By Andrew Horn
A film festival centered on the city of Berlin can, and one could say should, certainly include films about getting the hell out of Berlin.
One film that gets us out of town and into the wilds of East Brandenburg is “Der Ausflug”, which begins as a sunny little story of a family picnic Continue Reading

By Andrew Horn
The Achtung Berlin Film festival is by no means on the scale of the Berlinale, but still no less a potential to see some decent films. Any festival has many more films than you could, or would want to, ever see and one’s impression is, more often than not, significantly due to the Continue Reading

realeyz.tv caught up with Timo Jacobs, the star and co-director of achtung berlin feature competition entry KLAPPE COWBOY! (Clapper Cowboy!) at Saturday's festival party. The extremely low budget labor of love (although not that low budget, says Jacobs, if everyone had been paid “humane wages” and not deferred their fees), produced over a period of Continue Reading

Berlin ist ein Traum. Oder doch eine Projektion? Oder eine Illusion? Europe, eine junge Pariserin, möchte nach Berlin. Doch sie ist blind und will dort eigentlich nur den Vater ihres Kindes treffen. Der Dicke, ein stummer Biertrinker aus Paris, möchte nach Berlin, weil er dort Personen von einem Kindheitsfoto wiederzufinden hofft. Und für Bomber, den Continue Reading

By Andrew Horn
I remember once reading what I thought was an amusing quote by Joseph Campbell which was something about how he thought computers were like religion - you expect them to solve all your problems but in fact they drive you crazy.
The same could be said for the whole so-called digital filmmaking thing. That Continue Reading

(Quelle: Pressemitteilung Institut Forschender Film)

Als erste merken drei Berliner KünstlerInnen, die ART GIRLS (Inga Busch, Megan Gay, Jana Schulz), dass mit der sogenannten Realität etwas nicht stimmt. Dann beobachten zwei Hamburger Wissenschaftler (Peter Lohmeyer) seltsame Masterzellen, die es eigentlich nicht geben kann. Und bald darauf erleben alle Menschen phantastische Phänomene in Ihrem Alltag und eine Continue Reading

Thomas Heise, director of MATERIAL, LUCKY. NIGGERS., MEIN BRUDER.WE’LL MEET AGAIN, CHILDREN.AS TIME FLIES and FATHERLAND, presents his latest film Solar System on March 31, 8 p.m. at the Volksbühne in Berlin.  As what marks a change of pace, Heise turns his lens away from the intricacies of German-German history to the mountains of Northern Continue Reading