Ghost In the Shell
Forget the Scarlett Johansson live-action fumble, go back to 1995's original animated cyberpunk gamechanger. Berlin's anime festival presents the visually stunning 2029-set sci-fi contemporary classic...
View ArticleNausicaä aus dem Tal der Winde
Catch anime classics at Anime Berlin Festival, May 16-26. Tonight: Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicäa aus dem Tal der Winde (celebrating its 35th anniversary), which tells the story of a princess fighting for...
View ArticleTartan Tunes – Scottish Postpunk (Double Feature)
Never mind Brexit – here's Scotland. Two docs, both by Grant McPhee, portray the influential 1980s music scenes in Glasgow and Edinburgh. First up: 2015's Big Gold Dream. It's followed at 10pm with...
View ArticleFemale Filmmakers Festival Berlin
This inaugural edition takes over Moviemento for five days of female driven films and video art, plus networking events and a panel discussion about women in VR and video games.
View ArticleEXBlicks: The Good Change: Poles Apart
Join us at Lichtblick Kino for a special screening of this riveting doc about right-wing populism in Poland, presented as a double-bill with the short Three Days in Berlin, which tackles the equally...
View ArticleClosing: KuirFest Berlin
Conceived to protest the ‘indefinite ban’ on LGBTQ+ events in Ankara, this fest kicked off in May but concludes with a screening of Lizzie Borden’s 1983 queer-feminist classic Born in Flames at bi’bak,...
View ArticleHowling Wolf: Man With a Movie Camera
Kicking off the Howling Wolf festival is Man With a Movie Camera, an experimental depiction of everyday life in the Soviet Union, now widely regarded as one of the most influential documentaries of...
View ArticleHowling Wolf: From the East
From the East is a minimalist doc that is the perfect companion piece to Vertov’s masterpiece Man With a Movie Camera (also screening at the fest), evoking as it does the precariousness of life in the...
View ArticleHowling Wolf: 11x14
Stella Chiweshe, a major player in the contemporary African scene, will tackle James Benning’s 11x14, a hypnotic portrait of the American Midwest composed entirely of single-shot sequences.
View ArticleThe Golden Glove
For a spot of horrifying true crime laced with pitch-black humour, check out Fatih Akin’s wildly divisive serial killer drama The Golden Glove.
View ArticleKoudelka Shooting Holy Land
Catch one of two screenings of Koudelka Shooting Holy Land, a documentary on photographer Josef Koudelka's journey through Israel and Palestine, in presence of the Berlin-based Koudelka and filmmaker...
View ArticleMapplethorpe
Head to Birgit & Bier to check out the still-unreleased Mapplethorpe, starring Matt Smith as the legendary queer photographer.
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