Kino Moviemento

The Moviemento regularly receives awards for its outstanding program and is one of the leading independent cinemas. Here are running special feature and documentary films, demanding mainstream, children's films, school cinema, many special events, premieres, readings and festivals round off the program. Again and again you can see Moviemento films that are discovered here.

The Moviemento is located in one of the liveliest parts of the city - in Berlin Kreuzberg, a word that arouses longings among many young international artists and draws them here. Often the Moviemento with its many original versions is a magnet for them. Who knows, maybe they will soon be behind the cash register too. The long-established audience likes to chat about old times with Hall of Mirrors while buying tickets to current art films. But many students and New Berliners come to see selected films in a cozy atmosphere - in Dolby Digital and razor-sharp Cinemascope.

Many legends surround the movement. Thus, according to previously unsecured source location, the word Kintopp was supposed to have originated sometime between 1902 and 1907, named after the then owner Alfred Topp, who opened the cinema in the event hall of his restaurant. After him are many who later made a name for themselves. For example, Manfred Salzgeber, who made Moviemento, which was then called Tali, one of the first program cinemas in Germany. Or Elser Maxwell, Wieland Speck and Blixa Bargeld, with whom a new era is taking off: the cinema is becoming a popular meeting place for artists of all kinds: Rio Reiser sits at the piano, Nina Hagen in the front row, David Bowie walks in and out. Avant-garde plays are shown, independent films, and the success of the Rocky Horror Picture Show begins here. The tradition of pioneering role continues the cinema over the years. Under Ingrid Schwibbe, program manager Tom Tykwer brings Dani Levy's "You Me" to Moviemento.

It runs for years in front of a sold-out house. Legendary are the long nights. For »Oi! Warning "is the Moviemento the gateway to the world: during the Berlinale, cinema successfully presents the film to an international audience; and from here he starts his long journey to international festivals.

Moviemento has long stood for creativity, innovative ideas and ingenuity. Even those who enter the foyer today can never be sure that they will not meet the next Tom Tykwer.