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Seriesly Berlin is back for its 3rd season…

…and once again we’ve got an exciting premiere programme. Book your tickets here – see you at the cinema!

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Programme 2026

Festival
JOSSI
The ambitious Wanja has hit rock bottom as an actor – he now works and lives in an escape room. His parents, Boris and Sveta, run a Russian restaurant that they can only save from bankruptcy by falsifying financial statements and counterfeiting caviar. When an international streaming service announces an open call for a major film production directed by the American star director Sam Rosenberg, a role that, due to diversity guidelines, can only be cast with a Jewish actor, Vanya lies without hesitation, claiming to be one. What could possibly go wrong? If only it weren’t for his Jewish co-star, Dana Gold, who he also finds very likable.
DAY 1 | Monday, 14.9. | 18:30-20:10 | Fotografiska Berlin
DAY 4 | Thursday, 17.9. | 21:00-22:24 | Soho House
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City of Blood
An unbearable heat hangs over a world ravaged by climate change, where crime dominates everyday life. Berlin has become a city-state on the brink of collapse. While a privileged few live comfortably beneath a fully air-conditioned dome, the rest of the city sinks into corruption and violence. The two sisters, Bea and Phoebe, were separated as children by a tragic event. When their worlds collide once again, they make an unthinkable discovery: vampires control organized crime and are seeking political power to secure their survival. Caught in the crossfire, Phoebe and Bea must fight not only for their lives, but also confront a haunting question – who poses the greater threat: humans or vampires?
DAY 2 | Tuesday, 15.9 | 18:30–20:10
Fotografiska Berlin
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AYÔ
AYÔ is a young Black gay artist from Bahia living in São Paulo, dissatisfied with his romantic life. After emotional conflicts with Manu, he dives into dating apps and meets João, forming an instant connection. At the same time, Ayô is forced to confront the realities of racism when his agent, Carla, makes him aware of the challenges faced by Black artists in an intrinsically racist society. Balancing love, identity, and professional ambition, AYÔ searches for belonging and self-understanding in contemporary urban life.
DAY 2 | Tuesday, 15.9 | 19:00-20:40
Cinestar Kulturbrauerei
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Film Club
For Evie (Aimee Lou Wood), film club is her weekly escape – a chance to create a world of wonder, deck her mum’s garage out in whatever the movie calls for, and spend a few uninterrupted hours with her best friend Noa (Nabhaan Rizwan). It’s Friday night. 7pm. Film club Week 198. Evie hasn’t left the house in six months after a ‘wobble’, and tonight, things are different. Noa’s got big news. A dream job is taking him across the other side of the country, which means that all of this is ending...
DAY 2 | Tuesday, 15.9. | 19:00-20:40 | Cinestar Kulturbrauerei
DAY 4 | Thursday, 17.9. | 19:45-21:09 | Soho House
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Clangold
It’s one of the most spectacular cases in German criminal history: When the 100-kilogram gold coin ‘Big Maple Leaf’ is stolen from Berlin’s Bode Museum, the trail leads straight into the heart of the clan milieu. A race against time begins. This visually stunning documentary series captures the gripping cat-and-mouse game between investigators and perpetrators from up close.
DAY 2 | Tuesday, 15.9 | 20:30-21:30
Fotografiska Berlin
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Shipwrecked  
Ariane, Nora, and Marie-Josée feel like they’re swimming against the current. No matter their successes, their bodies are still seen as failures in the eyes of society. When body-positive influencer Ariane is caught in a scandal, she takes refuge with her cousin and reconnects with her estranged ex, Nora. Together, the three women are forced to find out whether what still binds them is strong enough to keep them from sinking.
DAY 2 | Tuesday, 15.9 | 20:45-22:05
Cinestar Kulturbrauerei
Festival
Under Salt Marsh 
The Welsh town of Morfa Halen is a tight-knit community precariously nestled between towering mountains and a fast-encroaching sea that threatens its very existence. As a once-in-a-generation storm begins to gather far out at sea, former detective turned teacher Jackie Ellis discovers the body of her nine-year-old pupil, Cefin, seemingly drowned. An intimate and cinematic story, Under Salt Marsh takes audiences into the heart of a community bound by nature and fractured by an unthinkable crime.
DAY 2 | Tuesday, 15.9. | 20:45-22:40
Cinestar Kulturbrauerei
Festival
Beach Sisters
After years as competitors, Swiss-Caribbean beach volleyball sisters Anouk and Zoé Vergé-Dépré join forces for their first season as a team. Their backstory is loaded: Zoé qualified for Paris with partner Esmée Böbner, while Anouk, with Joana Mäder, did not - turning a family bond into a public rivalry. Now, with the 2028 LA Olympics as their goal, the sisters must learn to become a team without losing what makes them family. Beach Sisters follows them through tournaments, pressure, illness and sponsorship deals - an intimate portrait of sisterhood, ambition and elite sport.
DAY 3 | Wednesday, 16.9. | 18:30-20:15
Fotografiska Berlin
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Atlantis Pasila
The show follows the employees and customers of the bar Atlantis, hidden in the concrete-gray neighborhood of Helsinki's Itä-Pasila. Kauri, Nita, Riku, Iiris, and Anni try to navigate life while struggling to deal with their feelings. The first season focuses on Kauri, a lifestyle nomad who is leaving Finland once again, but on the night of his departure his van breaks down. While stuck in Helsinki, he falls in love with mysterious Leo, who disappears and reappears when least expected.
DAY 3 | Wednesday, 16.9. | 19:00-20:53
Cinestar Kulturbrauerei
Festival
So Far So Good
Ariel, a successful cartoonist in his fifties, feels trapped by family and social demands. A hernia sparks a comedic journey to discover what truly weighs him down. Will he regain his freedom - or be crushed by his own life?
DAY 3 | Wednesday, 16.9. | 19:00-20:45
Cinestar Kulturbrauerei
Festival
Filter
You're sixteen. You’re grappling with your sexuality, relationships and values. And you’re making mistakes. Matty is an introvert who, in spite of his indecisive and hesitant nature, has managed to come out. He is surrounded by family and friends who support him. But when he falls in love with Radek, a boy his own age, during the entrance exams for secondary art school, he crashes headlong into the reality of his first romantic mix-ups, misunderstandings and failures. Will he find a fragile inner balance amid the storm of turbulent adolescence?
DAY 3 | Wednesday, 16.9. | 20:30-22:25 | Fotografiska Berlin
DAY 4 | Thursday, 17.9. | 18:00-19:40 | Soho House
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Burden of Justice
As sweeping legal reforms reshape Sweden's justice system, lawyers at the elite firm Matsson & Markovic are forced to navigate an increasingly uncertain moral landscape. Sasa takes on a rape case that strikes close to home, while his friend Kalle defends a client in a gang trial that tests his ideals. Around them, colleagues cross ethical boundaries in pursuit of justice, success and survival. Burden of Justice is a tense legal drama where personal lives, professional duties and shifting notions of right and wrong collide.
DAY 3 | Wednesday, 16.9. | 20:45-22:30
Cinestar Kulturbrauerei
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The Angel Maker
The Angel Maker tells the story of the Swiss religious community of Methernitha, which still exists today, its founder Paul Baumann — the inventor of a mysterious energy machine — and the young women who brought him down on charges of child abuse.
DAY 3 | Wednesday, 16.9. | 20:45-22:32
Cinestar Kulturbrauerei
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