{"title": "Mother City", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung", "address": "Schumannstraße 8, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/housing"], "description": "The documentary “Mother City” follows activist Nkosikhona Swartbooi and other members of the movement “Reclaim the City” over six years as they fight for affordable housing in Cape Town. It shows how the city remains deeply divided 30 years after the end of apartheid, with much of the poor black population displaced to informal settlements on the outskirts. The activists stand up for dignity, participation and social justice despite repression, pandemic and political blockades. After the screening, director Miki Redelinghuys, activist and protagonist Nkosikhona Swartbooi and Katrin Schmidberger discuss the film, its political background and the situation in Cape Town and Berlin.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/mother-city-31480/", "official_url": "https://calendar.boell.de/de/event/mother-city", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/dd78cdc6bc60ef003536258a856899b1f8aa77eb88e710d35226f0aebe968c00-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung", "address": "Schumannstraße 8, 10117 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Stadt als Beute – Kritik der Stadt im Theater", "start": "2026-11-07T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23817", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/urbanism/gentrification"], "description": "„Stadt als Beute – Kritik der Stadt im Theater“ is a talk about the question of who owns the city and how housing can be withdrawn from the profit-driven market. It is prompted among other things by evictions in Spain that sparked a protest wave with hundreds of thousands on the streets and forced new elections. The urban sociologist Andrej Holm speaks together with representatives of Kotti & Co and Deutsche Wohnen & Co. enteignen about gentrification, displacement and socialization. The event is held by the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz at the Prater, in solidarity with protesters across Europe.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/stadt-als-beute-kritik-der-stadt-im-theater-282/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/stadt-als-beute-kritik-der-stadt-im-theater/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/295dab51686621134ee84811dda3cd337197e54afb3f7f44da6eadae05dccc6e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Stadt als Beute – Kritik der Stadt im Theater", "start": "2026-11-07T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Prater an der Kastanienallee - Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Kastanienallee 7-9 10435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://waldsamkeit.de/produkt/survival-pflanzliche-notnahrung-berlin/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/housing", "stage/theatre"], "description": "A talk evening at the Prater addresses the critique of the city in theatre under the title \"Stadt als Beute – Kritik der Stadt im Theater\". It is hosted by the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, in solidarity with protesters across Europe. At its centre are the struggles over housing: urban sociologist Andrej Holm speaks together with representatives of Kotti & Co and Deutsche Wohnen & Co. enteignen about gentrification, displacement and socialization. Starting from forced evictions in Spain and the dispute over financial funds speculating with basic needs, the event asks who owns the city and how affordable housing can be secured as a fundamental right.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/stadt-als-beute-kritik-der-stadt-im-theater-30481/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Mein Berlin - ein Ort mit Gedächtnis?", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "KulturMarktHalle", "address": "Hanns-Eisler-Straße 93, 10409 Berlin", "price": "kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/berlin-bike-berliner-mauertour-mit-dem-fahrrad#/experience/BTM00020101074869526", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/antisemitism"], "description": "\"Mein Berlin - ein Ort mit Gedächtnis?\" is a film offering an artistic and journalistic approach to the uncertainty that many Berlin Jews have experienced since October 7, 2023. It portraits six Jewish people living in Berlin without showing their faces; the renunciation of identifiability is both a protective measure and part of the artistic concept. The camera stays close but never revealing, observing movements, gestures and living spaces, showing apartments, workplaces, family objects and favorite places in the city. At a time when antisemitism is becoming visible and more radical again in Germany, the film looks not only at those affected but also at the majority society – at its reactions, withheld empathy, distance and silence.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/mein-berlin-ein-ort-mit-gedachtnis-20445/", "official_url": "https://www.kulturmarkthalle.berlin/event-details/film-mein-berlin-ein-ort-mit-gedachtnis", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/82239c6147b5d1474e3a6175e1cb2ed9ce7bdd7dfd29c6b405981d37477b795a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Counter-Forums and Peoples's Tribunals", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Uferstudios", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/law"], "description": "A two-part evening devoted to peoples' tribunals and other grassroots initiatives acting as a 'theatre of justice and truth': assemblies staged to claim authority over justice and to counter the legal violence exercised by the state and its apparatuses. It concerns alternative models of justice operating beyond official legal frameworks, distinguished by their performative and embodied dimension. Başak Ertür, a critical legal scholar, lecturer at the Centre for Research Architecture and Research Fellow at Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, gives a talk titled „Volksprozesse als Gegenforen“. Afterwards the event screens the film „hold on to her“ (2024, 80 minutes) directed by Robin Vanbesien, which addresses a current case of police and state violence connected to migration and border controls in Belgium: in 2018, Mawda Shawri was shot by a Belgian police officer during a chase on a major motorway, and the film traces a lived social infrastructure of care, solidarity and the struggle for justice.