18.05.2026
Kulturforum
On Wednesday, 17 June 2026, the ARTE Summer Cinema once again launches its open-air viewing season at the Kulturforum. Cinematic highlights from the past months and audience favourites will be shown on a massive screen in the piazza in front of the Gemäldegalerie (Old Masters Gallery) until 28 August 2026.
As in past years, the Yorck Kinogruppe, which organises the Summer Cinema event in collaboration with the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the German-French cultural television channel ARTE, has put together a varied and entertaining programme. All films are shown in their original language with either German or English subtitles.
On 17 June, “À voix b‘asse” (Mit leiser Stimme) starts the season at 9:45 pm. Fresh from this year’s Berlinale film competition, it tells a moving story about family and queer identity, as a young woman returns to her native home in Tunisia following the death of a family member.
Additional selected highlights during this season’s first half:
Complete programme and advance ticket sales: Yorck-Website
Tickets are available online; any remaining tickets can be purchased at the evening box office.
Admission:
Drinks and snacks can be purchased at the venue, with blankets available for loan at the ticket office on cooler evenings.
In the summers of 2002 and 2003, the most popular cinema films of the previous months were rescreened as part of the Museum Film Festival. In the following years, the open-air cinema relocated to Berlin’s Museumsinsel (Museum Island). In 2007, it returned to the Kulturforum under the Yorck Group’s direction. Since then, cinematic highlights of the past months, original versions, sneak previews, and film series accompanying ongoing museum exhibitions have been shown there each year, sometimes with the actors in attendance.