13.06.2025
Kulturforum
On 25 June 2025, 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 Master Paintings) until 29 August 2025.
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 25 June, ‘The Wedding Banquet’, a modern remake of Ang Lee’s queer cinema classic, starts things off at 9:45 pm.
Additional selected highlights during this season’s first half:
Download: Programme of Summer Cinema at the Kulturforum 2025 (In German, PDF, 335 KB)
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 screened again 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 direction of the Yorck Group. 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.