The Damned
2024
Fantasy Filmfest 2025 - Nights
In 19th century Iceland, the widow Eva rents out boats at a remote fishing station. Food is scarce in the harsh winter. When a stranger ship comes to the other end of the fjord and sinks, Eva makes the fateful decision not to help. Soon she is haunted by ghosts and everyone at the station is driven mad.
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Redux Redux
2025
Fantasy Filmfest 2025 - Nights
The movie doesn't spend much time on exposition. Right at the beginning, we see Irene killing her daughter's murderer. That could have been it, but Irene has a time machine in a practical box and she waits for him again in the next parallel world. Once, however, she is able to save the teenager Mia from him, who sticks by her side.
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Memoir of a Snail
2024
Fantasy Filmfest 2025 - Nights
Grace tells her story off-screen about her childhood and her life in Australia in the 1970s, where she lives with her twin brother Gilbert. When they are separated by child services, Grace hoards snails and all sorts of things that look like snails.
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The Weekend
2024
Fantasy Filmfest 2025 - Nights
Luc reluctantly accepts his parents' invitation to come to a party in his home village for the weekend and bring his fiancée Nikiya with him. However, the family has a very special hobby, and we can guess why Luc is a vegetarian.
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Noise
2024
Fantasy Filmfest 2025 - Nights
A Korean ghost horror in a high-rise complex about grief and loss. Ju-young has been living with her sister Ju-Hee in an apartment in a high-rise complex for a few weeks. A new hearing aid makes the walls talk.
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Bring Them Down
2024
Fantasy Filmfest 2025 - Nights
Atmospherically, the sheep thriller knows how to place its fantastic landscape shots in the Irish mountains and reveal the raw dynamics. A dispute between two sheep farming families ends in the mistreatment of Michael's horn bearers. A bloody chase begins between the lush meadows. Michael clashes with Gary and his son Jack.
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Locked
2025
Fantasy Filmfest 2025 - Nights
Eddie would rather not have done that. The petty thief gets into an open, abandoned car in NYC and suddenly finds himself stranded. A certain William answers the phone and plays mind games with him. Like a mixture of “Saw” and “Daddio”, we see how Eddie tries to escape and how conversations about morality and the meaning of life are bantered about.
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A Girl With Closed Eyes
2024
Fantasy Filmfest 2025 - Nights
A young woman is arrested when found with a shotgun in her hand in the house of a popular writer - the author dead after being hit several times. In custody, she only wants to talk to investigator Min-ju. It turns out that In-seon and Min-ju were school friends and In-seon was abducted as a girl.
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The Gesuidouz
2024
Fantasy Filmfest 2025 - Nights
What an amusing surprise, I couldn't get the grin off my face during the movie. A punk turned movie who doesn't care what others think of him - wild, laconic and dripping with anarchy.
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Forbidden City
2025
Fantasy Filmfest 2025 - Nights
Italian gangster movie meets Chinese martial arts - what a combination. Mei grows up as the second child in the family during the one-child policy in China - hidden from the family, her father teaches her kung fu. She lets herself be smuggled to Rome by human traffickers to look for her missing sister.
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Schwesterherz
2025
Berlinale 2025
- Panorama -
Rose zieht nach einer Trennung zurück zu ihrem Bruder Sam, die eine enge familiäre Bindung haben. Bei einer Vorladung von der Polizei muss Rose entscheiden, was sie zu den Vergewaltigungs-Anschuldigungen gegen ihren Bruder aussagt.
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Zikaden
2025
Berlinale 2025
- Panorama -
Es muss immer einen Berlinale-Film aus der Nina-Hoss-Français-Queer-Coming-of-Age-Welt geben, so will es das Gesetz.
Isabell fährt regelmäßig von Berlin zu ihren Eltern in Brandenburg. Nach einem Schlaganfall bei ihrem Papa hilft ein Pfleger aus. Die jüngere Anja ist alleinerziehend und lebt von prekären Jobs.
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Backlist-Tipp: Von der Magie des Kinos zeugen nicht nur die Filme der diesjährigen #berlinale . Es ist auch die Architektur selbst, die extra zum Zweck des Filme-Zeigens und -Schauens errichtet wurde. Wie der Berliner #ZooPalast – einer der wenigen noch erhaltenen Palastbauten der 50er-Jahre.
Islands
2025
Berlinale 2025
- Berlinale Special Gala -
Tom arbeitet als Tennislehrer in einer Touristenanlage auf Fuerteventura. Eine Familie wirbelt sein ungebundenes Partyleben durcheinander. Der gemächliche Thriller wartet mit subtilen Wendungen auf, bei denen die sonnendurchflutete Insel verführerisch eingefangen ist.
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Höchst unaufmerksame #Security- Dienstleisterfirma am #ZooPalast. Wenn das #Falschblech zwischen den Baken (Foto 17.19 Uhr) nicht bald abgeschleppt wird, gibts Probleme mit der Star-Vorfahrt der Premiere mit Ben Whishaw, Rebecca Hall und lra Sachs. #Berlinale @abschleppgruppe@verkehrswende.social @abschleppgruppe@bird.makeup
Welcome Home Baby
2025
Berlinale 2025
- Panorama -
Österreichisches Midsommar
Ärztin Judith lebt mit ihrem Mann in Berlin. Nachdem sie ein Haus von ihrem verstorbenen Vater erbt, reist sie nach Österreich. Dort hat ihre Mutter sie in jungen Jahren weggegeben. Alle Dorfbewohner scheinen sie zu kennen und ihre Vergangenheit holt sie ein.
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The Surfer
2024
Fantasy Filmfest 2025 - White Nights
Nic Cage - The Movie
This could have been the title of the movie, as Cage has 95% screen time and of course also celebrates the typical excesses. Cage's character wants to buy back a house in his former home on the Australian coast and gets caught up in a snotty cult surf club with an incel vibe. “Don't leev hee, don't suuf hee.”
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MadS
2024
Fantasy Filmfest 2025 - White Nights
What a trip - A birthday visit to his dealer drives a young man crazy. Reality and nightmare become blurred and even we no longer know what is real.
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Night Call
2024
Fantasy Filmfest 2025 - White Nights
A fast-paced and dirty brutal thriller based on the young locksmith Mady, who accidentally falls into the clutches of a criminal gang in Brussels and undergoes an accelerated coming-of-age development.
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