{"title": "Gerdas Schweigen", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hackesche Höfe Kino", "address": "Rosenthaler Straße 40-41, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/holocaust"], "description": "\"Gerdas Schweigen\" is a documentary by Britta Wauer. In 1967, Gerda, a Jewish survivor of the Nazi era and a former neighbour, visits the Elstermann family in East Berlin. Seven-year-old Knut asks about her child, but Gerda remains silent. Decades later, Knut Elstermann sets out to find answers, tracing Gerda's life, memory and living on after persecution.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gerdas-schweigen-91930/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/49fc4847ce6f2a4c1e201445e36156f5bf1f0e3e487e9c34a99d11ae8faf1455-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hackesche Höfe Kino", "address": "Rosenthaler Straße 40-41, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Genya", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bundesplatz Studio", "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": "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": "Jetzt leben – Juden in Berlin", "start": "2026-11-14T18:00:00+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", "society/identity"], "description": "Helma Sanders-Brahms' 1994 documentary portrays a Jewish family that immigrated from Odessa to Berlin. In long conversations, father, mother and son reflect on German-Jewish history; sixteen-year-old Leonard speaks openly about belonging, exclusion and responsibility and develops a self-confident relationship to his Jewishness. In the face of right-wing extremist tendencies, he sees his life in Berlin as a deliberate statement. According to Sanders-Brahms, the film avoids folklore, rituals and political statements, asking the viewer to engage long and intensively with three people who came to Berlin from Odessa nine years earlier.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/jetzt-leben-juden-in-berlin-12742/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/zeughauskino/vorfuehrung/default-title-14763/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ad849b2bfd980c36e4dd5c4c59541a761def315e257f3ba2d5debc3b9866d396-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Herzbergmaschine", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+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", "literature/poetry"], "description": "„Herzbergmaschine“ is a documentary trilogy by Sven Boeck about the Jewish poet Gertrud Kolmar. The first part follows the descriptions of places and paths in Kolmar's letters and searches for them in today's Berlin; the other two parts deal with her sister Hilde Wenzel, who keeps a dream diary in Swiss exile, and her niece Sabina Wenzel, who talks about her aunt and the family in Paraty. The parts tell of Kolmar's forced labour in a Berlin cardboard factory, where she finds the last love of her life, and of the scars and wounds of the survivors. The director will be present; there is a film talk.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/herzbergmaschine-8526/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8806a0bfb1334185a529cb425c029f7c7dd8b59d5a1b00a580e8c0ec0a9347c4-600.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", "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": "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": "„Makellose Helden und passive Opfer?“ Die filmische Rezeption von Rettungswiderstand während der Shoah in Spielfilmen von den 1940er Jahren bis heute", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand", "address": "Stauffenbergstraße 13-14", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/history", "history/holocaust"], "description": "A public lecture at the Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand (German Resistance Memorial Center) on how feature films have depicted aid to and rescue of persecuted Jews during the Shoah. Dr. Nicolas Moll analyses cinema and television films from Europe and the USA from the 1940s to today, with Steven Spielberg's \"Schindler's List\" from 1993 as a landmark in rising public interest. Uta Fröhlich of the Gedenkstätte Stille Helden gives the welcome and moderates, and a discussion follows the talk. The event is part of Berlin Freedom Week 2026; registration by email is requested by 10 November 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/makellose-helden-und-passive-opfer-die-filmische-rezeption-v-22558/", "official_url": "https://www.gdw-berlin.de/angebote/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung/event/1554-makellose-helden-und-passive-opfer-die-filmische-rezeption-von-rettungswiderstand-waehrend-der-shoah-in-spielfilmen-von-den-1940er-jahren-bis-heute", "image": ""}, {"title": "Das Ungesagte", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bali Kino", "address": "Teltower Damm 33, 14169 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": [], "description": "“Das Ungesagte” is a documentary about the silence that fell over Germans after 1945, when the Nazi era became taboo in nearly every family. Taking a psychological approach, the film explores what people at the time actually thought and felt. It asks how they today judge their own participation in and involvement with the Nazi regime. Behind the film is the directing team of Patricia Hector and Lothar Herzog.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/das-ungesagte-8931/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0ef32dabd809feda83b4163729f52932047d92322bbfbe27d8a4d055764e1ead-2000.webp"}, {"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": "ZEIT-Recherchen: War Opa ein Nazi?", "start": "2026-11-09T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Ensemble", "address": "Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "16/9 EURO", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "\"ZEIT-Recherchen: War Opa ein Nazi?\" is a talk as part of a discourse event on the anniversary of the November pogroms of 1938. Caterina Lobenstein speaks with Götz Aly and Christian Staas, in cooperation with DIE ZEIT. Millions of Germans were in the Wehrmacht and the NSDAP, yet many of their descendants knew nothing about it; recently anyone can search the membership files for relatives with just a few clicks. The discussion asks what looking into one's own family reveals about German culture of remembrance, when coming to terms with the past becomes honest confrontation or merely a soothing ritual, and how remembrance changes as more Germans have no personal connection to the Nazi era.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zeit-recherchen-war-opa-ein-nazi-3781/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/zeit-recherchen-war-opa-ein-nazi", "image": "https://noky.io/images/75b21b28fad8ef289a588522ebde26e73b59e215f54fa8e020ae894cc2067f44-600.webp"}, {"title": "Frauen in Berlin", "start": "2026-11-01T20:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T22:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin", "price": "€10 – €12 (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "12.00", "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": "„Sonntagskind“", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Theater am Park", "address": "Frankenholzer Weg 4, 12683 Berlin", "price": "8 Euro", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "\"Sonntagskind\" is a documentary film being shown in a screening at Gutshaus Mahlsdorf. The film was made by director Carmen Bärwaldt and is about Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. Registrations are requested; a phone number is given for this.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sonntagskind-89631/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}