Berlin
Berlin ranks with New York, Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong, Mumbai and Paris as a popular film location. The city's tumultuous and complex history has inspired numerous documentaries and fiction films. Today, Berlin continues to attract creative non-conformists from all over the world. The filmmakers among them find distinctive locations right at their doorsteps. A Kreuzberg bar becomes the setting for a Woody Allenesque romantic comedy. Berlin's outskirts are transformed into a dystopian sci fi landscape. Documentaries feature the unlikely urban spaces hosting the vibrant music scene and outrageous art happenings. Berlin is constantly changing so each film becomes an invaluable document of a fleeting moment.
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*NEW* Nico - In Memoriam
Germany 1988, Length 29 min
D: Bernd Gaul
Featuring: Nico and the Faction
User RatingRare footage of the legendary Nico of Velvet Underground fame. In 1986 Nico returns to Berlin for one of her last live performances ever. This film also includes vintage clips from the 1960s.
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*NEW* Ein Leben mit der Duldung
Germany 2010, Length 46 min
D: Appolain Siewe
Featuring: Dr. Doris Habermann, Dr. Heidi Knake-Werner, Günter Piening, Ulrich von Klinggraeff, P. Martin Stark SJ
User RatingA family which has been living in Berlin for 18 years, still struggles to attain permanent residence and a work permit. The imminent danger of deportation to Angola lies like a dark cloud over their lives.
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*NEW* Lifetimeshort
Germany 2009, Length 87 min
D: Gesine Danckwart
Featuring: Kathi Angerer, Maren Kroymann, Caroline Peters, Anne Ratte-Polle, Esther Röhrborn, Bettina Stucky
suitable for 12 years and older
User RatingTheater 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.
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*NEW* Berlin Beasts
Germany 2010, Length 52 min
D: Reinhard Schädler
User RatingThese days, fox and wild boar are no longer rare visitors in the city landscape. Humans and wildlife inhabiting the same space - is this possible? For two years, Schadler Reinhard and Hans-Jürgen Büsch observed a family of wild boar in Berlin.
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*NEW* Damla =Tropfen | Derya = Ozean
Germany 2009, Length 31 min
D: Elisabeth Pricken
User RatingDirector Elisabeth Pricken focuses on 17 year old student Damla to find out what life is like for young women and girls of Turkish origin living in Germany.
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*NEW* Preussisch Gangstar
Germany 2007, Length 88 min
D: I. Stelmach, B. Werner
Suitable for 12 years and older
User RatingPREUSSISCH GANGSTAR is a documentary-style coming of age story about three teenage boys who try to escape the dreariness of their lives on the outskirts of Berlin through hip hop, drugs and fistfights. The film portrays the youths in their 'super cool' behavior and slangy speech. What becomes evident is how their parents are unable to communicate with them.
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*NEW* Hans im Glück
Germany 2009, Length 62 min
D: Claudia Lehmann
Featuring: B. Deutung, Jens Friebe, Dr. Harald Hielscher, Rex Joswig, Hans Narva
User RatingA portrait of Hans Narva musician, individualist, nostalgic capitalism objector and a dyed in the wool East Berliner. His band, Herbst in Peking (Beijing Autumn), wrote the song "We live in the Bakschischrepublik" , the pop anthem around the fall of the iron curtain in 1989.
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*NEW* Zone
Germany 1983, Length 14 min
D: Jakobine Engel
User RatingJakobine Engel's 1983 experimental film of the West Berlin subway system. Berlin was divided and the West's subway cars passed through many East Berlin 'ghost town' subway stations without stopping.
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*NEW* Guitar Men – The Darkest Secret of Rock'n Roll
Germany 2007, Length 70 min
D: Thomas Wind
Featuring: U. Rabbit, Tammi Torpedo, Hironori Matsuzaki, Gerhard Gutberlet, Ed Zacharias, Nicholas Young, ...
Recommended for 16 years and over
User RatingWickedness and Guitars – a true indie thriller
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*NEW* My Life Part 2
Germany 2003, Length 90 min
D: Angelika Levi
User RatingFilmmaker Angelika Levi explores her German Christian-Jewish family heritage through the archives of photographs, audio tapes and films collected by her mother, who, after surviving Nazi Germany, emigrated to Chile in 1947, only to return to Germany ten years later.
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Der Adler ist fort (The Eagle Is Gone)
Germany, 21 min.
D: Mario Mentrup, Volker Sattel*NEW* Der Adler ist fort (The Eagle Is Gone)
Germany 2010, Length 21 min
D: Mario Mentrup, Volker Sattel
Featuring: Bennet Togler, Sophia Larsson-Ocklind, Christoph Bach
User RatingFebruary, 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 .
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PiN2011 – Recollection of the Street
Germany, 53 min.
D: Torsten Königs*NEW* PiN2011 – Recollection of the Street
Germany 2009, Length 53 min
D: Torsten Königs
User RatingStreetArtist 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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