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SOONER — STREAM FILM FESTIVAL FLICKS AND EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE FROM HOME
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SOONER — STREAM FILM FESTIVAL FLICKS AND EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE FROM HOME

Need a break from the usual Netflix and Amazon Prime? Do you long for arthouse flicks, documentaries and film classics? Looking for hidden gems that educate as well as entertain? Enter alternative streaming portal Sooner, which gives you all this from the comfort of your own home. This collection of over 3500 titles includes 100 series and 600 documentaries including award-winning titles from Cannes, the Berlinale, Sundance and the Berlin Short Film Festival. Sample independent documentaries like “Water – In the Sights of the Financial Sharks” by French filmmaker Jérôme Fritel, who explores the increasing scarcity of drinking water, or “The Marriage Project”, in which the director of a psychiatric clinic near Tehran encourages the patients to marry each other.

The Berlin-based service’s founder Andreas Wildfang ran analog cinemas in the city before launching the platform in 2020. Since then, he has been on the lookout for films and programs that are beyond the mainstream, with a particular focus on LGBTQ+ representation. The library includes collaborations with universities such as Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and the DFFB as well as theater and dance adaptations. Music is well represented too, with films such as “Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement” about 1970s punk subculture in Washington DC and 2015’s “Deutsche Pop Zustände”. Sound interesting? After signing up, you can try Sooner for free for a fortnight, and you can also rent and buy the films individually. Happy watching!

Text: Nike Wilhelms / Credit: Sooner / Stills: Luna / Photos: Lord of Water, Cottonbro

Sooner is available via web and on most major streaming devices.

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PRUSSIAN COLONIALISM, POST-WAR REVOLUTIONS AND A GIANT DISCO BALL — BERLIN GLOBAL EXHIBITION AT THE HUMBOLDT FORUM
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PRUSSIAN COLONIALISM, POST-WAR REVOLUTIONS AND A GIANT DISCO BALL — BERLIN GLOBAL EXHIBITION AT THE HUMBOLDT FORUM

By far the largest object you’ll encounter at the Berlin Global exhibition is a rusting, graffitied steel door. It is the preserved entryway of the 1990s Tresor nightclub, where young people from the East and West came together to party after the Wall came down. Both door and club were located in the vault of the abandoned Jewish-owned Wertheim department store – a place that was raided by the Nazis in 1938. This steel artifact serves as a perfect symbol for the whole exhibition. Opened to great fanfare in summer 2021 alongside the Humboldt Forum itself, this high-tech 4000-square-meter show takes you on a journey through Berlin at its best – and its worst. The subject matter becomes clear as soon as you enter the Forum: a giant floor-to-ceiling mural in the mezzanine shows in vivid color key images from Berlin’s history, from 18th-century colonial dominance to modern-day protestors seeking to end this enduring injustice.

The exhibition itself tells Berlin’s story through seven themes, each with its own room: Revolution, Free Space, Boundaries, Entertainment, War, Fashion and Interconnection. These are big, difficult subjects which could easily overwhelm, but here they’re made accessible and fun by the use of state-of-the-art multimedia. Interactive maps, playable DJ decks, video projections galore and even a giant disco ball make this less a history lesson and more a multi-sensory adventure. It’s a daring, forward-looking show that feels like an anomaly amid the stiff Prussian grandeur of the Humboldt Forum. But then where would Berlin be without its contrasts?

Text: Benji Haughton / Photos: Anne Preussel & Oana Popa-Costea / Credit: Kulturprojekte Berlin und Stadtmuseum Berlin

Humboldt Forum, Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin–Mitte; map
Wed–Mon 10–20h, Tue closed
Tickets for Berlin Global (€7 or free for concessions) can be booked online.

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A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY AND A LECTURE WITH PHOTO LEGEND JOEL MEYEROWITZ: FREE ENTRY AT C/O BERLIN OPEN HOUSE — HOSTED BY AIRBNB
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A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY AND A LECTURE WITH PHOTO LEGEND JOEL MEYEROWITZ: FREE ENTRY AT C/O BERLIN OPEN HOUSE — HOSTED BY AIRBNB

