IT KICKS OFF WITH A PARTY: [DL8] IS HERE!
8th Berlin International Directors Lounge Film Festival hits “Sternchen”

[DL8], the eighth annual DL (Directors Lounge, but you knew that) event parallel to the Berlinale, is sending out the call to all who want to welcome its coming in a party atmosphere peopled by filmmakers and spectators alike – with a smattering of short film highlights from the coming program and with Biefke and her Kings of Spreedelta giving the beat to keep it all festive. There’ll be a bar to supply the libation, of course, and its all going down at the cult-spot Naherholung Sternchen, just behind the Kino International near Alex (literally a few steps from U-Bahn Schillingstr.). It starts at 20:00 (that’s 8:00 p.m., folks) and ends sometime well past the wee hours. Funny, weird, maybe perplexing short films from around the globe (two blocks’ worth), people like you don’t get to meet every day, live upbeat swing and drinks a-plenty – an event just right for a city in film fever. But different from the usual la-di-da. You’re coming out, right?


The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge [DL8]

Naherholung Sternchen, Berolinastr. 7, 10178 Berlin
(behind the Kino International/Rathaus Mitte), U Schillingstrasse
Feb 9 – 19, daily from 6pm, free admission till 10pm

Opening Ceremony: Thurs., Feb. 9, 8pm

The daily program

Festivals United | The Official Festiwelt Party | Wed. Feb 15.

The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge will be an ongoing, eleven days in a row, cinedalic party. But we are going to top it off by celebrating with all the Berlin Film Festivals. Wednesday, 15th, will be the night to party with all the movers and shakers of the Berlin Film universe. Enough Festivals to kill a Rhino. Party starts at 9pm, free admission till 10pm.

Fritz Stolberg´s Of This, Men Shall Know Nothing! awarded Best Experimental Film at the 9th London Short Film Festival.

‘The film combined fantastic surrealistic imagery and intriguing symbolism, which evinced a unique aesthetic vision’. London Short Film Festival 2012

compliments, well deserved.

Of This, Men Shall Know Nothing! will be screened as part of The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge,

(via London Short Film Festival 2012)

W(h)at is Jazz: DAS KONDENSAT at Naherholung Sternchen,
Thursday, 22. Dec. 9pm

Berlin based trio “DAS KONDENSAT” with Gebhard Ullmann, Oliver Potratz and Eric Schaefer creates a Noise related but still song orientated Soundscape combining acocustic with electronic sound devices. The three musicians are internationally well known in Jazz and New Music. Come around and enjoy the still-secret-place Naherholung Sternchen.

Das Berliner Trio “DAS KONDENSAT ” mit Gebhard Ullmann, Oliver Potratz und Eric Schaefer kreiert mit elektro-akustischem Set-Up eine Klangwelt, die sich sowohl in rhythmischem Minimalismus und songorientierter Melodiosität als auch in Noise und abstrakten Soundscapes ausdrückt. Die drei Musiker sind international gefragt als Klangforscher auf dem Grenzgebiet von Jazz und Neuer Musik.

Gebhard Ullmann: Reeds, Live Elektronik
Oliver Potratz: Kontrabass, E- Bass, Live Elektronik
Eric Schaefer: Drums, Live Elektronik

7/5 Euro