21. UNDER|DOX 08 – 14 OKT 2026

wednesday 14 oct | 6 pm werkstattkino
theme: remembering

Yulia Lokshina DE 2025 | 82 min | German, Eng., Russ., Kirgis. OV Eng. subt. | Golden Dove, DOK Leipzig

A Russian teacher is reported by a pupil for criticising the war in Ukraine during a lesson. Whilst in exile in Berlin, she re-enacts the incident with a school class. A lesson on totalitarianism, betrayal and resistance.

friday 9 oct | 6 pm werkstattkino
new avant-garde cinema

Kevin B. Lee DE, FR, BE 2025 | 88 min | engl. OV | Desktop

The historical traces of extremist propaganda and its effects. How can we counter the violence embedded in the media? An encounter with an artist, an activist, and a researcher who seek to create new images and narratives. Created primarily on a desktop computer, the film moves between the virtual screen and the physical environment. A film that opens up new cinematic possibilities for the future.

sunday 11 oct 5 pm filmmuseum
pole position 2
guest: Norbert Pfaffenbichler

Norbert Pfaffenbichler AT 2026 | 167 min | Eng. OV | German Premiere

GRAND PRIX in the avant-garde filmmaker’s workshop: the film is broken down into its individual shots and re-edited according to the length of its takes. Now the vehicle can no longer drive. What fun!

Pole Position 1: GRAND PRIX (saturday 3 oct 7 pm werkstattkino)
Pole Position combi ticket 14€

monday 12 oct 6 pm werkstattkino

Hiroatsu Suzuki & Rossana Torres PT 2025 | Doclisboa Award | German Premiere | 72 min | Port. OV Eng. subt. | Doclisboa Award

In the small southern Portuguese town of Mértola, many old water mills stand. The tides set the rhythm of life. The colour of the water and the appearance of the landscape change throughout the year. The town is also the birthplace of a poet, Manuela Ferreira. In “Alma,” she asks the important question: “Why do we gaze at the river?”—Winner of the Doclisboa Award

freitag 9 okt | 8 pm werkstattkino
new narrative cinema

Ted Fendt DE 2026 | 63 min | dt., ital. franz. OmeU

Alejo came to Berlin from Argentina. He stayed because of the city’s greenery. Leonie reads: books by Anna Maria Ortese, in German translation, in Italian, in French. A book club forms. Reading weaves through this film and lends the 16-mm images a gentle intensity.

Guest: Ted Fendt

tuesday 13 oct 6 pm theatiner | filming nature filming architecture

James Benning USA 2026 | 82 min | no dialogue

It seems to be the time to consider bridges. – James Benning

sunday 11 oct 1 pm theatiner
guest: Vivian Ostrovsky

Vivian Ostrovsky & Ruti Gadish USA 2025 | 67 min | engl. OV

A chapter in the American poet’s life story—chronicling her years in Brazil—is composed entirely of archival images. Elizabeth Bishop lived with the architect Soares in the “Lota House,” where she wrote Questions of Travel and love poems that, through sensory imagery, embed the house directly within nature.

guest: Vivian Ostrovsky

thursday 8 oct | 7 pm filmmuseum opening film

Nicolás Pereda MX, DE, CA 2026 | 71 min | Span. OV Engl. ST

The chamber pieces of Mexican filmmaker Nicolás Pereda have long been UNDERDOX favourites. This time, the focus is on a Mexican composer and cellist who is supposed to give a TV interview. But acoustic disruptions keep derailing her answers. Funny, ironic and laconic: an unusual spoof of the celebrity interview.

sunday 11 oct 8 pm werkstattkino | cine ibérico – filming nature filming architecture

Oskar Alegria ES 2026 | German Premiere | 91 min | Bask., Span. OV Eng. subt.

A 14-night journey through the Basilica of Arantzazu, shaped by the artistic vision of Basque sculptors Jorge Oteiza and Eduardo Chillida. In the Basilica of Arantzazu, the longest night unfolds beside the sanctuary’s organ, where filmmaker Oskar Alegria retreats to tell pianist Iñar Sastre about the nights he has spent there.

saturday 3 oct 7 pm werkstattkino
pole position 1

John Frankenheimer USA 1966 | 176 min | engl. OV

Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his racing team after injuring his British teammate Stoddard in a crash at Monaco. Aron joins a Japanese team and begins an affair with Stoddard’s ex-wife. Filmed during actual races at the circuits of Monte Carlo, Brands Hatch and Monza.
60 years later, Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Pfaffenbichler’s ADGIN PRRX reassembles GRAND PRIX – our second film in pole position!

