lord named Rimuru Tempest crosses paths with Hiiro, a survivor of the Ogre race, an incredible adventure packed with new characters begins. The power of bonds will be put to the test!

Bobò(2025)

Documentary, Drama

The true story of Bobò, a deaf-mute, illiterate, and microcephalic man whom Pippo Delbono met in the mental asylum of Aversa, where Bobò lived for 46 years.

Nero(2024)

Drama, Fantasy

N/A

The Magic Faraway Tree(2026)

Adventure, Family, Fantasy

A modern family relocates to the countryside where the children discover a magical tree with eccentric residents. They're transported to fantastical lands, rekindling their family bond through adventures.

Un Natale a casa Croce(2024)

Documentary

Christmas 1951. In the vast halls of Palazzo Filomarino, in the heart of Naples, the elderly Benedetto Croce is surrounded for the last time by his loved ones, his wife, daughters, and grandchildren. Among them is the youngest, Benedetta Craveri, now a famous writer, who takes us into the life of her grandfather: a philosopher, historian, and literary critic who dominated a century of Italian life with a culture as vast as the library in his home.

Life Is to Whistle(1998)

Drama

Three characters in present-day Havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs, or getting rid of them to live more freely. Ballerina Mariana has promised God celibacy if she gets the role of "Giselle"; Social-worker Julia always faints after hearing a certain word; and pot-smoking percussionist Elpidio was abandoned by his mother, coincidentally named Cuba, some time ago and has not yet gotten over the loss.

I Saw a King(2024)

Comedy, History

1936, in the aftermath of the Ethiopian occupation by Fascist Italy, under the incredulous gaze of the inhabitants of the small town in the Italian province Abraham Imirrù, an ethiopian prince and guerrila fighter is being held prisoner in the local Podesta garden's aviary. But for little Emilio, local recently force enlisted and reality-dissociated Balilla, he is Sandokan, the literal Salgari's character ...and he will be his hero.

Elbow(2024)

Drama

Hazal is 17 and lives in Berlin. Her biggest wish: to be given a chance. For her 18th birthday she wants to escape the everyday grind and party with her friends. But an incident changes everything. Hazal is forced to flee.

Sun Seekers(1958)

Drama

A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Soviet control.

Friendly Fire(2023)

Adventure, Drama

Hazel, an employee at an internet cafe and a fan of Project Xandata (a locally produced real first-person shooter made) gets the attention of a pro team founder when Hazel beats her team singlehandedly in one night. Hazel’s gameplay goes viral, making her an instant sensation.

Hitler's Madman(1943)

Drama, War

In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.

Stau – Jetzt geht’s los(1992)

Documentary

A group of young people in Halle-Neustadt moving aimlessly between the concrete blocks once built as a socialist model housing estate. Familiar certainties dissolved along with the GDR. Even though there were hardly any foreigners in Saxony-Anhalt, a dull aversion to everything that hadn’t been part of daily life until then began to spread. The general dissolution, perceived as a threat, is countered by apparently clear world views. When Thomas Heise won the “Documentary Film Prize 1992” at the Duisburger Filmwoche, the laudation ended with the assumption that the film would probably provoke disagreement. It turned out to be true.

Judas' Gospel(2025)

Drama

An innovative approach in retelling the tale of Judas Iscariot, known for his biblical betrayal of Jesus when he disclosed his whereabouts for 30 pieces of silver. About to die, Judas reflects on his life and his relationship with Jesus and the disciples.

#BlackSheep(2025)

Comedy

A Neukölln clan boss becomes a climate activist. A gender doll inventor who fulfills her most secret wishes with a fake gun and a new girlfriend in Grunewald. A balcony beekeeper whose bee colony is on speed. And in the middle of it all, a fisherman who wants to conjure up sustainable snacks from invasive swamp crabs. What unites them all? A hot summer in the capital - and waiting for the rain!

Tod meiner Jugend(2025)

Drama

A janitor with a loving wife and a devoted son leads a seemingly quiet, orderly life. One day, the boy asks his father an inconspicuous but profound question: “Dad, why are there no photos of you at my age?” Driven by a restlessness that can no longer be suppressed, the man returns to the place of his childhood: a children's home he has avoided for decades.

Anna und Herr Goethe(2016)

Drama

N/A

Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC(2024)

Documentary, Music

John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with Elephant's Memory and Special Guests performed these now-legendary sold-out One To One concerts to a combined audience of 40,000 people, raising over $1.5M for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They were the only full-length concerts John Lennon (with Yoko Ono) performed after leaving The Beatles.

