{"title": "Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992", "start": "2026-11-16T20:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/racism"], "description": "Lichtblick-Kino screens the documentary “Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992” (OmeU) by Dagmar Schultz, followed by the short film “Witness History – Ika Hügel-Marshall”. The film documents a little-known chapter in the life of the Black lesbian writer Audre Lorde: her influence on Berlin’s political and cultural scene from 1984 to 1992. It explores how she encouraged Afro-Germans to make themselves visible in a culture that had left them isolated and voiceless, and how the Afro-German and anti-racist movements emerged before and after reunification. For the first time, Schultz’s archival video and audio recordings are being made available to a wide public.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/audre-lorde-the-berlin-years-1984-to-1992-9403/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/special/audre-lorde-the-berlin-years-1984-1992-witness-history/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ff1f458857a030c49c3c07b98042774ab999fe421d3cba73d722d08c9c241f55-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-16T20:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Once Upon a time in Harlem", "start": "2026-11-11T21:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sinema Transtopia", "address": "Lindower Straße 20/22", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://booking.cinetixx.de/frontend/index.html?cinemaId=2317182724&showId=3684908187&bgswitch=false", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "The cinema on Lindower Straße hosts the German premiere of \"Once Upon a Time in Harlem\", a film built from unseen material from 1972. Back then, filmmaker William Greaves invited artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance to a filmed afternoon at Duke Ellington's townhouse, which remained unseen for more than five decades. In 2026 his son David Greaves turned it into a film about art, politics and Black life in the USA. The conversation recalls jazz, literature, photography and theatre and asks how these memories continue to resonate today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/once-upon-a-time-in-harlem-9971/", "official_url": "https://sinematranstopia.com/de/sinelection/once-upon-a-time-in-harlem", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4b779f6f218783daa24716208d2c32bcf562536be75fbc48e3a6a3d89d162ade-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lube Visions – Perverting the Erotic as Power - Expanded Visions of Porn.", "start": "2026-11-01T21:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sinema Transtopia", "address": "Lindower Straße 20/22", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://booking.cinetixx.de/frontend/index.html?cinemaId=2317182724&showId=3683774228&bgswitch=false", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/erotic"], "description": "\"Lube Visions: Perverting the Erotic as Power: Expanded Visions of Porn.\" is a short film programme of eight erotic and pornographic films. Taking Audre Lorde's essay \"The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power\" as its starting point, it shows how expanded pornography crosses gender boundaries and can wrest power over sexuality and sex work from the patriarchal-neoliberal state. The films carry the body as the first site of the political into the street, the imagination, the digital and the archive, from insights into sex work to confronting the rise of the far right in Germany. The programme is part of the Common Visions Berlin film series at Sinema Transtopia.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lube-visions-perverting-the-erotic-as-power-expanded-visions-24022/", "official_url": "https://sinematranstopia.com/de/common-visions-berlin/lube-visions-perverting-the-erotic-as-power", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fd4a41a2c2251a0a7f5ce8b776437039296243586f57137bf90445799909d774-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Being Hipp – First Lady of European Jazz", "start": "2026-11-01T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Delphi LUX", "address": "Kantstraße 10, 10623 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "music/jazz"], "description": "The documentary \"Being Hipp – First Lady of European Jazz\" portrays the German jazz pianist Jutta Hipp, the first European musician to release records on the legendary Blue Note label. It tells of her rise in the 1950s from Germany to New York, her break with the scene and her retreat into private life. More than a music biography, it is a portrait of self-assertion, artistic integrity and the price of female independence. The short film \"Dream Baby Dream\" screens beforehand, followed by a talk with director Anna Schmidt and Nadin Deventer, head of Jazzfest Berlin, in cooperation with Jazzfest Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/being-hipp-first-lady-of-european-jazz-8934/", "official_url": "https://www.yorck.de/specials/special-being-hipp-first-lady-of-european-jazz", "image": "https://noky.io/images/56fc4eb3186bc19fa7cf1a38c729f7872299fe3c5f457bcbc4c390fab2a3194c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Theater, Filmscreening & Konzert I Jazzfest Community Week", "start": "2026-10-31T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Café Kulturfabrik", "address": "Lehrter Straße 35, 10557 Berlin", "price": "frei / Theater 5 €", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.infield.live/event/undini-uncut-my57qq", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["stage/theatre/shadow-theatre", "film/documentary", "music/jazz"], "description": "A community Saturday at Kulturfabrik Moabit combining a queer shadow theatre piece, a film screening and an open session. The programme features UNDINI Uncut, in which three performers reimagine the little mermaid fairy tale through circus, dance, drag and live music, the Oscar-nominated documentary essay Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat by Johan Grimonprez on jazz, the Cold War and colonial power, and Kiez-Session #5 with students of the Jazz Institut Berlin, open for anyone musical to join. The film tells of African independence struggles in the 1960s and the murder of Patrice Lumumba. The theatre piece is aimed at children aged four and up and their families.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/theater-filmscreening-konzert-i-jazzfest-community-week-75831/", "official_url": "https://kulturfabrik-moabit.de/theater-filmscreening-konzert-i-jazzfest-community-week/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ee2dc402fecc2982d1524f86cb556389491b0d1f13f488cc8207945223066d0f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Schönheit & Vergänglichkeit", "start": "2026-11-04T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/schoenheit-und-vergaenglichkeit", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/photography", "film/documentary"], "description": "The documentary »Schönheit & Vergänglichkeit« portrays photographer and bouncer Sven Marquardt and two friends from East Berlin's punk era, Dominique »Dome« Hollenstein and Robert Paris. Director Annekatrin Hendel tells of their shared youth in the East, of photography, night and excess, and of how the three stayed true to themselves through the city's transformation and growing older. The film is also a declaration of love to a constantly changing city and deals with the longing for individuality, friendship and love.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/schonheit-verganglichkeit-9402/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/schoenheit-und-vergaenglichkeit/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/035899931f27ded53f50d018d5497a6fc0c5834250ee835bf79cb3de51d9ddde-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mein Berlin - ein Ort mit Gedächtnis?", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "KulturMarktHalle", "address": "Hanns-Eisler-Straße 93, 10409 Berlin", "price": "kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/berlin-bike-berliner-mauertour-mit-dem-fahrrad#/experience/BTM00020101074869526", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/antisemitism"], "description": "\"Mein Berlin - ein Ort mit Gedächtnis?\" is a film offering an artistic and journalistic approach to the uncertainty that many Berlin Jews have experienced since October 7, 2023. It portraits six Jewish people living in Berlin without showing their faces; the renunciation of identifiability is both a protective measure and part of the artistic concept. The camera stays close but never revealing, observing movements, gestures and living spaces, showing apartments, workplaces, family objects and favorite places in the city. At a time when antisemitism is becoming visible and more radical again in Germany, the film looks not only at those affected but also at the majority society – at its reactions, withheld empathy, distance and silence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/mein-berlin-ein-ort-mit-gedachtnis-20445/", "official_url": "https://www.kulturmarkthalle.berlin/event-details/film-mein-berlin-ein-ort-mit-gedachtnis", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f73b455b1470f0057773d4f06131c621ad7cc9ce52444fb1b8938abe5476a194-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Uferfrauen - Dokumentarfilm über lesbisches L(i)eben in der DDR", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bettina-von-Arnim-Bibliothek", "address": "Schönhauser Allee 75, 10439 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/gdr", "society/queer"], "description": "“Uferfrauen – Lesbisches L(i)eben in der DDR” is an award-winning documentary film. It was made by Barbara Wallbraun and is about lesbian life in the GDR. The screening takes place at the Bettina-von-Arnim-Bibliothek.