Dokumentarfilme A-Z
Dana Flor, Toby Oppenheimer · USA 2016 · E · 91 min
William Fairman, Max Gogarty · GB 2015 · E/d · 83 min
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman · USA 1989 · E/d · 79 min
Claudio Cipelletti · I 2009 · I/d · 94 min
Pasquale Plastino, Stéphane Riethauser · D/CH 2016 · D/e · 61 min
Jochen Hick · D 2003 · D · 99 min
Alek Keshishian · USA 1991 · E/d · 114 min
Dagmar Jäger, Kerstin Polte · D 2014 · D · 82 min
Gagik Ghazareh · ARM 2016 · Armenisch/e/d · 75 min
Jochen Hick · D 2017 · D · 99 min
Swiss Premiere Documentary
In West Berlin in the 1960s it was possible to find bars where men could be left to themselves – a fact that was to turn the city into a magnet for young gay men. The protagonists of this film, all still active members of the community today, recall those early years in the city. Theirs are memories of a community that fought steadily for its existence, and of its change, right up to the fall of the Wall. Faced with considerable social repression in the 1970s, a collective gay identity began to emerge, and the ‘West Berlin homosexual campaign’ called for the abolition of paragraph 175 and the overthrow of patriarchy. Ruined buildings become the venues for new ways of living together such as all-male communes or the ‘queer house’. Cottaging, East-West affairs, leather bars, drag performances in the subway – an anarchic kind of joy outshines past suffering. A decade later, AIDS was to hit Berlin. After Out in Ost-Berlin (Out In East Berlin) Jochen Hick explores queer lifestyles in the West of the city and the roots of a fascination that the metropolis still holds as a refuge – and not just for gay men. A fascinating journey through time featuring previously unpublished archive material. (Berlinale Catalogue)
K8 Hardy · USA 2016 · Kein Dialog · 82 min
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman · USA/GB/D 2000 · E/d · 81 min
Hui-chen Huang · Taiwan 2016 · Taiwan/e/d · 88 min
Ester Gould, Reijer Zwaan · NL/B 2016 · E/Niederl/d · 85 min
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman · USA/GB/D 1995 · E/d/f · 102 min
Conor Horgan · IRL 2015 · E/d · 86 min
Rob Epstein · USA 1984 · E/d · 87 min
Nada Mezni Hafaiedh · TUN 2017 · Arab/F/e · 80 min