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16 Nov – 22 Nov

  1. Biermann

    121 min

    Portrait of the German-German singer-songwriter and intellectual Wolf Biermann, whose famous Cologne concert in 1976 made German history.

    • Documentary

    Die Kamera Heidelberg

  2. TMDB 62RT 50IMDb 6.4

    Fatherland

    82 min

    Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
    • Drama
    • Thriller
    • Action
    • TV Movie

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg

  3. RT 85

    A Talent for Murder

    106 min

    A young man travels from New York to Switzerland to try to persuade acclaimed thriller writer Patricia Highsmith to write one final installment of her Tom Ripley series, with his efforts gradually turning more sinister.
    • Drama
    • Crime
    • Thriller

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg

  4. Identitti

    103 min

    A student named Nivedita finds an old photo of her professor and discovers the latter had been living a lie. Saraswati, of all people — a woman of color who lectures on cultural identity — is in fact white. While the media and online community whip up a frenzy, Nivedita faces a political and personal dilemma as she tries to find out Saraswati's motive.
    • Comedy
    • Drama

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg

  5. IMDb 6.8

    Visitation

    121 min

    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

    Die Kamera Heidelberg

  6. TMDB 70RT 88IMDb 7.2

    The Post

    OmdtU

    A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
    • Drama
    • History

    Karlstorkino Heidelberg

  7. TMDB 44IMDb 4.6

    Camouflage

    subtitled OV · 102 min

    Marty Mackenzie is an unsuccessful stage actor who takes an interest in private investigating. He takes a job working with Jack Potter, a crusty private eye. They both take a case in Beaver Ridge, a seedy small town where a murder is being planned against a rich gravel pit owner. Marty realizes that private investigating is not as it seemed to be.
    • Action
    • Comedy

    Gloria & Gloriette HeidelbergOV

  8. Moscas - Fliegen und andere Gäste

    subtitled OV · 102 min

    Die Kamera HeidelbergOV

  9. IMDb 6.8

    Visitation

    121 min

    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

    Die Kamera Heidelberg

  10. TMDB 68IMDb 6.3

    Chopin, a Sonata in Paris

    115 min

    He is the talk of the town, the most romantic figure of decadent Parisian nights. When his lungs start bleeding, Chopin knows his days are numbered. Composing becomes his only obsession. The ticking clock rushes him to revolutionize music.
    • Drama
    • History
    • Music

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg

  11. RT 85

    A Talent for Murder

    subtitled OV · 106 min

    A young man travels from New York to Switzerland to try to persuade acclaimed thriller writer Patricia Highsmith to write one final installment of her Tom Ripley series, with his efforts gradually turning more sinister.
    • Drama
    • Crime
    • Thriller

    Gloria & Gloriette HeidelbergOV

  12. Biermann

    121 min

    Portrait of the German-German singer-songwriter and intellectual Wolf Biermann, whose famous Cologne concert in 1976 made German history.

    • Documentary

    Die Kamera Heidelberg

  13. RT 93

    Wild Horse Nine

    117 min

    Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.
    • Comedy
    • Crime
    • Thriller

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg

  14. Barbara Buser – Swiss Pioneer of Sustainability

    118 min

    The award-winning Swiss architect Barbara Buser saves buildings from demolition and rebuilds them with reused materials. She transforms former industrial sites into urban living spaces that symbolize a careful approach to our environment and to each other. As a woman who is successfully forging her own path in a male-dominated field, Barbara Buser is a role model for the younger generation, who are fighting for a more sustainable, fairer world.
    • Documentary

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg

  15. IMDb 7.3

    I Am My Own Woman

    OV

    The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped start the German gay liberation movement. Documentary with some dramatized scenes. Two actors play the young and middle aged Charlotte and she plays herself in the later years.
    • Drama
    • Documentary

    Karlstorkino HeidelbergOV

  16. Freeride Filmfestival 2026

    100 min

    Die Kamera Heidelberg

  17. RT 93

    Wild Horse Nine

    subtitled OV · 117 min

    Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.
    • Comedy
    • Crime
    • Thriller

    Gloria & Gloriette HeidelbergOV

  18. Identitti

    103 min

    A student named Nivedita finds an old photo of her professor and discovers the latter had been living a lie. Saraswati, of all people — a woman of color who lectures on cultural identity — is in fact white. While the media and online community whip up a frenzy, Nivedita faces a political and personal dilemma as she tries to find out Saraswati's motive.
    • Comedy
    • Drama

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg

  19. TMDB 68IMDb 6.3

    Chopin, a Sonata in Paris

    115 min

    He is the talk of the town, the most romantic figure of decadent Parisian nights. When his lungs start bleeding, Chopin knows his days are numbered. Composing becomes his only obsession. The ticking clock rushes him to revolutionize music.
    • Drama
    • History
    • Music

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg

  20. TMDB 65RT 73IMDb 6.7

    Paradise: Faith

    118 min

    For Anna Maria, paradise lies with Jesus, and she devotes her time to door-to-door missionary work. One day after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home—and soon prayers are replaced by fighting.
    • Drama

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg

  21. Lügen über meine Mutter

    112 min

    In the 1980s, the life of a family in a small village is determined by just one issue: the mother's body weight. Her husband Werner decides that she needs to lose weight, Cornelia suffers as a result and their daughter Ela is caught in the middle.
    • Drama

