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A teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.

A dramatization of Christiane F.'s memoirs and her hard beginnings in Berlin.

Award-winning filmmaker Dome Karukoski brings to screen the life and work of artist Touko Valio Laaksonen (aka Tom of Finland), one of the most influential and celebrated figures of 20th-century gay culture.

Four boys are busy surviving Berlin's inner city district in a spiral of violence, extortion, gang laws, xenophobia and indifference. When they steal computers from their school they are fighting an uphill battle they can't retreat from.

Nini and Jameelah are best friends. Together they delve into the urban jungle of Berlin, amid clouds of drug smoke and alcoholic dazes, looking for love, sex, and a better future. But life intervenes: Jameelah is in danger of being deported to Iraq, and then they witness a murder.

Agnes, a teacher, has come to Berlin to identify a dead girl who might be her runaway daughter. It turns out not to be, but Agnes stays in the city anyway. Still looking, she comes a young stray called Ines who no longer leaves her side

From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It's about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the difficulties a 15-year-old faces in a poor and criminal environment.

After his father's suicide, 15-year-old Jargo is sent to Berlin from Saudi Arabia. He makes friends with local girl Emilia and petty criminal Kamil, but soon there is tension because both boys fall in love with the pretty Emilia.

A hot summer in Germany. In the sleepy suburb of Berlin, Rudow is startled by eerie events. Who creeps at night by the brave front yards, leaving a bloody trail? Cora and Torsten try to solve the dark mystery and embark it in mortal danger. For the devil is waiting.

Berlin's notorious Neukoelln district. The near future, a time in which the health system has collapsed. A man works in the shadows and without licence as a doctor. He treats people in the streets, stealing medicine from pharmacies. Forced to adopt the role of a shadow, an outlaw, he is confronted with the question as to whether he really is a doctor.

Whereas you sometimes can't move for police series, the lives of firefighters doesn't get nearly as much screen time. So give a blazing hot welcome to "Alarmcode 112", the TV series that takes the word action and adds a big exclamation mark to it! Named after the emergency number you dial in Germany should your house go up in flames or kitty gets stuck in a tree, these eleven episodes are stuffed with breathtaking explosions, raging blazes, and terrible accidents!

The 3 siblings Hassan, Lial and Maradona are successful dancers and musicians. But their family is in danger of being deported out of Germany. The teenagers plan to use their artistic talents to save the family. However the pressure has put a strain on their relationships, and the way to success is long and uncertain.

A ruffled young man, at first unrecognizable as a ghost, turns up in Neukölln and visits an old friend. The two grew up in the same house. Now one of them is a broker and is selling this very building, destined for demolition as the area becomes ever more gentrified. In the meantime a group of young people is on a journey through the night, in search of the "spirit of Neukölln", themselves and other fallen angels.

Gary comes home and confronts his girlfriend about the rumor he just picked up.

On a sunny afternoon at the pool, 12 year-old Manolo has to face his fears: Will he stand up to his big cousin Mike, the notorious splashdive-hotshot?

A woman goes to her usual quiet cafe in search of inspiration, but is challenged when a mysterious man sits in the corner across from her.

A knife in the pocket, adrenaline in the blood and only one dream in mind: to be a gangster - and the biggest one at that. Yehya was 15 years old and close to realizing his dream when he met the filmmaker Christian Stahl in the stairwell. Yehya wasn't just the nice boy from next door, he was also "the Boss of Sonnenallee" - one of the gangster runners of the Berlin borough of Neukölln. And gangster runners want to make it in the gangster world. In the eyes of the authorities, he is an "intensive offender"; in his own eyes, Yehya is "one of the top ten of Neukölln. I got my own prosecutor!" Yehya: the son of Palestinian refugees from Lebanon, a Rütli school student with straight Fs - and a jailbird doing time. At the age of 17, Yehya was convicted of robbery and sentenced to three years without parole. The director Christian Stahl followed Yehya through the years in prison and, at the same time, his family in Neukölln. The viewer is there as Yehya's image of the world and gangsterism wobbles, as he quickly goes up the ladder in prison hierarchy, as he turns to Islam, and as he suddenly himself becomes a victim while in prison. His father tries to solve the family problems with a pilgrimage to Mecca, Yehya's brothers follow in his footsteps, and the government wants to deport Yehya or send him back to the refugee camp in Beirut. His parents, who as refugees in Germany were not allowed to work for 14 years and stayed in their own world, are in despair. Gangster runner presents an impressive portrait of an "intensive offender" whose charm, criminal energy, and reflexivity astound and shock. Between Muslim traditions and gangster dreams, macho image and mosque, the ever-present war in the foreign homeland of the parents and the battle to survive in Europe.

A subway station somewhere in the Northwestern hemisphere. Rush hour. An unattended baggage catches the attention of the passengers. Moments of insecurity pass. All of a sudden, a mass panic breaks out in the moving crowds. The stampede leaves its survivors perplexed: Was the bomb only ticking in their minds?

About Stefan Stricker, who calls himself Juwelia and has been running a gallery on Sanderstraße in Berlin Neukölln for many years. Every weekend he invites guests to shamelessly recount from his life and to sing poetic songs written with his friend from Hollywood Jose Promis. Juwelia has been poor and sexy all her life, has always struggled for recognition, but only partially.

A documentary on young musicians from around the world who have connected to the city of Berlin.

Linda and Jakob are happily in love until one night, Jakob begins to have horrific nightmares in which Linda appears as a darkly seductive creature. Tormented by these visions, Jakob asks his best friend Kurt to murder Linda for him, thus beginning a slow descent into madness. Unbeknownst to the two men, Linda is acting under the control of an ancient family curse. Will her love for Jakob overcome the powers of death? Will Kurt give in to his violent urges and kill to protect his friendship? Is there a way to escape the Devil of Kreuzberg?

Although the Hasenheide has been sensationalized by the German media as a mecca for drug dealers and as a discount drug store, Director Nana Rebhan (Welcome Goodbye) shows local people at home in the park's many secret and not-so-secret places. A documentary about the Berlin park Hasenheide in all its funky glory.