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27. March 2026 - 28. March 2026

Collect Films!

The Collection of Gari Vanisian

Our series Collect Films! focuses on private collectors and independent archives. Filmmaker, curator, author, and translator Vanisian began collecting film copies nearly 15 years ago, at a time when the “digital wave” was sweeping through the cinema, and analog projection technology was being replaced by digital.

03. April 2026 - 07. Juni 2026

Cinema without rest

A Journey Through Harald Reinl's Genre Cinema

The film series not only invites viewers to engage intensively with one of the most prolific and successful directors in German-language film history, it also provides illustrative material for a cultural and social history of the Federal Republic of Germany.

12. April 2026 - 28. April 2026

Film in Context: Menschen am Sonntag

The series focuses on the biographical connections that arise when looking at the other works of the various artists involved in the film. Where did they pursue similar projects at the time, and where did they later build on their work for Menschen am Sonntag? What film-historical threads can be drawn from Menschen am Sonntag? Film history as the history of a film and its afterlife.

26. April 2026

Open your ears!

Inclusive cinema... with audio description

Open your ears! Under this title, the Deutsche Kinemathek and the Zeughauskino present films in accessible versions. The entire cinema audience can hear and experience with their ears the audio descriptions produced for blind and visually impaired people, which describe the images in the films in acoustic form. A fascinating cinema experience for everyone!

05. Mai 2026 - 06. Juni 2026

Screwball – The Art of Conflict

The series brings together four classic screwball comedies from the 1930s and 1940s, as well as an update from the 1970s. In their different approaches to conflict, the films shift the focus from the outcome to the process – and show that “resolving conflicts” can also mean thinking about conflicts differently.

08. Mai 2026 - 27. Juni 2026

Self-declarations: Films about film

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the founding of DEFA

Founded on May 17, 1946, the East German state film company Deutsche Film AG, or DEFA for short, produced nearly 700 feature films, over 750 animated films, around 2,250 documentaries and short films, and countless newsreels between 1946 and 1992. Many of DEFA's contemporary films deal with film and cinema by focusing on the preparation and execution of filming, i.e., film production itself. The retrospective presents an anniversary program in which the largest film company in the GDR presents itself and, in doing so, often misrepresents itself.

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29. Mai 2026 - 30. Juni 2026

Fragile Worlds

Filmmaker Rita Azevedo Gomes

For over 35 years, Portuguese director Rita Azevedo Gomes has been making films that speak their own unique language, creating cinematic spaces that are equally imbued with thought and emotion. This retrospective, produced in collaboration with the Cinemateca Portuguesa, presents almost the entire oeuvre of the Portuguese filmmaker for the first time in Germany. It is accompanied by a program of German film productions compiled by Rita Azevedo Gomes.

12. Juni 2026 - 13, Juni 2026

Collect Films!

The Collection of the Bonner Kinemathek e.V.

In June, Bernhard Gugsch presents the collection of the Bonner Kinemathek. The cinema in the Brotfabrik, run by Bonner Kinemathek e.V., was founded in 1986 in the Brotfabrik cultural center in the Beuel district of Bonn. Soon, the collection of film copies began, among other things so that international films could be shown in their original version or with English subtitles. Other areas of focus were added to the collection: films related to Bonn, early or forgotten works by well-known directors, silent films, 3D films, and advertising films from the 1950s and 1960s.