Explore: Germany

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Architecton

Rock your world with this mesmerising documentary about the increasingly impermanent building blocks of civilisation.

Dir. Victor Kossakovsky / 2024 / 98 mins / USA, Germany, French Polynesia / Italian
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Cuckoo

Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer goes head-to-head with Downton Abbey alum Dan Stevens in this frightfully weird horror.

Dir. Tilman Singer / 2024 / 102 mins / Germany, USA / English
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Direct Action

Winner of the Berlinale’s Encounters Award for Best Film, this bold and vital documentary explores the militant activist community in France.

Dir. Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell / 2024 / 216 mins / Germany, France, South Korea / French
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Dying

This epic, darkly comic portrait of Franzen-esque family dysfunction won multiple awards at both the 2024 Berlinale and the German Film Awards.

Dir. Matthias Glasner / 2024 / 181 mins / Germany / German
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Emperor

An interactive and surrealist voyage into the mind of a father experiencing aphasia.

Dir. Marion Burger, Ilan J. Cohen / 2023 / 40 mins / Germany, France / English, French, German
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Heavenly Creatures

A friendship between two teens leads to an unspeakable crime in Peter Jackson’s tour de force, re-emerging for a special 30th-anniversary screening.

Dir. Peter Jackson / 1994 / 108 mins / Germany, New Zealand / English
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Impossible Space

A symphonic journey through fascinating real and artificial visual worlds, inspired by the spirit of science and discovery.

Dir. Rocco Helmchen, Johannes Kraas / 2024 / 50 mins / Germany / English
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The Memphis Chronicles: Water's Edge

Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.

2024 / 20 mins / Australia, Germany / English
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Motel Destino

From Cannes competition lands a colourful, queered and beachside-set erotic thriller in which desire and destiny clash in a seedy sex hotel.

Dir. Karim Aïnouz / 2024 / 112 mins / Germany, France, Brazil / Portuguese
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My Favourite Cake

Tender and funny yet politically daring, this double-Berlinale-winning late-life romance is guaranteed to steal your heart.

Dir. Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha / 2024 / 97 mins / Germany, Iran, France, Sweden / Farsi
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Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird

The untold 40-year story of the crowning moments, creative turmoils and deep friendship of the pair behind At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta.

Dir. Nicolas Jack Davies / 2023 / 127 mins / Germany / English, Spanish
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The Outrun

Saoirse Ronan produces and stars in this moving adaptation about a recovering addict who returns to her childhood home on Scotland’s Orkney Islands.

Dir. Nora Fingscheidt / 2023 / 117 mins / Germany, UK / English
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Pepe

The strange, tragic tale of the ‘cocaine hippo’ once owned by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar – narrated by the ghost of the beast himself.

Dir. Nelson Carlos De los Santas Arias / 2024 / 122 mins / Germany, France, Dominican Republic, Namibia / Spanish, German, Afrikaans, Mbukushu
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Rumours

A gigantic brain in a forest, masturbating bog zombies, Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander and Charles Dance collide in Guy Maddin’s audacious latest.

Dir. Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson / 2024 / 109 mins / Germany, Canada / English
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Santosh

Premiering in Cannes Un Certain Regard, this scathing, subversively feminist take on the police procedural puts modern-day India under scrutiny.

Dir. Sandhya Suri / 2024 / 125 mins / Germany, UK, France, India / Hindi
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September Says

An unsettling and oneiric tale of sisterhood is French actor Ariane Labed’s Cannes-premiering directorial debut, based on a Gothic novel.

Dir. Ariane Labed / 2024 / 100 mins / Germany, UK, France, Greece, Ireland / English
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Teaches of Peaches

Class is in session! Celebrate the world of gender-punk icon Peaches in this audacious Teddy Award–winning documentary.

Dir. Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer / 2024 / 102 mins / Germany / English, German
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To a Land Unknown

Acclaimed documentarian Mahdi Fleifel makes his fiction debut with a Midnight Cowboy–inspired Palestinian refugee story.

Dir. Mahdi Fleifel / 2024 / 105 mins / Germany, Netherlands, UK, France, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Palestine / English, Greek, Arabic
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An Unfinished Film

When an unfinished film, reborn, is stuck in stasis again, its creators meditate on how their lives have been transformed by the pandemic.

Dir. Lou Ye / 2024 / 105 mins / Germany, Singapore / Mandarin
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The Village Next to Paradise

Hope and familial bonds thrive in dangerous conditions in this groundbreaking feature – the first ever Somali film to screen at Cannes.

Dir. Mo Harawe / 2024 / 133 mins / Germany, France, Austria, Somalia / Somali
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Winners

Using football as her vehicle, Soleen Yusef references her own refugee tale through the poignant journey of an 11-year-old’s new life in Germany.

Dir. Soleen Yusef / 2024 / 119 mins / Germany / German