For all those who have always wanted to see or re-watch a classic on the big screen at City 1!


Große Filme auf Großer Leinwand

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Große Filme auf der großen Leinwand 

Since 2005, the Fantasy Filmfest has been supplemented by the side series Fantasy Filmfest Nights, which takes place every spring. Around 17 films, including an opening film, are shown over four days at Fantasy Filmfest venues across Germany. Over the years, mainstream hits such as EVIL DEAD RISE, THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT and A QUIET PLACE 2, cult films such as LOVE LIES BLEEDING, PEARL and TALK TO ME as well as renowned genre makers such as John Landis, John Krasinski, Ben Wheatley, Neil Marshall, Adam Wingard and Alex de la Iglesia have given the event its profile.


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Fantasy Filmfest Nights

The Munich DOK.fest has been an integral part of our annual calendar for years. We will be there again for the 40th anniversary - we will be showing an exciting, diverse program in three halls. All information can be found **[here.](https://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/Programm)** The entire film program will be published on 16 April 2025. Advance ticket sales start on April 24, 2025.


DOK.fest 2025

DOK.fest München 2025

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For Neil Young, music and film have always had a very close relationship. Not long after the musician began recording records, he turned to the movie camera. One day before the release of the album _Coastal: The Soundtrack_, the tour documentary NEIL YOUNG-COASTAL, directed by Daryl Hannah and filmed during Young's 2023 Coastal solo tour, will be released in cinemas. Get your tickets for the extraordinary music documentary now!


Neil Young: Coastal 

Babylon Kreuzberg

Located at Kotti, the heart of Kreuzberg, Babylon is one of the most beloved art house cinemas of the city.

Kant Kino

City Kinos

Enjoy the best films from around the globe in a relaxed atmosphere and with fresh, hand-made popcorn.

Neil Youg - Coastal

Special Screening: Neil Young - Coastal

Filmbildung ist ein fester Bestandteil des Schulunterrichts und in vielen Fächern und Lernbereichen verankert. Die SchulKinoWoche möchte mit ihrem Angebot Lehrkräfte motivieren, Film und vor allem den Kinofilm als audiovisuelles Werk im Rahmen des Unterrichts zu behandeln und hierfür den Ort der bestmöglichen Rezeption zu nutzen – das Kino!

Das gesamte Programm finden Sie [hier](https://www.schulkinowoche.bayern.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Programm-SchulkinoWoche-Bayern-2024_web.pdf). Anmeldung zu den einzelnen Veranstaltungen über **skw.oberbayern2@isb.bayern.de**.


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ICH WILL ALLES is a cinematic autobiography of a highly talented, ambitious, laconic and sharp-witted woman who showed the world how to survive fame and defeat. Munich premiere in the presence of director **Luzia Schmid** and producers **Thomas Kufus** and **Ulli Pfau**. Moderated by **Moritz Holfelder**.


Ich will alles. Hildegard Knef

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Munich Premiere: Ich will alles. Hildegard Knef

The LUX Audience Award puts the spotlight on European films that are at the center of public debate. On March 23rd, we will be showing the 3 nominated films at the City Kinos: FLOW, DAHOMEY and INTERCEPTED. 

Admission is free! [Click here to reserve tickets](https://www.vk-event.eu/lux-events/registrierung?tx_sfeventmgt_pieventregistration%5Baction%5D=registration&tx_sfeventmgt_pieventregistration%5Bcontroller%5D=Event&tx_sfeventmgt_pieventregistration%5Bevent%5D=20&cHash=8c6834a742f3029e23e6b1e68ca06e45).
The registration deadline is 20.03.2025. The reserved tickets can be picked up at the box office on the LUX cinema day 30 minutes before the film starts.


Lux Filmpreis 2025

Lux film award: audience screenings Munich

City Kino München invites you to a special screening of THE MOVING LIFE OF PETER GARDOSCH directed by Max Kronawitter.
The documentary depicts the moving life of Holocaust survivor Peter Gardosch and takes us to the places where he lived.


Das bewegende Leben des Peter Gardosch

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Special: Das bewegende Leben des Peter Gadosch

Special Screening: Das bewegende Leben des Peter Gardosch

In THE GIRL FROM KÖLN, director Ido Fluk captures the atmosphere of the 70s in an authentic and fast-paced way and tells the true story behind one of the best-selling jazz records of all time, Keith Jarrett's “Köln Concert” from 1975.
**The premiere will take place in the presence of the film team.**


The Girl from Köln

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Munich Premiere: The Girl from Köln

A very special treat for all Dylan fans!

