Cinema | Berliner Festspiele 70

70 Years of Berliner Festspiele

Art cinema and more

Breaking News, Talking Heads and Arts

Curated by Thilo Fischer

A white wall with the line “Made in America” written on it in capital letters. Below the blue inscription there is a rectangular area painted in red that depicts the sign of a sickle. In the foreground of the image the back view of a male read person

Gordon Matta-Clark, “The Wall”, Berliner Festwochen 1976/2007. Film, Farbe, Ton. Filmstill © Gordon Matta-Clark | Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

To mark our 70th birthday, the daily changing cinema programme consisting of 23 short and full-​length films with a total duration of over 34 hours looks back on extraordinary moments in the history of the Berliner Festspiele and its predecessor, the Berliner Festwochen. Developed from a film project that has been running for over a year, the programme combines complete documentary recordings of concerts, performances, actions, reportage and conversations, with newly produced collages of archive film material as well as standalone artistic works and feature films.