Screenwriting Workshop
Want to turn a great idea into a fully formed screenplay? Raindance Berlin's five week course, led by film and TV writer Hal Cantor, gives you the skills and support needed to put pen to paper, and...
View ArticleFinye
Acclaimed postcolonial satire – with a hint of 'Romeo and Juliet' – in which the pot-smoking daughter of a provincial military governor falls in love with the son of a Malian chief. Director Souleymane...
View ArticleBend Over Screening / Panel / Afterparty
Penultimate Bend Over Magazine event – the final issue comes out next spring – promises porno, panels and partying. Queer flick 'Want Some Oranges' is followed by a discussion of what makes an image...
View ArticleEXBlicks: Can't Be Silent
Julia Oelkers takes us into the world of a unique kind of protest: a band made up of asylum seekers, appropriately called The Refugees. A benefit for the camp on O-Platz.
View ArticleHong Kong Film Festival Berlin 2013
The Hong Kong Film Festival returns for a second time, promising eight contemporary films. The city may be known for its action films, but with gems like Ho Kim's Floating City opening the festival and...
View ArticleThe Love Police
Charles Veitch founded The Love Police to enforce a new kind of feeling in today's culture. While the heat from his hug-guns may have cooled, Harald Baer’s film documents the good-time protest. It...
View ArticleBerlin Junction / Kinks Double Feature
In Berlin Junction a man on the threshold of having a family has to make the decision between settling down or keeping his version of hedonistic Berlin. Kinks explores human similarities through...
View ArticleEXBlicks: Berlin Burlesque
What’s the difference between today’s Berlin burlesque and that of the 1920s? Ivan Aranega explores the topic with tassel-twirling performances.
View ArticlePussy vs. Putin
The German premiere of the Pussy Riot documentary that almost wasn’t. Catch the film and three Berlin bands afterwards in solidarity with the Russian punks.
View ArticleQueer Romance
XPOSED International Queer Film Festival presents a night of music videos and performances. So Low Suicide premieres “Italian Stallion White Horse” and aMinus screens “Don’t Mind Me Now”.
View ArticleVisconti Total - The Retrospective
Babylon celebrates the work of Italian film monolith Lucino Visconti, from sumptuous, elegaic The Leopard and tragic Death in Venice to dreamlike curio Ludwig II. Volker Schlöndorff opens the festival....
View ArticleQueer Romance
XPOSED International Queer Film Festival presents a night of music videos and performances. So Low Suicide premieres “Italian Stallion White Horse” and aMinus screens “Don’t Mind Me Now”.
View ArticlePreview: The Happy Sad
Redefining sexuality and what a happy relationship is, two young couples of different sexual orientation, separated, explore out of what's familiar. The Happy Sad officially starts in Berlin cinemas on...
View ArticleFilm City Weißensee 100th Anniversary
Celebrating the former Stummfilmkino's 100th birthday, a 3-day festival blooms into full gear with an exhibition, live music, screenings of silent films from the 1920s and of course a Jazz-age-style,...
View ArticleDazed Visionaries: Matt Lambert
Matt Lambert’s provocative short films on youth and sexuality are taking over Dazed Visionaries series. The premiere will feature his films, introduction by War Bear, and a party fit for Lambert's films.
View ArticleBerlin Premiere of “Les Mécréants”
When Islamic extremists kidnap a group of actors they're unintentionally engaged in an ideological stand-off. The award-winning Moroccan film will be followed by a talk with director Mohcine Besri and...
View ArticleOnly Lovers Left Alive Screening + Sfterparty
Whether it's bloody black comedy or just gothed-up Tom Hiddleston that has 'em salivating, the long-hyped vampire flick is sure to suck in a crowd. Later, bands from the soundtrack including Jim...
View ArticleLola Montes Screening and Afterparty
The Berlin Film Society rounds out the year with Max Ophüls' shamelessly opulent (literal) bodice-ripper. Soak up the scandal, then take your cues from the titular dancer adventuress as you flaunt your...
View ArticlePreview screening: Das radikal Böse
Director Stefan Ruzowitzky follows The Act of Killing's lead by re-enacting dark scenes from history, this time the shooting of civilians by WWII soldiers. The film explores the nature of evil and asks...
View ArticleHitchcock Bothmer StummfilmKonzert
Silent film and first real Hitchcockian thriller, The Lodger, receives a live soundtrack with accompaniment by Stephan Graf v. Bothmer on the grand piano. On-screen, the 1920s stars pursue a Jack the...
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