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20. September - 22. September 2024

Collect Films!

The Berlin film collectors Axel Hampel and Kai Nowak

Axel Hampel is a co-founder and active member of Filmbörse Berlin. Since 1987 he has been collecting cinema film trailers as well as cinema commercials and TV commercials on 35mm, which he restores, reconstructs and assembles himself. Kai Nowak has been collecting films and film-related materials such as brochures, posters and poster photos since his youth. With his Kreuzberg-based company Media Target Distribution, he specialises in the production and distribution of high-quality Blu-ray and DVD editions, including Eastern, Gialli and Grindhouse films.

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22. September - 15. December 2024

A Short Laugh

Comic Characters in the Supporting Programme 1935 until 1939

What was funny in the "Third Reich"? Following on from two film series on comic supporting films from 1933 and 1934, we conclude with a look at the short comedies that were shown in cinemas between 1935 and 1939 before the feature-length films.

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04. October - 19. October 2024

moving history

Festival of the Historical Film

moving history is the only German festival that presents films with historical themes from current film and television productions. Since 2017, it has awarded the CLIO, a prize for the best German film on a historical theme. This year, moving history will take place at the Filmmuseum Potsdam from 25 to 29 September, before the selected cinema and television productions, accompanied by film talks, can also be seen at the Zeughauskino in October.

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11. October - 18. November 2024

Documentary Positions: Tamara Trampe & Johann Feindt

Together, Tamara Trampe and Johann Feindt have created a documentary oeuvre that gets to the bottom of the forms of expression of complex psychosocial phenomena as well as their social causes and historical dimensions in their encounters with people. The four co-directed works by Trampe and Feindt form the core of this new edition of Documentary Positions, our exploration of documentary filmmaking beyond the mainstream.

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25. October - 3. December 2024

Taipei Stories

The Films of Edward Yang

As one of the central representatives of Taiwan New Cinema, Edward Yang is inextricably linked to the aesthetic renewal of Taiwanese cinema that began in the 1980s. His films reflect the specifically Taiwanese experience of exile, authoritarianism and liberalisation as well as the discrepancy between Confucian tradition and Western-oriented modernity.

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27. October - 1. December 2024

Time Travel for Children

Accompanying the children's exhibition Rein ins Gemälde! about a famous Labour of the Months from Augsburg, the Zeughauskino is travelling back in time to the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period over five days. Younger film travellers are particularly welcome.

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22. November - 23. November 2024

Collect Films!

The Film Collection of the Institut für Medienwissenschaften at Universität Paderborn

In our series Sammelt Filme! we invite small archives and collections to the Zeughauskino to give us an insight into their holdings. In November, Stephan Ahrens and Alexander Schultz will be our guests and present the collection of the Institut für Medienwissenschaften at the University of Paderborn, which specialises in 16mm films.

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29. November - 15. December 2024

With Other Eyes

New Restorations of the Weimar Cinema

The corpus of films from Weimar cinema that are being restored in archives and cinematheques and thus becoming visible again is growing all the time. As testimonies to a breathtaking variety of artistic forms of expression, new themes and role models, these films that have been made accessible again are unique and valuable.

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