Weekly overview
14 Oct – 20 Oct
A Note for Nature
A celebration of wild Ireland and a call to arms. Over an hour we meet some remarkable people dedicating their lives to protect Ireland’s disappearing nature.
- Documentary
TMDB 69RT 93IMDb 7.1 Don't Look Now
While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.
- Thriller
- Drama
- Horror
Wenn die Gondeln Trauer tragen (20 Jahre Arthaus)
urgewald – Auf den Spuren des Geldes
When nature is destroyed, climate targets are disregarded and human rights are violated, there is always a lot of money behind it. This is where urgewald comes in. Since 1992, the environmental and human rights organization has been revealing the sources of money behind destructive projects. Over 30 years ago, a handful of activists gathered around a table in a shared flat to form the basis of the organization. Since then, the small club in the Münsterland province has become a recognized, powerful organization.
- Documentary
Schwarze Häuser
After World War II, countless children throughout Germany were sent to health resorts in order to recover; instead they endured systemic abuse. Through survivors’ voices and her own family history, filmmaker Katrin Sikora uncovers this long silenced chapter and its echoes across generations.
- Documentary
Voices in my Head
Recently, a tragedy deeply shook the siblings Sarah and Kevin. Their parents died in a car accident. Sarah suffers greatly from the loss. She is convinced that her parents were murdered by a creepy woman who haunts their home. Increasingly, Kevin must realize that his sister is in great danger.
- Horror
IMDb 6.8 Visitation
A plot of land, a house by the lake, its changing inhabitants. This one plot of land reflects 70 years of German history from Weimar, the Nazis, the war, the Soviet occupation and reconstruction to the fall of the GDR.
- Drama
Zeise Shortfilm Slam
IMDb 9.1 Meeting the Buddha
Meeting the Buddha presents the life and legacy of the 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje—the head of the Karma Kagyu lineage, one of four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The film captures the remarkable presence of this spiritual teacher, known as a Living Buddha and the King of the Yogis. We meet Ole Nydahl, a wild young hippy from Denmark who, as a small child, had declared his wish to become the "Danish champion of mind." His life is radically transformed by a chance encounter with the Karmapa in Nepal in 1969. Ole and his wife, Hannah, become key figures in bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West, founding hundreds of meditation centres—from Mexico City to Vladivostok—and carrying forward their teacher's vision with unshakable dedication.
- Documentary
Macbeth - Verdi (MET 2026/27)
OmU · 2026 · 210 min
TMDB 76RT 97IMDb 7.7 Halloween
OV · OmU
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
- Horror
- Thriller
Studio KinoOmU
Lecture on Birdsong Trilogie
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AbatonOV
TMDB 81RT 100IMDb 8.3 Sansho the Bailiff
OV · OmU
In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children, Zushio and Anju, are sold into brutal servitude under the cruel bailiff Sansho.
- Drama
AbatonOmU
Junkies of Dreaming
OV · OmU
Orchestra rehearsals with Teodor Currentzis. The House of the Radio of the GDR in Berlin. A young couple in love. The artistic process viewed from the outside – and from the inside. Mahler’s boundary-breaking Third Symphony. What triggered the composition 130 years ago, and what does it trigger in us today?
- Documentary
AbatonOmU
Die andere Seite
Since losing her family, a woman is living alone in the wilderness — far away from society, which is dominated by mistrust and fear after the outbreak of a fatal disease. When she is forced to leave this life behind, she not only experiences a boundless freedom, but also remembers the importance of human closeness and the feeling of belonging.
- Drama
- Thriller
Materia Prima
OV · OmU
Bolivia has the world's largest deposits of lithium, a metal that is essential for the energy transition. Without lithium, no electricity storage facility, no data centre, no electric car, no smartphone would work. The Europeans want the raw material to save their automotive industry. The Bolivians want it to combat poverty. While the Bolivian government negotiates with corporations from around the world, civil society groups are mobilising in rural areas, organised mainly by women. The film offers a rare insight into the Europeans' strategy to secure the sought-after material and carves out the conflicting interests towards extractivism and industrialisation in Bolivia.
- Documentary
3001 KinoOmU
TMDB 68RT 70IMDb 6.9 The Thomas Crown Affair
OV · OmU
A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes that he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist--until he must match wits with an insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man.
- Crime
- Romance
- Drama
- Thriller
AbatonOmU
IMDb 6.3 The Unguarded Moment
A high-school music teacher is the victim of a student who writes indecent notes and assaults women.
- Crime
- Drama
- Thriller
zwischen Gebäuden
“zwischen Gebäuden” is a feature film based on passages from Robert Walser’s draft "The Robbers". It depicts encounters between a man who doesn’t know what he wants and those who do. He lives his bewilderment with determination. Always there for everyone, he eludes any sign of being tied down. Without a plan, he has everything ahead of him. Unbound by anything, he robs those who are bound of their steadfastness. Without fixed ideas, he is radically human. Unattached, he loves all those who are rooted. They find it hard to let him go, useless and unworkable as he is.
- Drama
National Theatre Live: The Misanthrope
OV · 2026 · 115 min
Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the hollow contemporary mantras of kindness and respect. But the bolder she becomes in speaking out, the more colleagues avoid her, and the more her personal relationships begin to fracture. As she challenges fashionable ideas and lends her voice to causes others are afraid to touch, she faces intense criticism and backlash. Alice will soon learn the price she must pay as an artist and as a woman for daring to speak her mind. Award-winner Sandra Oh is the Misanthrope in Martin Crimp's cutting new version of Molière's dark comedy, directed by National Theatre Director Indhu Rubasingham.
- Drama
- Comedy
TMDB 68RT 28IMDb 6.4 Practical Magic
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Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.
- Romance
- Fantasy
- Comedy
IMDb 7.2 Six Weeks On
While the world is in lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lore has to cope with a painful loss: her mother has died. Back in the small town of Erkelenz in North Rhine-Westphalia, she struggles against entrenched family structures and a paralyzing bureaucracy. Above all, she has to find a way to come to terms with the death and say goodbye to her mother.
- Drama
TMDB 66IMDb 7.1 The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor at Auschwitz, escapes to South America to rebuild his life in hiding. Through the eyes of his son who finds him again, Mengele is confronted with a past he can no longer ignore. From Buenos Aires to Paraguay via Brazil, the man who became known as “The Angel of Death” will organize his methodical disappearance to avoid any form of trial.
- History
- Drama
IMDb 5.8 Conflagration
OV · OmU
Global South guerrillas hijack the Japanese oil tanker Arabian Light, threatening to blow it up in Tokyo Bay, unless the Cabinet complies with an economically devastating ultimatum.
- Action
- Thriller
- Drama
AbatonOmU
TMDB 86RT 96IMDb 9.0 The Godfather Part II
OV · OmU
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
- Drama
- Crime
Zeise KinosOmU
Women as Lovers
Although hostess Brigitte and life-loving schoolgirl Paula only meet in person once, their fates and lives are closely intertwined.
- Romance
- Drama
TMDB 70RT 94IMDb 6.8 The Witches
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While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn all children into mice via a magical formula. When they discover the eavesdropper, the witches test the formula on him. Now, with the help of Helga and hotel manager Mr Stringer, Luke the mouse must fight back against the witches.
- Fantasy
- Family
- Horror
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