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On Sunday, you can experience the master's music live at our movie theater: Munich cult band **The Blissful Bob** have been delighting Bob Dylan fans for years with their very own interpretations of the master's songs. So it's only natural that the Munich quintet should get the cinema audience in the mood for “Like A Complete Unknown” with a mini-concert. Before two screenings on Sunday (17.15 + 20.30), they will perform pieces from the sixties and seventies with an acoustic line-up: four songs, four different singers - after which Timothée Chalamet will take over as Bob Dylan on the screen.


A Complete Unknown

Special: Like A Complete Unknown

With an introduction by comics expert and Head of the feature section at Münchner Merkur **Michael Schleicher** and a digital greeting from director **Michel Hazanavicius**. 


The Most Precious of Cargoes

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Special Screening: The Most Precious of Cargoes

The Berlinale and X Verleih, in cooperation with Yorck City Cinemas, present the broadcast of the opening gala and the opening film of the 75th Berlinale. 
The world premiere of Tom Tykwer's latest feature film DAS LICHT will open the 75th Berlin International Film Festival on February 13, 2025. The German-French production will be presented as a Berlinale Special Gala at the Berlinale Palast.
The stream of the gala will begin at 7 pm. The opening film will be broadcasted afterwards. 


The Light

75. Berlinale: Übertragung des Eröffnungsfilms NEU

75th Berlinale: Live stream of the opening film

Maria Callas is undisputedly one of the greatest divas in opera history. In MARIA, director Pablo Larraín tells the story of the singer through her own eyes as she relives her tragic life shortly before her death. 
We are showing the biopic with Oscar winner Angelina Jolie in the leading role as part of a BR Klassik preview including a thematic introduction. 


Maria

Special Screening: Maria 

Watch Brady Corbert's award-winning cinematic masterpiece with Adrien Brody in a strong leading role one day before the film is released. 


The Brutalist

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Preview: The Brutalist

With great sensitivity, director Désirée Nosbusch stages Trine Dyrholm and Tim Roth's masterful performance as a former married couple. POISON is based on the internationally successful play “Gift. A Marriage Story” by Lot Vekemans.
The premiere will be followed by a film discussion with director Desiree Nosbusch.


Poison

Poison - Eine Liebesgeschichte

Munich Premiere: Poison

To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, City Kino München invites you to a special screening of THE MOVING LIFE OF PETER GARDOSCH directed by Max Kronawitter.
The documentary depicts the moving life of Holocaust survivor Peter Gardosch and takes us to the places where he lived.


Special: Das bewegende Leben des Peter Gardosch

Lured by the promise of a better life, 19-year-old French girl Jessica and her best friend Laïla leave their home country to join the Islamic State in Syria. Director Mareike Engelhardt's RABIA is a complex political drama about power structures and ideologies.
The premiere will be followed by a film discussion with the director. 


Rabia

Munich Premiere: Rabia

TRACING LIGHT takes us on an illuminating, magical and sensual journey to the limits of human imagination. Together with his charismatic protagonists and the outstanding film music by Fred Frith and Gabby Fluke-Mogul, Thomas Riedelsheimer's fascinating images make it possible to experience light in all its countless facets, appearances and forms, in all its complexity. 
The premiere will take place in the presence of director Thomas Riedelsheimer.


Tracing Light

München Premiere: Tracing Light

Munich Premiere: Tracing Light 

December 21 is the shortest day of the year - the perfect time to immerse yourself in the world of queer short films for a few hours. 


Queer Mixtape Short Film Day 2024

Queer Mixtape Kurzfilmtag 2024

We are looking forward to the Munich premiere of DIE SAAT DES HEILIGEN FEIGENBAUMS followed by a film discussion. The invited experts on the panel are the journalist and author Shahrzad Eden Osterer, the journalist and political scientist Avin Khodakarim and the Iranian women's rights activist Maryam Shirinsokhan. The panel will be moderated by Silvia Bauer from the Iranian Film Festival Munich.


The Seed of the Sacred Fig

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Special Screening: The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Directing duo Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala (ICH SEH, ICH SEH) present THE DEVIL'S BATH, a haunting work about a previously unexamined chapter of European history. THE DEVIL'S BATH has won eight Austrian Film Awards (including Best Film) and is in the Oscar® running for Austria.
The screening will be followed by a digital live Q&A with Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala. There will be an interactive Q&A where you can send in questions via WhatsApp or SMS. 


