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Delphi Filmpalast, Berlin 1954, source: Deutsche Kinemathek

Film Distribution

Our film distribution library holds over 20,000 German and international productions ranging from 1895 to the present. They can be rented by cinemas, festivals and museums.

Due to illness, we are currently experiencing delays in processing footage requests and orders. Thank you for your understanding.

Our Films

Our film distribution library encompasses over 20,000 German and international productions ranging from 1895 to the present. This service is open to cinemas, festivals and museums. Our catalog includes silent film classics, avant-garde films and German cinematic hits from the 1950s as well as works from German auteurs. Our collection also houses films from the circle of signatories to the Oberhausen Manifesto of 1962, works of artistic documentary films and all films produced by the DFFB, the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (German Film and Television Academy of Berlin). Our distribution library also contains the entire film collection from the DEFA studios: feature films and documentaries created in the GDR (former East Germany) between 1946 and 1990, as well as numerous editions of the “Augenzeuge” newsreel and film classics from then-socialist countries.

Our film loan database contains information on roughly 17,000 films. It is currently available only in German and can be found on the German-language version of our website.

To order films, please use our electronic form and send it to filmversand@deutsche-kinemathek.de.

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    Perspectives of Ukrainian Cinema

    A series of films and talks

    The Deutsche Kinemathek offers information and materials on the series for subsequent runs. In three languages.

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    Weimar Cinema Revisited

    Throughout its history, the Deutsche Kinemathek has put emphasis on independent cinema and, in the past few years, has reconstructed, digitized, and restored a substantial selection of respective films from the Weimar period – films directed by a range of names from Robert Siodmak to G.W. Pabst, films that are noteworthy for their art, technological innovations and politics, and films that explore issues of gender, class, urban life and more. On its 60th anniversary in 2023, the Deutsche Kinemathek presents these state-of-the-art restorations for distribution worldwide.

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