From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany. A look at the life and work of the couple without whom Arsenal and the Forum wouldn’t exist.
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless by Mahmoud Behraznia is a documentary with a different perspective on Sohrab Shahid Saless, a leading Iranian filmmaker. Someone whose viewpoint at cinema and the special type of aesthetics he used in his films has been a path-breaker for many Iranian filmmakers. The film provides the viewer with new information about the life and work of Sohrab Shahid Saless in Germany.
Na capital russa, um homem luta por sua visão do que é o cinema: um caminho para uma sociedade melhor. O filme é uma jornada cinematográfica pelo mundo de Naum Kleiman, ex-diretor do Musey Kino, o museu de cinema de Moscou, estudioso de Serguei Eisenstein e historiador. Em forma de colagem, o documentário combina trechos de filmes clássicos com entrevistas e um retrato da Moscou contemporânea.
On February 26, 1920, Robert Wiene's world-famous film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. To this day, it is considered a manifesto of German expressionism; a legend of cinema and a key work to understand the nature of the Weimar Republic and the constant political turmoil in which a divided society lived after the end of the First World War.
