BE A WINNER

2026-06-21 @ 17:00

Director: Soleen Yusef | Starring: Dileyla Agirman, Andreas Döhler, Sherine Ciara Merai, Tamira Bwibo, Halima Ilter | 120 min | Family film, drama Germany 2024. dir: Soleen Yusef. D: Dileyla Agirman, Andreas Döhler, Sherine Ciara Merai. 119 min. DCP. Recommended for ages 10 and up Film series: Kinderkino Eleven-year-old Mona, who fled Syria with her Kurdish family, has to find her way in her new life in Berlin-Wedding. When she is offered a place on the girls' team, she is filled with hope. Inspired by the director's own experiences, the film shows soccer not just as a sport, but as a path to intercultural competence, friendship and belonging.

BAD MA RA KHAHAD BORD

2026-06-21 @ 19:30

Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Actor: Behzad Dourani | 118 min. The Wind Will Carry Us Iran/France 1999. D: Abbas Kiarostami. D: Behzad Dorani, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi. 118 min. 35mm. OmU Original version with German subtitles Lecture (on 11.6.): not applicable Film series: Lecture & Film A television journalist travels with his team to a Kurdish mountain village to record a rare mourning ceremony. But the old woman the team has in mind for the filming takes longer than expected to die. The audience never gets to see her, but they do see her relatives coming and going, whose activities don't look anything like a close bereavement. The absurd waiting situation develops into a clever and humorous...

GAVAGAI

2026-06-21 @ 22:00

During the turbulent filming of a controversial "Medea" remake in Senegal, actress Maja escapes into an affair with her co-star Nourou. It is only months later that they meet again at the premiere of the film in Berlin. Their feelings for each other flare up again, but a racist incident with a security guard puts a strain on their reunion. Tensions don't ease as everyone tries to do the right thing. And as the ancient tragedy comes to a head on screen, art and life begin to intermingle in reality.

DAUGHTERS OF TWO WORLDS

2026-06-23 @ 20:00

Director: Serap Berrakkarasu | 62 min. Germany 1991. D: Serap Berrakkarasu. Documentary. 62 min. 16mm. OmU Original version with German subtitles Filmreihe: Türkisches Filmfestival Two women, mother and daughter, one who came to Germany from Turkey as a contract worker, the other who grew up in Germany, recount their biographies. Both describe life between cultures as the experience of a loss of belonging, a conflict between different ideas of life and expectations. Director Serap Berrakkarasu got to know the protagonists of her documentary while working at the women's shelter in Lübeck. Together with camerawoman Gisela Tuchtenhagen, her film gives the two women a voice and the space to express their...

TALES OF A CINEPHILE - WERNER DÜTSCH

2026-06-24 @ 20:00

For Erzählungen eines Kinogehers (Tales of a Cinephile), the filmmaker Christiane Büchner has edited extensive interviews with the late Werner Dütsch, an editor at WDR and influential representative of post-war West German film culture, into a moving portrait of cinephilia through the ages

VATANYOLU - THE JOURNEY HOME

2026-06-24 @ 22:30

German feature film

SOME LIKE IT HOT

2026-06-25 @ 20:00

Chicago 1929: Gaiter Colombo has just eliminated a traitor. Unfortunately for the two unemployed musicians Joe and Jerry, they were watching. To escape the gangster, they disguise themselves as women and join a girls' band that is on its way to sunny Florida. The fact that the two "ladies" soon feel very much at home there is mainly down to Sugar, the band's sexy ukulele player.

GOZARESH

2026-06-25 @ 22:15

Director: Abbas Kiarostami | 110 min. The Report Iran 1974. D: Abbas Kiarostami. D: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Kurosh Afsharpanah, Mehdi Montazar. 110 min. digital. OmeU Original version with English subtitles Lecture: Sara Saljoughi (Toronto) Film series: Lecture & Film Abbas Kiarostami's second feature film, about an unhappy marriage, offers a fascinating insight into middle-class life in 1970s Tehran - and continues to influence Iranian directors today, perhaps most clearly seen in Asghar Farhadi's A SEPARATION (IR 2011). The film was produced outside the Kanoon Institute and was the director's first work to feature professional actors, including Shohreh Aghdashlou, who first emigrated to England in 1979 and later...