The Devil's Bath

Special Screening: Des Teufels Bad

Special Screening: The Devil's Bath

In FÜHRER AND SEDUCER, author and director Joachim A. Lang sheds light on the propaganda machine of the Third Reich and how it still has an impact in today's age of fake news. 
This exclusive school cinema screening will take place in the presence of the director and invites the students to a Q&A session with historian Adam Kerpel-Fronius from the Foundation “Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas” after the film screening. 
Please register by submitting the number of people, grade and school via the following contact: bernhardt@media.bildungspartner.de 


Führer and Seducer

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School Cinema Special: Führer and Seducer  

As a director, she created iconographic images. After the Second World War, she always tried to deny her ideological closeness to the Nazi regime. Leni Riefenstahl only allowed one portrayal of her biography: her own. The legacy of one of the most controversial women of the 20th century tells a different story. The screening of RIEFENSTAHL will take place in the presence of director Andres Veiel and Prof. Dr. Magnus Brechtken (Institut für Zeitgeschichte). 


Riefenstahl

Special Screening: Riefenstahl

Exclusive preview in the presence of the director Alexander Riedel as well as the main protagonist Özden Terli and some members of the team.


Wind - Die Vermessung des großen Luftozeans

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Special: Wind - Die Vermessung des großen Luftozeans

FROM HILDE WITH LOVE is the eighth joint work by director Andreas Dresen and screenwriter Laila Stieler. The film is based on the true story of Hilde and Hans Coppi, who were executed in Berlin-Plötzensee.  The premiere in Munich will take place in the presence of the actors Liv Lisa Fries and Lisa Wagner as well as the screenwriter Laila Stieler.


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Munich Premiere: From Hilde, with Love

Get your tickets now for the long-awaited Joker sequel with Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga.


Joker: Folie à Deux

Odeon

An American-inspired classic in the heart of Schöneberg, lovingly renovated and equipped with state-of-the-art 4K laser projection.

Filmtheater am Friedrichshain

Located directly at Volkspark Friedrichshain, the film theater offers a varied film program in five halls. In summer, the beer garden invites you to linger.

Presales | Joker: Folie à Deux

Secure your tickets now and watch the preview of JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX in a double feature with its predecessor JOKER.


Joker & Joker: Folie à Deux

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Double Feature: Joker

Special screening in cooperation with the Bavarian State Ballet. In CRANKO, director Joachim A. Lang (FÜHRER UND VERFÜHRER) tells a deeply human drama about John Cyril Cranko, pop star of ballet and one of the greatest choreographers in dance history.

The premiere will take place in the presence of **Joachim A. Lang**, as well as the leading actor **Sam Riley** and the dancer and contemporary witness **Elaine Underwood**, who was brought to the Bavarian State Ballet by John Cranko in 1969. Moderated by **Christoph Gaiser**, the dramaturge of the Bavarian State Ballet.


Cranko

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Premiere: Cranko

Beetlejuice is back! 36 years after the release of Tim Burton's spooky comedy BEETLEJUICE, the sequel now follows in which Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Chatherine O'Hara once again slip into their iconic roles.
Get your tickets now for the preview before the official cinema release. 


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Preview: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Petra Kelly became famous not only as a co-founder of the Green Party and its leading star, but also as a woman who was able to establish a new, world-changing policy and take on two superpowers. This politically reflective cinema documentary tells the story of one of the most influential personalities in the former Bonn Republic. 

The screening will be followed by a film discussion with the director Doris Metz, Lukas Beckmann (former parliamentary group leader of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and companion of Petra Kelly) and Amrei Knüsel (Fridays for Future Munich). Christina Wolf from Bayerischer Rundfunk will moderate the discussion following the film. 


Petra Kelly - Act Now!

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Special: Petra Kelly - Act Now!

Film premiere followed by a discussion with director & screenwriter **Julia von Heinz**, **Dominik Krause** (2nd Mayor of Munich) and **Louis Lewitan** (dip. psychologist and publicist), moderated by **Samira El Ouassil** (author).


Treasure

Premiere: Treasure

We are delighted to welcome the cinema tour of the Berlinale hit ELLBOGEN at City Kino. The screening will be followed by a film talk with director **Aslı Özarslan**, actresses **Melia Kara**, **Jamilah Bagdach** & **Asya Utku**, producer **Jamila Wenke**, screenwriter **Claudia Schaefer**, **Julia Peters** & **Jutta Feit** from jip.


Elbow

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Special: Elbow

A mesmerizing, visionary film from Jane Schoenbrun that explores identity, reality, and our relationship with popular culture. After premiering at Sundance and Berlinale to great critical acclaim, we are proud and excited to bring _I Saw the TV Glow_ to our cinemas from 22 August.


