{"title": "INTERFILM42: In Conversation with Talal Afifi: What Can a Militant Image Do? Sudan, Political Cinema and the Conditions of Visibility", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne - Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/events-ticket-tipps-berlin", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/sudan"], "description": "INTERFILM42 hosts a conversation with Sudanese film curator and producer Talal Afifi on militant cinema, political film in Sudan and the conditions of visibility. He founded the Sudan Film Factory and the Sudan Independent Film Festival and has long championed independent Sudanese filmmaking, most recently with the documentary KHARTOUM (2025). The talk asks what militant film can mean today – not as a genre or visual style, but as the relationships between filmmakers and the communities they work with, and between production, financing, presentation and political responsibility. Film excerpts from Sudanese films, which can become forms of collective memory, refusal and political agency, accompany the conversation, held in curatorial collaboration with Sudan Film Factory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/interfilm42-in-conversation-with-talal-afifi-what-can-a-mili-30521/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/interfilm-42/20261112-1900/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4250318f32fd1f3c1e897b88f74524aac60601b6ad91ab41f8d0dc493d8ea3ed-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne - Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "INTERFILM 42 In Conversation: Talal Afifi – What Can a Militant Image Do? - Sudan, Political Cinema and the Conditions of Visibility", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://interfilm.filmchief.com/shop/tickets?v=11976", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/sudan", "society/politics"], "description": "A conversation about political and militant cinema in Sudan, accompanied by clips from Sudanese films. The guest is Talal Afifi, a Sudanese film curator and producer who founded the Sudan Film Factory and the Sudan Independent Film Festival. It asks what militant film can mean today – with themes such as war, occupation, authoritarianism and the struggle over the control of images. It also explores how images can become forms of collective memory and political agency. In curatorial cooperation with the Sudan Film Factory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/interfilm-42-in-conversation-talal-afifi-what-can-a-militant-291/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/interfilm-42/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/511556ee488349012970692e54bfe164f55a83ad902912c84fcd2308901af674-600.webp"}, {"title": "With Hasan in Gaza", "start": "2026-11-02T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Wolf Kino", "address": "Weserstraße 59, 12045 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/das-getraeumte-abenteuer/", "category": "film", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "film/documentary"], "description": "As part of the international Palestine Cinema Days, Kamal Aljafari's award-winning film With Hasan in Gaza is screened, followed by a talk with the director via Zoom. The Palestinian filmmaker, based in Berlin, discovered MiniDV tapes documenting life in Gaza in 2001. From this footage came an unexpected road trip through Gaza with Hasan, a local guide, and a reflection on memory and loss. The event is presented together with ALFILM and replaces the ALFILM Wednesday in November.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/with-hasan-in-gaza-24779/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/special/palestine-cinema-days-around-the-world-with-hasan-in-gaza/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/94ca018a18c65e76b9f9dbd732b311debfc50c604520116be04603a6110e7a73-2000.webp"}, {"title": "INTERFILM42: Revolutionary Women of West Asia", "start": "2026-11-11T21:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "City Kino Wedding im Centre Français", "address": "Müllerstraße 74, 13349 Berlin", "price": "10,00 €", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://babylonberlin.eu/film/10650-the-answering-machine?source=bde", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "society/politics"], "description": "It is a film programme screening of five films. The programme is part of the International Short Film Festival Berlin, curated by Parand Laghai and Irit Neidhardt. The films explore the role of women in revolutionary movements in West Asia, with a focus on Iran and Palestine. 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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": "INTERFILM42: The Black Gaze", "start": "2026-11-12T20:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Filmtheater am Friedrichshain", "address": "Bötzowstraße 1-5, 10407 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/tageskarte-berlinische-galerie-museum-fuer-moderne-kunst#/", "category": "film", "tags": ["society/racism", "film"], "description": "„INTERFILM42: The Black Gaze“ is a film programme presented as part of the INTERFILM42 festival at a cinema in Berlin's Bötzowstraße neighbourhood. Titled „The Black Gaze“, it brings together seven films that do not make Black life the object of a gaze, but instead determine for themselves where to look. It starts from the question of why the cinema of the Black community should be a monolith when the community itself is not. The programme shows that representation alone in front of the camera is not enough.