{"title": "Übergang", "start": "2026-11-19T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin", "price": "€7 – €9 (zzgl. VVK)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/berlin"], "description": "»Übergang« is a documentary linking social and historical events with the biography of filmmaker Thomas Heise, including the love story between him and his husband Michael Saringan. The central setting is the Bahnhof Schönhauser Allee in Berlin, a major transport hub for decades, near which Heise lived until the end of his life. Heise began work on this final documentary at the end of 2023. After the death of the many-times award-winning director in May 2024, his longtime cameraman Peter Badel is completing the film.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ubergang-67599/", "official_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/veranstaltung/uebergang/2026-11-19/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/29e4b6e7b562760272c42aabfa3d3cbcf919b1db16e3cc0b0f11698cc36078d7-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-20T21:15:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-20T23:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-21T21:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T23:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-22T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-22T20:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-23T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-23T20:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-24T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-24T20:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-25T21:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-25T23:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-30T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-30T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brotfabrik", "address": "Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Übergang", "start": "2026-11-15T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Akademie der Künste", "address": "Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin", "price": "7,50 EUR (Ermäßigt: 5 EUR)", "price_from": "7.50", "price_to": "7.50", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/media-art/film", "film/documentary"], "description": "\"Übergang\" is a documentary about the life and work of the filmmaker Thomas Heise. It was based on Heise's own idea, who shortly before his death gave the instruction that filmmaking should carry on as before. Cinematographer Peter Badel and editor Chris Wright assemble observations made on Schönhauser Allee with unpublished texts, diary entries, photos and film sequences from his estate. The result is the picture of a precise, uncomfortable observer of German forms of state and contemporary history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ubergang-8531/", "official_url": "https://www.gmfilms.de/Übergang", "image": "https://noky.io/images/94dc2cb6f23bca37b6bdb897f3b568cee983065a27e5bde6451d326a5da2e174-2000.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, "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": "Die Allee", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00+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", "history/berlin"], "description": "The documentary \"Die Allee\" follows a journey along Berlin's Karl-Marx-Allee, from its significance as an ensemble of architecture to the traces of German history and the filmmaker's personal connection to this street. Director Sven Boeck, who already made a first film about the boulevard in 1991, portrays a street full of utopias, upheavals and memories, whose protagonists of that time are now dead. Sven Boeck is present and will talk with the audience. The film is shown in its German version.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-allee-8530/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/41be532c9bec14c4fef4dcafa73c17f109740d92409e2306ae91f8fe5af19a90-600.webp"}, {"title": "Nie wieder leb ich zu auf eine Wende", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kino Krokodil", "address": "Greifenhagener Straße 32, 10437 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["history/gdr/peaceful-revolution", "film/documentary"], "description": "The DEFA-Stiftung presents a documentary screening by Thomas Kuschel from the Wende period under the title „Nie wieder leb ich zu auf eine Wende“. The films were made during the time of the Wende. The event takes place at Kino Krokodil at Greifenhagener Straße 32.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nie-wieder-leb-ich-zu-auf-eine-wende-31091/", "official_url": "", "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", "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": "Life–Death", "start": "2026-09-11T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Galerie Thomas Schulte", "address": "Potsdamer Straße 81B", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "film"], "description": "Life–Death is an exhibition of works by Katharina Sieverding at Galerie Thomas Schulte, presented for Berlin Art Week 2026. At its heart is Sieverding's 1969 film of the same name, shown as a dual-channel projection and accompanied by large-format film stills and photographic tableaux. Made in what was then West Berlin, the work shows portraits, body studies and shifting roles in heavy makeup and androgynous costumes. Its soundtrack was recorded in 1972 by the musicians of Kraftwerk in a single improvised studio session.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lifedeath-11941/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d49d1d1fd142e49c207d34c697ad6c03547c6c253be3dc8cae361d1488fef0c5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "2m²", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sinema Transtopia", "address": "Lindower Straße 20/22", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["society/migration/diaspora", "film/documentary"], "description": "2m² is a documentary by Volkan Üce about funerals that cross borders. In it, the Turkish-Belgian filmmaker follows undertaker Tayfun, who helps families transfer their deceased between Belgium and Turkey. The film shows religious traditions, bureaucratic hurdles and practical questions surrounding a person's final journey, and keeps discovering the absurd and comic along the way. With dry humour, it asks where a person's last two square metres can find their place when their life is tied to several countries.