achtung berlin
achtung berlin - new berlin film award presents fresh and exciting cinema from Berlin and Brandenburg!
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Klappe Cowboy!
An indie production from Timo Jacobs. A self-styled filmmaker from Hamburg arrives in Berlin absolutely convinced he'll make his big splash as a film director. Instead the young hopeful ends up shooting an art porn movie and gets in well over his head!
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Cürük - The Pink Report
“Homosexuality is a disease and needs to be treated” says Selma Aliye Kavaf, Turkish Minister for Family Affairs. This investigative documentary by Ulrike Böhnisch takes a look a the humiliation that gay men undergo if they exempt themselves from the Turkish Army.
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Wolff von Amerongen - Did He Committ Bankruptcy Offences?
Austria, Germany, 73 min.
D: Gerhard Benedikt Friedl*NEW*Wolff von Amerongen - Did He Committ Bankruptcy Offences?
Gerhard Friedl's cinematic essay portrays the development of German economic history during the 20th Century.
“The history of West Germany, with Thyssen and Flick, with names of economic dynasties that sound fictitious, with foibles, dirty tricks and dubious business deals... Capital remains infamous.” Drehli Robnik for SixPackFilms -
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After Effect
A romantic comedy set in Berlin's arts and advertising milieu. Artist Rena Yazka (Sabine Timoteo) becomes romantically involved with an everyday Berlin slacker type/model (Aljoscha Weskott) during a corporate-funded art project.
ACHTUNG BERLIN 2009
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Lifetimeshort
Theater director Gesine Danckwart's feature debut is an ironic comedy about Berlin big city girls and how they cope with life and love in a late capitalist urban setting. ACHTUNG BERLIN 2009
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The Eagle Is Gone
February, 2009, a bitter cold night at Berlin's Alexanderplatz. A cinematic melange of poetic agitprop, shades of Expressionism, and inner-city longing and insomnia. Orchestrated with a soundtrack by Tarwater .ACHTUNG BERLIN 2010
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PiN2011 – Recollection of the Street
Germany, 53 min.
D: Torsten Königs*NEW*PiN2011 – Recollection of the Street
StreetArtist PiN2011 takes us around the streets of Berlin where his work comes alive. His creativity goes beyond tagging his name around town. This film shows the living breathing artist PiN2011, his life and work. ACHTUNG BERLIN 2010
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Full Contact - A Way of Living
Mixed Martial Arts – A Jacob Schäuffelen documentary. Why do people fight, if they don't have to? Why do ordinary, civilized German citizens operate the toughest martial arts ring in the world in a Berlin backyard.
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Breathe
In this German drama by Magoscha Siwinska and Nicki Durand, a hermit finds a woman half frozen to death in a snowy Finnish steppe. How did she get there? Clues about a destructive relationship with a boyfriend in Berlin are revealed in flashbacks.
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The Invisible Frame
In 1988 Tilda Swinton first rode a bike along the perimeter of the Berlin Wall for a documentary by director Cynthia Beatt. Twenty years later Swinton retraces the route. With original soundscapes composed by Simon Fisher Turner.
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Berlin Stories
Three directors, three perspectives, three BERLIN STORIES. Based on staged rehearsals of the play “Stadt als Beute” by renowned, controversial playwright and director René Pollesch. It’s two weeks before the premiere and everything’s going wrong!
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Saturn Returns
Lucy and Derek roam the streets of Berlin. The city is their stage and playground, and life is a never ending party. Into this merry-go-round of post-punk hedonism enters Galia. She is a young Israeli woman who holds the promise of a more harmonious way of life.
ACHTUNG BERLIN 2010
achtung berlin
achtung berlin - new berlin film award is the Berlin-based festival for exciting cinema from Berlin and Brandenburg. Every year for a week the festival presents the full spectrum of cinematic output from the Berlin-Brandenburg film world. Awards are presented for best feature, documentary and medium-length film.
From poignant social dramas to feel-good movies, from docudramas to classic documentaries, this innovative festival brings current German films to the big screen. Along with festival screenings in selected Berlin cinemas, films from past editions and current festival highlights are now available at realeyz.tv. The festival debuts full length features, medium-length films and shorts by established directors and emerging Berlin talents. Berlin is Germany's cinema city number one. Every year over 300 feature and documentary films are produced in the region. This young festival already ranks as Berlin's third largest festival and it is the largest of its type in the world. At achtung berlin - new berlin film award audiences can also enjoy film retrospectives, fascinating film discussions and interesting film workshops, and of course go to Berlin's famous parties!