Weekly overview
5 Dec – 11 Dec
WASSERPARADIESE IN EUROPA – LAKE OHRID
Natourale - Natur & Reise Festival 2026
Double Feature "Tales from the North"
Natourale - Natur & Reise Festival 2026
TASMANIA'S WILD TREASURES – IN A WOMBAT'S WORLD
Natourale - Natur & Reise Festival 2026
SEAGNAL: The Ocean's Last Call
Natourale - Natur & Reise Festival 2026
The ocean is the beginning and end of all life. Yet now, this vast cradle of life is collapsing. SEAGNAL follows the final signals from the ocean, leading us on a journey to confront the truths we’ve long ignored. From marine debris and ghost fishing caused by abandoned fishing gear to overfishing that pushes marine species to the brink of extinction, and coastal villages sinking due to rising sea levels... Our oceans are dying due to humanity’s unchecked greed, ignorance, and indifference. SEAGNAL follows seven individuals who have sensed the ocean’s warning, asking not just to heed the alarm but to reconsider how we coexist with the sea. The ocean’s final signal, SEAGNAL. Are you ready to listen?
- Documentary
TMDB 59RT 16IMDb 4.4 Out of the Blue
Natourale - Natur & Reise Festival 2026
After spending time in prison following an assault charge, Connor Bates now works in a library and spends his free time running, swimming, and trying to piece his world back together. When he meets Marilyn Chambers, the wife of a wealthy businessman, they collide into an intense physical and emotional relationship that quickly escalates into idle talk about her husband’s murder.
- Thriller
- Romance
A Call from the Wild
Natourale - Natur & Reise Festival 2026
Filmmaker Asgeir Helgestad documents the state of nature at his home country Norway, where he has photographed all his life. From the lives of bees at his farm, to wild reindeer on the high mountains, and puffins at the ocean's edge, he shows the beauty of threatened nature and tracks down human actions responsible for its decline. This is a personal story on our connection with the non-human world, the relations between the small and the big, and a reminder of nature's strength and vulnerability.
- Documentary
IMDb 7.7 Ausgsting
Natourale - Natur & Reise Festival 2026
Who hasn't dreamed of escaping the hustle and bustle of everyday life and the constraints of society? Simply leaving everything behind - or even better: getting out completely, discovering the world and experiencing true freedom! But what exactly is true freedom? Filmmaker Julian Wittmann sets off on a journey to find the answer. And if anyone should know, it's Wolfgang "Gangerl" Clemens: a Bavarian original, over 80 years old, who has been sailing the world's oceans for almost 40 years. For three months, Julian accompanies the fascinating free spirit and passionate explorer on an adventurous journey, delves deep into the world of a dropout and realizes that paradise isn't just given to you... AUSGSTING. - From August 28, 2025 only in cinemas.
- Documentary
The Kingdom: How Fungi Made Our World
Natourale - Natur & Reise Festival 2026
You find fungi in Antarctica and in nuclear reactors. They live inside your lungs and your skin is covered with them. Fungi are the most under appreciated and unexplained organisms, yet they could cure you from smallpox and turn cardboard boxes into forests. They could even transform Mars into Eden. There are vastly more fungi species than plants and each and every one of them play a crucial role in life’s support systems. Join us on a journey into the mysterious world of Fungi to witness their beauty, unravel their mysteries and discover how this secret kingdom is essential to life on Earth, and may in fact hold the key to our future.
- Documentary
KABOUK
Natourale - Natur & Reise Festival 2026
Kurzfilmperlen „Reise“
Natourale - Natur & Reise Festival 2026
Kurzfilmperlen „Umwelt“
Natourale - Natur & Reise Festival 2026
My Otter Diary
Natourale - Natur & Reise Festival 2026
On the banks of the Cauvery River in southern India, wildlife filmmaker Sugandhi Gadadhar studies the behavior of Asian otters. On one of the subcontinent's most dynamic waterways, a conflict has arisen between these small carnivorous mammals and fishermen, whose livelihoods also depend on the river's resources.
- Documentary
- TV Movie
MAGISCHES FRANKREICH – VON DER PROVENCE ZU DEN PYRENÄEN
Natourale - Natur & Reise Festival 2026
Raindrop
Natourale - Natur & Reise Festival 2026
A journey by water from the highest peaks of the Alps to the vastness of the ocean. Hardly any element on our planet is more important than water. Where there is water, life thrives. But only very few people know what wonderful creatures master their lives every day in their native habitats by the water. Far from our eyes, true dramas and glories happen every day. Stories that hardly anyone gets to see. Stories full of adventure, tragedy, comedy and even love.
- Documentary
TMDB 65IMDb 6.1 Dead of Winter
Natourale - Natur & Reise Festival 2026
A widowed fisherwoman, travelling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl. Hours from the nearest town and with no phone service, she realizes that she is the young girl's only hope.
- Thriller
- Action
Das Drogen-Double-Feature
Natourale - Natur & Reise Festival 2026
IMDb 5.4 The Shot in the Talker Studio
Kino am Nachmittag
During the soundstage filming of a jealousy scene, an actress is murdered. As the male lead had relations with the victim and the female star is now his fiancé, he becomes the primary suspect.
- Thriller
- Crime
TMDB 70RT 87IMDb 5.9 The Other Zoey
Stummfilmerbe – neu aufgelegt / Pionierinnen des Kinos
Highly intelligent computer major Zoey Miller is uninterested in romantic love, but her life is turned upside down when Zack, the school's soccer star, gets amnesia and mistakes Zoey for his girlfriend.
- Romance
- Drama
- Comedy
All In Sneak Preview
Cheng Jialang and Wei Yifu are the contemporary poker twin stars, and they are about to have their first face-to-face confrontation. However, at this moment, Cheng Jialang accidentally transferred his poker talent to a small-time crook named Huang Xiaoqi, who had no previous experience. The two of them went through a wonderful journey and decided to join forces to challenge Wei Yifu.
Biermann
Schlachthof-Film des Monats
Portrait of the German-German singer-songwriter and intellectual Wolf Biermann, whose famous Cologne concert in 1976 made German history.
- Documentary
IMDb 6.0 Drei Kameradinnen
Literaturverfilmungen
Hani, Kasih and Saya have shared a deep friendship since their youth. Now, after years, the three meet again. But no matter where they are, it becomes clear time and again that everyday racism affects their lives. Nonetheless, their friendship gives them strength. Until one dramatic night shakes everything up.
- Drama
Winners
In Kooperation mit...
Mona has fled Syria with her Kurdish family and ends up in a primary school in Berlin-Wedding. Things are tough there. Everyone on the girls’ football team, for which Mona is selected, plays against each other. But only “team work makes the dream work”.
- Family
- Drama
Biermann
Schlachthof-Film des Monats
Portrait of the German-German singer-songwriter and intellectual Wolf Biermann, whose famous Cologne concert in 1976 made German history.
- Documentary
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