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Scene from a Konrad Wolf movie: A lady leaving a car

Konrad Wolf: Ways to Enlightenment

10/20–11/30/2025 | Online
Celebrating the East German director’s 100th birthday

Filmstill: A woman putting make up on

G.W. Pabst Retrospektive

11/22–12/03/2025 | Goethe-Institut NY
Co-presented with Anthology Film Archives

Filmstill: Barbara

KINO! Film Salon: Barbara

12/14/2025 | Online
Co-presented with Telescope Film

Film still: Sad Jokes

Sad Jokes

12/18/2025 | Cinema Arts Centre, NY
Foreign Cinema Night auf Long Island

2025 Archive

Filmstill: Two people, perhaps a couple, in a red cabriolet are passing a woman

German Films at Fall Film Festivals

9/4–11/30/2025 | U.S. & Canada

Fall is film festival season in North America — and a great time to catch the best of this year’s German films! We’ve gathered five German titles to watch out for as they make their way to theaters in the US and Canada, many of them for the first time since their European premieres.

The Sound of Falling - Film-still

Sound of Falling

11/14/2025 | The Museum of Modern Art
11/17/2025 | Quad Cinema
Q&As with director Mascha Schilinski and cinematographer Fabian Gamper

Filmstill: Pina

KINO! Film Salon: Pina

11/16/2025 | Online
Co-presented with Telescope Film

A graphic in black and bloody red, saying "Vampire Movies"

Vampire Films

10/29/2025 | Goethe-Institut New York
Special Halloween double bill of German vampire classics

Filmstill: Beyond the blue border

Beyond the Blue Border

10/01–10/31/2025 | Online
Our monthly Goethe on Demand pick

Filmstill: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

KINO! Film Salon: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

10/12/2025 | Online
Co-presented with Telescope Film

A young man out in the cold. A car pulls up behind him.

German Movie Nights: December

10/10/2025 | Goethe-Institut New York
Episode 1 of the “ZEIT Verbrechen” crime series. With director Mariko Minoguchi and actor Samuel Benito in person

Portrait: Ulrike Ottigner

Ulrike Ottinger: From Paris to Berlin

10/03–10/05/2025 | Metrograph
Filmmaker in person!

Filmstill of an old black and white movie

35 Years of German Reunification: Perspectives on a Time of Upheaval

09/05–10/05/2025 | Online
New Goethe on Demand series

Uncle Sam as a caricature and another person

Ulrike Ottinger: Cinema Artist, Cinema Rebel

09/25–10/04/2025 | Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Filmmaker in person!

Film still: Raw Materials

Raw Materials

09/01–09/30/2025 | Online
Our monthly Goethe on Demand pick

Filmstill: Precious Ivie

Precious Ivie

09/27/2025 | Alamo Drafthouse Cinema DC
With director Sarah Blaßkiewitz and actor Haley Louise Jones in attendance

Filmstill: Phoenix

KINO! Film Salon: Phoenix

09/07/2025 | Online
Co-presented with Telescope Film

Filmstill: The Future Perfect

German Movie Nights: The Future Perfect

08/27/2025 | Goethe-Institut New York
Q&A with filmmaker Nele Wohlatz

The figure of a cowboy outside an American diner

Lukas Marxt Retrospective

08/22–08/24/2025 | Anthology Film Archives
 

Filmstill: Two to one

Two to One

08/21/2025 | Cinema Arts Centre
Foreign Cinema Night on Long Island

Filmstill: Anima - My Father's Dresses

ANIMA – My Father’s Dresses

08/01–08/31/2025 | Online
Goethe on Demand

Filmstill of Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

KINO! Film Salon: Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

08/17/2025 | Online
Co-presented with Telescope Film

Filmstill: Taxi zum Klo

The Many Faces of Frank Ripploh

08/01–08/17/2025 | Metrograph

Filmstill: Relativity

Relativity

07/01–07/31/2025 | Online
Goethe on Demand

Cuckoo Filmstill

KINO! Film Salon: Cuckoo

07/20/2025 | Online
Co-presented with Telescope Film

Film-Still: Lotte in Weimar

Lotte in Weimar

06/01–06/30/2025 | Online
Goethe on Demand: 150 Years of Thomas Mann

Filmstill: Kaddish for a friend

Kaddish for a Friend

06/01–06/30/2025 | Online
Goethe on Demand

Neubau - Filmstill

German Movie Nights: Neubau

06/20/2025 | Goethe-Institut New York
Q&A with actor/screenwriter Tucké Royale

Film still: The Seed of the Sacred Fig

KINO! Film Salon: The Seed of the Sacred Fig

06/15/2025 | Online
Co-presented with Telescope Film

Filmstill: Sieger sein

Kids Kino: Winners

06/01/2025 | Goethe-Institut New York

Filmstill: Three

Three

05/01–05/31/2025 | Online
Goethe on Demand

Film still: Gegen die Wand

KINO! Film Salon: Head-On

05/18/2025 | Online
Co-presented with Telescope Film

Film still: WOW Message from Space

Kids Kino: WOW! Message from Outer Space

05/18/2025 | Goethe-Institut New York

Filmstill: One in a million

One in a Million

04/01–04/30/2025 | Online
Goethe on Demand

Filmstill: Greetings from Mars

Kids Kino: Greetings from Mars

04/27/2025 | Goethe-Institut New York

A woman filmmaker in black and white, holding a camera

feminist elsewheres

04/19–04/20/2025 | Maysles Documentary Center

Film still: September 5

KINO! Film Salon: September 5

04/13/2025 | Online
Co-presented with Telescope Film

Still from "Human Flowers of Flesh," by Helena Wittmann. Courtesy of filmmaker.

Human Flowers of Flesh

04/12/2025 | e-flux Screening Room

Filmstill: Black Fruit

German Movie Nights: Black Fruit

04/04/2025 | Goethe-Institut New York

Filmstill: Bones and Names

Bones and Names

03/01–03/31/2025 | Online
Goethe on Demand

Film Still: Nordwand

KINO! Film Salon: North Face

03/16/2025 | Online
Co-presented with Telescope Film

Profile: Volker Spengler/Highfalutin

Volker Spengler / Highfalutin

03/01–03/09/2025 | Anthology Film Archives

A film still: Seven Freckles

Seven Freckles

02/01—02/28/2025 | Online
Goethe on Demand
 

Film still: Cocoon

KINO! Film Salon: Cocoon

02/16/2025 | Online
Co-presented with Telescope Film
 

Filmstill: Das Lehrerzimmer

German Movie Nights: The Teachers’ Lounge

01/31/2025 | Goethe-Institut New York
In collaboration with Villa Aurora
 

Filmstill. Orphea in Love

Orphea in Love

01/01—01/31/2025 | Online
Goethe on Demand
 

Filmstill: Sisi & Ich

KINO! Film Salon: Sisi & I

01/19/2025 | Online
Co-presented with Telescope Film