What we’re about
KinoBerlino has been the German capital's independent, volunteer-run short film initiative since 2004 and has been helmed by Dave Lojek, probably the most-often-selected director at cinema festivals in the 21st century, since 2007.
Our current fundraising effort will support our hands-on international Berlin Film Workshop from September 11 to 21, 2025, which we are organizing with a volunteer team.
In our annual KinoKabarets (ten-day intensive film workshops in the fall), we bring together approximately 120 volunteer producers, directors, actors, and film technicians who, together with musicians, artists, and authors, write, plan, shoot, edit, score, and present their own narrative, animated, experimental, and documentary works for the cinema.
They are given two four-day sessions at the venues for this purpose. Intrinsically motivated, all participants network organically under extreme time pressure and develop new ideas without censorship or sales intentions. This is how we created over 1,500 short films in the micro-cinema or guerrilla film segment in all genres.
These low-threshold workshops are the antithesis of the extremely privileged state film schools, which regularly reject 95% of their applicants. It is important to us to provide a larger community with access to experience, knowledge, and practical results in the spehere of cinematography. It's also great fun to create your own films, which we celebrate in the cinema.
At KinoBerlino, we cure the perfectionism of the inexperienced with the art of the feasible, because our short films don't have to sell. They float like free radicals above the ocean of commerce, amusing, impressing, or irritating cinema audiences hundreds of thousands of times over.
For 2025, we are planning our KinoLab in the B.L.O. studios in Lichtenberg, whose members are cordially invited. Our fundraising will be used to cover the costs of the event, such as rent of the venue, catering, equipment, advertising, archive and distribution.
Since 2006, we have also hosted monthly Open Screenings at the Moviemento cinema in Kreuzberg, providing a regular forum for filmmakers to project their own productions in a dignified setting and discuss them with the audience.
We have celebrated over 3,000 world premieres at Germany's oldest cinema and initiated hundreds of new film productions, which have also been shown here. We address our target groups of cinephiles, dreamers, hyper-experimentalists, and underground mavericks on social media and at film festivals, which we actively participate in.
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See all- 16th International KinoKabaret Berlin 2025Kino Moviemento, Berlin
🐔 OPEN CALL FOR CINEMATOGRAPHERS and FILM TALENTS 🎬 https://bit.ly/KB_Talents
🥁 Young cinematographers and professionals with their own equipment can now register for our active film workshop, which will be held from September 11th to 21st in Lichtenberg, enabling numerous new short films to have their world premieres.
This festival produces its own program in two four-day rounds, from pitch to premiere at the Moviemento in Kreuzberg, Germany's oldest cinema.https://kinoberlino.tumblr.com/apply
🎪 The simple concept: We invite talents from all filmmaking disciplines to work together under time pressure and using only available resources to create the most poignant, presentable works in many genres. Instead of competition, we focus on collaboration and the joy of premieres. We will complement the event with master classes and seminars as additional treats.
📽️ Why should you register for this intensive course?
If you are looking for contact with international film talents (directing, screenwriting, cinematography, acting, sound, music, distribution) and a self-motivated community, you will find all of that at KinoBerlino. In addition, your own filmography and resilience to chaos grow. These films often tour festivals and enhance the participants' portfolios. The event's producer has been promoting independent film culture with a volunteer team for 21 years.Since 2004, we have been activating and supporting the capital's non-commercial short film scene with KinoBerlino. We make films because we want to.
Many feasible scripts are waiting for curious crews to realize them in 2025. Fiction and documentaries are on the minds of directors. Many actresses have already been accredited.💡 Please read the registration form for technical and artistic departments with all the details (German / English) first.
The course fee depends on the production rounds selected.
Your profile: We open our workshop to people of all experience levels who can read and are stress-resistant and want to participate in intensive filming days. Previous experience helps, as long as it doesn't lead to unrealistic expectations.
Your equipment: All types of digital film cameras, lights, tripods, computers and props are allowed. Each person brings their own gear to support the teams.
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