Director: Helke Sander, BRD 1978, 98 minutes, 35mm, original German version

Thursday, May 29, 2025, 9:15 p.m.

Meadow in front of the HfG, Platz der Menschenrechte

Free admission, donation requested

“When all she has left to do is wait, she begins a game of skill that she takes up from time to time during various phone calls: she practises dropping things unintentionally on purpose: Papers, pencils, newspapers, books...” Edda Chiemnyjefski, a single photographer, starts a photo project about West Berlin with a group of women and tries to prove to herself and her environment that it is possible in our society to be a mother, to be a woman, and to work in a profession of her own choosing. To achieve this, she tries to eliminate everything superfluous from her everyday life. The only problem is that there is hardly anything superfluous that can be eliminated.

Helke Sander is a German director, actress and activist who was one of the co-founders of the Action Council for the Liberation of Women in 1968 and also founded the magazine Frauen und Film in 1974. In her first feature-length film, in which she also plays the leading role, Sander dispenses with fixed stage directions. The scenes emerge from the moment, “...through this concentration on the core, the right words and positions form themselves, (...) because they have been developed from within.” (Helke Sander)

In the supporting program: Subjektitüde Director: Helke Sander, BRD 1967, 4 minutes, 16mm, German original version

The Kino im Blauen Salon, the student cinema of the Hochschule für Gestaltung, has been run by students since 2017 and has been a registered association since the beginning of 2024: https://kinoimblauensalon.de/de/news.

More about the film series in summer semester 2025:

Kino im Blauen Salon, the student cinema of the Hochschule für Gestaltung, invites you to the new program for the summer semester! Our film program, which was awarded 1st prize by the Deutsche Kinemathek, is now in its 18th semester! Time to take a brief look back... In our early days, cineastes were few and far between in the Blauer Salon, whereas today the room seems almost too small. But we have always remained true to our ideals: Analog film screenings in 35mm & 16mm, joint voluntary work with free admission and a relaxed HfG atmosphere. And the summer open-air cinema on the lawn in front of the HfG is already in its 6th round, this time at the end of May! So it's time not to look back, but to look forward: To another summer semester full of cinematic-poetic cinema highlights:
Our main interest this summer is poetry, because the nights are getting longer, the horizon endless and there's something in the air. But what does cinema have to do with poetry? Find out in our “Cinema Poetico” series, in which we set off on multiple narrative strands, meandering perspectives, visual detours and everything that lies between the lines. The series presents a hand-picked selection of classics and hidden gems that form the silent branches of cinema.
There are also nightly excursions with our “Midnight Movies”, the legendary Kult Sneak, experimental short film programs, workshops, specials, guests and, of course, the highlight of the cinema year, the open-air cinema in front of the HfG, under the motto “Freedom in Change”. See you soon at the movies!