Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin 2016

6.69

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.

2016

The Sorceror's Apprentice

The Sorceror's Apprentice 1977

6.00

A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than actually participate in one

1977

French Provincial

French Provincial 1975

5.50

In the 1930s, we follow the story of the laundress Berthe who marries the eldest son of a bourgeois family.

1975

Judith Therpauve

Judith Therpauve 1978

6.30

A former hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance is approached by old comrades to lead a financially struggling liberal newspaper. Initially reluctant, she takes on the challenge, mortgaging her house to keep it afloat. As conservative forces intensify their opposition, she is eventually forced to sell the paper, seeing it as a personal failure.

1978

Flesh Color

Flesh Color 1978

6.00

This film was presented to the Cannes Film Festival in the parallel section in 1978. It is unreleased.

1978

Mixing

Mixing 2023

1

Chanel’s first fashion show in Dakar in 2023 was historic – not least because of the historically significant venue of the Palace of Justice, a colonial edifice from former "French West Africa". Karine Silla's film about this event focusses on questions of identity, transmission and exchange, and how art and beauty can bring people together.

2023