{"title": "Materia Prima", "start": "2026-11-01T17:45:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ACUDkino", "address": "Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin", "price": "Kostenlos / free, keine Anmeldung notwendig / no registration needed", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/colonialism"], "description": "The documentary \"Materia Prima – New Energy. Old Powers?\" by Jens Schanze offers a rare insight into Europe's strategies for securing the Bolivian lithium urgently needed for the energy transition. It shows the opposing interests of Europeans seeking to save their automotive industry and Bolivians who want to use the raw material to fight poverty. The present is overshadowed by 500 years of colonial history, and texts from an indigenous chronicler of the 16th century raise the question of whether we are ready for decolonisation. Director Jens Schanze will be present, followed by a panel discussion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/materia-prima-8520/", "official_url": "https://www.yorck.de/specials/special-screening-materia-prima-new-energy-old-powers", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9ef736eac2fe7db9cf405d51e235ade556ad7a894904dd2c60a3b701accd4eea-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-01T17:45:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ACUDkino", "address": "Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Im Kino mit Fiston Mwanza Mujila", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Delphi LUX", "address": "Kantstraße 10, 10623 Berlin", "price": "€ 14", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.deutscheoperberlin.de/webshop/webticket/shop?event=12424", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/science-fiction", "history/colonialism"], "description": "This film screening with an introductory talk features a guest presenting a favorite film in person. 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The guest is poet in residence at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/im-kino-mit-fiston-mwanza-mujila-16786/", "official_url": "https://www.deutscheoperberlin.de/de_DE/production/im-kino-mit-fiston-mwanza-mujila.1390442", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f408bee78fa29c476cd866aa84a5b1381bdaec1889026547ae779487caa1d5aa-600.webp"}, {"title": "Rohstoffe, Rituale, Widerstand", "start": "2026-11-06T16:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history", "society"], "description": "A talk in the SPÄTI series at the Humboldt Forum about the extraction of raw materials, global conflicts and the search for peace in the Congo. It combines Nada Tshibwabwa's performance Kanzunji, in which the Congolese artist links discarded mobile phones with Luba mythology, with a discussion. Topics include cobalt for smartphones, copper and gallium for AI data centres, and the consequences of extractivism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The speakers are the artist Nada Tshibwabwa and the Berlin historian Jacob Häberli; the talk is in German in the Mechanische Arena in the foyer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/rohstoffe-rituale-widerstand-79945/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ab8d3c3c09e0eef5ded76a207834cf04e27f4bf2e17ae38d3b02344748e0bbdf-2000.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": "Fertile Void 2026", "start": "2026-11-06T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "Kostenlos, 3-Tages-Pass erforderlich", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://rausgegangen.de/events/kunstgesprache-84/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "S A L A R is a performance by Amanda Piñas / Instituto Tropical about lithium mining in the Atacama Desert. Told through Andean Futurism, it explores the entanglement of ecology, technology, spirituality and colonialism. 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It is about their filmic forms that make the consequences of exploitation, emissions and pollution visible, as well as struggles against social injustice and the urgency of global solidarity and a determined ecological turn. Behind the talk is film scholar Matthias Grotkopp, who researches at the Collaborative Research Centre „Intervenierende Künste“ at Freie Universität Berlin. The event is part of the „Wissen zwischen Büchern“ series.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/vortrag-und-diskussion-eat-the-rich-die-welt-mit-anderen-aug-7130/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c7e98e26732eedb72aba958a885d57b0628ca4e984a580a84a206973a1f5e15a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Jeder Acker, Jede Fabrik – Ideen für eine notwendige Revolution", "start": "2026-11-01T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1 13086 Berlin", "price": "€7 – €9 (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/veranstaltung/jeder-acker-jede-fabrik-ideen-fuer-eine-notwendige-revolution-3/2026-11-01", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/politics"], "description": "»Jeder Acker, jede Fabrik« is a documentary about the transition to a post-capitalist society and the outlines of a democratic planned economy. The filmmakers interviewed comrades about the revolutionary moments of the 1970s and spoke with people now taking part in debates about a new mode of production. Dozens of workers on vegetable fields, in substations, hospitals or subway tunnels tell how they are fighting back. From all these voices a concrete picture emerges of what a revolution of the modern, destructive way of life could look like.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/jeder-acker-jede-fabrik-ideen-fur-eine-notwendige-revolution-21970/", "official_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/veranstaltung/jeder-acker-jede-fabrik-ideen-fuer-eine-notwendige-revolution-2/2026-10-19/", "image": ""}, {"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/69f4f1336e055102790bff38eb82a5e89baad1ca2c3b80be395c5541c6149b06-2000.webp"}, {"title": "S A L A R", "start": "2026-11-06T20:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["nature/environment", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "\"S A L A R\" is an artistic research project and performance. It was created by Amanda Piña and her Instituto Tropical. The project deals with the salt deserts of the Atacama Desert, where lithium is extracted. This extraction serves Europe's transition to so-called renewable energies.