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Faruk, who is over 90 years old, increasingly becomes the protagonist in the film his daughter is making about the impending demolition of his block of flats in Istanbul. A story about gentrification and a complex father-daughter relationship.
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Subtitles: English
Zoo Palast 2
Subtitles: English
Cubix 5
Subtitles: German
Cubix 9
Subtitles: English
Babylon Kreuzberg
Subtitles: English
Cubix 5
Subtitles: English
Ruth Beckermann accompanied a primary school class in Vienna for three years. Despite the difficult conditions at the school, this is an astonishingly cheerful film – about teaching, learning and the often very surprising experiences somewhere in between.
Akademie der Künste
After witnessing a kidnapping, a young man in Munich gets involved in trying to free the victim. His partisanship makes him a suspect and he has to justify his actions in an interrogation. A psycho-thriller set against a political backdrop.
Which perspective(s) do filmmakers from different backgrounds take when depicting conflicts? What emotional but also structural challenges do they and their artistic work face?
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1)
In 1968, the young Edgar Reitz teaches filmmaking at a girls’ school – a ground-breaking educational experiment. Fifty-five years later, there is a class reunion.
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
You’ve made your first film – but what happens next? A conversation with experienced directors about ideas, realities and blocks.
Manifesto Potsdamer Platz
Myanmar Anatomy | On the Battlefield
A collage of voices from activists forced to flee the country offers glimpses into Myanmar’s history through three locations: Yangon Zoological Gardens, Yangon Circle Railway and the Drug Elimination Museum.
The first release by Little Egypt Collective stages a sound recordist reconnecting with the flat fields where once stood Pyramid Courts – the housing projects that formed the heart of the Black community of the Little Egypt region of southern Illinois.
Opening hours: February 16 7pm - 9:30pm // February 17 - 25, daily 12pm - 10pm
Betonhalle@Silent Green
Betonhalle@Silent Green
Betonhalle@Silent Green
Betonhalle@Silent Green
Betonhalle@Silent Green
Betonhalle@Silent Green
Betonhalle@Silent Green
Betonhalle@Silent Green
Betonhalle@Silent Green
Betonhalle@Silent Green
With Owl disappearing, mischievous Rats terrorising the neighbourhood and a lake threatening to submerge their home, Fox and Hare embark on an exciting adventure to save the forest. It will push their friendship to the limit!
HKW 1 - Miriam Makeba Auditorium
Filmtheater am Friedrichshain
HKW 1 - Miriam Makeba Auditorium
Police officer Lucie’s solitary daily life is disturbed by the arrival of a young couple and their little girl who move in next door. As she grows fond of them, she discovers that the father is an anti-police activist.
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Leuchtkraft der Ziege – Eine Naturerscheinung | Das deutsche Kettensägenmassaker
The story of a young home moviemaker, who shoots an amateur film group as it is making a village murder mystery. This short is a surrealist satire that plays ironically and subversively with the conventions of cinema and the visual arts.
After reunification, former East Germans are massacred in the West by a family of cannibal butchers. The satirical horror film was a garish, blood-drenched commentary on the assimilation of the “brothers and sisters from the other side of the Wall”.
Cubix 6
Subtitles: English
Akademie der Künste
Subtitles: English
Venice in the year 1800. What happens when a decrepit old music school for girls receives a newly invented “music machine” that everyone calls the “pianoforte”? Will it be the vehicle to freedom for five blossoming young musicians?
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Atomic bomb tests rouse a sea monster that lays ruin to Tokyo. This Japanese classic of the monster movie genre has often been truncated and shown in various permutations. On its 70th anniversary, the original has now enjoyed a 4K restoration.
Akademie der Künste
HKW 2 - Safi Faye Hall
An ample community of cats has set up home around the Shinto shrine in Ushimado. Some local residents take care of them, others are disturbed by their mess. Kazuhiro Soda observes their co-existence with kindness, precision and occasional involvement.
Cinema Betonhalle@Silent Green
Is my film idea good enough – and who can even judge that? A conversation with experienced producers about ratings, independence and audiences.
Manifesto Potsdamer Platz
A man gives up his identity and his normal life to live with a cardboard box over his head. The photographer Myself decides to become a box man too. But his path to get there is not easy. Challenges and dangers lie in wait.