Berlinale 2023

1. Notre corps
2. Where god is not.
3. Mammalia.
4. Dearest Fiona.
5. El rostro de la meduza.
6. De bruit et de fureur.
7. O estranho (💜 lesbian).
8. Allensworth.
9. program 5: Black strangers. A arvore. That day, on the river.
10. Gehen und bleiben.
11. Kletka ishet ptitsu.
12. EL juicio .
13. The Bride.
14. Dentro mio estoy bailando.
15. my ne zgasnemo.
16. Being in a place.
17. remembering everynight.
18. Defacto .
19. Between revolutions.
20. Tranfariana.
21. In ukraine.
22. . Mummola
23. Manodrome
24. El eco
25. orlando
26. kokomo city.

ListBerlinale2025

1. Colosal (Forum) Nayibe Tavares-Abel, esta directora de la dominican republic, y su abuelo estubo involucrado en la comision electora en un momento muy importante, me gusto mucho como la historia esta contada, no se si logra la neutralidad, pero el Q&A al final estubo super eye opening.
2. Sirens Call (Forum) Miri Lan Gossing, this movie was very trippy, but i also liked it.. it was mostly about ppl that identified as sirenas/mermaids. Programm 1 (forum expanded),3.1. Extra life (and decay)sadly of this i dont remember much 3.2.Mountain Roars, this movie is from thailand. 3.3. Photosynthesezing dead in a warehous, this one i remember is about fruits and veggies decaying in an appartment outside Hong kong i think
3. The trio Hall (forum) Su Hui-yu, i really like this movie, it was saturated with color, it was a kind of reality show/squid game, happening in a museum of modern artm( i want to say taiwan) the Q & A was fun.
4. When Lighting flashes over the sea Eva Neymann, this was a ukranian movie, very boring, as well as Eva, what a dull movie.
5. Programme 5 (forum expanded)Specialna Operatsia, another ukranian movie, this at least was short, it was about the cctv footage in chernobyl, audience full of artist.
6. Punku (Forum) esta es una peli peruana, ciencia ficcion, bien loca, misses y ninos desaparecidos. hablaban quechua!
7. Das Falsche Wort (forum special) this is an amazing dokumentary about the sintessa activist Melanie Spitta, her daughter was in the Q & A and this movie es basically old Shame on me and everybody that hasnt seen it yet.
8. Programme 6 Mikuba, this movie is about the cobald mine in congo, the Q & A was very intense, i felt the director made fun of all white people in the audience.
9. Duas veces Joao liberado. Paula Tomas Marques esta es la pelicula donde aparece Caio, una belleza!
10. Monk in Pieces. this movie is a about the performer/artist/ dancer, does she also sing? Meredith Monk, amazing story.
11. Unsere Zeit wird kommen, una bella historia de amor entre una austriaca y un refugiado negro. se siente muy real y sweet, lo cual en el mundo de hoy parece imposible.
12. Programme 7 (Forum expanded)supposly 3 movies, i dont remember any... can it be?
13. Scars of a Putsch (forum special) nathalie Borgues. this is a movie the director makes about her husbands memories of the putsch in turkey in the seventies.
14. Caligary prize - Fwends- very funny australian movie about meeting again.
15. Space cadet - Kid Koala - animation movie based on the graphic nobel that kid koala made for his kids about the death of her grandma, amazing.
16. Bajo las banderas, el sol (panorama Dok) beautiful dokumentary about the lack of info of the putsch in paraguay.
17. Berliner Shorts a.citizen Inmate, about ankle bracelet in Iran b.ke wai huo dong 2 teeneages meet for sex, the condom breaks and they have to go with the mom to buy the day after pill. c. Koki, ciao, this is a fiction about the parrot of tito. funny. d. after colossus archive about mental manipulation of dreams, is all about mastering the mind, of course after a dictatorship in Indonesia.
18. Janine zieht aud Lands (forum) < esta es la pelicula de Jan, no mucho que decir mas bien preguntarse, que chucha hace esta pelicula en forum.
19. Lesbian Space Princess (Panorama) amazing work of animation, tiene todos los cliches, aun asi, hermosa, gano el teddy.
20. Batim (Forum) jewisch and russian , my fetisch at this point, its a avery cute story about a person that comes out trans.. but the words are kind of not there yet.. he doesnt speak to to family, the mom is quite toxic and somehow when the director came (very much cis) i had to wonder, how did she came up with this story.
21. Whats next (Forum) this movie has no dialogue and its AI generated, i think i left the room. no.
22. Möllner Brief this is an amazing movie that i watched already after the oficial berlinale, its about the families of the people that died in a terroristic fire attach in Molln, and how they find out years after, that people all around germany sent them letters of support, that they never got to see, =(
23. Lady drakula (retrospektive 1978) ridiculous and on top austrian, a classic i guess. sexistic!

