The Kinemathek is Karlsruhe's festival cinema — film festivals stop here throughout the year: animation, documentary, queer cinema, Italian cinema, silent film and more.
Low-barrier, air-conditioned and breastfeeding-friendly
Festivals – Kinemathek Karlsruhe
at the cinema
Original version with German subtitles | (e) English subtitles
Screening with introduction/film talk
Saal Held in the Saal | Box Held in the Box | Out & about open air & other venues
Nothing scheduled right now — as soon as something is coming up, the programme appears here automatically.
T-Short – Animation Film Festival
Short animated films from around the world, every year in late autumn at our cinema.
t-short.art
PRIDE PICTURES – The Karlsruhe Queer Film Festival
The queer film festival for Karlsruhe and the region.
pridepictures.de
Cinema! Italia! – Cinema from Italy
The touring festival of current Italian cinema stops at our cinema every year.
Cinéfête
A long-established and popular school film festival which enables around 100,000 pupils each year to engage with Francophone cinema and the French language.
Films from the Farsi-Speaking World
Current cinema from the Persian-speaking world.
DokKa – Documentary Film and Audio Documentary
The Karlsruhe festival for documentary film and audio documentary.
dokka.de
Karlsruhe Silent Film Festival
Silent films with live music in the Saal, every February.