{"title": "Der Diplomat", "start": "2026-11-08T15:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bundesplatz Studio", "address": "Bundesplatz 14, 10715 Berlin", "price": "10,-- €", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["society/politics/foreign-policy", "film/documentary", "history/wwii"], "description": "Der Diplomat (1994) is a documentary about the French diplomat Stéphane Hessel. The filmmakers behind it are directors Antje Starost, Hans Helmut Grotjahn and Manfred Flügge. It tells of Hessel's path as a Resistance fighter, survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp and diplomat at the founding of the UN, and also portrays him as a poet, essayist and cosmopolitan. His 2010 essay \"Indignez Vous!\" made him a symbol of the \"Occupy movement\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/der-diplomat-8783/", "official_url": "https://www.bundesplatz-kino.de/film.php?mid=2236", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bc0799b003318558e38cf71074fc576ab98d27c1365f3d649750e25e96b4a446-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-08T15:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bundesplatz Studio", "address": "Bundesplatz 14, 10715 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-08T15:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bundesplatz-Kino", "address": "Bundesplatz 14, 10715 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Bilder der Verbrecher", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Regenbogenfabrik", "address": "Lausitzer Straße 21a, 10999 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei, Spenden willkommen", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/holocaust"], "description": "„Ein Spezialist“ by Eyal Sivan is a documentary assembled entirely from original footage of the 1961 Eichmann trial in Jerusalem. From around 500 hours of video, of which 350 hours survive today, it builds an absorbing portrait of the defendant Adolf Eichmann, accused of the mass deportation of people, mostly Jews, to the extermination camps. Guided by Hannah Arendt's notion of the „Banalität des Bösen“, the film shows Eichmann not as a monster but as an unremarkable bureaucrat hiding behind procedural rules. The screening is framed by a short introduction and a concluding discussion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/bilder-der-verbrecher-73102/", "official_url": "https://regenbogenfabrik.de/bilder-der-verbrecher/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a408e723b5c698c1dff05acdbc3c83638676695b07f78c56397095a3c45602e6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Ein Spezialist", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bildungswerk Berlin der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung", "address": "Olivaer Platz 16, 10707 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/holocaust"], "description": "Eyal Sivan's film \"Ein Spezialist\" assembles solely original footage from the 1961 Eichmann trial into an intense portrait of the accused. It draws on previously unpublished material from the four trial cameras, of which 350 of the roughly 500 recorded hours survive today. Guided by Hannah Arendt's notion of the \"banality of evil\", the film shows Eichmann not as a monster but as an unremarkable bureaucrat who hides behind procedural rules and filing regulations. It makes visible how organised mass murder could function as an administrative act.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ein-spezialist-21937/", "official_url": "https://calendar.boell.de/de/event/der-prozess-als-bild-adolf-eichmann-vor-gericht-der-film-ein-spezialist", "image": ""}, {"title": "2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß", "start": "2026-11-16T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bildungswerk Berlin der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung", "address": "Olivaer Platz 16, 10707 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "The evening shows Malte Ludin's documentary \"2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß\", framed by a short introduction and a concluding discussion with historian Sophia Schmitz and social scientist Dirk Reinink. In the film, the director approaches his own father, the Nazi diplomat Hanns Ludin, whom Hitler sent to Slovakia in 1941 as envoy to enforce Berlin's interests, above all the \"Final Solution\". Sixty years after the end of the war, the director and his siblings speak openly about repression, loyalty and shame within their family, while relatives embellish, deny or suppress the truth about the father. The film is a rare and unsparing document of how the Nazi past continues to affect later generations and how differently one family can deal with the same history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/2-oder-3-dinge-die-ich-von-ihm-wei-21940/", "official_url": "https://calendar.boell.de/de/event/der-vater-das-schweigen-und-reden-film-2-oder-3-dinge-die-ich-von-ihm-weiss", "image": ""}, {"title": "Das Himmler-Projekt", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zeughauskino", "address": "Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "„Das Himmler-Projekt“ is a documentary in which actor Manfred Zapatka, at a lectern, reads the transcript of a speech by Heinrich Himmler before 92 SS officers, created from the original audio recording. The secret speeches from Posen are known today because they openly speak of the murder of Jews, Soviet prisoners of war and forced labourers. Director Romuald Karmakar confines himself to a few changes of shot size and camera perspective. Film historian Tilman Schumacher introduces the screening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/das-himmler-projekt-10168/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/zeughauskino/vorfuehrung/default-title-14835/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5ab2562a095cffcf263ea675461eb4c7157d91a6f96eaa30011fddb6993d3b17-1200.webp"}, {"title": "\"Bilder der Verbrecher\" – Filmische Blicke auf Täter im Nationalsozialismus | im RegenbogenKino", "start": "2026-11-16T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "RegenbogenKino", "address": "Lausitzer Straße 21a, 10999 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei, Spenden willkommen", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "A screening with a short introduction and a following discussion, showing „2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß“ by director Malte Ludin. The film takes as its starting point the filmmaker's own father, the Nazi diplomat Hanns Ludin, whom Hitler sent in 1941 as envoy to Slovakia to enforce Berlin's interests there, above all the „Endlösung“. After the war Hanns Ludin was handed over, sentenced to death and executed in 1947. Together with his siblings and relatives, the director speaks openly about denial, loyalty and shame within his own family, asking whether the father was a hero and martyr or a criminal.