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Hold up your smartphone camera – that always works. But how do you make an animated film? Learn with us! Every month, we host the “Trickfilm-Samstag (Animation Saturday)” and invite you to make films (in German): Children between the ages of 8 and 12... moreabout: Trickfilm-Samstag (Animation Saturday): How do I make an animated film?
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Zazie de Paris, Thea Ehre and Tucké Royale have written queer film history with their roles in productions such as 'Westler', 'Bis ans Ende der Nacht' and 'Neubau'. Sometimes the films are explicitly about the representation of trans*, sometimes it is... moreabout: Self-assumptions and role perceptions: Women, men, trans* in film
© ›Jeanine Meerapfel‹, 2025, Cover, © edition text + kritik
Book Presentation: Lea Wohl von Haselberg: *Jeanine Meerapfel*, edition text + kritik, Munich 2025 Film: *Adiòs AdK – The President Is Leaving*, Germany 2024, directed by Christa Donner, 58 min Jeanine Meerapfel is one of Germany’s most prominent... moreabout: Jeanine Meerapfel
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Something is happening in German television, which seems to have become more queer and diverse in recent years. With series such as 'Clashing Differences', 'Schwarze Früchte', 'Becoming Charlie', 'Loving Her', 'Wir' or 'Druck', stories and characters... moreabout: Queer Cinema in Series. Other stories and characters in television productions
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Queer avant la lettre: In 1970, photographer Elfi Mikesch began her work as a director and camerawoman. Known for her dancing, moving images, which transport us into unheard-of obliqueness and dreams, she worked on the camera for countless films by Rosa... moreabout: Rose Kings and Cruel Women: The picture maker Elfi Mikesch
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The guided tour provides an overview of our current exhibition, presents selected content and objects, and invites you to discover the diversity of queer German cinema. Meeting point: Box office foyer Price info: Participation with admission ticket free... moreabout: "Inventing Queer Cinema"
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(discussion) Monika Treut (director, writer, producer) Angelina Maccarone (director, writer) Eline Gehring (director, writer) What about lesbian visibility in queer cinema? Do lesbian women play a minor role as directors and characters in film? Or... moreabout: No cab to the loo? Lesbian cinema in focus
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Queer cinema tells the stories, experiences and realities of life of queer people - usually outside of normative expectations and social orders. In doing so, it often questions cinematic conventions and develops its own resistant formal languages. The... moreabout: Inventing Queer Cinema
© ›Die Unverbesserlichen‹, BRD 1965, Regie: Claus Peter Witt © NDR/Holtz
Social commentary packaged for a broad audience, aired on Mother’s Day: “Die Unverbesserlichen” is a portrait, marked by gentle tragicomedy and a bitter undertone, of a family from what was then West Germany’s middle class with three children who are... moreabout: The Incorrigibles
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it is not the homosexual who is perverted, but the situation in which he lives' by Rosa von Praunheim caused an earthquake in 1971 and led to the founding of numerous gay movements across Germany for the first time. Instead of appealing for empathy and... moreabout: How perverse is the situation? We discuss Rosa von Praunheim's 'It's not the homosexual who is perverse, but the situation in which he lives'
© ›Verführung: Die grausame Frau‹, BRD 1985, Regie: Elfie Mikesch und Monika Treut Quelle: Salzgeber
With “Inventing Queer Cinema,” the Deutsche Kinemathek is opening its first exhibition at its new location in Berlin’s E-Werk—and, at the same time, a new chapter in its work on queer film culture. The exhibition is also the first comprehensive exhibition... moreabout: Director-Led Tour: “Inventing Queer Cinema”
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This tour with our ‘insider’, education and outreach officer Fabian Fornalski, highlights selected themes, cinematic narratives and objects from our “Inventing Queer Cinema” exhibition. The tour provides an overview of the exhibition while also offering... moreabout: »Inventing Queer Cinema«
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The area around Friedrichstraße is a central location in film history and at the same time a walk-in attraction: pioneers of German film worked here, film policy was made and numerous films were shot. At the same time, the area's cultural life was shaped... moreabout: Film stories about the cinematheque
In 2000, Rosa von Praunheim learns from his mother, who was 94 at the time, that he was adopted. It wasn’t until after the death of his beloved adoptive mother that the 63-year-old filmmaker decided to set out in search of his biological parents and boarded... moreabout: Meine Mütter - Spurensuche in Riga, GER 2007, Rosa von Praunheim
Welcome to the subculture! From "Wurstfilm" and the Porn Film Festival to "LÄSBISCH-TV", "Göttinnen des Trash" and "Dietrich-Drag": Jürgen Brüning, Mahide Lein and Gaby Tupper talk about their cultural work, their eventful lives and how they have created... moreabout: Do It Yourself! Film work between porn production, TV magazine and street guide
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