The Punk Shop

2026 (UK), 44 min, OV with eng subs

director: Fernando Mateos Frühbeck

In the heart of Camden Town, Rock ’n’ Roll Rescue stands as one of the few places that still embodies the area’s original spirit. Founded by Ian „Knox“ Carnochan, a veteran of London’s 1970s punk scene and a member of The Vibrators, this small music charity shop is filled with guitars, records and memorabilia donated by musicians, fans and members of the punk community.

As Knox and a dedicated team of volunteers keep this unique project alive, an important milestone is approaching: the shop’s 10th anniversary. The celebration will bring together friends, musicians, and the wider community, revealing how, decades after the birth of punk, its spirit continues to inspire resistance, solidarity, and mutual support.

Acht Eimer Hühnerherzen »film«

2026 (D), 64 min, OV

Regie: Michael Terhorst

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Kreuzberg band Acht Eimer Hühnerherzen, a documentary was made that offers a charming and honest glimpse into tours, concerts, and the small moments in between.

The Wild West Bank Sound

2026, (US), 57 min, OV

director: Kevin Brent Dragseth

Minneapolis’ West Bank neighborhood was once an epicenter of the music world. From the early 1960s, this perennial immigrant landing strip proved an irresistible draw for artists from far and wide, an ever-evolving cauldron of creativity and cultures. This film is a funky flashback, bursting at the seams with memories, all visualized with rare and rich archival photography, footage, and ephemera.

We are the walls that hold us

2025 (France), 55 min, OV with eng subs

director: Alisa Roydman (Maksimova)

A creative documentary that portrays a french saquatted village Les Roches Blanches, located in Brittany, and its inhabitants, at the heart of a struggle to preserve their place of living, threatened by auction after fifteen years of collective life and care for the place.

Call The Cops

2026 (ITA), 75 min, OV with eng subs

director: Nicolò Serri

A visceral journey into the heart of the European underground punk scene, Call The Cops tells the story of a band’s tour through Eastern Europe in the raw, direct style of a road movie. Between long hours on the road, high-octane gigs, lots of (maybe too many) beers, and checkpoint stops, the documentary captures the essence of a music scene that is often ignored.

In a world where daily struggles and political reality mix with a desire for freedom and anarchist ideals, Call The Cops explores the resistance, rebellion, and authenticity that still define punk today. Each stop on the tour becomes a reflection of a counterculture that, despite everything, continues to scream against the homogenization of the system.

ALVARO INSIDE OUT

80 Years, No Stagnation – The Reinvention of Chile’s First Punk

2025 (D), 74 min, OV

Regie: Christian Zschammer

What does it mean to question everything once again at the age of 80—and to rethink music
as if everything were just beginning?

Uncompromising in his creative work, steadfast in defying expectations, a quiet pioneer of DIY culture: Alvaro Peña is all of this, and much more.

In the 1970s, while in England, he was closely associated with early punk as a member of the band „The 101ers“; in Chile, following his sudden death in early 2026, he is hailed as „El primero Punk de Chile“ (Chile’s First Punk).

The film approaches this life not as a classic biography, but as a filmmaker’s personal,
over-the-shoulder perspective—subjective, fragmentary, and exploratory.
It serves as an attempt to touch upon a rich, contradictory life—one that repeatedly eludes
complete narrative capture.

Spanning Valparaíso, London, and Constance, the film traces the path of an artist
whose biography is inscribed within his music—on cassette, vinyl, and CD.
Shot in stereoscopic 3D, the film establishes an immediate intimacy with the spaces,
sonic processes, and creative moments it depicts.

Love Your Local Network

2026 (D), 73 min, OV

Regie: Paul Fröhlich, Janett Hanitzsch, Marco Seidel

The film explores a specific aspect of Dresden’s electronic music subculture: Ruhestörung im Kosmos – Büro Paul Fröhlich.

It tells the story of how spaces were discovered and brought to life, how acquaintances turned into close friendships, and how a non-commercial space for creative expression was created—one that is self-organized and open to everyone.

Born out of the idealism of the Fusion Festival, a very special little electronic subculture family emerged in Dresden that lives on to this day—and despite growing challenges, the idealism of non-commercial free spaces and event venues for everyone is to be passed on to future generations.

Jawbreaker

2026 (SWE), 85 min, OV with eng subs

director: Oskar Sjödin, Tomas Haglund

Jawbreaker is a documentary about Anti Cimex – the band that defined Scandinavian hardcore punk and became one of Sweden’s most influential musical exports. From their first recordings in a chicken coop on the plains of Västergötland to the global punk scene,
marked by their uncompromising d-beat, the film paints a portrait of a band that continued to break boundaries long after they had called it quits.
Spanning four decades of music, chaos and retold myths, the film moves between the past and the present. Here we encounter not just a band, but an attitude – a force of nature.

