UfaFabrik, Cultural center and movie theater in Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

The ufaFabrik is a self-managed cultural and social project on the 18,566 m² grounds of the former AFIFA film copying works, a UFA subsidiary, in Berlin-Tempelhof. The site holds a children's farm, a free school, an organic bakery, a café, a guesthouse, a varieté salon, a dance studio, a theater, a martial arts dōjō, an open-air stage, and a children's circus school.

The site was the AFIFA film copying works, a UFA subsidiary liquidated in 1956. On 9 June 1979 a Berlin commune occupied the grounds, then owned by Deutsche Bundespost, with an open gate and a "Herzlich willkommen" banner. After negotiations with the Berlin Senate it won a three-year lease, and about 40 people have lived there since.

The name comes from the AFIFA film-copying works, a UFA subsidiary that once occupied the site. Since 1990 the former UFA cinema hall has served as a variety salon for events. The open-air cinema opened in 1982, the first in Berlin, where Willy Sommerfeld accompanied silent films live on the piano.

The grounds sit on the Teltow Canal south of Viktoriastraße, west of the Stubenrauchbrücke; the Ullsteinstraße U-Bahn station lies directly beneath the bridge's northern part. Most roofs are planted, and a café, guesthouse and bakery serve visitors. The site is self-managed, so check opening times before travelling.

The site's first power plant, installed in 1979, was a converted truck engine nicknamed the "Mao diesel", producing 30 kW of electricity and 60 kW of heat. Since 1994 a gas block heating station with 84 kW electrical and 180 kW thermal output has supplied heating and shower water for the whole grounds, and rainwater is reused. Roofs have been planted since 1980, reaching 4,000 m² by 2003.