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/counter-forums-and-peopless-tribunals-32815/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/85033c887e77164cfe9916bda605ad89298ba34f4adfa5c6e40c9af5dcaa8868-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Love Letters to the City", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-05-30T20:00:00+02:00", "place": "Urban Nation", "address": "Bülowstraße 7, 10783 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/street-art"], "description": "LOVE LETTERS TO THE CITY is an exhibition at the URBAN NATION Museum for Urban Contemporary Art in Berlin. Curated by Michelle Houston, it is a tribute to the city and an invitation to explore urban living spaces with a new perspective. It presents work by more than fifty street artists from around the world and living in Berlin who use the transformative potential of art in public space. The show addresses themes such as urbanization, gentrification, environmental destruction and social inequality.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/love-letters-to-the-city-15759/", "official_url": "https://urban-nation.com/de/love-letters-to-the-city/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/659704a1b35285c020ec1a83134a0822406254a8e6fc3c883fa2503960958cbd-600.webp"}, {"title": "Gestern Mitte Morgen", "start": "2026-11-10T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/schoenheit-und-vergaenglichkeit/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "The documentary »Gestern Mitte Morgen – Yesterday Mitte Tomorrow« is a portrait of the alternative culture scenes in Berlin's central district of Mitte after 1989. It was written, directed, shot and edited by Peter Zach, who will be present; it was produced by PZF Produktion in co-production with ZDF – Kleines Fernsehspiel, featuring Mark Ates, Guy Bettini, Christine Hill, Yuko Kaseki and Sasha Waltz, among others. In the early 1990s, in the so-called Spandauer Vorstadt near Friedrichstrasse, young international artists found an affordable, freely inhabitable space in the empty houses of the former border zone, a freedom that had already vanished in their expensive home countries. The film tells of these people, the places they lived, their longings, everyday life and their art – of those who lived almost without money and felt this part of Berlin to be their personal centre of the world.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/gestern-mitte-morgen-48539/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/gestern-mitte-morgen/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/848dac6e6d247f1160c5fe5761bfb12f85089bdedbdf27100b26978c9d0bee19-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sonderausstellung: Zur Wohnungsfrage. Historische und aktuelle Kämpfe ums Wohnen", "start": "2026-07-02T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Museum des Kapitalismus", "address": "Köpenicker Straße 127, 10997 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/housing"], "description": "A special exhibition at the Museum des Kapitalismus in Berlin deals with the housing question. Organized by the museum, it covers both historical and current struggles around housing.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/sonderausstellung-zur-wohnungsfrage-historische-und-aktuelle-12368/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Erzählsalon Migration: Wir haben keine Wahl, aber eine Stimme!", "start": "2026-11-07T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berlin Museum: Ephraim-Palais", "address": "Fidicinstraße 40, 10965 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://waldsamkeit.de/produkt/survival-pflanzliche-notnahrung-berlin/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/migration", "society/activism"], "description": "The “Erzählsalon Migration: Wir haben keine Wahl, aber eine Stimme!” is an informal storytelling event at the Berlin Museum: Ephraim-Palais. It is the second instalment of a new quarterly series by the Stadtmuseum Berlin, in which actors from migrant and diasporic communities share their stories of migration and resistance. This edition is about migrant struggles and international solidarities from the 1970s to the 1990s, when Berlin (West) was shaped by resistance and fights for a more just world. Contemporary witnesses such as political scientist and urban researcher Max Welch Guerra tell these stories with photos, documents and music; moderation is by Aurora Rodonò, curator for migration history, and visitors are welcome to bring their own mementos.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/erzahlsalon-migration-wir-haben-keine-wahl-aber-eine-stimme-16877/", "official_url": "https://www.stadtmuseum.de/veranstaltungen/erzaehlsalon-migration-wir-haben-keine-wahl-aber-eine-stimme", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/f032946314bbfa165cd0081a68e36afe6d9c0defe3c0f8f8a60a3780b0aaf605-2000.webp"}]}