UFA Film Nights

Silent film classics with live musical accompaniment are the recipe for success behind the UFA Film Nights, to which Bertelsmann and UFA regularly treat audiences in Berlin. The format has since gone on to other metropolises as well, including Brussels, Paris, Madrid and New York.

UFA Film Nights 2025: Gallery

From August 27 to 29, 2025, Bertelsmann and UFA will present the 15th UFA Film Nights, an open-air event on three evenings, set against the spectacular backdrop of Berlin’s Museum Island and accompanied by live music. Long a fixture in Berlin’s cultural calendar, the UFA Film Nights will once again showcase cinematic masterpieces of Weimar cinema at one of Berlin’s most exclusive venues. The photos shown here can be requested for reporting purposes from the contact person (see right) or presse@bertelsmann.de. (© in each case as indicated in the picture title).

Impressions from the UFA Film Nights 2024

Around 300 guests attended an exclusive reception on the roof terrace of Bertelsmann Unter den Linden in Berlin to mark the start of the UFA Film Nights 2024. After sunset, everyone went together to nearby Museum Island to enjoy the world premiere of the Carl Lamač's comedy SAXOPHON-SUSI (SUSI SAXOPHONE, 1928), in a version reconstructed and digitally restored by the German Film Institute & Film Museum (DFF). Around a thousand fans of silent film enjoyed the opening movie, which was accompanied by live music performed by the film orchestra The Sprockets, based on a composition by their saxophonist Frido ter Beek.