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/uferfrauen-dokumentarfilm-uber-lesbisches-lieben-in-der-ddr-20419/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=295265&ls=0&c=22&v_ort=37538&stichwort=Uferfrauen&date_start=12.10.2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8fd7cbca01a9b28c8a570da830be61f9683cef6551643f36667a5bec1f296f0d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Former East / Former West", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/naza/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/reunification"], "description": "A documentary based on hundreds of street interviews conducted in Berlin two years after reunification, showing what it meant to be German at that particular point in history. The New York artist Shelly Silver questions the notion of a shared language by focusing on shifting definitions of political and economic terms such as democracy, freedom, capitalism and socialism, and of words describing nations and identities such as nationality, Germany, history, foreigner and home. She explores the tension between the public and the private, the narrative and the documentary, and the relationship between subject and object of contemplation. Her works have been exhibited worldwide, including at MoMA in New York, the Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/former-east-former-west-9413/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/former-east-former-west/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4028d731bd9108dfb1c3260ecf594c4de98ab8cd86c08b949f38e6fe66a16f0e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Künstlerinnengespräche", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "GEDOK Berlin", "address": "Suarezstraße 57, 14057 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "Artists' talks taking place as part of the exhibition “Women support Women – 100 Jahre GEDOK”. Fifteen artists of GEDOK Berlin, selected by a jury, have created new works especially for the project, spanning painting, photography, video, installation, performance and sculpture. In the talks they explore the history of the association, which was founded in 1926 by Ida Dehmel, and ask about forms of solidarity and visibility among women artists. At the GEDOK gallery, the creation and development processes of the contemporary works are set in relation to the association's history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kunstlerinnengesprache-45230/", "official_url": "https://gedokberlin.de/galerie-gedok-berlin/ausstellungen/336-neuaufnahmen-2027", "image": "https://noky.io/images/33ac285c0e6b56dee5d4bc4e75450d21031b25f1e93c6c5ff19172dbd1977323-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Die Allee", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ACUDkino", "address": "Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/berlin"], "description": "The documentary \"Die Allee\" follows a journey along Berlin's Karl-Marx-Allee, from its significance as an ensemble of architecture to the traces of German history and the filmmaker's personal connection to this street. Director Sven Boeck, who already made a first film about the boulevard in 1991, portrays a street full of utopias, upheavals and memories, whose protagonists of that time are now dead. Sven Boeck is present and will talk with the audience. The film is shown in its German version.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-allee-8530/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/41be532c9bec14c4fef4dcafa73c17f109740d92409e2306ae91f8fe5af19a90-600.webp"}, {"title": "Gestern Mitte Morgen", "start": "2026-11-10T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/schoenheit-und-vergaenglichkeit/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "The documentary »Gestern Mitte Morgen – Yesterday Mitte Tomorrow« is a portrait of the alternative culture scenes in Berlin's central district of Mitte after 1989. It was written, directed, shot and edited by Peter Zach, who will be present; it was produced by PZF Produktion in co-production with ZDF – Kleines Fernsehspiel, featuring Mark Ates, Guy Bettini, Christine Hill, Yuko Kaseki and Sasha Waltz, among others. In the early 1990s, in the so-called Spandauer Vorstadt near Friedrichstrasse, young international artists found an affordable, freely inhabitable space in the empty houses of the former border zone, a freedom that had already vanished in their expensive home countries. The film tells of these people, the places they lived, their longings, everyday life and their art – of those who lived almost without money and felt this part of Berlin to be their personal centre of the world.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gestern-mitte-morgen-48539/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/gestern-mitte-morgen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/848dac6e6d247f1160c5fe5761bfb12f85089bdedbdf27100b26978c9d0bee19-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Zwischen Herkunft und neuem Zuhause", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Dokumentationszentrum)", "address": "Bernauer Straße 111, 13355 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "The film „Die noch unbekannten Tage“ by filmmaker Jola Wieczorek is a cinematic journey of remembrance into the 1980s. At its center is the story of her family and their emigration from Poland to Austria. The filmmaker asks how a key event in her own family might have turned out differently and what it would be like to look at the details of the past today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause-11960/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/programm/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause?date=2026-11-10T18%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/69f4f1336e055102790bff38eb82a5e89baad1ca2c3b80be395c5541c6149b06-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Go Clara Go", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Willy-Brandt-Haus", "address": "Wilhelmstr. 