Cuando llegue a casa I When I Get Home

Paco, a teenager from Guadalajara, explores his identity through his friendship with Andrea and his attraction to Mario. This tests his bond with his grandmother as he prepares for the feast of the patron saint.

Wed 18.02. 12:30

Urania

Jaripeo

A journey to the hypermasculine rodeos of Michoacán state in Mexico delves into the subconscious of memory, queer desire and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.

Wed 18.02. 13:00

Bluemax Theater

River Dreams

Young women imagine themselves as a river: what starts off as a poetic metaphor is linked to images of landscape and becomes a many-voiced narration, radically morphing into a political statement. The Kazakh woman, she might prefer living without man.

Wed 18.02. 13:00

Zoo Palast 2

Saccharine

Hana, a lovelorn medical student, becomes terrorised by a sinister force after taking part in an obscure weight-loss craze: eating human ashes.

Wed 18.02. 21:45

Zoo Palast 1

Rose

In the early 17th century, a soldier arrives at an isolated Protestant village in Germany claiming to be the heir to an abandoned farmstead. Even though he proves to be a good man, the villagers’ suspicions about his identity grow and they force a reckoning.

Wed 18.02. 09:45

Uber Eats Music Hall

Dust

At the end of the 1990s, during the height of the Belgian tech boom, visionary entrepreneurs Luc and Geert watch their empire collapse as news of their fraud breaks. With just one day of freedom left, they part ways in search of redemption.

Wed 18.02. 10:00

HKW 1 - Miriam Makeba Auditorium

La Face cachée de la Terre I The Hidden Face of the Earth

Dimitri loves photographing friends, strangers, lovers. Over the years, images have slipped away from his sight. Behind his camera, he gathers light and bodies, inviting us to gaze toward the hidden face of the Earth.

Wed 18.02. 10:00

Cubix 9

Narciso

Paraguay, 1959. The charismatic Narciso returns from Buenos Aires with rock ’n’ roll in his veins. Under the suffocating military dictatorship, he becomes a music sensation and a symbol of freedom while the regime consolidates its power.

Wed 18.02. 10:00

Haus der Berliner Festspiele

A Family

Caught in the crossfire of their parents’ divorce, Nina and Eli are torn between loyalty, anger and a longing to be seen. Through their mirrored perspectives the same story unfolds, revealing how love can fracture and still find its way home.

Wed 18.02. 10:15

Cubix 6

What Will I Become?

Co-directors Lexie and Logan weave together the stories of two trans boys who died by suicide and their trans masculine+ community, offering resources and imagination for a way forward.

Wed 18.02. 10:15

Zoo Palast 2

Enjoy Your Stay

To avoid losing custody of her six-year-old daughter in Manila, Luz, an undocumented Filipina cleaner working in a luxury Swiss ski resort, must earn money at any cost – even if it means transgressing her own moral limits.

Wed 18.02. 10:45

Colosseum 1

Cosmonauts

On an intergalactic cruise for singles, lonely souls chase a kiss, a caress or just a glimpse of love among the stars. A colourful collision of desire, longing, humour and absurdity.

Wed 18.02. 12:00

Cinema Betonhalle@Silent Green

Cosmonauts

On an intergalactic cruise for singles, lonely souls chase a kiss, a caress or just a glimpse of love among the stars. A colourful collision of desire, longing, humour and absurdity.

Wed 18.02. 19:00

Colosseum 1

Mouse

Callie and Minnie’s relationship is suddenly upended at the start of the summer before their senior year of high school. Left rudderless without her charismatic best friend, Minnie starts to form a complicated friendship with Callie’s mother.

Wed 18.02. 13:00

Cubix 6

Animol

Behind the walls of a young offender institution, Troy is thrust into a brutal world of gangs, loyalty and violence from the moment he arrives. When an unspoken bond develops with a fellow inmate, it becomes a dangerous vulnerability for them both.

Wed 18.02. 13:15

Colosseum 1

Liebhaberinnen I Women as Lovers

A sleeping bag on the ground in front of the fitness studio lockers, a coaching seminar and the morning shift briefing (to practise the salesperson smile): these are the tough situations Brigitte (Johanna Wokalek) finds herself in. She is the protagonist of this Elfriede Jelinek adaptation, in which debut filmmaker Koxi takes stock of the successful early novel by the later Nobel Prize winner by catapulting it from the 1970s into contemporary late capitalism. 