Berlinale 2020

1. Gorod usnul
2. Death of nintendo
3. Las mil y una
4. Zabij to i wyjedz z tego miasta
5. Minyam
6. The assitant
7. Chico ventana tambien quisiera tener un submarino
8. Sluzobnici
9. White riot
10. W.R. - Misterije Organizma
11. Welcome to Chechnya
12. Eine Premie für Irene
13. Suk suk
14. Angela - Portrait of a Revolutionary
15. El cuarto Poder
16. Pari
17. The murder of Fred Hampton
18. The great Chicago conspiracy circus
19. Hap
20. Charlatan
21. The earth is blue as an orange
22. Vento seco
23. DAU Natasha

SIDEWALK 4

Die Politisierung der Trans*Bewegung von Ost Berlin, Nadja Schallenberg

Rhinower Str 8

Sonntags Club from 89 till.. dont know.

Kopenhagener Str 14

Info Laden, it was a place where people would get help, info and connect, they extra looked for a neutral name that wouldnt give to much out, and also that wouldnt scare people.

Greifenhagener Str 28

where Sonntags-Club e.V functions today.

SIDEWALK 2

Lesbisch Schwule Liebe und Emanzipation in Ost Berlin, Bettina und Peter

Schonehauser Alle 175

Cafe am Senefelderplatz, this was a Cafe run by two lesbians, the atmosphere was nice, lesbians got used to meet here, not a lesbian cafe though.

Saarbrücker str. 17

Alt Berlinerbierstube, i dont remember anything particular about this place except it was also an eating place

Chorinerstr 9

Sonntags club from 88 till the wall came down.

Ecke Chorinerstr Schonehauser Alle

Frannz Club, open discoteque, gays would be able to make their parties here on Sunday evenings, the day "normal" people had to do their shores.

One time Party for lesbians on a Friday of November 1983 Greifswalderstr. Sputnik club

They didnt put the street number on the flyer for security reasons, also they extra made a tombola with numbers so dancers would be forced to dance with their paring number, they made extra efforts to play music which was performed by women.

Klappe - Puhlmann Hof between Kastanien Alle and Schonehauser Alle

This was parking space next to open toilets which were probably across the street, klappe is a term for toilets were gay guys go to have sex, widespread term in the DDR. The parking space is today a passage (Puhlmann hof) between buildings, very much gentrified.

Kastanienalle 2

Cafe Peking later called Cafe ecke Schonehauser Alle, i dont remember anything particular beside it was probably i place to wait for the close by Schoppenstube to open, they changed the name when the DDR stopped being friendly to china, but the community continue calling it "Peking"

Schonehauser Alle 44

Schoppenstube, people would dance and spent time, it open after 22:00 so u usually had to wait outside for them to open the doors, they also charged entrance at some point, it would enter easily (without queuing) if u would have foreign currency. news about it closing http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/die-schoppenstube-berlins-aelteste-schwulenbar-muss-schliessen/7931304.html

Stargarder str 77

Gethsemane church. very important place for the 8 of October 1989 demo( also the 40 year anniversary of the DDR), people gather here and some paramilitars surrounded the church and didn't let the demonstrators go out of the church or the area even though they were many, this led to the neighbors of surrounding buildings to light candles on their balconies in support of the peaceful church demonstrators.

HO Handels Organization

-DDR manager of goods and restaurants, which would get nervous if a restaurant seem to start gathering "too many people of the same kind- homosexuals-" also u would need permission from them to organize any party/dancing event.

KWV Komunalle Wohnungs Verwaltung

Umbrella term for managers of housing in the DDR, in this case Prenzlauerberg distric.

Since watching in netflix serie "Grace and Franky" which has 2 great actress i didnt know much before, Jane Fonda and Lilly Tomblin. Parallel to me, my friend Franzie also watch the serie, and develop interest on the topic of "representation of older women in TV" so we have been basically pushing each other to watch the show... and then for me birthday she came up with this book and i love it! for one it has Jane autograph and well second is cool to know that in this book the story ends in the mid 90, and since then she has been so active still!! it gives u hope and energy to see how involve aware and cool she is.anyway now i subscribed to her mailing list and once a month i get an update with what she has been doing. unglaublich =)

