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Filming locations in Berlin
Berlin offers almost any look, from daylight rental studios to raw industrial halls and period loft apartments. We organise your search around what you actually need: bookable studios, halls and living spaces with images and concrete production details, not just famous Berlin landmarks.
Find real, bookable Berlin filming locations rather than a list of tourist motifs. Search and compare spaces, shortlist favourites, enquire with the host and book directly, with images, floor plans, areas and production details that tell you whether a space fits your look, crew size and shooting plan. Compare space types, what to check, filming permits and realistic Berlin day rates.
Start from the space type that fits your shoot. Whether rental studio, film studio, industrial hall or period loft, each group gathers Berlin locations of that type with floor area, light, access and equipment, so you compare deliberately instead of scrolling across every category.
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Berlin U-Bahnhof Gle... by Lukas Beck CC BY-SA 4.0
Residential and creative spaces with Berlin character, high ceilings, large windows, atelier atmosphere or lived-in apartment texture.
Berlin is large and unevenly serviced, and a courtyard loft in Neukölln plays by different rules than an industrial hall in Schöneweide. These four points about the space itself are best clarified before you book; permits for public space are covered separately further down.
Check the usable floor area, the ceiling height under beams and pipes, and the real character of the room. Period stucco, loft brick and a raw hall read completely differently on camera, so study the listing's images, floor plans and individual areas closely rather than relying on a single hero image, and ask for a current recce shot if you need one.
Clarify the available power load and number of circuits, any built-in flash or continuous lighting, and whether the room can be blacked out. North-facing daylight studios are sought-after in Berlin but cannot be controlled everywhere, and HMIs and larger setups need more than a domestic socket. Ask early whether your lighting runs without an external generator.
In Berlin period buildings and courtyards, the elevator dimensions and load capacity, stairwell width and ground-level loading decide how much effort it takes to move heavy gear in and out. Clarify how close gear and catering vehicles can get to the entrance and which routes large cases, track or stands take into the room, since it often saves an hour of carrying on the shoot day.
Permitted shooting hours, residential use and building-management conditions vary widely in Berlin. Agree load-in and load-out times early and clear night shoots, loud scenes and music directly with the host, especially in occupied rear buildings and mixed-use courtyards. Read the listed house rules carefully and build in buffer for the typical Berlin reality of mixed use and sensitive residential areas.
Berlin's location landscape is exceptionally varied: central daylight and rental studios in Mitte, Kreuzberg and Prenzlauer Berg, raw industrial halls and factory floors in Schöneweide, Oberschöneweide and on the city edges, plus countless period lofts with stucco, floorboards and tall windows. Which space type fits depends less on the best-known district than on your look and crew size, since a beauty shoot needs soft north light, a music video wants height, patina and floor space. So compare along floor area, ceiling height, light and access rather than along the postcode.
Once you have two or three rooms on a shortlist, a recce before booking pays off. Schedule it for the same time of day you will shoot, since a north-light studio looks different in the morning than in the late afternoon, and Berlin courtyards fall into shadow early depending on the surrounding buildings. On site, check the things images don't show: impact noise and sound from neighbours and the street, mobile and Wi-Fi reception for transmission and comms, the position of sockets and the fuse box, how the daylight tracks, and the parking and load-in zones right outside the door. While you're there, note whether the areas you'd use are big enough for load-in, load-out and set build, and take down the measurements your set plan will need later.
Brief the host as concretely as possible so your enquiry fits the location: state the discipline and type of shoot, crew and cast size, the date you want with load-in and load-out times, the gear you'll bring and its power needs, plus special requirements such as blackout, loud scenes, animals, water, smoke or wall fixings. Factor Berlin demand into your date: weekends, long bright summer days and the weeks around major industry events book out earlier and often cost more than off-season weekdays. The more complete your brief, the more reliable the host's quote, and the fewer open points surface on the shoot day to cost you time and money.
Berlin day rates depend mostly on space type, floor area, location and equipment, and as a rule of thumb, one shoot day equals roughly a month of conventional rent for comparable space. As a guide for common Berlin filming locations and studios:
Indicative ranges based on typical Berlin market prices. Each host sets the actual day price per location, and the ranges shown are only a rough starting point for your budget planning.
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