Eva(2025)

Eva, a trans woman, takes on the care of her granddaughter after the sudden death of her daughter-in-law. While processing the grief, she tries to help her son connect emotionally with the baby. Amid tensions, reproaches, and silence, mother and son embark on a path toward mutual understanding and the reconstruction of their family bond.

Active Vocabulary(2025)

Documentary

A Russian teacher criticizes the Russian invasion of Ukraine in class and is denounced by a pupil. After fleeing, she re-enacts the incident with her Berlin class.

Controluce(2024)

Documentary

N/A

Fucking Different Generations(2026)

Documentary

A queer anthology that explores sexuality, intimacy, and identity across age groups. Conceived as a collaborative project, the film brings together filmmakers from different generations, each directing a short segment portraying encounters between younger and older men. Through these stories, the film examines how attitudes toward desire, relationships, and queer identity shift over time. Moments of curiosity, misunderstanding, attraction, and vulnerability reveal both the gaps and the connections between generations shaped by different social climates. By juxtaposing perspectives formed in eras of repression with those emerging in more open contexts, the film reflects on how LGBTQ+ experiences evolve while shared needs for intimacy, recognition, and connection remain constant. The result is a provocative and intimate mosaic about age, memory, and the changing landscape of queer life.

Headlights(2025)

Drama

On New Year’s Eve, in the streets of Berlin, Alex delivers coke driving her taxi. Three other car journeys capture three earlier moments in a life marked by personal tragedy. From season to season, an interior journey into states of being.

In Ultimo(2024)

N/A

Mothers(2025)

Documentary

Mothers talk about their experiences. What is expected of them, what personal and social challenges do they face? Everything is represented: from nuclear families to single parents, homosexual parent constellations to motherhood through artificial insemination. Layer by layer, outdated and inverted role models and also the break with social norms become visible. Motherhood between backbreaking work and euphoria.

Nel blu dipinti di rosso(2025)

Documentary

Nothing Remains Nothing Disappears(2026)

Documentary

A Berlin street corner is slowly changing: an aging supermarket turns into a construction site and finally a new building. People restock shelves, demolish walls, take breaks and count money. Those who work here participate in the making and unmaking of the place. How does it shape the conditions of their labor? Between supermarket aisles, construction scaffolding and exposed concrete, different versions begin to overlap. Repetitions appear like echoes between worlds, both playful and eerie.

Plan F(2025)

Drama

Franka is a punk—wild and loud—but her star is fading. Her younger sister Maya has retreated to their parents in the countryside and now lives somewhere between rubber boots, coffee on the sofa, and no desire for change. When Franka thinks she has seen their missing sister, Lilly, on the street one day, she feels compelled to at least try to “save” Maya. What follows is a chaotic road trip from Brandenburg to Berlin, a night full of arguments and laughter, old accusations, and new honesty. In the end, there is no solution, but maybe a new beginning. A raw snapshot of two women who are closer than they think.

Sediments(2025)

Documentary

The traces of a family, and the entanglements of two dictatorships.

Solo Show(2025)

An art student, a real estate agent and two lovers cling to their carefully crafted facades – or fail to do so.

The Party - Die Party (La Prune)(2026)

It is June 18, 19**. On this astonishingly hot afternoon, Étienne Pignon is sitting—unusually upright by his standards—at the head of a long, lavishly set table on the shore of a lake, grinning from ear to ear.

Weißer Rauch über Schwarze Pumpe(2025)

Documentary

In 1991, the Schwarze Pumpe energy centre in Lusatia is phased out. Tens of thousands lose their jobs, hoping for better times. Today, the dirt and feelings of the past keep coming up.

woman/mOther(2025)

Documentary

Since the birth of her child, dancer Mara has been feeling lonely and disconnected from her creativity. Together with the director, her friend Klara, she is finally planning another dance performance.