la critica de Leo a Call me by your name

Rafa, [26.04.19 08:26] Estaba tratando de buscar tu critica de " call me by your name".. Tal vez fue en whatsapp Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:27] [In reply to Rafa] Hqhahahahwhhwhaha Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:27] Dios demasiado alemán criticón yo God, am such a critical german. Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:27] Pero mantengo mi critica! But my criticism remains! Rafa, [26.04.19 08:28] Dijiste q era irreal you said it is difficult to believe... Rafa, [26.04.19 08:28] Y q mas? what else? Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:29] A ver no está mal que sea irreal pero la gente la quiere vender como una historia de amor verdadero y eso es lo que me molesta well, its not that it is "surreal" but it bothers me that people wants to sell it a a "real-love-story" and thats exactly what bothers me. Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:29] Especialmente que lo haga la gente gay specialy if this is done by gay people. Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:30] Que tiene tantos problemas para tener una relación, porque esperan que ellos experimenten " un amor así" cause [gay people[ have so many problems to have/hold a relationship, why do they expect that they undergo such a "love" Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:30] Y rechazan a mucha gente que puede ser muy buena , pero sabes no son a rich hot blonde guy and they [gay people{ reject lots of people that might be good for them ,cause u know, they are not rich hot blonde guy. Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:31] Los italianos son decoración en esa película , siempre el servicio / la señora de servicio The italians are decoration on the movie, always the service/ the service maid. Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:32] Pero ellos si nos reforman cuando talented son los us Americans soltando 3 frases en italiano y haciéndonos creer cuan talented son ellos But they [movie makers!?[ do tell us how/when talented the US americans are by throwing 3 basic sentences in italian, of course they [us americans[ are the talented ones. Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:32] Las mujeres de la película también son una caricatura the women of the movie are also a cartoon of themselves Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:33] La chica de la película de verdad está enamorado del bono niño ese y el la trata super feo , pero it's okay porque es gay The young girl in the movie is really in love with the guy [elio[ instead he treats her wrong, but thats ok, dont u see, he is gay. Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:33] No, lo siento pero no está bien jugar con los sentimientos de una persona así No! am sorry but its not OK to play with peoples feelings like this. Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:33] No sería lo mismo si la chica fuese un hombre it wouldnt be the same if the girl would have been male Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:33] Ella no tiene idea de lo que sucede la mayor parte de la película y está muy enamorada She [maiza?[ has no idea of whats happening for most part of the movie, still she is very much in love Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:34] Cosa que no debemos reafirmar más i think we should not help reinforce this type of attitudes. Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:34] Los hombres gays han hecho eso por años Male gays have done this for decades. Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:36] De paso recatada la película lo más que nuestra son un par de culos meanwhile the movie is very conservative with luck u see some seconds of ass. Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:37] Tampoco quería ver penes erectos , pero es casi una película para (mujeres) hetero, out of sight out of mind is not that i wanted to see erected penes but in my eyes is a movie made for hetero women, out of sight out of mind Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:37] Cómo cuando le dicen a uno , no tengo nada contra los homosexuales pero que hagan sus cosas en su casa is like when they tell u "i dont have anything against homosexuals BUT please those things should be done behind closed doors" Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:39] De paso los dos protagonistas ninguno es gay also btw, none of the protagonists is gay themselves. Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:39] Ya, lo siento Time Is over for straight people playing gay characters OK, am sorry :Time Is over for straight people playing gay characters Rafa, [26.04.19 08:40] Ahaha beutiful Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:40] Hay mucha gente queer que necesita trabajo y la clase de exposure que esos actores de call me by your dick tuvieron there is plenty of queer people that needs a job and the type of exposure this actors from "call me by your dick" had Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:40] La gente dice que uno es muy peleón and then people call me "too critical" Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:40] Pero dimeeee a cuantos actores queer le dan papeles hetero? but tell me, how many queer actors get to play hetero? Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:41] "Porque la gente no se cree la ilusión" blah blah the excuse is : cause people dont believe the ilusion then.. bla bla " Leo Venereo, [26.04.19 08:41] Le dan solo papeles en películas queer o pequeños roles they only get the queer roles or minimal roles.

Berlinale

1. Buoyancy
2. La paranza del Bambini
3. Ghost town Antology
4. Mr. Jones
5. System Sprenger
6. Synonyms
7. La Arrancada
8. Die kinder der Toten
9. Kameni Govornici
10. Lemebel
11. A dog barking at the Moon
12. El despertar de las Hormigas
13. Zärlichkeiten /Female Misbehaviour
14. Malchik russkiy
15. Variety
16. Schönheit und Vergänglichkeit
17. Heim /Berlin Prenzlauer Berg
18. Im Innern des Wals
19. Greta
20. Brecht
21. Der Glaserne Himmel/ Die Wahrheit um dem Froschkönig
22. Mariguella
23. Los miembros de la familia
24. What She said: the art of Pauline Kael
25. Lapü