Berlin Nights

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Film Screening | A modern city, a manhunt, and a main character set against himself in Fritz Lang's classic thriller

• Goethe-Institut Chicago, Chicago, IL

• German with English subtitles

The Murderers Are Among Us

Film Screening | A noir about redemption and the terrors of war, filmed in the rubble of post-WWII Berlin

• Goethe-Institut Chicago, Chicago, IL

• German with English subtitles

Miss Butterfly

Film Screening | A modern-day fairy tale set in East Berlin contrasts a young woman's daydreams and her harsh reality.

• Goethe-Institut Chicago, Chicago, IL

• German with English subtitles

The Lives of Others

Film Screening | The Oscar-winning thriller about surveillance in the GDR

• Goethe-Institut Chicago, Chicago, IL

• German with English subtitles

Victoria

Film Screening | An experimental thriller filmed over the course of a single night

• Goethe-Institut Chicago, Chicago, IL

• English; Spanish and German with English subtitles

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Film Screening | The visually stunning update of Alfred Döblin's classic novel imagines its protagonist as an undocumented immigrant in Berlin

• Goethe-Institut Chicago, Chicago, IL

• German with English subtitles

Eine Flexible Frau

Film Screening | An atmospheric film about women and labor set in a rapidly gentrifying Berlin

• Goethe-Institut Chicago, Chicago, IL

• German with English subtitles

Ticket of No Return

Film Screening | A dazzling, surreal odyssey through the Berlin underworld by avant-garde filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger

• Chicago Filmmakers , Chicago, IL

• German with English subtitles

City of Lost Souls

Film Screening | The 1983 underground trans-punk musical is a rarely seen pillar of no-budget queer cinema

• Chicago Filmmakers , Chicago, IL

• In German, English, and Spanish with English subtitles.

Christiane F.

Film Screening | A harrowing, stylized film about teenage heroin addiction and youth culture in late 1970's Berlin

• Chicago Filmmakers , Chicago, IL

• German with English subtitles