RICO, OSKAR AND THE THIEF'S STONE

2026-06-26 @ 16:30

The story once again focuses on the deeply gifted Rico and the highly gifted Oskar, who met in the first novel and have become best friends. The third RICO adventure takes the two boys to the Baltic Sea. Old Fitzke has died and left Rico his beloved stone collection. Rico and Oskar find out that the most valuable stone in the collection has been stolen and their detective instincts are immediately awakened! It's just as well that Rico's mother Tanja has just flown to Sri Lanka with the Bühl. So the way is clear for the two clever boys and they follow the stolen stone all by themselves to the Baltic Sea, where they once again have to face many exciting adventures....

YOU WANT ONLY ME

2026-06-26 @ 20:00

95 min. I Want to Talk About Duras France 2021. dir: Claire Simon. D: Emmanuelle Devos, Swann Arlaud. Christophe Paou. 95 min. Blu-ray. OmeU Original version with English subtitles Film series: CCAJ "The complexity of the relationship between the writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras and her gay partner Yann Andréa, 40 years her junior, is revealed in an interview conducted with him by journalist Michèle Manceaux in 1982. It was only published in 2016 - and Claire Simon staged it in this film. Almost 30-year-old Yann (Swann Arlaud) talks about fascination and tenderness, dominance and submission, homosexual desire and psychological abysses in the attic of the house they have lived in together for two years. His counterpart (Emmanuelle...

CHINATOWN

2026-06-27 @ 20:00

Los Angeles in the 1930s: Private detective Jake Gittes is hired by Evelyn Mulwray, the wife of a respected local celebrity, to keep her husband under surveillance. He actually manages to get her photos of her husband Hollis and a young woman. They soon appear in a newspaper and Gittes realizes that his client was not the victim's wife at all, but a stranger. Offended in his honor, Gittes moves on and pokes a hornet's nest around a corrupt irrigation project in the desert region of the city. When Mulwray is found drowned, the affair becomes increasingly mysterious. The mastermind behind the affair appears to be a certain Noah Cross and the young lady from the photos also seems to play a major role ...

PERFECT DAYS

2026-06-27 @ 22:30

Hirayama seems perfectly content with his simple life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday life, he enjoys his passion for music and books. And he loves trees and photographing them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more about his past.

GO

2026-06-28 @ 19:00

After many years of reigning, Prince Hidetora decides to retire. He divides his vast kingdom between his three sons. But greed for power and irascibility soon drive the brothers into mutual enmity and a bloody war breaks out that threatens to break the empire forever...

KÔKAKU KIDÔTAI

2026-06-28 @ 22:30

Director: Mamoru Oshii | 85 min. | Action, Animation, Science Fiction Ghost in the Shell Japan 1995. D: Mamoru Oshii. Animated film. 83 min. DCP. Original version with German (June 10) / English (June 28) subtitles Film series: Multispecies Members Club Based on the manga of the same name by Masanori Shirow, the film tells the story of a dystopian future in the year 2029 in which the boundary between man and machine becomes increasingly blurred. Recognized as one of the most characteristic works of "young anime", KOKAKU KIDOTAI has exerted an invaluable influence on the science fiction genre with its visual style and philosophical ambiguity. Restored version.

NOTES ON CLOTHES AND CITIES

2026-06-30 @ 20:00

Yohji Yamamoto - a creative genius between the metropolises of Paris and Tokyo. Wim Wenders finds a kindred spirit in him and observes the fashion avant-gardist with his camera. Wenders' film about the art of dressing becomes a portrait of the cities and a discourse on the similarities between architecture, design and cinema. This "diary film", as Wenders called it, explores the similarities between his craft, filmmaking, and the craft of a fashion designer, Tokyo-based Yohji Yamamoto, who shocked and revolutionized the fashion world in Paris and New York in the early 1980s.

THE MISFITS

2026-06-30 @ 22:00

Der berüchtigte Gentleman-Gauner Richard Pace wird von einer Gruppe unkonventioneller Diebe geködert, die mit ihren Aktionen uneigennützig gegen internationale Korruption, Kriegsverbrecher und Terrorismus vorgehen. Ihr Ziel ist es, Gold, das zur Finanzierung des muslimischen Terrors genutzt werden soll, aus einer als Privatgefängnis getarnten Bank im Mittleren Osten zu stehlen. Inhaber des Gefängnisses ist ausgerechnet Paces Gegenspieler Schultz, der mit den hiesigen Terrorsponsoren zusammenarbeitet. Pace lässt sich nach anfänglichem Widerstand auf das gefährliche Unterfangen ein.