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/interfilm42-the-black-gaze-24506/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca39194af06dd330ccd35cfa4a6d8da7fcb272dea399182e316d98f6cd16976a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Palestine Cinema Days - FilmLab x The Left Berlin", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-03T23:00:00+01:00", "place": "Refuge Worldwide", "address": "Niemetzstraße 1", "price": "Donation-based: 2-5 euros", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["history/middle-east/israel-palestine/palestine", "film/short-film"], "description": "An evening of Palestinian short films presented as Palestine Cinema Days, followed by a short musical session with an oud player. The event is organised by FilmLab Palestine and The Left Berlin, who are staging the fourth edition of the series. The screenings include \"The Flowers Remain Silent, Witnessing\", \"Gazawyat: Fida\", \"Gazawyat: Maha\", \"Gazawyat: Noor\", \"Gazawyat: Hadeel\" and \"With Hasan in Gaza\". The organisers see it as a space that protects Palestinian stories from erasure and carries images, memories and voices beyond borders.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/palestine-cinema-days-filmlab-x-the-left-berlin-34425/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/446369b30d5894ebc16ddcd8cb6e88dcf15753da01a05bb13c1bb36972f55b83-2000.webp"}, {"title": "AFRIKAMERA 2026: REFLECT", "start": "2026-11-09T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T10:00:00+01:00", "place": "", "address": "", "price": "Variiert je nach Veranstaltung", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.afrikamera.de/tickets/", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "nature/environment", "film"], "description": "Afrikamera is a film festival presenting current African cinema. It aims to show the diverse, inspiring, pioneering and sometimes contradictory perspectives on society and politics of the African continent. The 2026 edition runs under the motto \"Reflect\", addressing the effects of colonialism on the ecological balance, the exploitation of nature by unscrupulous companies, climate change and the struggle for resources. From 2024 to 2027 the festival focuses on the four successive themes Believe, Change, Reflect and Create.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/afrikamera-2026-reflect-33819/", "official_url": "https://www.afrikamera.de/kalendarium-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/70a489d3eea7f6098917a4e315d9d954235b062393d9dd14fcc11b0f2ee27e00-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Afrikamera 2026: Reflect", "start": "2026-11-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Sputnik Kino", "address": "Hasenheide 54, 10967 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.afrikamera.de/tickets/", "category": "film", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "nature/environment", "film"], "description": "AFRIKAMERA 2026: REFLECT is the Berlin film festival AFRIKAMERA – Aktuelles Kino aus Afrika with this year's focus REFLECT (9–15 November 2026). It shows feature, documentary and short films dealing with the impact of colonialism on the ecological balance, climate change, the struggle for resources, the exploitation of nature by unscrupulous mining companies and the white saviorism of NGOs. Other contributions give local environmental activists a voice and invoke the mystical power of nature: earth, water, roots – what is lost when land counts only as a resource? Beyond the theme, there are international festival highlights, an exhibition and a varied discourse programme.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/afrikamera-2026-reflect-29255/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/12272b122a32262175a05effc4a5c4556d4a59e428205ccb40b5302d11eae8af-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Palästina zwischen Augen: Ich sehe was, was Du nicht siehst (Part 1)", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf", "address": "Auerbacher Ring 41, 12619 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "A film screening as part of the programme \"Palästina zwischen Augen\". It was curated by Fadi Abdelnour in cooperation with ALFILM. An awareness team will be present at all events. Admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/palastina-zwischen-augen-ich-sehe-was-was-du-nicht-siehst-pa-12800/", "official_url": "https://ngbk.de/en/programm/termine/palaestina-zwischen-augen-ich-sehe-was-was-du-nicht-siehst-part-1", "image": ""}, {"title": "Spuren: Kino, Erinnerung und Frieden", "start": "2026-10-31T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung", "address": "Schumannstraße 8, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/short-film", "history/turkey", "society/peace"], "description": "„Spuren: Kino, Erinnerung und Frieden“ is an event featuring five short films followed by a discussion. Curated by Nilgün Yelpaze and Leyla Toprak, it explores the role of culture and art in the current peace process in Turkey: making films for peace, keeping alive the memory of past injustices, and questions such as political prisoners, mother tongue and identity. It is organised by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and the Off University. The films are in English and Turkish, and the ensuing conversation asks how cinema can bring people together in this process.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/spuren-kino-erinnerung-und-frieden-22767/", "official_url": "https://calendar.boell.de/de/event/spuren-kino-erinnerung-und-frieden", "image": "https://noky.io/images/563b8a6f3abd073d8ef9ff410a1cffd2678d1743637f41793ad9b9d887445e8f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "INTERFILM42: Fishbowl: Handling of AI in Documentary Films – To Whom Does Reality Belong?", "start": "2026-11-11T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Unterfilm Clubkino", "address": "Saarbrücker Straße 23, 10405", "price": "", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.thf-berlin.