The days may be getting shorter, and Berlin might already feel like it’s skipped ahead to fall, but summer isn’t over just yet. There’s still time to savour the essence of summer, best done through the lens of a carefully selected film. Numéro Berlin presents its Summer Movie Watchlist: a collection of films (in no particular order) handpicked by our team to bring back that warm, sun-drenched feeling – even if the skies say otherwise.

A rehabilitated drug-addict, Rona (Saoirse Ronan), moves back into her childhood home on the Orkenay-Islands, after a difficult past in the streets of London. The People are nice, the nature unforgiving, but beautiful. Rona struggles to fit back into the rural landscape. It doesn’t take long for her to realize, that she isn’t fully clean yet.

With her plans of moving back to Londong falling short, she begins to embrace the slow way of living besides farm animals and her religious mother. With a bitter-sweet undertone, direcotr Nora Fingerscheidt manages to craft a compelling, beautiful story of recovery, home and a sense of self.

If you want to laugh, cry and lose yourself in your thought, “The Outrun” is a perfect 118 minute long way to do so.

Are you still joining your family for vacation?
The drama that unfolds between people who know each other so well and yet hurt one another at their most vulnerable is perfectly portrayed in Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s directorial debut Hot Milk, featuring a stellar cast including Emma Mackey and Fiona Shaw.

When we think of summer vacation, it might evoke feelings of lightness, happiness, and fulfillment , but that’s not the direction Mubi’s newest release takes.

Rose, played by Fiona Shaw, and her daughter Sofia, portrayed by Emma Mackey, travel to the stunning landscape of Andalusia in search of a man who might be able to cure the mother’s illness: a – probably – psychosomatic inability to use her legs. What at first sounds like a functioning relationship, defined by care and support , reveals itself to be a deeply entangled codependency. This story explores a richly layered and emotionally complex bond between a loving but fearful mother and her devoted yet overwhelmed daughter.

Definitely a must watch for this summer!

Set against the vibrant backdrop of South Florida suburbia in the heat of summer, Waves traces the emotionally charged journey of a family pushed to the brink, and shows how love and compassion, in all its forms, in every relationship there is, becomes a force for renewal.

Featuring an astonishing ensemble of award-winning actors and breakouts alike, the movie from writer-director Trey Edward Shults reveals the closeness of love and loss, the importance of communication and vulnerability, even in a dynamic where it would not be expected.

With the most perfect soundtrack for its time, paired with the mesmerizing score of Academy Award-winning duo of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, the movie crashes, churns, and swells with life’s unpredictability – just like the ocean. Waves shows that love can come as the best feeling in the world but also the worst, crashing into our lives with vacillating force in unexpected ways.

Are you in the mood for a French summer? Numéro Berlin has got your back!

“Swimming Pool” by Director François Ozon is a French Thriller that is not only incredibly fun to watch, but also encapsulates the summery feeling of the French countryside perfectly – without feeling cheesy.

To overcome her writer’s block, successful English crime novelist Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling) travels to her publisher’s holiday home in France. Her creative phase is disrupted by the unannounced arrival of Julie (Ludivine Sagnier), the 20-year-old daughter of the house’s owner. Sarah begins to see the blonde nymph as a source of inspiration for her upcoming crime novel. But right when things start to settle down a bit, a crime happens, that turns everyones fate on its head.

Buckle up for big feels, warm sun and the occasional surprise.