    Die Kamera Heidelberg

  22. RT 93

    Wild Horse Nine

    117 min

    Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.
    • Comedy
    • Crime
    • Thriller

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg

  23. Helene Weigel - Revolutionärin im Rampenlicht

    107 min

    Who was Helene Weigel? Using impressive archive material, the film follows the convinced communist, acting icon, and free spirit from her early days in theater to her escape from the Nazi regime to the founding and management of the Berliner Ensemble. The result is a powerful portrait that finally puts the “woman at Brecht's side” in the spotlight.
    • Documentary

    Die Kamera Heidelberg

  24. RT 85

    A Talent for Murder

    subtitled OV · 106 min

    A young man travels from New York to Switzerland to try to persuade acclaimed thriller writer Patricia Highsmith to write one final installment of her Tom Ripley series, with his efforts gradually turning more sinister.
    • Drama
    • Crime
    • Thriller

    Gloria & Gloriette HeidelbergOV

  25. Le sucre, pour la douceur et pour le pire

    DF

    Sugar has played an important role in human history for five centuries. But what price does dependence on sugar exact? Its seductive sweetness and lucrative business were the driving forces behind conquest, colonization, slavery and forced labour.
    • Documentary
    • War & Politics
    • Drama

    Karlstorkino HeidelbergDF

  26. IMDb 6.8

    Visitation

    121 min

    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

    Die Kamera Heidelberg

  27. RT 93

    Wild Horse Nine

    subtitled OV · 117 min

    Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.
    • Comedy
    • Crime
    • Thriller

    Gloria & Gloriette HeidelbergOV

  28. Identitti

    103 min

    A student named Nivedita finds an old photo of her professor and discovers the latter had been living a lie. Saraswati, of all people — a woman of color who lectures on cultural identity — is in fact white. While the media and online community whip up a frenzy, Nivedita faces a political and personal dilemma as she tries to find out Saraswati's motive.
    • Comedy
    • Drama

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg

  29. TMDB 55RT 82IMDb 5.9

    A Private Life

    OmdtU

    When renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner learns of the sudden death of a patient, she suspects murder. She mounts a private investigation, enlisting an odd assortment of quirky characters.
    • Mystery
    • Crime
    • Drama

    Karlstorkino Heidelberg

  30. The Mad Dog of Europe

    OmdtU

    A documentary exploring the 1933 screenplay of the same name by Citizen Kane co-writer Herman Mankiewicz, which warned of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, but was rejected by Hollywood studios at the time.
    • Documentary

    Karlstorkino Heidelberg

  31. Film und Wein

    Karlstorkino Heidelberg

  32. Leica – A Century of Vision

    92 min

    LEICA - A CENTURY OF VISION shows how the invention of the 35mm format revolutionized documentary photography. Featuring legendary and contemporary photographers the film reveals the camera's enduring power to capture history as it unfolds.
    • Documentary

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg

  33. IMDb 6.5

    Mumbo Jumbo

    DF

    When the happy little hippo, Mumbo Jumbo, accidentally turns giant his life changes for the worse - seemingly forever. Now Mumbo is forced out on a challenging journey in order to encounter an unpredictable witch. Luckily Mumbo's best friends join him. It’s still an insurmountable task, but at least the friends are facing it together. It is not easy being a small hippo, nor a giant one, and when the only way back to normal depends on the cooperation of a frank and mischievous witch, anyone can imagine that it requires a true effort. Hopefully Mumbo Jumbo will develop a strong belief in himself during the adventure. Otherwise, it will definitely be an impossible mission.
    • Animation
    • Adventure
    • Family

    Karlstorkino HeidelbergDF

  34. Felix Klein - Insights from the Outside

    OmdtU

    Karlstorkino Heidelberg

  35. The Misanthrope

    subtitled OV · 112 min

    A woman invites all her friends over for a dinner party in order to break up with them.

    • Comedy
    • Drama

    Die Kamera HeidelbergOV

  36. Curtains

    90 min

    In CURTAINS, Sandra Hüller tells the story of a woman who breaks out of a long-term violent relationship and of a political and social system that prefers to look the other way. The film shows the power structures behind the facades and how the state inadequately protects women.
    • Documentary

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg

  37. TMDB 72RT 100IMDb 7.1

    Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia

    DF

    Ernest and Celestine are travelling back to Ernest's country, Gibberitia, to fix his broken violin. This exotic land is home to the best musicians on earth and music constantly fills the air with joy. However, upon arriving, our two heroes discover that all forms of music have been banned for many years - and for them, a life without music is unthinkable. Along with their friends and a mysterious masked outlaw, Ernest and Celestine must try their best to bring music and happiness back to the land of bears.
    • Animation
    • Family
    • Music
    • Adventure

    Karlstorkino HeidelbergDF

  38. Cyberpunk Romance

    OV

    The future is here: via so-called ports—USB-like connections on the head—human brains can be directly connected to computers. This enables things like upgrades (foreign languages! expert knowledge!), virtual buzz experiences, and even the networking of multiple brains. A group of neurohackers tries out everything and even develops their own apps. Only Mona is decidedly against this technology; the danger of external control just seems too great.
    • Science Fiction

    Karlstorkino HeidelbergOV


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