Open Air Screening: Blank City
Mobile Kino screens Blank City, a documentary charting the DIY No Wave music and filmmaking movement that sprang into frantic, messy life in the late 70s and early 80s, when New York was rough and...
View ArticleSerbinale
This festival aims to put Serbian art firmly in the spotlight by dint of a four-day spread of film, music and graphics across the city. Highlights include a cliché-busting debate on "Eastern women" and...
View ArticleFuture Shorts Film Festival 2013
The Berlin Film Society hosts this cinematic celebration of the concise: six snappy, prize-winning films with themes ranging from the company of street children to fringe musicians to heirloom Irish...
View ArticleTwo Gates of Sleep screening
A screening of the cryptic, lyrical indie film, which explores the relationship of two taciturn woodsmen with their dying mother and was lusciously shot in the remote Deep South. Director Alistair...
View ArticleAn Evening with Michael Brynntrup
Experimental filmmaker and media artist Michael Brynntrup descends upon Image Movement for a talk on being “the poster child of German underground cinema in the 1980s." A selection of films explore...
View ArticleEXBlicks: Kohlhaas
A special extra edition of EXBlicks presents a first look (with English subs!) at the mockumentary making-of film based on the 19th-century novel.
View ArticleDoku.Arts
An 18-day celebration of creative documentary filmmaking with a focus on the arts, whether architecture, ballet or cinema itself. Kicks off with Room 237, a documentary on Stanley Kubrick’s legendary...
View ArticleScreening – Nelson Mandela: Accused #1
AfricAvenir presents the German premiere of this documentary, featuring interviews from both sides of the landmark Revonia trial, in which Mandela and nine other members of the anti-Apartheid ANC group...
View ArticleFilm: Saul Williams in Tey
Kino Hackesche Höfe hosts a screening of TEY, a powerful philosophical tale about saying goodbye told with few words but memorable poignancy. Stars American poet/musician Saul Williams.
View ArticleThe Act of Killing Screening + Director Q&A
The Berlin Film Society presents an exclusive preview screening of Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary "The Act of Killing", the surprise hit at Berlinale earlier this year. Plus, a Q&A with the...
View ArticleBerlin Film Society: A Weekend of Italian Cinema
The Berlin Film Society is hosting A Weekend of Italian Cinema, featuring a screening of the 1950 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film "Bicycle Thieves" on Sep 21, followed by the 1946 Cannes Grand Prize...
View ArticleManhunt – The Inside Story of the Hunt for bin Laden
An American Academy film screening of the Emmy-award winning documentary centring on the capture of Osama bin Laden from the perspective of the CIA officers involved.
View ArticleLakino
The showcase of Latin American indie gems has morphed into a serious film festival complete with awards, sections, a film lab, panel discussions and a piñata party. Through Oct 13.
View ArticleUnusual Business: Drama Consult
Dorothee Wenner's documentary about three Nigerian businessmen in Germany investigates the claim that the "secret of the world lies in investing in Nigeria". Watch the film for a different portrayal of...
View ArticleEXBlicks: JuliAugust
In this month's EXBlick's film JuliAugust, Marco Štorman captures the tumultuousness of twentysomething life via a road trip-turned-love triangle.
View ArticleMan for a Day
What is it that makes a man a man? This evening of film, discussion and music seeks not so much to answer the question as to blur the answer. The titular film looks at the arbitrary nature of gender,...
View ArticleLe Dernier Des Injustes with Claude Lanzmann
Claude Lanzmann, director of the iconic Holocaust documentary Shoah, is in attendance as his newest feature Le Dernier Des Injustes, a documentary with the last president of the Jewish Council in the...
View ArticleWildness – Film Screening and Director Q&A
Director Wu Tsang takes us on a walk on the wild side. In Wildness an LGBT and immigrant bar in LA transforms into a character and narrates the story. The screening is followed by a talk from Tsang.
View ArticleToussaint Louverture
French-Senegalese director Philippe Niang's new film is the first time the inspiring story of Toussaint Louverture – the slave who became a Napoleonic General and led Haiti to liberation and...
View ArticleVienna Film Night
Highlighting Weimar-era Berlin and Vienna, the night showcases films including Gustav Ucicky‘s "Café Elektrik" and Eric Charell‘s "Kongress tanzt".
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