Birdman(2014)

Comedy, Drama

BIRDMAN tells the story of a washed-up actor, whose career and life have both hit rock bottom, in a very unusual and dramatic way. Michael Keaton plays Riggan Thomson, who twenty years earlier was famous for playing the superhero Birdman. And who now, over 60, is trying to make a comeback in order to rid himself of the constraints of the past and create meaningful art. The former blockbuster star hopes to reinvent his career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway adaptation of Raymond Carver‘s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” But nothing is going right — the set is falling apart, his lead has an accident and is replaced with the stage star Mike Shiner who Riggan hopes will guarantee the play’s success. Edward Norton is Shiner and whose character is set up tobe Riggan’s adversary but tehy are dependent on each other for recognition and success. The director amassed a strong supporting cast that includes: Naomi Watts, Andrea Riseborough, Emma Stone, Amy Ryan as well as Zach Galifianakis. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu, known for 21 GRAMs and BABEL, shot BIRDMAN as though it were one, long single take of 120 minutes, with thought-provoking thematic threads with the brilliant camera work of Emmanuel Lubezki. In subtle ways, such as using invisible visual effects to stitch together various scenes, a few days are narrated in the course of the two hours. This flow, and with this cast, Iñárritu creates an accessible film rife with humor and irony, which is also a complex reflection on verisimilitude in theatre and film: Whereas on stage for the audience, and night after night, the "truth" must be fabricated, behind the stage intrigues are spun, such as when Mike Shiner drinks real gin on the stage, or when he demands real sex in the name of authenticity. Or even when Riggan Thomson is having conversations with his alter-ego Birdman, or the voice in his head. Iñárritu rehearses the perception of the truth in ironic ruptures of film reality, with tasteless clichees, kitschy dialogue and invented emotional backstories, strikingly exhibited as a parodistic element. Harald Mühlbeyer (INDIEKINO MAGAZIN) Translation: Carla MacDougall

Call Me By Your Name(2017)

Drama

“River flow is not that all things change. So we do not find it twice, however some things remain the same only through change“ writes Oliver (Armie Hammer) about Heracltius‘ “Panta rhei“ river in his notes. The young American spends the summer of 1983 with the Perlmans and their 17 year old son Elio (Timothée Chalamet) at their vacation house in Italy. He helps the father and archaeology professor Mr. Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg) with his cataloguing in return. When he takes him to the archaeological site of an Antique sculpture, Oliver gently strokes the bronze lips of the male figure which rises from the sky blue Lake Garda, just like Elio will do later on. When the almost 2 metre Armie Hammer‘s stretches his well-toned body in the water, director Luca Guadagnino (A BIGGER SPLASHES) transforms Oliver into a god-like statue. And when Mr. Perlman describes the timeless ambivalence of Praxiteles‘impossibly arches sculptures, he might as well be talking about the protagonists of the film when their naked bodies intertwine in bed, “as if they challenge one to desire them.“ Oliver begins to reshape the unwritten traditions of the Perlmans in a discrete way, dancing into Elio‘s heart at the open air disco to the Psychedelic Furs‘ “Love My Way,“ Oliver is treated like a long-lost son by the guest family, the girls in the Italian village fall for him, and he follows “the peach“ to its Latin origin during philological discussions. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME is about how the careful word constructions of Oliver‘s linguistic competence and Elio‘s literary education become insufficient. The first passes they make, wherein Elio‘s banal “later!“ fills him with insecurity, are clumsy, and before Oliver and Elio approach the unknown to the sounds of Sufjan Stevens, the two opposites butt heads. Physical passion and cautious emotional desire oppose and complete each other. The power relations keep changing in their relationship. Luca Guadagnino uses his soundtrack as an emotional ECG: the music accentuates the images for just a few seconds sometimes or ends abruptly with the next cut. The Perlmans invite friends who fight over politics and Buñuel in one scene. The caretaker is lying on the grass and watches on amused. Elio gets a nosebleed and leaves the dinner table. Oliver follows him. Away from all the hectic, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME searches for beauty in which pain and happiness can complement and meld together like the names of the protagonists: “Call me by your name and I‘ll call you by mine.“ The interplay between happiness and pain is what drives Oliver‘s musings. In Terrence Malick‘s film KNIGHT OF CUPS a character says that happiness should be seen as a gift and so should suffering, because it connects you to something higher. Screenwriter James Ivory (THE REMAINS OF THE DAY) articulates this thought in CALL ME BY YOUR NAME in what is probably the best monologue about the pain of love: „If you feel pain, nurture it (….) But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste! Hardy Zaubitzer (INDIEKINO MAGAZIN) Translation: Elinor Lewy

House of Yang(2026)

Il mestiere die vivere(2024)

Sternstunde der Mörder(2025)

Crime Drama, Historical Film

Prague 1945: While hunting a serial killer, a Czech cop and a Gestapo agent clash during the uprising. Can they catch him before the fall? ( Achtung Berlin )