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SD card2025 (Palestine), 6min, english
director: Mohamad yosef kayyal
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director: Mark Rome (Romero)
Find Enjoyment In Your Toil
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director: Rob Kleinschmidt
ALVARO INSIDE OUT
80 Years, No Stagnation – The Reinvention of Chile's First Punk
2025 (D), 74 min, OV
Regie: Christian Zschammer
What does it mean to question everything once again at the age of 80—and to rethink music as if everything were just beginning?
Uncompromising in his creative work, steadfast in defying expectations, a quiet pioneer of DIY culture: Alvaro Peña is all of this, and much more.
In the 1970s, while in England, he was closely associated with early punk as a member of the band "The 101ers"; in Chile, following his sudden death in early 2026, he is hailed as "El primero Punk de Chile" (Chile’s First Punk).
The film approaches this life not as a classic biography, but as a filmmaker’s personal, over-the-shoulder perspective—subjective, fragmentary, and exploratory.
It serves as an attempt to touch upon a rich, contradictory life—one that repeatedly eludes complete narrative capture. Spanning Valparaíso, London, and Constance, the film traces the path of an artist whose biography is inscribed within his music—on cassette, vinyl, and CD.
Shot in stereoscopic 3D, the film establishes an immediate intimacy with the spaces, sonic processes, and creative moments it depicts.
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Lichtblick-Kino Berlin, Kastanienallee 77,Berlin, Germany
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