RAGBAR

2026-07-01 @ 20:00

Director: Bahram Beyzai | 127 min. *Torrential Rain* Iran 1972. Dir.: Bahram Beyzai. Cast: Parviz Fannizadeh, Parvaneh Massoumi, Manuchehr Farid. 127 min. DCP. Original version with English subtitles Film Series: Bahram Beyzai Bahram Beyzai’s debut film, RAGBAR, tells the love story between a schoolteacher and a young woman whose wages are barely enough to support her little brother and her sick mother. “The tone of the film reminds me of what I love most about Italian neorealist films, and the story has the beauty of an ancient fable—you can sense Beyzai’s background in Persian literature, theater, and poetry.” (Martin Scorsese) For a long time, RAGBAR was available only on video before it was released in 2011 based on a private copy from the director…

ALICE IN THE CITIES

2026-07-02 @ 20:00

Just as journalist Philip Winter is about to leave the U.S. in disappointment after an unsuccessful reporting trip, he meets Lisa and her eight-year-old daughter Alice at the airport. After spending the night together, Philip realizes that Lisa has disappeared, but has left her daughter with him. He finds only a note in which Lisa asks him to take Alice with him to Amsterdam. When Lisa doesn’t show up at the agreed-upon meeting place in Amsterdam, Philip sets off with Alice on a journey across Germany to find Alice’s grandmother...

THE DOUBLE LOTTERY (1950)

2026-07-03 @ 16:30

Two ten-year-old girls—the cheeky Luise Palfy from Vienna and the polite, modest Lotte Körner from Munich—meet at a girls’ summer camp in Seebühl on Lake Bühl. At first, they can’t stand each other at all because they look so much alike. After some investigation, it turns out that the two are twins who were torn apart by their parents’ divorce. Luise’s father is a composer in Vienna, and Lotte’s mother, who has reverted to her maiden name, works in Munich. At the end of the vacation, the twins switch roles, which—due to their different abilities and personality traits—leads to some confusion among their unsuspecting parents.

GHARIBEH AND MEH

2026-07-04 @ 19:00

Director: Bahram Beyzai | 140 min. *The Stranger and the Fog* Iran 1974. Dir.: Bahram Beyzai. Starring: Parvaneh Massoumi, Khosrow Shojazadeh, Manuchehr Farid. 140 min. DCP. Original version with English subtitles. Film Series: Bahram Beyzai Bahram Beyzai’s second feature film combines the epic dimensions of a myth with a dreamlike atmosphere. THE STRANGER AND THE FOG is set on the northern coast of Iran and begins with a boat drifting ashore near a small village. Rana hopes that the stranded boat has brought back her husband, who disappeared at sea a year ago. But the only passenger is Ayat, a wounded stranger who has no memory of how he got there. The character of Rana, played by Parvaneh Massoumi, is at the heart of this film,…

OVER TIME

2026-07-04 @ 22:00

For the past two years, Bruno has been driving through the small towns along the border with East Germany in an old, converted furniture truck—which also serves as his home—repairing projectors in the dying local movie theaters. One morning, he witnesses a man driving his VW into the Elbe River. The man, Robert Lander, climbs out of the sinking car with his suitcase and swims ashore. Bruno takes him along in his furniture van, and so begins a journey that leads both of them through a provincial, unseen Germany. As little as the places and people Bruno and Robert encounter correspond to common images of Germany, they are nonetheless repeatedly connected to the world of cinema.

THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR

2026-07-05 @ 22:30

The building of the “American Society for Literary History” is stormed by men who wreak havoc. Turner escapes by chance. He contacts the CIA, for which the department worked. Wanted publicly as a murderer, Turner—operating under the code name “Condor”—goes into hiding with his estranged girlfriend Kathy, who joins forces with him after another assassination attempt. He obtains documents that reveal the truth and, with the help of the press, manages to escape.

THE CHOICE OF WEAPONS

2026-07-08 @ 20:00

An escaped convict encounters a former gangster who has since become a law-abiding citizen, thereby setting off a chain of dramatic events that lead to the death of the former gangster’s wife and, ultimately, the convict’s own death. The husband, torn between a desire for revenge and solidarity with the man being hunted, ultimately decides against seeking revenge.

POSSESSION

2026-07-08 @ 23:15

When Mark returns to Berlin from a long business trip, his marriage is in shambles. As soon as he arrives, Anna is cold toward him, and she evades his questions about the reason for her behavior. Hurt and consumed by jealousy, he presses her to tell him why she has changed so much. Anna finally gives in and tells him about an affair “with another man,” as she puts it. When he finds a love letter from a man named Heinrich, Mark believes he has tracked down his supposed rival. However, Heinrich lets him know that Anna has been acting very strangely toward him as well. Apparently, there’s a third man in her life. To get to the bottom of things, Mark hires a private investigator, who follows her into a dilapidated apartment building. What he finds there is monstrous… and it’s alive!