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/s-a-l-a-r-8354/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4516f79cf1a984a5ff9ec6d0d3d6bfc90f591ca099345d3593aaa1e647285d1c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "(Re-)Inventing Materials: Europe's Mineral Sovereignty Path", "start": "2026-11-07T11:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T12:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/materials", "society/economics"], "description": "A panel on the Curie Stage at Falling Walls Science House, held as a hybrid Plenary Table session and also available as a livestream. It is put on by Falling Walls with the Boston Consulting Group. The topic is Europe's supply of critical minerals: despite billions invested in diversification, recycling and circularity, dependencies remain high and recycling is not scaling fast enough. Europe's scientific strength could boost resilience and value creation through local resources, greater circularity and efficiency, and materials innovation, including AI-discovered materials.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/re-inventing-materials-europes-mineral-sovereignty-path-72393/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/re-inventing-materials-europes-mineral-sovereignty-path", "image": ""}, {"title": "INTERFILM42: The Past - Of Landscapes, Objects and Historicity", "start": "2026-11-12T20:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kino & Bar in der Königstadt", "address": "Straßburger Straße 55 10405 Berlin", "price": "10,00 €", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/tageskarte-berlinische-galerie-museum-fuer-moderne-kunst#/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history"], "description": "The short film programme “INTERFILM42: The Past - Of Landscapes, Objects and Historicity” presents six documentary films in the festival's documentary competition. It is staged by INTERFILM - Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Berlin. Rather than seeing history as a single red thread, the films treat it as a chaotic tangle, a complex weave or a knotted ball of wool, pulling at loose ends to connect present and past. Packing lists are written for imprisoned friends, dancing bodies search for post-Yugoslav or nostalgic identities, and landscapes marked by colonialism, military history and war are measured.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/interfilm42-the-past-of-landscapes-objects-and-historicity-45537/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Theater, Filmscreening & Konzert I Jazzfest Community Week", "start": "2026-10-31T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Café Kulturfabrik", "address": "Lehrter Straße 35, 10557 Berlin", "price": "frei / Theater 5 €", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.infield.live/event/undini-uncut-my57qq", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["stage/theatre/shadow-theatre", "film/documentary", "music/jazz"], "description": "A community Saturday at Kulturfabrik Moabit combining a queer shadow theatre piece, a film screening and an open session. 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": "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, "tickets_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/naza/", "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": "Von Scham und Geld", "start": "2026-11-01T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "fsk - Kino am Oranienplatz", "address": "Segitzdamm 2, 10969 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama", "society/poverty"], "description": "“Von Scham und Geld” is a feature film by Visar Morina, his third after BABAI and EXIL. It tells of Hatixhe and Shaban, who with their three daughters and the grandmother had to leave their Kosovar village after their brother's betrayal cost them their livelihood. In Pristina, Hatixhe's wealthy sister takes the family in, but the apparent help turns out to be a quiet humiliation: those who give set the rules, those who receive must be grateful. The film, which won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema category at Sundance, takes an unrelenting look at the violence of economic dependencies.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/von-scham-und-geld-10261/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7626160e7db5d32b67d8306e7a2eaab627a4aa21bc1292ebf57dac2cd1df3113-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lust auf Wandel", "start": "2026-11-01T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "E-Werk", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei!", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "wellness/meditation"], "description": "\"Lust auf Wandel\" is a film that asks how we can change our mobility, and takes a cinematic journey through inner movement, outward departure and the power to change our lives. Directed by Peter Knoch, it tells not of technology but of the longing for a different life, of letting go of old habits, of movement as medicine and silence as a turning point. In poetic images, with scientific impulses from Dr. Gerald Hüther and Prof. Dr. Harald Kipke, it becomes a journey through mindfulness, creativity and departure. It begins where change actually happens: within people.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lust-auf-wandel-78065/", "official_url": "https://www.e-werk.de/programm/alle-termine/detail/lust-auf-wandel-6066/", "image": ""}, {"title": "L’Arbre de l’Authenticité", "start": "2026-11-10T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "fsk - Kino am Oranienplatz", "address": "Segitzdamm 2, 10969 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/colonialism", "nature/climate"], "description": "A film about Yangambi, a biological research station from the Belgian colonial era, where scientific records about the nature of the Congo Basin are found. They show, among other things, how trees respond to climate change. The Congolese rainforests play a central role in the global climate balance. Carried by a poetic text and an immersive soundscape, at the end of the film Lileko, the tree of authenticity, whispers: “My children will be workers in a new climate economy.”", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/larbre-de-lauthenticite-50371/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Perlenketten, Schilfboote, Körbe", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "4 EUR / ermäßigt 2 EUR", "price_from": "4.00", "price_to": "4.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "„Perlenketten, Schilfboote, Körbe“ (Pearl necklaces, reed boats, baskets) is a film session showing short glimpses into the everyday lives of children in Venezuela, Papua New Guinea and Peru, taking place in Hall 3 on the ground floor of the building. Behind it stands the Humboldt Forum with its series „In eigener Regie“; the children learned filmmaking in workshops in their home villages and show, for example, how to string a pearl necklace, carve a bow and arrow, or fish from a traditional Peruvian reed boat. The films are presented with German voices and guided by a moderator, with a weaving of traditional sitting mats from Papua New Guinea also shown. The event lasts about 45 minutes and is recommended for children aged 5 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/perlenketten-schilfboote-korbe-79946/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/121dfd7e7c4df42fa6443c7684768ee30cae3fdfed29089c2ea885faa726edb2-2000.webp"}]}