LUPA FILM GmbH

Germany 2023, 167 min
by Dominik Graf

Was it possible to be a good, even outstanding writer and still come to terms with the National Socialist regime? The feature-length documentary MELTING INK takes a closer look at the writers Gottfried Benn, Erich Kästner, Hans Fallada, Jochen Klepper, Ina Seidel and Will Vesper, who remained in Germany between 1933 and 1945, and explores the attitude they developed towards National Socialism in their writings, thoughts and perceptions. A film essay on the complex relationship between art and political action.With: Anatol Regnier, Florian Illies, Géraldine Mercier, Albert von Schirnding, Christoph Stölzl, Henrike Stolze, Günter Rohrbach, Gabriele von Arnim, Julia Voss, Willy Kristen, Wendelin Neubert, Carlo Paulus, Simon Strauß, Clemens von Lucius, Lena Winter

Germany, France, Brasil 2018, 97 min
by Karim Aïnouz

Berlin's historic defunct Tempelhof Airport remains a place of arrivals and departures. Today its massive hangars are used as Germany's largest emergency shelter for asylum seekers, like 18-year-old Syrian refugee Ibrahim. As Ibrahim adjusts to his transitory daily life of social services interviews, German lessons and medical exams, he tries to cope with homesickness and the anxiety of whether or not he will gain residency or be deported. (LUXBOX)A documentary about Berlin‘s former airport Tempelhof, opened in 1923 as one of the world‘s biggest building complexes in the 3rd Reich. Since then more than 30 million arrivals and departures have been counted. It was closed 10 years ago. But up until now it remains a place of departures an arrivals.A film about those Berliners who come here to escape from their daily lives and those refugees who came here to finally arrive somewhere. (LupaFilm)

Germany 2017, 52 min
by Ina Weisse

Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie is an epoch-defining structure by the architect Mies van der Rohe. It was opened in 1968, shortly after his death. Nearly 50 years later, the director Ina Weisse sets out to examine the period during which this unique edifice was constructed. She’s the daughter of architect Rolf Weisse, who used to work in the offices of Mies van der Rohe in Chicago. In addition to the unpublished film material shot by him, the film contains interviews with her father Rolf Weisse, Mies van der Rohe's grandson Dirk Lohan, architect David Chipperfield – who is commissioned with renovating the building – and others.

2020, 99 min
by Gero von Boehm 

He was one of the Great Masters of photography, a legend. Elegant, playful, inventive, provocative, inspirational – and himself inspired by sharp observation and the deep roots of his childhood in Berlin of the 1920s. Berlin was him, and he was Berlin. But he also was much more. A cosmopolitan, at home in New York and Paris, Monte Carlo and Rome. And Helmut Newton still has a kind of cult status beyond the art world – even to this day, 14 years after his tragic death in Los Angeles. In 2020 he would have become 100 years old. A life like a movie – now, for the first time to be told for the big screen.