filmArche

🏴‍☠️ NEW APPLICATION DEADLINE ON JULY 12 🏴‍☠️

WANT TO MAKE FILM? Come to Arche!

There's still space for new members in some departments! We have extended the deadline for Camera, Editing and Production applications. The new deadline is
July 12th!

Application materials are available on our website
(link in bio) - make sure to send your applications directly to bewerbung@filmarche as the old upload portal has closed.

Let's go Class 2026!!

With Love,
Your friendly neighbourhood autonomous filmschool

💜🧡Liebste Archies & Friends🧡💜

ACHTUNG AUFGEPASST:
Ihr solltet jetzt schon mal damit anfangen, eure Hüften zu kreisen, die Äuglein auszuruhen, und eure Waden zu lockern. Denn am 4. Juli ist es wieder soweit: Die filmArche öffnet ihre Pforten. Nicht nur für eine weitere grandiose Party, sondern auch für einen glorreichen Tag 48h Neukölln.
Tragt es euch sofort in eure Kalender ein, und kommet in Scharen! Zum schönsten Kanal-Ende Berlins. Ihr kleinen Kanalratten.
Wir starten um 12 Uhr vormittags und enden in der Nacht. Wenn wir alle erschöpft und erschüttert vom Bass die Beine hochlegen wollen.
Tagsüber erwarten euch Screenings, Einblicke in unser Schulgeschehen, kleine Workshops, Gespräche, Essen von Fatima und ein Pub-Quiz, bei dem ihr euren inneren Film-Nerd endlich ungezügelt freilassen dürft ohne dass euch jemand schräg beäugt.
Na? Wenn das nicht zieht. Und unsere Bar ist natürlich auch durchgehend geöffnet.

Kommt verbringt Tag und Nacht mit uns!

🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

Dearest Archies & Friends

HEADS UP:
Start liquifying your hips, resting your eyes, and loosening up your calves. Because on July 4th, it’s that time again: filmArche is opening its doors. Not just for another amazing party, but also for a glorious day of 48h Neukölln.

Mark your calendars right away, and come in droves! To the most beautiful canal-end in Berlin. You little canal rats.
We start at 12 noon and end in the night, when we are too exhausted from the bass, and our legs crave relaxation.

During the day, you can look forward to screenings, insights into our school life, small workshops, discussions, food from Fatima, and a pub quiz where you can finally let your inner film nerd run wild without anyone giving you weird looks – If that doesn’t sound appealing?! And of course, our bar will be open all day long.

Come, let’s spend the day and night together!

We extended the application deadline of our summer school!

As we have just a few limited spots left, we are opening up the application again until we filled the remaining spots. So don’t wait too long as these spots are very limited.

This two-week intensive course is specifically designed for beginners in both documentary and fictional filmmaking. The English-language program covers everything from idea development to the final cut, with hands-on workshops in screenwriting, pre-production, directing, and the use of professional equipment. Participants will complete the course by shooting a short film in teams, complemented by lessons on editing and distribution strategies.

No prior experience is needed – just bring your passion for film and creativity!

📅 Dates: 1st – 15th August 2026

📍 Location: filmArche, Berlin, Germany

💰 Cost: 950€ (including tuition fees & lunch on class days)

✍🏽 Applications until: all spots are filled

Infos and application form:
https://www.filmarche.de/international-summer-school-2026/

If you have any questions regarding the summer school or your application, please contact us at [email protected]

Film Academy as political space?

The DFFB, which owns proudly a history of political filmmaking has become a space where interaction with contemporary political events is rarely collectively experienced. But in times of rising fascism, it is important to reflect on the means and the aesthetics of political film, as well as on issues that come with production and distribution.

On the 28.05. we invite you to a gathering where we want to discuss aesthetic and potential of political film, with inputs by Julia Lazarus (“Radical Film Network”), Paloma Schnitzer („the other classroom“, Udk”) and students from other film schools.

We aim to form new bonds and alliances, discuss ideas and strategies and challenge our position within the current political landscape in Germany. These issues are directly linked to the massive crackdown on voices expressing solidarity with Palestine and the resulting restrictions on fundamental democratic rights, which are increasingly putting not only political protests but also artistic freedom and the cultural landscape under pressure.

As part of the "Salon für Faultiere", this is the second of three events, where we watch movies, hear inputs, discuss. There will also be some snacks.

If you have ideas, contributions or want to help, contact us at [email protected]
We welcome your suggestions.

