6 Locations
For the best cinema highlights, Berlin is hard to beat, with premieres, festivals and special screenings all year. From red carpet nights to restored classics, the cinema highlights here go well beyond the usual releases. This overview gathers Berlin locations for standout screenings.
The Berlinale each February brings the biggest premieres to Potsdamer Platz, while independent cinemas across the city run festivals, retrospectives and director seasons throughout the year. Open air screenings light up summer, and special events pair films with discussions or live music. There is always a highlight worth catching.
Browse the venues below to find cinema highlights across Berlin, from premieres to festival screenings.
The Film Park is located on Großbeerenstraße in Potsdam, right next to the world's oldest large studio, where films have been shot since 1912. It features around twenty attractions and four shows with stunt performers, pyrotechnicians, and animal trainers. In the TV studio, guests can step in front of the camera themselves, and an adult ticket costs 25 Euros online.
In the green area behind the Bethanien Art Quarter, approximately 300 deck chairs are set up under old trees, along with seat cushions and free fleece blankets. Arthouse films, international classics, and award-winning works are continuously shown here in original versions with German or English subtitles, and the access is wheelchair-friendly.
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Up to 300 guests can be accommodated in the courtyard of the City Library in Spandau's Old Town, with sun loungers in the front rows. Blankets, cushions, and even hot water bottles can be rented, the food stall cooks its own open-air soup, and films are generally shown in German, in almost all weather conditions and without a rain canopy.
Today, the screen is located in the Atelier Gardens on Oberlandstraße, on the former Berliner Union-Film-Ateliers site at the edge of Tempelhofer Feld. Comfortable deck chairs await in front of the studio halls, showing independent cinema, current arthouse highlights, short films, documentaries, and festival specials, including special screenings.
In the courtyard of the FMP1 at Franz-Mehring-Platz, every guest receives wireless headphones so that neighbors can enjoy their peace, and lies in a deckchair under warm borrowed blankets. No commercials are shown, and a proven focus is on political documentaries followed by a film discussion, many of which offer completely free admission.
In the backyard of Haus Schwarzenberg on Rosenthaler Straße, guests sit on comfortable chairs, some at small tables directly in front of the screen. Modern classics and current arthouse cinema are shown, consistently in English or with English subtitles, and the adjacent Bar Eschschloraque provides the courtyard with food and drinks.