MARIANNE

2026-07-09 @ 17:00

Heiligenstadt, Bavaria. The local castle houses a boarding school, which the loner Vincent Loringer also attends. One day, he and some friends explore the area on the other side of the lake and end up breaking into an abandoned house. Suddenly, a shadow appears, and all the boys except Vincent flee. When the loner returns a short time later, he seems like a different person. He reports that he saw an angelic girl in the house. However, Marianne—that is her name—has vanished by the time he returns to the house. Vincent then decides to leave the boarding school to follow Marianne’s trail. He is determined to find her again at any cost.

RADIO CORBEAU

2026-07-09 @ 20:00

Directed by Yves Boisset | 99 min. *The Raven Strikes* (France, 1989). Dir.: Yves Boisset. Starring: Claude Brasseur, Pierre Arditi, Christine Boisson. 99 min. 35mm. OmeU (Original Version with English subtitles). With an introduction by: Sebastian Schwittay Film Series: Cinéma Bis In the provincial backwater of Saint-Meyrand, the pirate radio station “Radio Corbeau” exposes political intrigues and the sordid secrets of the wealthy elite, thereby throwing the social life of this small-town microcosm into disarray. Following LE JUGE FAYARD DIT LE SHERIFF (1977), Yves Boisset once again turns his gaze to the corrupt entanglements in a small French town, spicing it up with the narrative wit of media satire—a subgenre the director had already explored a few years earlier with LE PRIX DU DANGER (1983)…

24 FRAMES

2026-07-09 @ 22:15

The starting point for the "24 Frames" project is an artistic and, at the same time, metaphysical question: What happens in the brief moments immediately before and after a photograph is taken? To explore this question, Abbas Kiarostami devised a technique with which he cinematically staged 20 photos from his personal collection.

THE CRIME THIEF

2026-07-10 @ 19:00

Jean, a writer, is married and has two young children. When he happens to witness a young woman’s suicide, he escapes his family life in a strange way. In this new, different life, he rents a room and begins to convince himself that he murdered the woman. He sends anonymous letters to the media and authorities, claiming that he knows who killed her—until the police actually start looking for him.

THE OLD RIFLE

2026-07-10 @ 22:00

France, 1944: A nervous tension hangs over the German occupiers: The “Das Reich” Division is to advance into Normandy. The behavior of the militia is becoming increasingly threatening. Julien therefore decides, for safety’s sake, to take his wife and daughter to a castle so they can wait there safely for the war’s inevitable end. When he returns there some time later, he finds the mutilated bodies of his wife and daughter. Overcome with grief, he rushes into the castle and retrieves an old hunting rifle from a hiding place to hunt down his family’s murderers. A war drama starring Romy Schneider about the murder of a woman and her daughter in Normandy in 1944.

DOCTOR JEKYLL AND THE WOMEN

2026-07-11 @ 00:30

Director: Walerian Borowczyk | 92 min. *The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne* France/West Germany 1981. Dir.: Walerian Borowczyk. Starring: Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Patrick Magee. 92 min. 35mm. OmeU Original version with English subtitles Film Series: Cult Cinema Walerian Borowczyk (1923–2006), born in Poland and later an emigrant to France, began his career with acclaimed animated films alongside Chris Marker and went on to become a remarkably idiosyncratic master of erotic cinema. His radical, baroque-hypnotic reinterpretation of Stevenson’s novella *Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde*, featuring Udo Kier as the two-faced protagonist and an equally uninhibited Marina Pierro, shines amid an evening gathering in a mysterious city villa in 19th-century London…

LE TRAIN

2026-07-11 @ 16:00

After German troops invaded France in 1940, Julien decided to board a refugee train heading west from northern France with his heavily pregnant wife and seven-year-old daughter. His wife and daughter are allowed to ride in the first-class cars, while he, along with many other refugees, is forced into a freight car. In this car, a diverse group of people from different social classes come together, which initially creates a tense atmosphere. But slowly, the group grows closer. In the process, Julien becomes closer to Anna Kupfer, a German Jew, and they fall in love. Although the journey in the freight car involves extreme hardships and the risk of death from air raids, he secretly hopes that the train will never arrive.