Black-and-white images of 1960s Americana, ghostly double exposure portraits, and photos made without even using a camera. The photography at C/O Berlin takes you on a journey, and that’s truer than ever at the venue’s current show: a retrospective of the 50-year career of U.S. photographer Lee Friedlander. With 350 photographs and countless books, it’s a showcase of some of the most recognizable images of post-war American society. There’s a trip of a very different kind at the neighboring Dear Photography exhibition, a surprise-filled dive into the experimental compositions of Peter Miller, whose images are concerned not with places or times, but with the method of photography itself. The date you want to put in your diary is 02.12.2021, where Amerika Haus is opening its doors for C/O Berlin Open House – hosted by Airbnb, a rare opportunity to explore all the venue has to offer – for free. Organized in partnership with the home-sharing platform, the day’s highlight is at 19h, when you are invited to join another master: color photography pioneer Joel Meyerowitz, whose so-called “Lightning Talk” will feature some of the most iconic images of the 83-year-old’s long career. The all-day event also gives you full access to the exhibitions, including guided tours of the works. To keep you refreshed, you can also claim a free drink at the C/O Berlin x Barkin’kitchen cafe. And if you do want to extend your trip with a final, closer look at the photos on show, then feel free: for one day only, the exhibition is open until 22h.

Text: Benji Haughton / Credit: David von Becker; Lee Friedlander, Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco und Luhring Augustine, New York; Peter Miller, VG-Bildkunst, Bonn 2021

C/O Berlin, Hardenbergstr.22–24, 10623 Berlin–Charlottenburg; map

C/O Berlin Open House – hosted by Airbnb, 02.12.2021 11–22h. Admission free of charge for one day only, no ticket necessary. Check the website for updates on Covid-19.

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THIS PLACE — CBD-INFUSED LOTIONS AND BALMS TO SOOTHE BODY AND MIND

THIS PLACE — CBD-INFUSED LOTIONS AND BALMS TO SOOTHE BODY AND MIND

Even on the most stressful and chaotic of days, I never skip my self-care routine. Alongside staples I’ve been using for years, I have a rotating line-up of new products that I try, including most recently the attractive creams and oils from This Place. Each product from the Berlin brand is formulated with natural ingredients like blue tansy, cinnamon bark and arnica, as well as cannabidiol (CBD), the non-psychoactive ingredient of the cannabis plant. The philosophy here is to support holistic well-being, and the range includes skin care products such as the revitalizing “The Evening Glow” facial oil but also soothing and relaxing balms to relieve menstrual or muscle pain and aid sleep.

The brand’s integration of medicine and cosmetics came from Laura Simonow, who was a clinical researcher at the Charité for five years before joining forces with Sanity Group to launch This Place in 2020. If you want to try out these products in smaller sizes, consider the starter set, which contains four creams (The Hug, The Good Night, The Glow, The Blissful Day) that come in minimalist hemp-based packaging. Having tried them, I can hardly imagine my routine without the anti-inflammatory “The Glow” face cream or “The Good Night”, with its calming melatonin. Which one will be your new cure-all?

Text: Sophie Doering / Photos: This Place & Elena Breuer

This Place

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AERA BREAD — BLUE-HUED BAKERY FOR GLUTEN-FREE BREAD, GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICHES AND SWEET TREATS
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AERA BREAD — BLUE-HUED BAKERY FOR GLUTEN-FREE BREAD, GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICHES AND SWEET TREATS

True blue, baby I love you! At Aera Bread’s new shop in Mitte, they keep things cool – cool azure blue. The second branch to be opened by the gluten-free baking experts, this eye-catching cyan-colored space on Rosenthaler Straße was designed by architects Gonzalez Haase, who certainly have a knack for contemporary interior design. I already know and love Aera from the original Charlottenburg bakery that opened back in 2019 (read more about that here). Whether it’s grilled sandwiches, scones or sweets like the cocoa-chilli amarettini, the team’s baked goodies tick all the boxes. At the new shop you can enjoy the treats outside while watching the Mitte hustle and bustle, or stay in and take a seat on one of the minimalist benches. For people who don’t eat gluten for health reasons, having a second Aera shop will be a lifesaver: I know people who travel from all over to buy this free-from bread. But even if you do eat gluten, you won’t be disappointed by Aera’s loaves. For a foretaste, check out our post on Instagram – we guarantee you’ll soon be planning a bread-buying trip to Mitte.

Text: Nina Trippel / Photos: Jonas Michel

Aera Bread, Rosenthaler Str.72, 10119 Berlin–Mitte; map
Mon–Thu 8–18h, Fri 8–20h, Sat 10–20h & Sun 10–18h

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