Film

The grand old Zoo Palast is back! The elaborately restored, traditional cinema in Berlin shows sophisticated entertainment and family films.

Berlin hatmaker Fiona Bennett creates extravagant hat fashion in her studio, which has been featured multiple times in Vogue and adorns famous heads with her creations.

The Astor Film Lounge chases away your blues with an extra helping of luxury and plush as well as selected movies.

A little hidden, actually in the third backyard of Höfe am Südstern in Kreuzberg, you will find the small, relaxed arthouse-cinema which has long turned into an institution. In 2013 the Sputnik Kino celebrated its 25th anniversary.

One of the most frequently used filming locations in the city is the already notorious Tempelhof Airport.

The Arsenal is the repertory cinema located in the Film Museum on Potsdamer Platz and one of the movie theatres of the Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Kunstquartier Bethanien on Mariannenplatz in Kreuzberg is Berlin's oldest and only OmU (Original Version with Subtitles) open-air cinema. If you want to see international arthouse gems, cult classics, and current cinema highlights under the open sky, this is the place to be. A deckchair, a woolen blanket, and a beer: summer cinema doesn't get much better than this.

If you like to watch movies in their original version, you will love the Odeon!

In Volkspark Rehberge, in the heart of Berlin's Wedding district, a listed open-air stage from the 1930s transforms every summer into one of the city's most atmospheric open-air cinemas. Here, you sit under the open sky, surrounded by old trees, watching films on an inflatable screen.

The modern building of the Berlin animal shelter has often served as a film and photo set.

Charlottenburg has a secret star: the orange-tiled underpass at Messedamm. What seems like a grubby, forgotten pedestrian tunnel next to the ICC in everyday life has already seen more Hollywood productions than many Berlin landmarks. Featuring: The Bourne Conspiracy, The Hunger Games, and Atomic Blonde.

Rum-soaked sugar cones and the classic film "Die Feuerzangenbowle" (The Fire-Tongs Punch) are the focus of the atmospheric Winter Film Festival in the Nikolaiviertel in Berlin-Mitte.

Countless people visit the Field of Stelae near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin daily. However, few Berliners and tourists know that there is also a free exhibition located beneath the Holocaust Memorial.

The beautiful Astor Film Lounge on Kurfürstendamm presents the 1963 film classic 'The Pink Panther' as its 2017 New Year's Eve Special.

Located in the heart of Friedrichshain, on the legendary RAW grounds, the Open-Air Cinema Insel im Cassiopeia transforms warm summer nights into a true open-air cinema experience. Arthouse meets documentary film here, Jamaican BBQ meets beer garden atmosphere – all with the raw charm this neighborhood is known for.

In the backyard of an old factory in Moabit, between brick walls and train tracks, the Kulturfabrik Moabit's Open-Air Cinema shows films every summer that are rarely seen on a screen in Berlin. Admission is free, the atmosphere unique.

The Eva is a small independent neighborhood cinema with a sophisticated program and less commercial productions.

What do tourists visiting Berlin and filmmakers have in common?

For the 1981 film "Christiane F. - We Children from Bahnhof Zoo", director Bernd Eichinger captured the authentic atmosphere of the original location behind the station building.

The Lichtblick is a charming living room cinema on Kastanienallee.

What could be more romantic than a cinematic three-course meal in the beautiful restaurant Duke and a subsequent visit to the Astor Film Lounge? This combo can be booked as a gift set "Cinema & Kitchen" at the Ellington Hotel.

Brandenburg Gate Museum shows - virtually in fast motion - more than 300 years of the history in Berlin in a 20-minute multimedia presentation, very close to the Brandenburg Gate directly at Pariser Platz.