EXBlicks: Citizenfour
The second film in EXBlicks' triptych of exile politics in film, Laura Poitras' Oscar-winning documentary brings to light Edward Snowden's disclosure of classified government surveillance programs....
View ArticleBarbicania
As a part of the Doku.Arts film festival, this intimate and active documentary details the inner workings of the British Brutalist masterpiece, the Barbican Centre and Estate which is the largest...
View ArticleNuevo Cine Argentino: The Student
Screened for the Nuevo Cine Argentino retrospective, The Student follows a young man at university as he discovers his love of power and women until young teacher Paula incites him to get involved in...
View ArticleThe Dark Horse / Rabbit
Part of Down Under Berlin film festival, The Dark Horse centres on a gifted speed-chess player who suffers from a bipolar disorder, chronicling Genesis Potini’s challenges to pass on his knowledge of...
View ArticleFenster's Emocean
If transatlantic dream-pop spiked with a fat tab of acidy post-psychedelia is your cup of tea, then take the trip to see Fenster's first feature film Emocean. The band's debut is a hallucinatory sci-fi...
View ArticleNew Talents Showcase: Becoming Whole
Australian film students take over the German big screen for the New Talents Showcase – a night of three short films by young writers, directors, actors and crew. The Berlin audience then get to choose...
View ArticleThe silence of killings
OUT NOW! Oppenheimer's followup to The Act of Killing is a subtle and moving exploration of the victims' side of human suffering.
View ArticleItalian Film Festival Berlin
Fill up on Italian... films at The Italian Film Festival Berlin. Catch "Anime nere", "I nostri ragazzi", and "The Dinner" along with other exclusive German premieres with English subtitles.
View Article¡Hola, Berlin!
Running for six busy days, The Spanisches Filmfest Berlin kicks off on October 6 at Moviemento, bringing you plenty of suprises en espańol – from disturbing surrealism to expat slapstick.
View ArticleSpanisches Film Fest Berlin
Hard to believe it was only three years ago that Berlin got its own film festival dedicated to Spanish cinema, considering the quality and quantity of cinematic output from the country. Worry not, the...
View ArticleFor latin lovers
Kino Babylon will host the Latin American Film Festival (Lakino) with its critically acclaimed films capturing everything from a war through a young girl's eyes to family strife. Catch these six days...
View ArticlePan's origin
OUT NOW! Levi Miller (as Peter Pan) and Hugh Jackman (as Blackbeard) star in PAN. Fantastically over the top and stylistically intense, the film will be loved by some but not all.
View ArticleEXBlicks: An Apartment in Berlin
Three young Israelis confront the past in a unique way, in Alice Agneskirchner’s An Apartment in Berlin, using the story of two Jewish Berliners deported to Auschwitz and the apartment they lived in as...
View ArticleLakino: La Salada
Explore South America’s largest market – La Salada in Bueos Aires – with this Lakino treat. The film tells the story of the markets immigrant regulars. The director Juán Martin Hsu, himself an...
View ArticleThat wacky old Führer
OUT NOW! The film adaptation of the best-selling novel ER IST WIEDER DA (Look Who's Back) uses a time-travelling Hitler to poke fun at real, live Germans, but its one-joke premise gets old, fast.
View ArticleSilent Film Concerts
Renowned silent film musician Stephan Graf von Bothmer hosts four nights of German silent films. Films will include “Die Frest in Florenz”, “Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari”, and “Die Toten Erwachen”,...
View ArticleLakino: Paulina (La Patota)
In Santiago Mitre's social thriller, the eponymous character suffers a savage assault while engaged in activism in an impoverished region of Argentina. Now she must struggle to recover and gain the...
View Article10. PornFilmFestival Berlin
Berlin's beloved XXX-institution is a decade old now! Celebrate 10 years with more of the same: over 26 feature films,13 documentaries and 90 short films, as well as the titillating parties, workshops...
View ArticleTangerine
Shot entirely on an iPhone 5s, Tangerine became an instant cult hit for its daring technical premise alone. Add to that the narrative of a transsexual prostitute's revenge on her boyfriend's lover,...
View ArticlePornfilmfestival: The Hanky Code
Fifteen shorts from SF-based queer experimental film collective Periwinkle Cinema: each one focusing on a particular color from the 'handkerchief code' used in the 1970s in order to subtly declare...
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