Berlin.Dokument
2026
Berlin.document - under this title, the Zeughauskino presents a monthly programme of documentary films of Berlin in chronological order. The programmes tell a mosaic-like story of the city as it has been documented in often unknown footages shot on the fringes of the commercial film industry.
Open spaces, empty spaces, and interstitial spaces that opened up in East and West Berlin after World War II, but also after the fall of the Wall, will be the focus in the first quarter of 2026. Sometimes they are filled by artists, as shown in Peter Voigt's documentary collage Dämmerung – Ostberliner Bohème der 50er Jahre and Helmut Wietz's chronicle Wüste Westberlin. Sometimes the places lie fallow until, like Hito Steyerl in Die leere Mitte, their historical significance is revealed. City history as a history of beginnings and endings, as a history of opportunities seized and squandered.
The curator of the series is the author and film historian Jeanpaul Goergen, who was awarded the Kinematheksverbund's honorary prize for services to film culture and film heritage in 2023 for his Berlin programmes, among other things.