LA GARCE

2026-07-11 @ 19:00

A Paris police inspector (Richard Berry) is sentenced to six years in prison for the rape of an orphan. The innocent man encounters the young woman (Isabelle Huppert), who has just shot her adoptive parents alongside a gangster (Vittorio Mezzogiorno). Now he wants to get even with her.

GARÇON!

2026-07-11 @ 22:15

Alex, an aging brasserie waiter and former—and unsuccessful—entertainer, has acquired a stretch of beach without a building permit; he shares a shared apartment with Gilbert, a hypochondriac who also works as a waiter, and is otherwise largely unattached, being divorced and childless. When he runs into Claire, an acquaintance from his youth, a romantic affair develops between the two...

SADISTIC HALLUCINATIONS

2026-07-12 @ 00:45

Director: Jean-Pierre Bastid | 81 min. Sadistic Hallucinations France 1969. Dir.: Jean-Pierre Bastid. Cast: Daniel Gélin, Anouk Ferjac, Michel Subor. 81 min. 35mm. OmeU Original Version with English subtitles Introduction: Christoph Huber Film Series: Cinéma Bis Before he first appeared as a (soon-to-be-celebrated) author of crime novels, Jean-Pierre Bastid—after working as an assistant director on several projects (including for Jean Cocteau)—directed a number of low-budget but immensely creative genre films under the ironic pseudonym “Jean-Loup Grosdard.” Following the idiosyncratic pulp noir *MASSACRE POUR UNE ORGIE* (1966), *HALLUCINATIONS SADIQUES* represents Bastid’s foray into “gothic horror”—a genre primarily introduced to French cinema through foreign productions—…

L'AVENTURIÈRE DES CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES

2026-07-12 @ 15:00

Director: Roger Blanc | 83 min. The Adventuress of Paris, France, 1957. Dir.: Roger Blanc. Starring: Tilda Thamar, Georges Rollin, Françoise Fabian. 83 min. 35mm. DF Film Series: Cinéma Bis Successful fashion designer Linda Darquanges (Tilda Thamar) becomes the focus of a police investigation when valuable jewelry goes missing after a fashion show at a Parisian fashion house. At Linda’s next fashion show in Nice, as the investigating inspector Legrand (Georges Rollin) insists, this pattern must not be repeated… Anyone who flocked to the cinema back then in the hope of a subtly frivolous crime adventure “in Dyaliscope and color” is unlikely to have found much enjoyment in this vehicle for the now-forgotten Argentine-born star Tilda Thamar, as Roger Blanc is far more interested in…

THE ARMY OF SHADOWS

2026-07-12 @ 19:00

In France in 1942, members of the Resistance are fighting the Nazi occupiers. Philippe Gerbier, a member of the Resistance, managed to escape from Nazi captivity with great difficulty and is now trying to find and bring to justice the man responsible for his arrest. Mathilde, a member and leader of the Paris Resistance, is being forced by the Gestapo to betray the Resistance if she wants to see her daughter again...

LA CAGE

2026-07-12 @ 22:30

Hélène and Julien are middle-aged. Their marriage fell apart. Hélène, who was abandoned by Julien, has never come to terms with or understood the breakup. She builds a dungeon in a country house and invites Julien over for a talk. When he enters the house, he falls through a trapdoor into the basement. There, he finds himself in the dungeon. Hélène forces Julien to talk to her. They discuss their marriage, and it becomes increasingly clear just how unstable Hélène is. Julien tries, on the one hand, to avoid addressing the core issues, and on the other, to reason with Hélène so she’ll let him go. Hélène, who refuses to take responsibility for the failure of their marriage, eventually tries to gas Julien. She had already installed a device for this purpose. In mortal fear, Julien finally manages to free himself. It remains unclear whether Julien will forgive Hélène.

THE END OF VIOLENCE

2026-07-14 @ 22:30

The well-known film director Mike Max is famous for his extremely violent films. One day, Max is kidnapped and experiences real violence for the first time. This changes his life and his views, and after he escapes, he goes into hiding in a beautiful place, away from the public eye. Meanwhile, the kidnappers are killed, and Max becomes a suspect and is sought by the police....

THE EYES OF THE MUMMY MA

2026-07-15 @ 20:00

The young painter Albert Wendland is on a study trip in Egypt and, while taking a walk through the desert, sees a beautiful local woman. The next day, he casually overhears that Prince Hohenfels wants to take a trip to Queen Ma’s tomb, but is being advised against it, since every visit there so far has brought misfortune and driven visitors mad...