Location: Urbanstraße 45

23.4.2026, 18:00, about ALLIANCES AND RESOURCES

28.5.2026, 18:00, about AESTHETICS AND POTENTIAL OF POLITICAL FILM

25.6.2026, 18:00, about DISTRIBUTION OF POLITICAL FILM

„Du bist immer dann am besten, wenn’s dir eigentlich egal ist.“

Für unser erstes Openair-Screening in diesem Jahr laden wir euch zu einem Abend voller Experimente und unfertiger Ideen ein.

🏡 Ort: Vollgut-Gemeinschaftsgarten, Am Sudhaus 4, Berlin

⏰ Zeit: 27.05, 21:30 Uhr

Open Air • Eintritt frei • Eine Kollaboration der Filmarche und des Zuhause e.V.

Perfektion nervt. Und hemmt uns, Dinge auszuprobieren. Wir zeigen und reden über Filme, die verspielt sind, sich nicht zu ernst nehmen und Dinge ausprobieren.

Kommt vorbei, bringt Freund*innen mit, trinkt was mit uns und schaut mit uns Filme, die Lust haben zu scheitern.

***ENGLISH***

“You’re always at your best when you actually don’t care that much.”

For our first open-air screening of the year, we invite you to an evening of experiments and unfinished ideas.

🏡 Location: Vollgut Community Garden, Am Sudhaus 4, Berlin

⏰ Time: 27th of May, Start at 9:30 PM

Open Air • Free entry • A collaboration between Filmarche and Zuhause e.V.

Perfection is annoying. And it keeps us from trying things out. We’ll screen and talk about films that are playful, don’t take themselves too seriously, and dare to experiment.

Come by, bring your friends, have a drink with us, and watch films that are willing to fail.

Sign up now for the filmArche International Summer School 2026!

This two-week intensive course is specifically designed for beginners in both documentary and fictional filmmaking. The English-language program covers everything from idea development to the final cut, with hands-on workshops in screenwriting, pre-production, directing, and the use of professional equipment. Participants will complete the course by shooting a short film in teams, complemented by lessons on editing and distribution strategies.
No prior experience is needed – just bring your passion for film and creativity!

📅 Dates: 1st – 15th August 2026

📍 Location: filmArche, Berlin, Germany

💰 Cost: 950€ (including tuition fees & lunch on class days)

Applications until:
15th May (early deadline for the first round of submissions)
31st May (late deadline, if there are still places available)

Infos and application form:
https://www.filmarche.de/international-summer-school-2026/

If you have any questions regarding the summer school or your application, please contact us at [email protected]

80 Angry Journalists by FilmArche alumni Loránd Balázs Imre (Kamera19) will celebrate its Berlin premiere at Doxumentale.

The documentary follows the collapse of Hungary’s largest independent newsroom and the founding of Telex.hu from inside the editorial team over four years.

Loránd produced and partly shot the film.

Screenings:
June 2, 18:30, Atrium Tower
June 4, 18:00, Bundesplatz-Kino

Filmmakers present for Q&A at both screenings.

Sign up until 31st May for the filmArche International Summer School 2026!

This two-week intensive course is specifically designed for beginners in both documentary and fictional filmmaking. The English-language program covers everything from idea development to the final cut, with hands-on workshops in screenwriting, pre-production, directing, and the use of professional equipment. Participants will complete the course by shooting a short film in teams, complemented by lessons on editing and distribution strategies.
No prior experience is needed – just bring your passion for film and creativity!

📅 Dates: 1st – 15th August 2026

📍 Location: filmArche, Berlin, Germany

💰 Cost: 950€ (including tuition fees & lunch on class days)

✍🏽 Applications until: 31st May

Infos and application form:
https://www.filmarche.de/international-summer-school-2026/

If you have any questions regarding the summer school or your application, please contact us at [email protected]

🫧 dear archies and friends 🫧

we‘re happy to invite you to the first class of this year‘s advanced course on film and political activism. In this course, we want to engage with the intersections of film(-making) and activism. In weekly events from May until July, we want to explore different aspects, watch films, come together, discuss, and connect filmmakers, activists and collectives.

Just a glimpse into the programme: collective filmmaking and worker struggles, q***r p**n and s*x work activism, cinema as political space, interventions on the media landscape, archive politics and much more…

The exact programme and upcoming dates will be announced next week.

Join us for the kick-off meeting on Thursday, May 14 at FilmArche (Lahnstr 25, 12055 Berlin).

The course is open for everyone.