{"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 Cinematographer Peter Badel and editor Chris Wright assemble observations made on Schönhauser Allee with unpublished texts, diary entries, photos and film sequences from his estate.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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-15T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Akademie der Künste", "address": "Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-15T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kunstsammlung der Akademie der Künste", "address": "Luisenstraße 60, 10117 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-19T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ACUDkino", "address": "Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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. 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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"}, {"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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "Biermann", "start": "2026-11-08T11:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hackesche Höfe Kino", "address": "Rosenthaler Straße 40-41, 10178 Berlin", "price": "10,-- €", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "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": "Gesundheitskollektiv", "start": "2026-11-15T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sinema Transtopia", "address": "Lindower Straße 20/22", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "An evening with the documentary film “Código Marcos” and the presentation of a book about migration, followed by a talk and a shared meal. Behind the event are the Gesundheitskollektiv Berlin (GeKo), a community-organised health centre in Neukölln, together with the Kunst auf Rezept programme led by Georgina Espasa and Trashumantes, founded by Camilo Baquero Burgos. The film follows Liena, a single Cuban mother living in Spain who is raising two children, one of whom is autistic; she films and directs it herself, showing Marcos’s life through his own eyes and those of his family. The book “Freiheitsgedanken: Erinnerungen, Gedichte und Collagen aus migrantischen Perspektiven” gathers memories, poems and collages that explore migration through individual and collective recollections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gesundheitskollektiv-31093/", "official_url": "https://sinematranstopia.com/de/common-visions-berlin/gesundheitskollektiv-codigo-marcos-book-release", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6eabf18e18e978fbbc90151df04d3dc66917b10b7e82dcfdceaa5cc75fe3f749-1200.webp"}, {"title": "VERFLIMMERTER DONNERSTAG", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturhaus Karlshorst", "address": "Treskowallee 112, 10318 Berlin", "price": "7 € / Ermäßigt 3 €", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/gdr"], "description": "The 'Verflimmerter Donnerstag' is a film screening followed by a talk at Kulturhaus Karlshorst. It shows 'Jenseits der blauen Grenze', directed by Sarah Neumann and presented by film scholar Irina Vogt. The film tells of life-threatening escape attempts across the Baltic Sea from the GDR in the summer of 1989. Afterwards, attendees can talk with a member of the filmmaking team.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/verflimmerter-donnerstag-31896/", "official_url": "https://karlshorst.de/event/verflimmerter-donnerstag-jenseits-der-blauen-grenze/", "image": ""}, {"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": "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": "Once Upon a time in Harlem", "start": "2026-11-11T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sinema Transtopia", "address": "Lindower Straße 20/22", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "The cinema on Lindower Straße hosts the German premiere of \"Once Upon a Time in Harlem\", a film built from unseen material from 1972. Back then, filmmaker William Greaves invited artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance to a filmed afternoon at Duke Ellington's townhouse, which remained unseen for more than five decades. In 2026 his son David Greaves turned it into a film about art, politics and Black life in the USA. The conversation recalls jazz, literature, photography and theatre and asks how these memories continue to resonate today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/once-upon-a-time-in-harlem-9971/", "official_url": "https://sinematranstopia.com/de/sinelection/once-upon-a-time-in-harlem", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4b779f6f218783daa24716208d2c32bcf562536be75fbc48e3a6a3d89d162ade-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Against All Borders – The Film Director Agnieszka Holland", "start": "2026-11-17T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen", "address": "Mauerstraße 79", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "An evening talk with a film screening at the museum for film and television. It centres on the director Agnieszka Holland, whose films tell of power, exclusion and resistance, and who is celebrated and awarded for them but also attacked. The film portrait ›Gegen alle Grenzen‹ by Alice Agneskirchner follows the director and long-standing president of the European Film Academy and her work from Warsaw via Prague, Paris and Hollywood back to Poland. Holland and Agneskirchner will be present, and the English-language conversation is moderated by the institution's director.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/against-all-borders-the-film-director-agnieszka-holland-22216/", "official_url": "https://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/de/besuch/programm/against-all-borders-film-director-agnieszka-holland", "image": "https://noky.io/images/505198ea217c73909f8fec592ffb21a06a6804e5fb153f199024c3e4c28dfe99-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Exit Through the Gift Shop", "start": "2026-11-08T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T21:00:00+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": ["art/street-art", "film/documentary"], "description": "The documentary »Exit Through The Gift Shop« by world-famous street artist Banksy cleverly shifts between amateur documentation and mockumentary – it looks like a documentary, but is it really one? Banksy is a phantom: although his art adorns facades and walls all over the world, nobody knows who is behind the celebrated street artist. Until a crazy Frenchman and self-proclaimed documentary filmmaker named Thierry Guetta sets out to track Banksy down, which he actually manages through good contacts and a bit of luck. But then everything turns out differently than planned – a true (?) story: subversive, cheeky, entertaining and instructive!", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/exit-through-the-gift-shop-67586/", "official_url": "https://brotfabrik-berlin.de/veranstaltung/banksy-exit-through-the-gift-shop/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/461f78914b3f119ac79ed866b4f1571452dc08337218197d610e354099eb3379-1200.webp"}]}