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/2m2-9972/", "official_url": "https://sinematranstopia.com/en/sinelection/2m2", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0657c0972970afeae80c44236b17cd65e8a92210ff189d58b5baafc5c4b1e564-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Zwischen Herkunft und neuem Zuhause - Welche Spuren hinterlässt eine Ausreise?", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "The evening screens the film “Die noch unbekannten Tage”, in which Jola Wieczorek takes us on a cinematic journey of remembrance back to the 1980s. At its centre is the story of her family and their emigration from Poland to Austria. Afterwards, the “Dazwischen-Zimmer” becomes a site of memory-building: a temporary installation with personal objects, letters and stories invites visitors to set memories in motion and talk with one another. A performative reading picks up the stories and objects, and the filmmaker is a guest as well.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause-welche-spuren-hinterlass-30505/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/programm/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f328ad84d2f36eacc6bc7bfd5292ee68535938c78a28ea910daadc093ddedb9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Thomas Meyer: Mauer Land - Bilder vom ehemaligen Mauerstreifen in Berlin, 2017–2024", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-31T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Dokumentationszentrum)", "address": "Bernauer Straße 111, 13355 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "This special exhibition at the Berlin Wall Memorial shows photographs under the title “Thomas Meyer: Mauer Land - Bilder vom ehemaligen Mauerstreifen in Berlin, 2017–2024”. It is the work of Thomas Meyer, a photographer living in Berlin and a member of the OSTKREUZ agency, who from 2017 to 2024 looked for traces of the city's division and photographed along the former strip of the Wall in different seasons. His medium-format digital colour images show places that once made history as well as the Wall's disappearance, with layers of past and present overlapping. Through this he also documents Berlin's urban development.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/thomas-meyer-mauer-land-bilder-vom-ehemaligen-mauerstreifen-15279/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/ausstellungen/thomas-meyer-mauer-land", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f0b48f708930153ab5e76104f114e6a30ed90086dda2014d7c53119b0bf34048-600.webp"}, {"title": "Thomas Meyer: Mauer Land", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer", "address": "", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "“Thomas Meyer: Mauer Land” is an exhibition of color photographs of the former Berlin Wall strip, taken between 2017 and 2024. The photographer Thomas Meyer, a member of the agency OSTKREUZ, spent eight years, across different seasons, tracing where the division of the city is still visible and perceptible today. His pictures, made in digital medium format, show places that once made history, the disappearance of the Wall, and the overlapping layers of history and present. In doing so, the exhibition also documents Berlin's urban development.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/thomas-meyer-mauer-land-34536/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Civic Engagement Excursion to KulturMarktHalle with Film Screening & Panel Discussion on Antisemitism", "start": "2026-11-09T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-09T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "KulturMarktHalle", "address": "Hanns-Eisler-Straße 93, 10409 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/nazi-era", "society/antisemitism"], "description": "A civic engagement excursion to KulturMarktHalle with a tour of the site, its history and today's activities, followed by a film screening and a panel discussion. It is organized by the civic engagement office of Bard College Berlin; the film shown is „Mein Berlin - Ein Ort mit Gedächtnis“ (with English subtitles), portraying how six Jewish people experienced the city of Berlin in 2025. After the screening, the film's director and the spokesperson on antisemitism and antidiscrimination in Pankow will hold a discussion. The screening and panel mark the anniversary of the 9 November 1938 pogroms against Jewish people in Germany and Austria.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/civic-engagement-excursion-to-kulturmarkthalle-with-film-scr-132449/", "official_url": "https://berlin.bard.edu/events/civic-engagement-excursion-to-kulturmarkthalle-with-film-screening-panel-discussion-on-antisemitism", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dd1335451cdcc36d29dbf4115307f9dc5f2c9f3b58a7652aa02ef6c506116727-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Aufbruch, Abrechnung, Agitprop: Essayfilme aus 50 Jahren", "start": "2026-11-20T19:00:00+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"], "description": "A cinema programme of five film essays spanning five decades, moving between documentary observation, cheeky satire and angry agitprop. It includes Karel Vachek's directorial debut Moravská Hellas about a folklore festival, Dušan Hanák's Old Shatterhand Came to See Us on Western tourists reaching Czechoslovakia, and Jan Švankmajer's animated The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia and Dimensions of Dialogue. Rounding it off is Péter Kerekes' Second Chance, in which he sets out to Helsinki in 2013/14 with a petition to march into Slovakia and save it from corruption. The cinema is the Zeughauskino in central Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/aufbruch-abrechnung-agitprop-essayfilme-aus-50-jahren-12747/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/zeughauskino/vorfuehrung/default-title-14808/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1ea4847ab0bed3f4f41617c8f962edd8218f3a58776f2d9bf24e0e3ac34e7828-1200.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": "LEBEN GROPIUSSTADT GEBRAUCHSANWEISUNG", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heimathafen Neukölln", "address": "Karl-Marx-Straße 141, 12043 Berlin", "price": "Regulär 20,00 €, ermäßigt 14,50 €, Zugabe-Ticket (Support) 25,00 €", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/documentary-theatre", "history/berlin"], "description": "A documentary theatre work about Gropiusstadt, a large housing estate in Berlin whose residents connect many very different stories. Behind the piece is Arthur Romanowski, a director and performer from Gropiusstadt, whose team conducted interviews with people living in the neighbourhood. Inspired by Georges Perec's novel »Das Leben Gebrauchsanweisung« (Life: A User's Manual), the production weaves these biographies into a mosaic together with the director's own biography. In this way a lively, many-voiced portrait of the district emerges, forming an image of Berlin in the 20th and 21st centuries.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/leben-gropiusstadt-gebrauchsanweisung-15662/", "official_url": "https://heimathafen-neukoelln.de/events/leben-gropiusstadt-gebrauchsanweisung/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67affd991680410a16c6d984d5f38cf3f552b24f53631ead806eb4e56ea76554-600.webp"}]}