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung/frau-leben-freiheit-widerstand-der-frauen-im-iran#/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/documentary", "science/ai"], "description": "As part of INTERFILM42, a panel discussion explores the handling of artificial intelligence in documentary films. Questions up for debate include: When and how must AI-generated images or voices be labelled? Can AI avatars responsibly anonymise protagonists? And how do festivals and curators deal with AI-generated works? The event takes place at the Unterfilm Clubkino.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/interfilm42-fishbowl-handling-of-ai-in-documentary-films-to-20475/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a6847918f64cd694bfe0117559ddc9db5efed84886c35d9adb62abc112b571f0-600.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", "tickets_url": "", "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": ""}, {"title": "Artists Film International (AFI) 2026: A Kind of Power", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Neuer Berliner Kunstverein", "address": "Chausseestraße 128-129, 10115 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://babylonberlin.eu/film/10650-the-answering-machine?source=bde", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art", "film/experimental"], "description": "This screening in the exhibition space of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein shows a selection of video works from 'A Kind of Power', the Artists Film International programme. The annual programme is organised by Forma in London and curated together with 12 international art organisations that present it worldwide. The 19th edition brings together artists and partner organisations from four continents and examines how power structures shape both the act of seeing and the conditions under which we are seen. The works examine the politics of perception at a time when images spread instantly across borders and surveillance increasingly shapes everyday life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/artists-film-international-afi-2026-a-kind-of-power-2582/", "official_url": "https://www.nbk.org/de/diskurs/artists-film-international-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/98c00c43fd56e4978b91db2cf01fa0d474219a8b1f9b6fc31ab8419dda7dd3cd-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Present", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+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"], "description": "A documentary competition programme of five short films, followed by a Q&A. It is part of the 42nd INTERFILM International Short Film Festival Berlin. The films ask how we recognise ourselves in the other – in animals, so-called LGBT-free zones or our own digital fictions – and how we draw boundaries and assert ourselves. Their characters find their own paths to freedom in the liminal spaces of pervasive narratives, through differentiation and solidarity alike.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-present-21424/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b8050a7d0361d404c44c89934566ca90965409e0f14fbbf957ad704eb406638f-600.webp"}, {"title": "PALESTINE CINEMA DAYS – Around the World 2026", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Regenbogenfabrik", "address": "Lausitzer Straße 21a, 10999 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt auf Spendenbasis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "film/documentary"], "description": "An evening of Palestinian film art, music and art as part of Palestine Cinema Days around the World. Behind it is the team of the international Palestine Cinema Days Festival in Palestine, which paused in 2023; these worldwide events were founded instead. In Berlin, an evening is being organised with short and documentary films, an exhibition of works by the British artist Peter Kennard, and music. The films are shown in the original with English subtitles.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/palestine-cinema-days-around-the-world-2026-23912/", "official_url": "https://regenbogenfabrik.de/palestine-cinema-days-around-the-world-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d20e5c4079c4deee00ab70dba9f709492bc6c6bce6cbc248112c0fb0883ec964-600.webp"}, {"title": "INTERFILM 42 Festival Opening", "start": "2026-11-10T21:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23802", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["film/short-film"], "description": "The „Festival Opening“ is the opening of the INTERFILM 42 festival, whose 42nd edition runs under the title „Shared Shores“ and shows short films. It is organised by INTERFILM, which each year presents more than 350 short films together with KUKI in over 60 programmes, events, workshops and case studies. Its 42nd edition asks what remains shared when we strip away everything constructed: struggles, emotions, wishes and fears that reveal parallels, connections and symmetry between us. Only in combining different perspectives and contradictory narratives does it find kinship in opposition, solidarity in difference and togetherness in contrast.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/interfilm-42-festival-opening-286/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/interfilm-42/20261110-2000/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e7cb9006b72c2bbe9c1ddbc377cb41d0c3c4079741d3a7079465eaf24fb3847e-600.webp"}]}