{"title": "Lebensläufe", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Zeughauskino", "address": "Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin", "price": "5 €", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/germany"], "description": "„Klassenphoto – Erinnerungen deutscher Bürger“ is a two-part documentary by Eberhard Fechner. It shows history „from below“ – as ordinary people experienced and helped shape the twentieth century – based on hours-long interviews without verbal commentary. The film screens in a retrospective marking the director's 100th birthday, with which the Zeughauskino and the Deutsche Kinemathek invite audiences to rediscover his work. An introduction accompanies the screening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lebenslaufe-12765/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2467c96682fb4fa2dfa0fa067640c4328d9dbf56069aa38e67e18a1df425fdc1-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Zeughauskino", "address": "Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Ein Kapitel für sich", "start": "2026-11-01T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zeughauskino", "address": "Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "literature/adaptation"], "description": "„Ein Kapitel für sich“ is a three-part television adaptation of Walter Kempowski's autobiographical novel from 1975. It was directed by Eberhard Fechner, who brought Kempowski's experiences in camps and prisons in the Soviet occupation zone and the early GDR compellingly to the screen. Critics partly attacked the film as anti-communist agitation, while audiences responded enthusiastically to its first broadcast on ZDF around 1979/1980. It was Fechner's last feature film project, shown as part of a retrospective marking his 100th birthday.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ein-kapitel-fur-sich-8991/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/zeughauskino/vorfuehrung/default-title-14757/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0a70dbda05d1e01d39e21c84748bed9667774e9847d97691c9a6351d273dd2e1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Einar Schleef – Ich habe kein Deutschland gefunden", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "€7 – €9 (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/das-getraeumte-abenteuer/", "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": "Leica – Ein Jahrhundert in Bildern", "start": "2026-11-01T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kino International", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 33, 10178 Berlin", "price": "10,00 € (regulär), 7,00 € (ermäßigt)", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.planetarium.berlin/Event/Detail?Event=16366", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/photography", "film/documentary"], "description": "The documentary \"Leica – Ein Jahrhundert in Bildern\" is shown as a special screening followed by a film talk. Director Reiner Holzemer will be present. The film shows how the invention of the small-format camera by LEICA over 100 years ago changed photography forever. Through renowned and contemporary photographers, it explores how the camera captures historic moments in unique images and gave rise to street photography, reportage and photojournalism.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/leica-ein-jahrhundert-in-bildern-8787/", "official_url": "https://www.yorck.de/specials/special-screening-leica-ein-jahrhundert-in-bildern", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eb71583f1beb1819ecb7eb2292f0c5c55e9fb43592619a7655116508a8f4eae0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Biermann", "start": "2026-10-29T19:45:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kino Toni & Tonino", "address": "1, 13086 Berlin", "price": "10,-- €", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.kino-union.de/programm", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/folk/singer-songwriter", "film/documentary", "history/gdr"], "description": "\"Biermann\" is a documentary about the life and work of the poet and singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann. Jens Meurer, a winner of the European Film Award and the Golden Globe, traces Biermann's biography as an immediate, close-up retrospective, combining personal memories with political contemporary history. At its center are Biermann's origins, his turn to music, his work in the GDR, the Cologne concert of 1976 and its consequences, and his artistic work up to the present. The camera follows the 90-year-old at meetings with young artists, politicians and his family, weaving the footage into a collage of historical documents and previously unpublished archive footage.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/biermann-8778/", "official_url": "http://tilsiter-lichtspiele.de/kinoprogramm.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fe826c1f3087bbf126f0e2a89841744035e6f33d5bb393ee8d6e6dfc03c28819-2000.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": "https://samuraimuseum.de/event/hollywood-meets-the-samurai-uma-thurman-berlin/?source=bde", "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": ""}, {"title": "Dokumentarfotografie – Kurs mit Vincent Haiges", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Fotografiska Café Bar", "address": "Oranienburger Straße 54, 10117 Berlin", "price": "300 € (240 € für Fotografiska-Mitglieder, 319 € inkl. Jahresmitgliedschaft)", "price_from": "300.00", "price_to": "300.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets-berlin.fotografiska.com/productDetail/219010", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "A documentary photography course running over three Mondays. It is led by Vincent Haiges, a Berlin-based documentary photographer and World Press Photo Award winner. Inspired by Thomas Billhardt's humanist approach, participants develop their own documentary project – from research and ethical questions to editing and pitching their work. The course is held in English.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/dokumentarfotografie-kurs-mit-vincent-haiges-14984/", "official_url": "https://berlin.fotografiska.com/de/events/documentary-photography-course-with-vincent-haiges", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7a34e5d0252564f0d49cdd05937319cba63e8bc1d79ca3410f0ba95db66b5587-1200.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/468c3e2303d2945a5b91354a64b899e14add9d2eb47a18927f9f867bd4c68c99-600.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/naza/", "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": "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": "Thomas Billhardt: Die Augen weit offen", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-02-07T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Fotografiska Berlin", "address": "Oranienburger Straße 54, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://shop.fotografiska.com/de/products/berlin-alexanderplatz-1958-2022", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/postwar"], "description": "The exhibition Thomas Billhardt – Die Augen weit offen at Fotografiska Berlin presents the photographic work of a major German postwar documentary photographer. Curated by Claire Ducresson-Boët together with the CAMERA WORK Gallery, it gathers key series spanning several decades, with a focus on the years 1959 to 1972, from Berlin street scenes to dispatches from Vietnam and pictures from Cuba. Thomas Billhardt (1937–2025) used the camera as an instrument of radical curiosity, capturing unposed moments of everyday life and the vitality pulsing beneath rigid structures.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/thomas-billhardt-die-augen-weit-offen-11850/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b778504a3efbf5b73ef0955e759ace04f7ce24433280328217eb3ac31158b5ee-2000.webp"}]}