Cinémathèque Leipzig:
 Real and existing utopianism

Anything is possible at the cinema. Journeys to distant planets and intimate insights into the lives of our neighbors. Or into the daily existence of people with whom we believe we have nothing in common. At the cinema, we learn things about the world and about ourselves. We enter a dark room one after the other and leave it together. We don't have to dress up or read up on anything beforehand. We can come as we are, but when we leave we always take something with us. In our series “Real Existing Utopianism,” we focus on cinema as a place between utopia and escapism and talk to the people who make cinema possible. People who make films and stories (re)visible in the cinema, which would otherwise have been lost long ago. Who take film to places where there is no cinema. Whose personality flows into the program or who feed their personality from the program. People for whom the cinema is a workplace or a second home. Of course, we will also be showing movies. For instance, treasures from archives, enthusiastic collective works and critical voices, declarations of love and fan favorites. (Katharina Franck)