EXBlicks: Stasi Night
A unique programme from the Stasi vaults including spy training and GDR propaganda films, plus a doc on Cold War espionage and a discussion with Hubertus Knabe, head of the Stasi Museum.
View ArticleA Cosmic and Earthly History of Recorded Music According to Mississippi Records
Join Eric Isaacson, the prolific co-founder of limited edition release label Mississippi Records, for a once-in-a-lifetime film/talk/multi-genre live music showcase guiding us through music history,...
View ArticleFilm screening: The Marches for Freedom / The Marchers
See the German premiere of documentaries about the historic 1983 "March for Equality and against Racism" in France. A reception and Q&A with the march's organizer, Toumi Djaïdja, and anti-racism...
View ArticleMacbeth Live
If you missed anything, you can enjoy shows from the Metropolitan Opera or the Bolshoi live in CineStar’s underground screening rooms! The “live screening” season opens with Verdi’s opera Macbeth at...
View ArticleLakino
The Latin American Film Festival Berlin turns up the heat with over 30 movies being shown over the course of the fiesta. The fest kicks off with Peruvian El Mudo.
View ArticleEXBlicks: So Glad I Did
“Death is part of my life now.” Helena Giuffrida’s documentary intimately explores the last days of Aussie cancer victim Bruno Adams and its effect on his family.
View ArticleDisplacement Has Many Faces
The film collective Schwarzer Hahn address the big G-word, interviewing people from all sides of the gentrification process to produce this eye-opening documentary.
View ArticlePornfilmfestival Berlin
The Pornfilmfestival Berlin is back with a bang, showcasing everything sexy for the ninth year running, from full-on freakishness through light-hearted love-making and "straight"-faced documentaries....
View ArticleState of Time Film Festival
From memory to the age of the universe, short and feature films stretch our concept of time at the opening of State Festival's first ever expo, with screenings curated by Imagine Science Films of NY....
View ArticlePreview Screening: What We Do in the Shadows
Life is hard, especially for an 8,000-year-old vampire struggling with the mundanities of living in a modern-day WG. Scare yourself silly with this horror comedy from the creators of Flight of the...
View ArticleHail to Thee, Witch!
The best Halloween plan for the indecisive includes tarot, tours of Monsterkabinett, evil drinks and sho(r)ts at SNIPER, and the obligatory torrent of blood, death, and damnation in "Alucarda", a 1978...
View ArticlePornFilmFestival: Body of God
Docu Body of God explores body piercing, from US subculture to planetary mainstream. Born out of the "perverse" desires of a few in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Hokkanen's film is a glimpse into how...
View ArticleDavid Lynch's Eraserhead / Halloween Party
The woman in the radiator. The penis baby. Jack Nance's hair! After a special screening of Lynch's famed first feature Eraserhead, a fancy-dress afterparty will wake you from your surrealistic mood as...
View ArticleCasey Wei's "Father and Son"
Based on E. O. Plauen's 1930s cartoon that migrated from Nazi Germany through Maoist China into the present, Wei's video essay addresses failed utopian strategies of the 20th century through...
View ArticleOne World Berlin: 1971
The film festival for human rights opens with 1971, a riveting true tale of pre-Wikileaks leaks where a group of citizen spies broke into an FBI office in Pennsylvania, exposing an illegal domestic...
View ArticleChanging Perspective: A View of German Volunteers
Following the inhabitants of three African regions who see thousands of German youth come and go every year, the documentary provides a fresh perspective on the complexities of voluntary service in the...
View Article"Living the Truth" Berlin Premiere
Director Danny Antonelli will be introducing his new film which gives an account of the life and music of Bill Conti, the Italian-American behind the film scores for Rocky, Karate Kid and For Your Eyes...
View ArticleEXBlicks: Okay Okay
Going back behind the Wall, Christoph Dreher and Heiner Mühlenbrock's precursor to the music video uses the urban decay of West Berlin and clips of bands like Wire at SO36 to create an audiovisual time...
View ArticleBe Part of Something Bigger
The concept of the collective comes under fire as Gob Squad celebrates their 20th anniversary, marking the milestone with a weekend of performances, films, talks and music at HAU 1 and 2.
View ArticleTrick of the Light – Arctic Drilling and Cristina Busto
The spoken-word folk-electronic duo celebrate the release of their second album The Crone and the Maiden with a live audio-visual performance collaboration with Cristina Busto. Expect poetic, visual,...
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