140 10963 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei | Ausweis erforderlich", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/events-ticket-tipps-berlin", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/gdr"], "description": "The Freundeskreis Willy-Brandt-Haus presents the documentary “Go Clara Go” about the artists’ group Clara Mosch, who together with the cooperatively run Galerie Oben proved from the 1970s onward that art in the GDR could be free. The film was made by director Sylvie Kürsten, who traces the creative energy of this legendary GDR parallel world on the edge of the Saxon Erzgebirge together with its protagonists of the time. Her documentary “Go Clara Go: die Kunst des kreativen Widerstands” reveals an extraordinary chapter of East German art history, one that attracted many fans but also Stasi informers. After the screening there will be a panel discussion with the director and Gunnar Barthel, the former head of the Galerie Oben.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/go-clara-go-24472/", "official_url": "https://www.fkwbh.de/veranstaltung/go-clara-go", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0512b0c299e3a1483d4a047695c3f962475a8fb36265890567a44ffd1aa25f50-600.webp"}, {"title": "Dore Jacobs - Bewegung spricht", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bundesplatz Studio", "address": "Bundesplatz 14, 10715 Berlin", "price": "10,-- €", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.bundesplatz-kino.de/reservierung.php?vid=20690", "category": "", "tags": [], "description": "„Dore Jacobs - Bewegung spricht“ is a documentary film essay about the reform pedagogue Dore Jacobs (1894–1979), who understood the movement of the body as an expression of freedom, dignity and community. The film by Gerburg Fuchs follows her life through the upheavals of the 20th century, from her childhood in a liberal Jewish family in Essen via the reform movement in Hellerau to persecution under National Socialism and the resumption of her work after 1945. Previously unpublished archive material and historical places combine with present-day images in a cinematic search for the traces of an extraordinary idea. Dore Jacobs herself, companions and contemporary witnesses report on their experiences.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/dore-jacobs-bewegung-spricht-8782/", "official_url": "http://www.bundesplatz-kino.de/film.php?mid=4963", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0245079d2be26ae85ed15c6a2a06fb383f12d4c4a536131b4efb751a7d7685a1-600.webp"}, {"title": "Frauen in Berlin", "start": "2026-11-01T20:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T22:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "1, 13086 Berlin", "price": "€10 – €12 (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.weeztix.com/c29b8e71-d3b2-47e3-9647-f07922f530cd/tickets?shop_code=gn76wf5j", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/gdr"], "description": "The documentary \"Frauen in Berlin\" shows relaxed, unprompted conversations with women from different (East) Berlin milieus, mostly in the kitchen, about care, having children, work, housing and love in the GDR. Shot in 1981, the material only survived because it was secretly taken from the film school, projected onto an improvised screen and filmed onto VHS. Behind the film is the Indian director and film student Chetna Vora, born in 1958 in Palitana, who studied at the film school in Potsdam-Babelsberg. The recently restored version is shown in the presence of Neelesha and Lars Barthel with a partly live musical score by Tara Leiberg.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/frauen-in-berlin-67576/", "official_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/veranstaltung/frauen-in-berlin/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/78f6bd70829cd95b77bba7c1f27e32662d697f9c563999b5091b80ce594984df-1200.webp"}, {"title": "DOKUMENTARFILM MAL ANDERS", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturhaus Karlshorst", "address": "Treskowallee 112, 10318 Berlin", "price": "5 € / Ermäßigt 3 €", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history"], "description": "A documentary film titled „Grenzland“ is being shown. Andreas Voigt wrote it and directed it. The 2020 film is about home and belonging in the German-Polish border region. Admission costs 5 €, reduced 3 €.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/dokumentarfilm-mal-anders-33801/", "official_url": "https://karlshorst.de/event/dokumentarfilm-mal-anders-grenzland/", "image": ""}]}