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- DirectorTobias FrindtStarsSilke BrockmannPablo CharlemoineMichael DamboerThe student revolt, the awakening, the sexual revolution, dealing with the national-socialist past in post-war Germany, all of this has been widely discussed on many levels in recent years, research has been conducted and countless books and films have dealt with the "1968 movement". One can say that by this time 1968 has become part of the founding myth of the Berlin Republic. However, it is largely unknown that only a short time later, the ideas and demands of the 68ers should manifest themselves in another youth movement. In the early 1970s, thousands of young people in West Germany tried to establish self-governing youth centers in their towns and cities in order to create their own meeting places for leisure activities without a compulsion to buy and without being controlled by the parent generation. With slogans like "What we want: free time without control", they took to the streets collecting signatures and arguing with local politicians. Following the 1968 revolt, youth initiative groups had formed in a large number of cities and towns. With the youth center movement and the establishment of hundreds of self-governing youth centers, political and cultural upheavals also took place in the "countryside", and the politicized youth culture of the time spread in rural, suburban and urban areas. Free Spaces explores this movement, almost forgotten by historiography, and tries to find out what is left of it.
- DirectorRob EpsteinJeffrey FriedmanStarsRupert EverettKlaus MüllerKarl GorathHistorian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175.
- DirectorJean-Gabriel PériotStarsHorst MahlerPhilip Werner SauberHolger MeinsFilm based on the rise of The Red Army Faction, German revolutionary terrorist group founded by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof.
- DirectorLena MüllerDragan von PetrovicStarsRolf EdenDragan WendeDragan Wende has lived in Berlin since the 1970s and has seen the city change throughout the years. His nephew comes to live with him and Dragan remembers the "good old days" he lived as a Yugoslavian immigrant in the divided city.
- DirectorBartosz KonopkaThe untold story about wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls.
- DirectorGeorge HenckenStarsTony HadleyJohn KeebleGary KempA documentary about Spandau Ballet, who were one of the biggest pop groups of the 1980s and a defining act of the New Romantic scene.
- DirectorViktors BudaViktors BudaStarsIndulis BilzensWestbamDerrick MayThe first Story of Soviet Techno Revolution "In the USSR that was the beginning of a new era. The Era of Dance".
- DirectorMarilyn LevineRoss McElweeStarsMarilyn LevineRoss McElweeIn 1986, Ross McElwee and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when the imposing structure was still very much intact as the world's most visible symbol of hardline Communism.
- DirectorJürgen BöttcherA documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the Potsdamer Platz to the Brandenburg Gate, the camera captures the historic events from all sides and different angles: on the one hand there are news reporters and tourists from all over the world taking pictures, children selling pieces of the wall to passers-by, and people celebrating New Year's Eve, on the other we see abandoned subway stations and officials with blank looks on their faces.
- DirectorMark ByrneRob DennisStarsJonathan BadyHanna BehrendJohn BokCentral Europeans describe life under Communism and offer candid assessments of the transition to freedom, capitalism and democracy in the 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
- DirectorHolger JanckeStarsDirk BojanowskiRené LonginSiegfried MückeGrenze, in English BORDER, is the first movie documentary about East German border-guards
- DirectorHans-Hermann HertleGunther ScholzStarsGert HeidenreichMartin SeifertTom VogtA detailed reconstruction of the events from Nov. 9th to 11th, 1989, which led to the Berlin wall tumbling down, on a local, national and international level.
- DirectorThorsten TrimpopStarsSusanne Lautenschläger-LeyhMatthias MelsterSusanne StochayIn 1987, Suse's boyfriend Matthias flees the GDR with her best friend Susanne. The escape fails. They fall into the hands of the secret police, who try to break their will. It's not until sixteen years later that the three of them meet again. Before the reunion they visit the sites of their youth, their escape, and their imprisonment. They begin to recall their collective past - the only remnant that connects their lives today.
- DirectorLuc BéraudStarsMichel CimentJoseph L. MankiewiczJoseph L. Mankiewicz discusses his career in a feature-length interview recorded at his New England home and the 1983 Berlin Film Festival.
- DirectorWolfgang KisselStarsJohannes R. BecherWolf BiermannMikhail GorbachevUsing almost completely positive clips from East German film archives, this deadpan documentary presents a history of the forty years of the former DDR.
- DirectorRingo RösenerMarkus SteinStarsJürgen WittdorfChristian SchulzHelwin LeuschnerThis documentary feature addresses the question of how gay men lived and could live their lives under 'real socialism', where GDR ideology considered homosexuality to be a remnant of bourgeois decadent morality and harmful to a socialist society. In that film we meet six men who talk openly about their social and intimate experiences, some for the first time, and get to know several individuals who could hardly be more diverse, or more contradictory. At one end of the scale is Frank Schäfer, a barber and a shrewd and resourceful individualist; at the other, Eduard Stapel, an academic theologist who founded a GDR-wide network of homosexual associations and upon whom the Stasi firmly set its sights. Even though homosexuality had not been punished since the 1950s, the conspiracy of silence, the condemnation, the pressure to conform to society and to sexual discretion remained. This story introduces us to a number of strong and - for all their pain - spirited men who were obliged to come to terms with their homosexuality alone, each with their own very different strategies for survival and adjustment.
- DirectorStefan WeinertFive stories of the dream of freedom and the soul-crushing methods of the Stasi detention. The five protagonists represent a group of around 72,000 ex-convicts, imprisoned in the GDR for attempting to flee the Republic.
- DirectorMarco WilmsStarsFrank SchäferSabine von OettingenRobert Paris»Comrade Couture« is a journey into the world of the fashionistas and Bohemians of East Berlin in the 80s. A fantasy world within East Germany's restricted everyday life. Director Marco Wilms was himself a model at GDR's fashion institute.
- DirectorWinfried JungeStarsErich HoneckerIl-Sung Kim
- DirectorGünter FiedlerStarsRuth KöcherFrom high fashion to catalogue shoots, this documentary explores the ins and outs of the German fashion world in the late sixties.
- DirectorVolker HeiseAlice AgneskirchnerUte BaduraStarsBoris AljinovicHakan AltinözJaqueline Assmann20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, 24h Berlin documents a day in the life of the German capital. Exactly one year before the broadcast, 80 film crews were on the road for 24 hours in all districts of Berlin.
- DirectorCynthia BeattStarsTilda SwintonPoetic passage through varied landscapes along the former Berlin Wall. Beatt and Swinton re-trace its line 21 years after Cycling the Frame, this time on both sides of the Wall that once isolated West Berlin.
- DirectorCynthia BeattStarsTilda SwintonIn 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle, accompanied by filmmaker Cynthia Beatt. Starting and ending at the Brandenburg Gate, Swinton leads us on a journey that is by turns idyllic, surreal, whimsical and depressing.
- DirectorNigel DickIn an effort to confront her family's dark past a punk-chick from California traces her father's roots back to pre-war Berlin. Her journey takes her to Houston, Paris, Berlin, Prague and Theresientadt. During this voyage she discovers not only how she and her whole family were effected by Hitler's Final Solution but also that her family is larger than anyone imagined. She is finally able to leave a tribute to her family on the streets of Berlin and watch while her father is welcomed back to the city by the Mayor of Berlin.
- DirectorLeander HaußmannStarsAlexander ScheerAlexander BeyerRobert StadloberA group of kids grows up on the east side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West Germany. The antics of the people on Sonnenallee all show the absurdity of their everyday life.