Open Air Cinema: KILLER.BERLIN.DOC

Introductory talk 9 pm, film starts at 9:30 pm

Moderation: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus

In May 1998, ten people decide to turn their lives in Berlin into fiction for a fortnight in order to tell the story of their own lives in a changing city. They play “Killer”, a game in which no one knows about the others and everyone is both perpetrator and victim. The task is to find a predetermined person, unknown to the player, and come up with the perfect “murder” for the “victim”. Knowing that someone is following their own tracks at the same time, the players set off in search of the unknown person. "KILLER.BERLIN.DOC is a multifaceted documentary film with fictional elements, a subjective artist portrait film, a rarely beautiful architectural film about Berlin in transition, a polyphonic diary about two weeks in May 1998. The filmmakers' collective combines the various filming techniques [...] in an aesthetically convincing way. Here, Berlin is simultaneously a blue-tinged dreamscape, a projection of different desires, a jumble of the most diverse architectures." (Detlef Kuhlbrodt)