Retrospect

06. April 2025

Open Your Ears!

Inclusive Cinema ... With Audio Description

For the upcoming audio film program, the focus will be on “Berlin films”, i.e. feature films that show our city in the past and present and tell of Berlin and its inhabitants. Open your ears! We listen to the voices and sounds of the city!

21. March - 22. March 2025

Collect Films!

50 years of KommKino Nuremberg

In our event series Collect Films! we invite small archives and collections to the Zeughauskino to give us an insight into their collections. Our guest in March is Konstantin Hockwin from the KommKino in Nuremberg, founded in 1974 and one of the oldest initiatives in German off-cinema culture.

11. January - 25. February 2025

Enlightened!

Working women, female citizens and queens of the 18th century

The retrospective focuses on women of the 18th century who thought, felt and acted in various enlightened ways and brings together feature and essay films from the silent era to the present day.

08. February - 09. February 2025

Collect Films!

Tobias Rank's mobile cinema from Leipzig

In February, our guest in February is the musician Tobias Rank from Leipzig, who has been touring the country with his traveling cinema for 25 years, performing silent films in the open air and accompanying them as a soloist on the piano or in an ensemble. We will be showing films from his large 16mm collection, whose main strength lies in American slapstick comedy.

17. January - 31. January 2025

Documentary Positions: Wiltrud Baier & Sigrun Köhler

The inspiration came from an exclamation on New Year's Eve: Bread instead of Böller (firecrackers). "We want - in a figurative sense - both humor and seriousness, light and shadow for our film work: Böller UND Brot." What documentary filmmaker Wiltrud Baier, who together with Sigrun Köhler forms the unique directing duo "Böller und Brot", anecdotally formulates, touches on a concern that is rarely found in documentary film.