Film List berlin Movies 2010s

"One Night, One City, One Cut." A fitting advertising slogan for Sebastian Schipper's groundbreaking experiment Victoria! Allegedly, he and his team filmed the 138-minute feature film only a few times and then selected the best one. When we were shooting our documentary about the video store, I suggested we do the same. The director, Lea Bethke, said that it would have to be well prepared. Is that so? Yes, when running backwards with the camera you can easily hit furniture and that's it. In Victoria this works without any hidden cuts - when a door closes. We are somewhere in the middle. Not in the most beautiful part. In the new building Mitte.  We go down to techno clubs or out on the house roofs. Every Berliner knows how nice a summer night is on the roof, right? Victoria (the great Laia Costa) is new in Berlin. On her way back from a windowless basement club she meets a group of boys. With Sonne (Frederick Lau) she starts flirting and having the kind of conversations we loved so much in Richard Linklaters Before Sunrise. But Victoria wasn't the only highlight of the decade. On the contrary! Oh Boy (a Slacker comedy), Who Am I (a German cyber thriller that isn't embarrassing) and best of all: The Berlin series Im Angesicht des Verbrechens and 4 Blocks! Who compares our lists with Berlin movies of the 80s and 90s will notice how big the leap in quality is! and the Berlin indie productions? They don't miss out either. Old star Klaus Lemke shot after his successful Berlin Für Helden Kein Grosses Ding. Rather a comedy about the relationship between men. Staged to a large extent in our video store and even with me as the evil boss. Or the whole Mumblecore series, especially Luca Tanzt Leise (also filmed in our video store), Ich Fühl Mich Disco or Tiger Girl. So it's time for a new Berlin List!