{"title": "Esther", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Cinestar Cubix am Alexanderplatz", "address": "Rathausstraße 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "music"], "description": "„Esther“ is a documentary about the singer Esther Ofarim, one of Israel's best-known vocalists. Director Shaked Goren approaches her through phone conversations between Tel Aviv and Germany. Combining personal memories with rare archival material, the film creates a multifaceted portrait of a woman celebrated across Europe who increasingly became an outsider in her native Israel. In 2026 it was screened at the Jerusalem Film Festival and Docaviv, winning awards for Best Director and Best Editing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/esther-91850/", "official_url": "https://www.cinestar.de/kino-berlin-cubix-am-alexanderplatz/veranstaltung-esther-originalversion-hebr-dt-engl-mit-engl-ut", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2ce6e115ab0b11d08e4e31ca82a1f39ba03a26c5477400391e071f96303ef3fb-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Cinestar Cubix am Alexanderplatz", "address": "Rathausstraße 1, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Naza", "start": "2026-11-04T15:10:00+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/documentary", "history/israel-palestine"], "description": "The documentary \"Naza\" investigates the military structures, decision-making processes and technologies behind Israel's warfare in Gaza. Over three years, Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor spoke with relatives of the military and intelligence services. 24 Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers appear in the film anonymized and digitally altered. The film had its world premiere in the competition of the Venice Film Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/naza-9066/", "official_url": "https://ilkino.de/shows/2026-10-17-1400", "image": "https://noky.io/images/38c301c1c95e39f6363ba1532a69718845b3706504a424d21a3b940bb1942d86-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Alexander Estis und das Trio Scho", "start": "2026-11-15T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Neue Synagoge", "address": "Oranienburger Straße 28-30, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/world/klezmer", "literature"], "description": "An evening of literature and music with writer Alexander Estis and the Trio Scho at the New Synagogue. For Estis, Schmonzes is far more than chatter or nonsense: even the origin of the world is, in his writing, a question of interpretation, and therein lies the appeal of his literature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/alexander-estis-und-das-trio-scho-24662/", "official_url": "https://papagena-shop.comfortticket.de/de/veranstaltung/30cfe244-bfa6-4516-a159-2f4362c14792/3000", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5b93d1a16fe0e8fed07d9115a20e80d207ea07157aff259e5be32d116bcc9cd-600.webp"}, {"title": "Genya", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bundesplatz-Kino", "address": "Bundesplatz 14, 10715 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/holocaust"], "description": "„Genya“ is a film premiere: the first screening of a documentary about Yevheniia (Genya) Sydorova, one of the last surviving women of the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women. The event is organized by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ), which presents the film on the occasion of its 25th anniversary under the motto „KEINE ZEIT ZU VERGESSEN“ (no time to forget). The Ukrainian director Lesya Kharchenko accompanied Genya during the last months of her life, showing how she dealt with violence and loss – memories of her father's execution, her deportation and her forced labor in Germany are part of her story. At its center is the question of whether forgiveness after the unforgivable is possible; afterwards, the director and invited guests discuss the film in a panel talk.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/genya-79854/", "official_url": "https://www.bundesplatz-kino.de/film.php?mid=4999", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4172e9f6899cf583e6b1d9ada886fa0053b510aeb3dea377414c0073bc5671f5-2000.webp"}, {"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": "Mein Berlin - ein Ort mit Gedächtnis?", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-09T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "KulturMarktHalle", "address": "Hanns-Eisler-Straße 93, 10409 Berlin", "price": "kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "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": "Einar Schleef – Ich habe kein Deutschland gefunden", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bundesplatz-Kino", "address": "Bundesplatz 14, 10715 Berlin", "price": "€7 – €9 (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "stage/theatre"], "description": "The documentary „Einar Schleef – Ich habe kein Deutschland gefunden“ portrays the theater-maker and all-round artist Einar Schleef, who died far too early in 2001, having fled from the East and never arrived in the West. Director Sandra Prechtel composed a richly faceted portrait from historical footage, interviews and archive material of a defiant loner with an enfant terrible reputation. The film tells of theater, the repressive mechanisms of postwar society and, unlike familiar accounts, of German-German reality. It premiered in the Forum of the 2026 Berlinale and won the Documentary Audience Award at the NFF and the CLIO Award 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/einar-schleef-ich-habe-kein-deutschland-gefunden-8525/", "official_url": "https://www.filmgalerie451.de/de/filme/einar-schleef-ich-habe-kein-deutschland-gefunden", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f69baadd571de498be47814603860def6ae0169f7a72db07b098e04de4705e1b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "INTERFILM42: The Future - With Solidarity, Resistance and the Gaze of the Camera", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ACUDkino", "address": "Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/activism"], "description": "„INTERFILM42: The Future - With Solidarity, Resistance and the Gaze of the Camera“ is a film event at the ACUDkino cinema in Berlin-Mitte. Across six documentaries, the act of looking itself becomes visible as a political act. The event explores how, in a time when even looking is political, documentary filmmaking can turn into activist filmmaking. One of the documentaries shows a woman filming the evacuated Tehran.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/interfilm42-the-future-with-solidarity-resistance-and-the-ga-24527/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2ebd3a9cb6b967b32ca552bc12d079c25936799db4e5df5d7655684b74f2d8ee-600.webp"}, {"title": "Filme gegen das Vergessen", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kino Toni", "address": "Antonplatz 1 13086 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "Films against forgetting: the programme forms part of the seventh Jewish Film Days at the Kino Toni cinema in Berlin-Weißensee. It includes titles such as „Jakob der Lügner“, „Das siebte Kreuz“, „Zwischenfall in Benderath“, „Hotel Polan und seine Gäste“ and two films about the Comedian Harmonists. The week sets a sign against antisemitism, hatred between peoples and the forgetting of history, and is supported by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. Every screening is followed by a film discussion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/filme-gegen-das-vergessen-97056/", "official_url": "https://www.rosalux.de/veranstaltung/es_detail/2K6G9/filme-gegen-das-vergessen?cHash=5992eb9d63fe5de026c7309c81d28052", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a466bebe8a42f5e2bbc284795c74127cb299f3d0c98dd27471ec2f518f2224e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Haiyu", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Stadtteilladen Rote Lilly", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history"], "description": "A film evening with a following exchange about Western Sahara. It is organized by Migrantifa Berlin as part of the Aktionswochen Westsahara (action weeks). The film shown is „Haiyu“, about the Sahrawi singer Mariem Hassan and the occupation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/haiyu-92153/", "official_url": "https://gegenmacht.jetzt/events/haiyu-filmabend-zur-westsahara/", "image": ""}, {"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": "Palästina zwischen Augen: Ich sehe was, was Du nicht siehst (Teil 1)", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK)", "address": "Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11-13, 10178 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "film"], "description": "A film screening within the programme „Palästina zwischen Augen“ at nGbK, a society for visual arts in Berlin. It was curated by Fadi Abdelnour in cooperation with ALFILM. Admission is free, and an awareness team is available at all events.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/palastina-zwischen-augen-ich-sehe-was-was-du-nicht-siehst-te-10277/", "official_url": "https://ngbk.de/de/programm/termine/palaestina-zwischen-augen-ich-sehe-was-was-du-nicht-siehst-teil-1", "image": ""}]}