Das Kino

Cinema

A dark room with seating arranged around a rectangle onto which images are projected: cinema. Eleven people, who have dedicated a large part of their lives to this medium, this art form, discuss how much more cinema has been, is, and can be. Presented as a minimalist talking-head format, they – filmmakers, curators, writers, and lecturers – recount their work with and their personal relationship to cinema and film. "Actually, people like me are crazy," one of them says. Anyone who considers themselves similarly cinema-obsessed will thoroughly enjoy this extensive, fervent stream of consciousness. (Jakob Dibold)

Director's Biography
Bernhard Sallmann (*1967, Linz) completed his studies of German, media studies and sociology in Salzburg and Berlin, as well as film directing at Film University Babelsberg. Since 2004 he has been a freelance filmmaker based in Berlin. Sallmann received numerous awards, including the DEFA Förderpreis for TRÄUME DER LAUSITZ and the 2017 CROSSING EUROPE Local Artist Award for ODERLAND. FONTANE.
Director's Filmography (Selection)
Das Kino (2025, doc) - Fluchtburg (Refuge, 2023, doc; CE24) - Berlin JWD (2022, doc; CE22) - Über Deutschland (On Germany, 2021, doc; CE21) - Havelland Fontane (2019, doc) - Spreeland Fontane (2018, doc; CE19) - Rhinland. Fontane (2017, doc; CE18) - Oderland. Fontane (2016, doc; CE17 Award - Local Artist) - Die Welt für Sich und die Welt für Mich (2013, doc; CE14) - Das schlechte Feld (The Bad Field, 2011, doc; CE11) - Die Lausitz 20X90 (2004, doc; CE06)
Local Artists 2026
Director Bernhard Sallmann
Germany 2025
color
198 minutes
German
OV
Screenplay Bernhard Sallmann
Cinematography Martin Wolff
Editing Christoph Krüger
Sound/Sounddesign Klaus Barm
With Cornelia Klauss, Dylan de Jong, Michael Baute, Michael Busch, Maria Mohr, Barbara Suhren, Cornelia Klauss, Florian Widegger, Jeanette Abée, Ralph Eue, Regina Schlagnitweit, Alexander Horwath
Producer(s) Bernhard Sallmann
World Sales
Krokodil
World Premiere
World Premiere
Crossing Europe 2026