Wed 18.02. 14:30

Cinema Paris

Joy Boy: A Tribute to Julius Eastman

African American composer Julius Eastman’s music and voice take turns. Sparked by colonial and life history. Raw, radical, crystal clear. A multipart, flashy, transnational-collective performance by six artists. An homage.

Wed 18.02. 15:00

CinemaxX 6

Bucks Harbor

Boys in Downeast Maine are shaped by the brutal winters, their harvesting of the ocean’s bounty and the rigid codes of their fathers. Bucks Harbor explores growing up in a community where a man’s worth is often defined by the strength of his back. 

Wed 18.02. 15:45

Filmtheater am Friedrichshain

Barbara Forever

Lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer (1939–2019) was an icon and a pioneer. Infused with dyke poetry, this archive film shows how she lived, loved, worked, fought and inspired, also showing that the private is uncompromisingly political.

Wed 18.02. 14:00

Xenon Kino

TAXI MOTO

A director has to reimagine his film – a love story between two men – because he was not allowed to shoot it in his home country. In a different location, he finds a new lead actor and, together with him, a tender gesture of resistance.

Wed 18.02. 16:00

Zoo Palast 2

Where To?

Hassan, a 55-year-old Palestinian Uber driver, shuttles partygoers through endless Berlin nights. Amir, a young Israeli who is in danger of losing himself to these nights, becomes Hassan’s regular passenger when they find themselves bonded by heartbreak.

Wed 18.02. 16:00

Cubix 9

Stallion y la bola de cristal I Stallion and a Crystal Ball

In his dark, silent room, a secluded teenager casts a spell. As hallucinations warp his reality, a bubble threatens to burst. A poetic fever dream exploring queer longing and the magic and mysteries of adolescence.

Wed 18.02. 16:30

Cubix 8

La hora de irse I Time to Go

Patricio works for his sisters and feels trapped in a life that no longer fits him. Searching for change, he agrees to go on a date with a mysterious man.

Wed 18.02. 18:15

Urania

Whale 52 – Suite for Man, Boy, and Whale

A quiet boy and a silently grieving widower who volunteers at the boy’s school discover a magical pen and journal that enable them to hear each other with a listening heart.

Wed 18.02. 18:45

Filmtheater am Friedrichshain

At the Sea

After rehab, Laura returns to her family’s Cape Cod home. Once the face of her late father’s renowned dance company, she built an identity tethered to his legacy and the cost of growing up in his shadow. Laura’s functional alcoholism, long ignored by everybody, finally reached a breaking point after a drunk-driving accident with her young son in the car. Now sober, she comes home changed, but to a family unprepared for this.

Wed 18.02. 19:00

Uber Eats Music Hall 

No Salgas I Don't Come Out

After her girlfriend’s death, Liz hides her true self until a weekend trip with friends awakens forbidden desires. The result is paranoia and violence that consumes the group as Liz’s secret unleashes a deadly force.

Wed 18.02. 20:00

Xenon Kino

Rumaragasa

The mid-1990s on the Filipino island of Sibuyan. After he has been raped, a young man retreats into a world of silence and isolation. Then he witnesses a plane crash and embarks on a quest for justice.

Wed 18.02. 21:30

Cubix 9

Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest

A Chinese wannabe artist drifts between Berlin’s overwhelming alternative scene and her traditional family in Beijing. With wit and insight, the film follows her search for identity and belonging in a globalised but polarised world.

Wed 18.02. 22:00

Cubix 6

Una Mujer Fantástica I A Fantastic Woman

Marina is a transgender woman. When her partner dies, she finds herself faced with his family’s anger and prejudice. She fights for her right to grieve – with the same unbroken energy she displayed when she fought to live as a woman.

Wed 18.02. 16:00

Deutsche Kinemathek – Halle

Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros I The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros

Twelve-year-old Maxi lives in the slums of Manila where he is the calm centre of his petty criminal family. They accept his homosexuality – but when Maxi befriends a young police officer, conflict at home is inevitable.

Wed 18.02. 22:00

Zoo Palast 2