Handpicked from the same festivals lineup, scored for this weekend.
FESTIVALS
SHEUNG YIU ꟾ (Inter)faces of Predictions
In his winning project, Sheung Yiu (b. 1991) investigates how faces across different cultures and technological contexts serve to prefigure character traits and foretell the future.
INTERNATIONAL
DÖRTE EISSFELDT ꟾ Archipelago
In the images of Dörte Eißfeldt (born 1950), nothing is as it seems, and nothing stays the same. Instead of merely depicting reality, she transforms photography into a medium of constant metamorphosis.
FESTIVALS
SOPHIA ODER DAS ENDE DER HUMANISTEN
Few topics captivate as much as artificial intelligence. Long since breaking free from the confines of scientific research, it has become-sometimes more, sometimes less obviously-a part of everyday life, and its potential is impossible to predict.
FESTIVALS
'Proximity as a state' - Images of humanity by Matthias Gálvez
Matthias Gálvez is one of the most distinctive voices in Berlin's realistic-figurative painting. His works understand proximity not as a narrative motif, but as an experiential state.
FESTIVALS
Berlin Uncensored: A History of Sex & Freedom
This Tour is a multimedia walking tour exploring Berlin’s history of sexuality, sexual freedom, repression, and forgotten stories of liberation.
FESTIVALS
Berlin's Queer & Trans History Tour
This Tour is a multimedia walking tour tracing Berlin’s queer and trans history, from early emancipation movements and persecution to resistance and the present day.
FESTIVALS
"... this enemy is on the right!" The fight against National Socialism before 1933
Founded in 1919, the Weimar Republic was under pressure from the beginning. Authoritarian ideas and nationalist thinking were deeply rooted in parts of German society.
FESTIVALS
Escape into the interior
The writer, painter and Kleist Prize winner Paul Gurk led a reclusive life, living in Berlin Wedding from 1936 onwards. During the Nazi dictatorship, many of his works remained unpublished; the novel "Tresoreinbruch" (1935) was banned.