saturday 10 oct 6 p.m. filmmuseum
guest: Michal Kosakowski  

Michal Kosakowski AT/DE 2025 | 102 min

The Polish-German media artist Michal Kosakowski explores the iconography of the Holocaust in feature films through a montage of thousands of fictional after-images. Recurring patterns draw on historical footage from the end of the war, giving rise to a harrowing essay on collective memory, into which these images of horror have become embedded.

saturday 10 oct | 6 pm werkstattkino | filming architecture filming nature
guest: Daniel Kötter

Daniel Kötter DE, ID, CD 2026 | Special Mention Beldocs IDFF | 79 min | Deutsch, Suaheli, Indonesisch

The forests of Germany, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as seen through the practices, tools, and motives behind timber harvesting. The historical and economic inequalities between the West and the Global South become just as evident as the pervasive drive to exploit natural resources.

saturday 10 oct 9 p.m. filmmuseum
remembering
guest: Stanley Schtinter 

Stanley Schtinter GB 2026 | Voice: Jeremy Irons | 86 min | engl. OV | German Premiere

In his compilation film LAST MOVIES, British filmmaker Stanley Schtinter brings together a meticulously researched, definitive history of cinema in the face of the deaths of famous figures. What were the last films seen by Franz Kafka, F.W. Murnau, Charlie Chaplin, Sergio Leone, John F. Kennedy, Olof Palme and Kurt Cobain – before their memories were erased forever?

wednesday 14 oct 6 pm theatiner
guest: Eloy Enciso

Eloy Enciso  ES 2026 | 109 min | Span., Galic. OV Eng. subt. | German Premiere International Competition Award FID Marseille

Elsa, an artist from Berlin, travels through her Spanish homeland to trace her family history for a documentary about the Franco camps. The fictional narrative imagines correspondence between two lovers separated by political events. Their words evoke a time when any place could become a prison—even the movie theatre.

tuesday 13 oct | 6 pm werkstattkino | cine ibérico – new narrative cinema
Guest: Bingham Bryant

Bingham Bryant PT, US, DE 2026 | 70min | Port., Span., French OV Eng. subt. | German Premiere

Mirages along the Spanish coast led Anne to the island of Santa Clara. On the ferry ride to San Sebastián, she meets Margarida, a woman from Portugal. An enchanting story about seeing, desire, and optical illusions.

wednesday 14 oct | 8 pm werkstattkino
theme: remembering

Ivan Ramljak HR 2025 | 100 min | Kroat. OV Eng. subt. | Golden Dove, DOK Leipzig

In 1991, tensions between the Serbian minority and the Croats in Slavonia escalated. The police chief of Osijek, who was mediating between the opposing sides, was murdered. How did this charged atmosphere of fear come about? How did terror become part of everyday life? The historical records from that time allow for an unflinching, almost forensic analysis of the political circumstances.

freitag 9 okt | 9 pm filmmuseum
filming architecture filming nature
Zu Gast: Ivan Marković

Ivan Marković  RS, FR, DE, KH 2026 | 76 min | Khmer OV Engl. ST

The empty promises of the New Economy: In Cambodia, the gap between rich and poor, the successful and the workers, architecture and nature is evident along the unfinished structures of a gated community.

Guest: Ivan Marković

tuesday 13 oct 9 pm filmmuseum
theme: remembering

Mohanad Yaqubi  PS, BE, QA 2026 | 81 min | French, Eng., Arab. OV Eng. subt.

Two months before her death, Jocelyne Saab contacted the filmmaker about a joint project. His reply came too late. A lyrical journey through the artistic vision of the Lebanese documentary filmmaker, guided by archival footage and set against the backdrop of political upheavals in the Middle East.

wednesday 14 oct 9 pm filmmuseum
closing night

Bertrand Mandico FR, IT 2026 | Mit Marion Cotillard, Noémie Merlant
107 min | French, Eng., Ital. OV Eng. subt.

The early 1980s. American film icon Eddie learns that she will soon die. Accompanied by Valentina, her loyal makeup artist, she takes on the lead role in a science fiction film being shot in Rome. Excessive scenes of filming and partying create an intoxicating pull. Over-the-top, trashy, and hypnotic—the cinema in a state of ecstasy.

monday 12 oct 6 pm theatiner
theme: erinnern
guest: Laura Coppens

Laura Coppens  CH, DE 2025 | 81 min | German OV Eng. subt.

The grandfather, born during the war, grew up in the GDR, trained as a doctor, and was later recruited by the Stasi as an informant. “We Are the People!”: Christa Wolf’s speech on November 4, 1989, in East Berlin. Super 8 memories of the young grandparents. A captivating film essay, awarded the Special Jury Prize at Visions du Réel.

saturday 10 oct 10:30 pm werkstattkino

Péter Lichter  HU 2026 | German Premiere | 62 min | no dialogue

Return from the liminal realm of images: Taking Coppola’s BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA as a starting point, countless “Dracula” adaptations are woven into an evocative montage.