I Saw the TV Glow

Rollberg

A cinema entirely dedicated to English-language programming

delphi LUX

Award-winning programming meets Award-winning interior architecture.

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Presales: I Saw the TV Glow

In this sensitive family drama, father, mother, daughter and son meet again on Lanzarote for the first time in a long time. Beautiful memories meet bizarre family anecdotes, old love meets new circumstances - and conflicts that have been smouldering for a long time slowly but surely begin to escalate.

The screening of SONNENPLÄTZE will be followed by a film discussion with director Aaron Arens. 


Sonnenplätze

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Special: Sonnenplätze

The unsuccessful young author Sam flees with her brother to the family vacation home on Lanzarote to finish writing her novel. But her father, a former successful author, has also taken up residence there. With a special supporting film by Emil Klattenhoff about a father-son (non-)relationship that is rarely seen in German cinema. A pulling and tugging, a negotiation about love played out with a lot of distance and little closeness. Their story is told at Munich Central Station: A major construction site, comings and goings, delays and traffic jams. Filmed on 16mm.

Guests: Aaron Arens and Emil Klattenhoff


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Special Screening: Sonnenplätze 

The end of stereotypical gender categories in competitive sport is still a long way off. Where in the binary world of sport do queer people find their place? A historical-utopian hybrid, light-hearted and profound. With the supporting film RALENTIR LA CHUTE (SLOW DOWN THE FALL) by Camille Tricaud & Franziska Unger about the reunion of two female ski jumpers at an advertising shoot for their sponsor. Filmed on 16mm.

__Guests: Julia Fuhr Mann und Franziska Unger__


Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning

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Special: Life Is Not a Competition, But I'm Winning

The much anticipated horror sensation releases in German cinemas on 08 August. Get your tickets now.


Longlegs

Presales: Longlegs

The exceptional photographer Andreas Reiner travels with his camera to people who are on the fringes of society and rarely in the public eye.

Guests: Thorsten Schaumann and Andreas Reiner


Schattenkind

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Special Screening: Schattenkind 

The Iranian filmmaker wants to get rid of her first surname Shahid (literally "martyr") and has to go through the official channels to do so. Autobiographical cultural clash documentary comedy.

__Guest: Director Narges Kalhor__


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Special Screening: Shahid 

Ever since Steffen Marx founded Giesinger Bräu over 18 years ago, he has been fighting. It's all about survival and his dream of brewing the best beer in the city.


Guest: BBB (Brauer, Bratwurst, Bier)


Straight Outta Giasing

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Special Screening: Straight Outta Giasing

As the 2024 cinema broadcast will take place live during the performance, the two one-hour breaks typical of Bayreuth will also be observed during the cinema broadcast. In contrast to previous years, there will be no intermission program in 2024.


Wagner in Cinema: Tristan und Isolde

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Germany's largest art house auditorium with more than a century of history.

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Wagner in Cinema: Tristan & Isolde 

On July 9, a special screening of the drama CROSSING will take place at City Kino. The director Levan Akin will be present.  


Crossing

Crossing - Auf der Suche nach Tekla 

Special: Crossing 

Get your tickets now. Following the success of four-time Oscar® winner POOR THINGS, Yorgos Lanthimos is now bringing his latest film to theaters. With Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons (this year's Cannes winner), Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hunter Schafer and many more. 


Kinds of Kindness

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As featured on 'Accidentally Wes Anderson'.

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Presales: Kinds of Kindness

We are delighted to be part of FILMFEST MÜNCHEN again this year. From June 30, we will be showing a diverse, exciting program over eight days in three cinemas, with something to suit every taste. Tickets are available from June 21, as always [in advance online](https://www.filmfest-muenchen.de/en/service/tickets/) and at the usual advance booking offices of München- Ticket. During the festival, one of our box offices will also be open again. We look forward to your visit!


41st Munich International Filmfestival 2024

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41st Munich International Film Festival 

On June 27, City Kino invites you to the premiere of the drama Not a Word. 
The event starts at 8 pm and is organized in cooperation with the FFF Bayern.
The director Hanna Slak and the actors Maren Eggert and Jona Levin Nicolai will be present. 


Not a Word

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Premiere: Not a Word 

City Kino invites you to a special screening of the biopic Golda, in which Helen Mirren portrays the former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Mei. This special film celebrated its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival 2023 and is now coming to Munich.
The film will be followed by a panel discussion. 
The screening is being organized in collaboration with the association Respect & Remember Europe Ev. 
Partners: Bayerischen Wertebündnis, DIG München, DiG/Junges Forum München, Thomas-Dehler-Stiftung, Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, WIZO München 


Golda 

Helen Mirren as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.

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