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Once again, the Kulturforum at Potsdamer Platz is transformed into an open-air cinema with a panoramic view for the summer.Questions and answers about the open-air cinema can be found

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How to get here

S/U: Potsdamer PlatzBus: Philharmonie

Telephone (Guest Service)030 322 931 322

About

The ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum is our summer cinema, operating between the months of June and August. In partnership with Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

History

It all starts in the summer months of 2002 and 2003. With barbecue grills and blankets and a magnificent view of the Berlin "skyline" at Potsdamer Platz, the most popular movies of the previous months can be enjoyed once again on beautiful evenings as part of the "Museum Film Festival". In the following years, the open-air cinema moved to the Museumsinsel, but returned to the Kulturforum in 2007 under the direction of the Yorck Group. Since then, the most beautiful films of the past months, original versions, previews and film series on the museum exhibitions are shown here every year, sometimes in the presence of the actors. There is no better way to connect summer and cinema.

Accessibility

Fully accessible

Level access to area. You can reach the cinema via Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße. Access to the ramp is opposite the chamber music hall. Wheelchair spaces at the outer edges and in the last row.Accessible toilets in the building, unfortunately currently closed.

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25.06.2025 at 21:45

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Currently showing 32 films

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The Phoenician Scheme

Comedy

101 min

FSK 12

Wes Anderson's new star-studded ensemble comedy ... More

21:30OmU

Anora

Oscars 2025

139 min

FSK 16

Winner of five Oscars, including Best Picture... More

21:45OmU

21:15OmU

Four boys sit on a hood in front of a blue sky.

Stand by Me

Drama

89 min

FSK 6

Coming-of-age based on novel by Stephen King... More

21:15OmU

The Road to Patagonia

Surfing

90 min

A stunning, intimate and unflinching series of love letters within a documentary... More

21:30OV

Wild at Heart

Roadmovie

125 min

FSK 16

A wild and crazy love story... More

21:30OmU

Group of men sitting in a row and leaning against a wall

Io Capitano

Drama

121 min

FSK 16

Migration drama about the odyssey from Senegal to Europe... More

21:15OmU

Two members of the brass band in their uniforms.

The Marching Band

Comedy

103 min

FSK 0

Tragicomic and moving: two brothers united by music... More

21:15OmU

Companion

Horror

97 min

FSK 16

A new kind of love story.... More

21:30OmU

Timothée Chalamet and Monica Barbaro as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. Their eyes are turned towards each other as they sing together into the same microphone.

A Complete Unknown

Biopic

141 min

FSK 6

Timothée Chalamet is Bob Dylan... More

21:30OmU

Emilia Pérez

Drama

132 min

FSK 12

13 Oscar nominations and 5 Golden Globes... More

21:30OmU

Family of four consisting of mother, father and two children arm in arm by the sea.

I'm Still Here

Drama

137 min

FSK 12

Awarded the Oscar for Best International Film ... More

21:15OmU

A nurse bends over the bedside of an elderly woman and holds her hand.

Late Shift

Drama

92 min

FSK 6

New film with THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE actress Leonie Benesch... More

21:30OmeU

Cabaret

Drama

124 min

FSK 16

Life is a Cabaret!... More

21:30OmU

Two identical-looking soldiers in winter gear stand in foggy weather. Their serious faces indicate a dangerous mission.

Mickey 17

Science Fiction

137 min

FSK 12

Bong Joon-ho's new sci-fi film with Robert Pattinson... More

21:30OmU

Sing Sing

Drama

107 min

FSK 12

Oscar nomination for Colman Domingo as Best Actor ... More

21:30OmU

Conclave

Thriller

120 min

FSK 6

Adaptation of the novel about power struggles in the Vatican with Ralph Fiennes ... More

21:30OmU

The Florida Project

American Independent

112 min

FSK 12

Welcome to a magical kingdom... More

21:15OmU

September 5

History

91 min

FSK 12

How a Hostage Crisis Forever Changed TV News... More

21:45OmU

A group of celebrating young people in atmospheric purple light. Laughing, they hold hands.

The Wedding Banquet (2025)

Queer

102 min

FSK 12

Ang Lee Remake starring Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone... More

21:45OmU

The Substance

Horror

141 min

FSK 16

Satirical body horror with Demi Moore... More

21:45OmU

Two men in cowboy hats stand leaning against a truck, deep in conversation.

Brokeback Mountain

Drama

134 min

FSK 12

Love is a force of nature.... More

21:30OmU

Two men dressed in 1930s style stand leaning against a vintage car, one wearing a blue slouch cap, the other a red hat.

Sinners

Music

147 min

FSK 16

A vampire story from Ryan Coogler, director of BLACK PANTHER... More

21:45OmU

A Real Pain

Oscars 2025

90 min

FSK 12

Co-starring Oscar winner Kieran Culkin... More

21:45OmU

Lee

Biopic

117 min

FSK 12

Biopic about war photographer Lee Miller with Kate Winslet ... More

21:30OmU

The Outrun

Drama

117 min

FSK 12

Saoirse Ronan in novel adaptation by Nora Fingscheidt... More

21:45OmU

A blonde and a dark-haired woman are standing in front of a red tractor. The blonde woman is wearing glasses and a brown jacket with a checked blouse, the dark-haired woman a dark jacket. Both are smiling.

Meet the Barbarians

Comedy

102 min

French culture clash comedy ... More

21:45OmU

William and Eugene on the beach. They are wearing sunglasses and sharing a yellow towel.

Queer

Drama

137 min

FSK 16

Luca Guadagnino's new drama about loneliness and desire... More

21:45OmU

Yorck Pick

Flow

Oscars 2025

85 min

FSK 6

Oscar-Winner: Best Animated Feature... More

21:45OV

A boy and a girl are sitting on a parked motorcycle kissing. In the background, you see green hills and cows.

Holy Cow

Drama

90 min

FSK 12

About the challenges of making cheese and of growing up ... More

21:45OmU

Film Series

Mongay

Celebrating queer movies every Monday evening On November 9, 1989, the GDR's first gay film, "Coming Out," celebrated its world premiere at East-Berlin's Kin... More

21.02.2022 - 31.12.2025

2 Cinemas

Film Series

Torment Nexus

A film series about arriving in the future cinema warned us aboutWhat happens when technology we just considered science fiction films suddenly becomes part of everyday life? ... More

04.09.2024 - 04.03.2025

2 Cinemas

Preview

Season opening: The Wedding Banquet

Opening Night of the Sommerkino am Kulturforum The ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum season begins on June 25. Andrew Ahn's modern interpretation of Ang Lee's class... More

25.06.2025 at 21:45

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