January #2
January #2
"Green Border" Premiere & new plays and exhibitions are waiting for you!
Dear all,
We're already in the middle of January, so it's high time for another update - because we have some exciting events coming up!
In this issue:
🎥 Premiere of Green Border (dir. Agnieszka Holland) on 30th of January
🎦 Ukrainian Documentary Films on 23rd + 30th of January
🎭 New Play at Schaubühne
🖼️ Ukrainian Art Exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof
🥟 Restaurant Tip
So, let’s dive right in!
FILM & CINEMA
GREEN BORDER is coming to Germany
Green Border is the latest work by three-time Oscar nominee Agnieszka Holland. It is a story about how each of us can unexpectedly find ourselves in a liminal situation and be forced to make choices between good and evil. The film is a tale of fiction, but its script was based on real events happening right next door to us - in the so-called green zone between Poland and Belarus. Preparation for the film involved hundreds of hours of documentary analysis, interviews with refugees, border guards, border residents, activists and experts. The film interweaves three perspectives - those of a Syrian family, Polish activists and border guards.
The film will run in multiple cinemas over Berlin, starting February, such as Hackesche Höfe, IL Kino, Kino Krokodil.
The German premiere will take place in Delphi Palast on 30th of January, 19:00.
📍Delphi Palast / Charlottenbrug
💵 15€ / 14€
🗣️ multiple with English subtitles
Documentaries from Ukraine - 23rd and 30th of January., 6:30pm
Ukrainian Society at Humboldt University is hosting two more documentary screenings for free. On 23rd of January Life to the limit will be screened - because of technical problems last week, the screening was postponed. The film follows two filmmakers who, after their Oscar-nominated film "Winter on Fire" in 2016, returned from the glamour of Los Angeles straight back to the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Five years later, these veterans utilize memories and self-recorded footage, unraveling the origins of the war against Ukraine, shedding light on how such conflict emerged. On 30th of January you have the chance to see 20 Days in Mariupol - a heartbreaking documentation of the first 20 days in the city of Mariupol after the full-scale invasion, showing the devastating fates of the civil society, filmed by three American Press Journalists.
📍Mitte / Friedrichstraße
💵 free of charge
🗣️ Ukrainian with English subtitles
THEATRE
“Postkarten aus dem Osten” - Schaubühne
Four friends celebrate their reunion after meeting in Mariupol in 2014. They experienced the beginning of the war that year, fleeing the city together. Despite being in different places during the 2022 attack on Mariupol, they now gather in Berlin, reflecting on their student days. The premiere of the play will take place on 30th of January, at 20:00. Apart from the premiere, you can see the play until 11th of February.
📍Schaubühne / Charlottenburg
💵 15€
🗣️ German & Ukrainian with German, Ukrainian and English titles
EXHIBITIONS & ART
“Echos der Abwesenheit” - Ukrainian Art rediscovered
On January 25th, Tetyana Filevska, the Creative Director of the Ukrainian Institute, and Meike Hoffman, the Head of the Research Center for "Degenerate Art" at the Free University of Berlin, will discuss art in the context of dictatorship. The conversation accompanies the current exhibition "Seeing without light" by Nadia Kaabi-Linke at the Hamburger Bahnhof. Their discussion will focus on the so-called "Spezfond" of the National Art Museum of Ukraine. The works in this fund were censored in the 1920s and 1930s and confiscated by the Soviet government.
📍Hamburger Bahnhof / Mitte
💵 free of charge
🗣️ English
RESTAURANT TIP: SLAVA BERLIN
A new spot for your dose of Ukrainian comfort food: Slava Berlin in Wrangelkiez. The cosy and chic café offers a wide selection of dishes for all needs and times of day, such as Shakshuka for breakfast, and varenyky and borsh as lunch or dinner options. Also, make sure to try the signature fruity vodka-based liqueurs “nalivanki”!
📍Wrangelstr. 43, 10997 / Kreuzberg
💵 13-16€
🍴vegetarian and vegan options available
Thank you for reading and stay tuned for the next issue coming in 2 weeks, including:
🎥 Berlinale preview
✨ and much more :)
If you want to share your event tip with our readers, let me know! Feel free to reach out with submissions, questions or feedback anytime via juliaschneider@substack.com.
Lots of love,
From Julia’s Desk