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Seriesly Berlin Premieres
Season 02

From 15 to 18 September, Seriesly Berlin brings eight international series to the big screen – from gripping thrillers to queer dramas, biopics and documentaries. Dive into fresh stories, experience the premieres first in Berlin and get your tickets now. Enjoy the screenings.

2025

Festival
Moloch Files
Investigative journalist Martin Braun decides to release a compromising recording of the president during a live TV debate. Online detective Julia receives information from a colleague with the anonymous nickname Acton Bell about suspicious activities of the secret services in Ukraine. At that moment, an attack occurs on the president and all three are drawn into espionage games and power intrigues related to the assassination.
DAY 1 | 15.09.2025 - 7:00 - 8:00 pm (1 x 60 min.)
Hackesche Höfe Kino
Festival
Inuit Makers (Sanajiit ᓴᓇᔩᑦ) 
Sanajiit ᓴᓇᔩᑦ (Inuit Makers) is a 13-episode documentary series immersing audiences in the creative process, craftsmanship, traditional skills, and daily life of Inuit “Makers” living in Nunavut. Filmed using a unique “Slow TV” approach, Sanajiit honours the rhythms and realities of Inuit culture, and the traditional Inuit learning process of “learning by doing” with elders, community members, and a new generation of Inuit.
DAY 1 | 15.09.2025 - 08:30 - 10:00 pm (1 x 36 min. & 1 x 59 min.)
Hackesche Höfe Kino
Festival
Absolute Hundred 
Nineteen-year-old Sonja is a junior champion in shooting. Her mother lives abroad, and her father, a war veteran, has fallen so far into debt that he, Sonja, and her older brother may be forced out of their home. Her brother tries to solve the situation through shady dealings, but when he ends up witnessing a crime he becomes the target of a local thug. In order to protect her family, Sonja decides to take justice into her own hands.
DAY 2 | 16.09.2025 - 07:00 - 08:45 pm (2 x 45 min.)
Colosseum Filmtheater
Festival
Eve’s Rib (La Costilla de Eva) 
While a man who believes himself to be sent by God murders homosexuals across the city, a group of young people are discovering their sexuality. Gustavo is 17 and likes men, but his mother's religious customs contradict his desire. Fedro is openly gay and is bullied by his classmates. Lily, their teacher, will not rest until she catches the serial killer, as her brother is among the victims. And Sara is a transgender counselor who arrives at the school, breaking down accusations and prejudices.
DAY 2 | 16.09.2025 - 8:00 pm - 9:15 pm (3 x 25 min.)
Colosseum Filmtheater
Festival
Kazakh Scary Tales 
Investigator Birzhan is desperate for a promotion to move his family from the village to the city. Taking on cold cases from remote villages — cases shrouded in mystery, with no evidence and no logical explanations. Birzhan doesn’t believe in the supernatural. To him, every crime has a human culprit — or is simply the work of nature. But in one village, infants are disappearing, and the elders whisper of an ancient curse—Albasty, a sinister spirit said to devour infants. The locals blame wolves, but Birzhan suspects something far more chilling.
DAY 2 | 16.09.2025 - 9:00 - 10:00 pm (2 x 30 min.)
Colosseum Filmtheater
Festival
House of Bellevue 
HOUSE OF BELLEVUE is a 6-part drama series for ZDFneo/Mediathek. It centers on Emm, a Black, bisexual man in search of belonging. He hopes to find the longed-for antithesis to the conservative life of his foster family within Berlin's ballroom community. When he meets his idol, dancer Lia, and her Kiki House, his dream seems within reach. However, not everything that glitters is glamour…
DAY 3 | 17.09.2025 - 7:30 - 9:00 pm (2 x 45 min.)
Fotografiska Berlin
Festival
George, Untamed Spirit
Aurore Dupin escapes her violent husband and bourgeois roots to live freely in 19th-century Paris. Embracing Bohemian life, she publishes under the name George Sand and becomes the first woman to live off her writing. A feminist ahead of her time, she smokes, wears men’s clothes, and loves passionately — from Musset to actress Marie Dorval. Her novels capture an era, but her true masterpiece is her life.
DAY 3 | 17.09.2025 - 8:30 pm - 10:15 pm (2 x 52 min.)
Hackesche Höfe Kino
Festival
Oh, Otto!
Clumsy, charming, homosexual Otto (25 y.o.) lives in Brussels in his late grandmother’s old house. Otto is content. He has it all figured out. Or at least, that’s what he thinks. When Otto’s first love, Boris, breaks up with him after a relationship of 5 years, and his best friend Lente leaves the city, Otto embarks on a journey to find his place within the vibrant Brussels queer community.
DAY 4 | 18.09.2025 - 07:30 - 08:45 pm (3 x 25 min.)
Fotografiska Berlin
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