SMELLSCAPE

2026 (SWE), 59 min, OV with eng subs

director: Mattias Eliasson

Shitsame is a newly formed hardcore punk band from Vimmerby in southern Sweden. The film follows the members as a group and as individuals, but also through the group’s challenges in staying together as a band. For the band’s singer and the film’s main character, Alex, there is also an inner conflict between leaving the big city for the countryside and social life versus family security. The film focuses on the joy of creating something creative, fun, and shared as a group. It becomes an emotional journey, spanning two years, oscillating between hopes, frustration, melancholy, and the excitement of an unexpected reunion. Smellscape reflects the perceived feeling of being in a self-chosen context, where different impressions and presences give the experience of being in the ‘right place’. A strong sense of of well-being and belonging, but at the same time as fleeting as a smell.

Once We Were Punks

2025 (IRE), 95 min, OV

director: Frank Shouldice

The Best Band You Never Heard

The ex-punks of Bailieborough, Co Cavan might say maturity is overrated. As The Panic Merchants, a four-piece in the late 1980’s, they caught a fleeting glimpse of the big time. Then notions gave way to careers, adulthood and emigration. Separated by oceans for the past three decades those barnstorming memories might tenuously connect four school pals. Except the past can mean more than distance, especially when ex-punks revive young dreams in middle age.

Last Farm in Reykjavik

2026 (US), 68 min, OV

director: Brandon L. Moran

Gunnþór Sigurðsson grew up on the last farm in Reykjavik — raised by a sister who loved him like a son, shadowed by a famous father, and rooted in ground that held a thousand years of Icelandic history. When his best friend was killed at eighteen, he drifted toward a leather jacket and a scene that let him belong. Then he heard the Ramones on the radio and thought, „I can do that.“

He picked up a bass, formed Q4U, and became a punk star in a country of 230,000 people. The scene died. Everyone grew up. Everyone, except Gunnþór. When a punk museum opened in a former public toilet, he became its keeper — spending years charming tourists with stories he’d told a thousand times, hiding in a bunker he couldn’t leave.

In 2019, three American tourists wandered into the museum on vacation. They came back with cameras. Over four years, the questions got harder, the performance cracked, and the man who had spent a lifetime telling everyone else’s story finally told his own.

A documentary about the distance between who we perform and who we are.

Sugar Rot

2025 (CAN), 80 min, OV

director: Becca Kozak

After a brutal assault by an ice cream man, punk girl Candy becomes host to a mutant baby. As her body transforms into ice cream, those around her see her not as a person, but as something to be consumed. Fueled by a blistering punk soundtrack and dripping with grotesque body horror, this wild exploitation film oozes with feminist subtext.

Tutti Frutti: El Templo del Underground
2022 (Mexico); 90 min, OV english subs
director: Laura Ponte, Alex Albert
Tutti Frutti: The Temple of the Underground tells the story of a clandestine bar in Mexico City in the 1980s. One of the city’s most emblematic and iconic venues, it embodied a generation of rebellious young people. Some of the country’s most important counterculture and music figures came together there, creating their own spaces for artistic expression after a long period of repression. They had been newly awakened by the social consciousness sparked by the 1985 earthquake and the Zapatista movement, an awakening that unleashed an entire cultural movement that persists to this day. The film is a tribute to that legendary place and the people who inhabited it.

1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture

2022 (US/CAN), 92 min, OV deutschen UT

director: Sharon Roggio

1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture is a feature documentary that follows the story of tireless researchers who trace the origins of the anti-gay movement among Christians to a grave mistranslation of the Bible in 1946. It chronicles the discovery of never-before-seen archives at Yale University which unveil astonishing new revelations, and casts significant doubt on any biblical basis for LGBTQIA+ prejudice. Featuring commentary from prominent scholars as well as opposing pastors, including the personal stories of the film’s creators, 1946 is at once challenging, enlightening, and inspiring.

Bernd – Operation Germanenkind

2025 (D), 93 min, OV

Regie: Cornelius Schwalm

Bernd arbeitet als Schauspieler mit Behinderung in einem linken Berliner Künstlerkollektiv. Mit ihrem neuen Stück reisen sie nach Peenemünde, das vor allem für die Raketenentwicklung in der einst dort stationierten Heeresversuchsanstalt bekannt ist. Bernd, der zunehmend vom Dritten Reich fasziniert ist, demonstriert seine rechten Tendenzen: laut, sexistisch, rassistisch, respektlos – ein Affront gegen jede moralische Gewissheit der Gruppe. Mit jeder seiner Provokationen zerbricht zunehmend mehr von ihrer Toleranz. Aus Haltung wird Hass, aus Humanismus Gewalt. Am Ende prügeln jene, die sich für die besseren Menschen halten, wie Barbaren auf ihn ein – und aus Demokraten werden exzentrische Wutbürger.
Eine Dystopie über Moral, Macht und die dünne Haut der Demokratie.Bernd ist ein böser Komiker, ein Anarchist mit aufgemaltem Bart, der uns seine Schelmenkappe überstülpt.