Erwin Leiser was one of the first and most committed film directors to deal with the Nazi dictatorship and its crimes after the end of the Second World War. Now his important works DEUTSCHLAND, ERWACHE! (FRG 1968), DIE FEUERPROBE - NOVEMBERPOGROM 1938 (FRG 1988) and OTTO JOHN - EINE DEUTSCHE GESCHICHTE (D 1995) have been digitally restored.

Beth B's film SALVATION! was shown at the Forum in 1987. In our podcast series "Arsenal 60ff. — Film Talks from 5 Decades", we are publishing the audience discussion with Beth B, the main actor Stephen McHattie and the passionate Berlin film audience, moderated by Ulrich Gregor.

The 15th Arsenal Summer School on the topic "After the Periphery, the Center: Cinema as Urban History " will take place from August 28 to 30, 2024 at Kino Arsenal and silent green.

The gentle portrait of cinephile Maria Stadler is the debut film by one of Germany’s most successful filmmakers, Doris Dörrie, together with Wolfgang Berndt. Despite falling audience figures and high debts, Maria Stadler (born 1914) devoted her life to running her cinema in a small Bavarian town.

We are in mourning.

We are very happy to have the following films by indian master filmmaker Satyajit Ray now available as DCP with english subtitles: CHARULATA (The Lonely Wife), MAHANAGAR (The Big City), NAYAK (The Hero), KAPURUSH (The Coward), MAHAPURUSH (The Saint) und JAI BABA FELUNATH (The Elephant God). We do hold the screening rights for Germany, Austria and Swizerland.

In his latest documentary Daniel Kötter sketches the psychogeography of a geopolitically charged landscape and its inhabitants between extractivism, war and displacement. In the form of a journey in eastern Armenia, the film follows human and non-human actors as they make their way through the landscape, from Lake Sevan to the Sotk gold mine, occupied by Azerbaijan since the Karabakh War in 2020.

Resounding Archives: The Politics of Listening to the Moving Image
From 17 to 22 September 2024 at silent green, Kino Arsenal, SINEMA TRANSTOPIA, Gerichtstraße 35 and migas listening bar

Archival Assembly #3 turns its focus to the importance of sound and language within the archival practices of international film history.