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/bilder-der-verbrecher-filmische-blicke-auf-tater-im-national-96879/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c7cfd982ec87ccb66a9a6e4d37179fce25438688ff6403db252ab633b51dec5d-600.webp"}, {"title": "„Bilder der Verbrecher – filmische Blicke auf Täter im Nationalsozialismus\"", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Bildungswerk Berlin der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung", "address": "Olivaer Platz 16, 10707 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei, Spenden willkommen", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/holocaust"], "description": "The documentary „Ein Spezialist“ by Eyal Sivan assembles exclusively original footage of the 1961 Eichmann trial into a haunting portrait of the defendant. From roughly 500 hours of recorded trial material, of which 350 hours survive, the film concentrates on previously unpublished visual documents. Guided by Hannah Arendt's notion of the „banality of evil“, it shows Eichmann not as a demonic monster but as an unremarkable bureaucrat hiding behind procedural rules. The screening is embedded in a short introduction and a concluding discussion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/bilder-der-verbrecher-filmische-blicke-auf-tater-im-national-13288/", "official_url": "https://www.bildungswerk-boell.de/de/bilder-der-verbrecher-filmische-blicke-auf-taeter-im-nationalsozialismus", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7f6544c3fe093d8c76cbec2fa4a69ac637e23d258ea170b85e76b5b48349d716-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Die Wannseekonferenz", "start": "2026-11-18T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hackesche Höfe Kino", "address": "Rosenthaler Straße 40-41, 10178 Berlin", "price": "ab 12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/holocaust"], "description": "„Die Wannseekonferenz“ is a feature film by Matti Geschonneck that retraces, almost in real time, the meeting of high-ranking Nazi representatives held on 20 January 1942 in a villa on the Großer Wannsee. Reinhard Heydrich had invited them to coordinate the so-called „Final Solution of the Jewish Question“ – the systematic murder of Europe's Jews. The film follows the minutes recorded by Adolf Eichmann and turns the bureaucratic language and organisation of mass murder into the subject of a chilling chamber drama. It stars Philipp Hochmair, Johannes Allmayer and Maximilian Brückner, among others.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-wannseekonferenz-45244/", "official_url": "https://www.hoefekino.de/filme/die-wannseekonferenz-53165/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/910de510d7a577e953497b0df84eebd01d797b8cff6a64a25840125fc8fd39c0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Against All Borders – The Film Director Agnieszka Holland", "start": "2026-11-17T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen", "address": "Mauerstraße 79", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "An evening talk with a film screening at the museum for film and television. It centres on the director Agnieszka Holland, whose films tell of power, exclusion and resistance, and who is celebrated and awarded for them but also attacked. The film portrait ›Gegen alle Grenzen‹ by Alice Agneskirchner follows the director and long-standing president of the European Film Academy and her work from Warsaw via Prague, Paris and Hollywood back to Poland. Holland and Agneskirchner will be present, and the English-language conversation is moderated by the institution's director.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/against-all-borders-the-film-director-agnieszka-holland-22216/", "official_url": "https://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/de/besuch/programm/against-all-borders-film-director-agnieszka-holland", "image": "https://noky.io/images/505198ea217c73909f8fec592ffb21a06a6804e5fb153f199024c3e4c28dfe99-1200.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, "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": "Das Deutsche Volk", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T22:00:00+01:00", "place": "Ulme 35", "address": "Ulmenallee 35, 14050 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei, Reservierung erforderlich", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/racism"], "description": "An interculture cinema evening with a documentary about the racist attack in Hanau on 19 February 2020, in which nine young people were murdered. The event is run by Interkulturanstalten Westend e.V.; the film is by director Marcin Wierzchowski, who for four years accompanied the victims' families and survivors in their fight for justice and recognition. The film makes structural racism visible – both in the attack itself and in the authorities' treatment of the bereaved – and asks who belongs to Germany. A talk with the director follows the screening; admission is free with a reservation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/das-deutsche-volk-90017/", "official_url": "https://interkulturanstalten.de/events/das-deutsche-volk-interkulturkino/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/980acf0d5dac01ba4ba741fdda2e5d56f38eb63c339191e8bdbea73e9a1b7fcc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Asche und Phoenix", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kotti Nachbarschaftsladen", "address": "Adalbertstraße 95a, 10999 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history"], "description": "A film evening with a documentary about the German theologian Johannes Lepsius, who stood up for the persecuted during the genocide of the Armenians. Using historical documents and following the route of the death marches through Turkey and the Syrian desert, the film traces his path and connects this history with the situation of Armenians in Turkey today. The documentary was made by Merlyn Solakhan and Manfred Blank. It was produced in 2009 in Germany and runs 95 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/asche-und-phoenix-72751/", "official_url": "https://kotti-berlin.de/Veranstaltung/filmabend-mit-akebi-e-v-asche-und-phoenix/?instance_id=61066", "image": ""}]}