Current - Zeughauskino | Deutsches Historisches Museum

17. November 2025 - 16. Dezember 2025

But Elsewhere Is Always Better

Retrospective Vivian Ostrovsky

For over four decades, Vivian Ostrovsky's extraordinary, enigmatic, and humorous films have been featured at international festivals. The filmmaker promotes young directors, and curators value her expertise in film history. The retrospective But Elsewhere Is Always Better presents Ostrovsky's influential work in its entirety for the first time—both as a filmmaker and as a passionate film educator, a “passeuse de films.”

Film Pioniers!

Female directors in Germany from 1917 to 1932

The retrospective "Film Pioniers!" is the first retrospective of its kind to focus on the film work of female directors in Germany from 1917 to 1932. In addition to Lotte Reiniger, Leni Riefenstahl and Leontine Sagan, whose names and, in some cases, films are known to a wider audience, it focuses on the astonishingly broad field of forgotten female filmmakers.

Current Film Series

But Elsewhere Is Always Better

Retrospective Vivian Ostrovsky

Film Pioniers!

Female directors in Germany from 1917 to 1932