FINDING CONNECTION

2026-07-15 @ 22:30

Directed by: Florian Karner, Florian Klarner | 86 min. | Documentary, Germany 2026. Dir.: Florian Karner, Documentary. 86 min. DCP With an introduction and guests. Film series: Multispecies Movie Club. The documentary shows how four people have formed emotional relationships with algorithms and artificial intelligence systems, and how these relationships are changing as artificial intelligence continues to evolve. It challenges and questions humanity’s ability to form relationships. In doing so, it raises the question of what relationships might look like in the age of artificial intelligence.

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID

2026-07-16 @ 20:00

At the turn of the century, the two infamous outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid plan to rob the Union Pacific train twice: once on the outbound trip and once on the return trip. But the government won’t stand for such audacity: an elite task force chases the two men relentlessly until they are exhausted

ZENDEGI VA DIGAR HICH

2026-07-16 @ 22:15

In June 1990, an earthquake devastated northern Iran. Shortly thereafter, a film director travels to the region with his son. He is searching for the young actors from his first film, which was shot there. During the long drive, father and son get to know each other better. The journey becomes an encounter with ruins, suffering, despair, and resignation—but also with the incredible strength of the people there, for whom the most important thing is that life goes on...

THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL

2026-07-17 @ 20:00

A run-down luxury hotel in Los Angeles: Painter Izzy’s leap from the hotel roof would normally be ruled a suicide, but because Izzy was the son of a millionaire, Detective Skinner is assigned to the case. The detective zeroes in on the childlike Tom Tom, who is in love with Eloise, a stray who seems autistic. Is he the key to the motive?

ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN

2026-07-17 @ 22:30

Two young reporters follow a lead, triggering a chain of events and revelations that ultimately cost the U.S. president his office. On the night of June 17, 1972, five men sneak into the Democratic Party headquarters in Washington and begin planting bugs and photographing documents. The lights come on, guns are drawn, and one of the most dramatic and far-reaching chapters in U.S. history begins...

PARIS, TEXAS

2026-07-18 @ 22:30

Four years after his disappearance, Travis—who was believed to be dead—turns up in a rocky desert near the Mexican border. A doctor notifies his brother Walt, who takes the amnesiac man into his upscale home in L.A. At Walt’s house, Travis also meets his seven-year-old son Hunter, who has been living with his uncle since his parents’ separation. Travis’s memories return hesitantly, and his reserved son slowly begins to trust him. Together with Hunter, Travis sets out to find his missing wife, Jane: the beginning of an adventurous odyssey through the barren American Southwest...

A DIRTY SHAME

2026-07-19 @ 22:30

Lust is in the air, and Sylvia Stickles, a grumpy, hard-nosed middle-aged woman, isn’t happy about it. Although Sylvia’s handsome husband Vaughn still has marital needs, his wife couldn’t be less interested—she has more important things to do. Not only does she run the family business, but she also has to keep an eye on her exhibitionist daughter, Caprice, who loves to show off as a go-go dancer. But Sylvia’s world is turned completely upside down when she suffers a concussion in a car accident one day. A sexy tow truck driver comes to her aid, and the dazed Sylvia realizes that he’s no ordinary driver, but a sexual healer who brings Sylvia’s hidden desire back to a boil…

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK

2026-07-21 @ 20:00

After a five-day honeymoon at a hotel in New York, Paul and Corie Bratter move into their first apartment together. Everyday life proves difficult because they have different temperaments and Paul turns out to be a staunchly conservative office worker. Corie’s eccentric mother annoys her son-in-law because she’s constantly showing up unannounced. She falls in love with Viktor Velasco, the aging playboy next door. After a fight, Paul runs barefoot into Central Park and is brought back by Corie, who has discovered her conservative side.

BASHU, GHARIBEYE KOOCHAK

2026-07-21 @ 22:30

Director: Bahram Beyzai | 120 min. *Bashu, the Little Stranger* (Iran, 1989). Dir.: Bahram Beyzai. Cast: Adnan Afravian, Susan Taslimi, Parviz Poorhosseini. 120 min. DCP. Original version with German subtitles Film Series: Bahram Beyzai BASHU, GHARIBEYE KOOCHAK is about a young boy who loses his family in a bombing raid during the Iran-Iraq War. He manages to flee to northern Iran, where he finds shelter with a peasant woman and, despite various obstacles, slowly settles in. Beyzai succeeds in telling a story that is both allegorical and grounded in concrete impressions, permeated by poetic realism and a humanistic outlook on life.