To coincide with the "Fassbinder – NOW" exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, every Monday we are screening a film from the rich oeuvre of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who would have turned 70 this year. Even 33 years after his death, his work continues to exude an undeniable topicality. As a chronicler of German history and society, he examined the structures that enable people to oppress others, as well as the emotional exploitation in intimate relationships and how they depend on economic conditions.

The next Rising Stars, Falling Stars – We Must Have Music! presented by film expert Vaginal Davis is on July 26: Broken promises, repressed passions, and untimely deaths ensnare two families in a tragic labyrinth of spiritual obsession. THE DYBBUK (Michał Waszyński, Poland 1937) is the adaptation of 
S. Ansky’s 1917 play of the same name. Shot entirely in Yiddish with the biggest Jewish talents in Polish film, the musical shows the cultural wealth of Shtetl life and Polish Jewry shortly before the Second World War in a series of exquisite music and dance numbers. Film critic Parker Tyler called the film one of "the most celebratory records of the mythical power of the spirit that imagination has ever committed to celluloid."

Followed by drinks and music as always.