Firstly, we could already start our festival season this year in February: in the same week as the Berlinale, WITHOUT BORDERS celebrated the world premiere of the Saudi Documentary ‘A Silent Revolution’ in the Moviemento Cinema with 120 guests and club members. Following the showing the presenter and journalist Katrin Sandmann had a lively discussion with the Saudi-Arabian film maker Danya Alhamrani, the Middle […]

Karim Ainouz has been awarded the Amnesty International Film Prize at this year’s Berlinale for his documentary ‘Zentralflughafen THF’ (Central Airport THF). “Touchingly and unagitatedly, daily life in the refugee emergency shelter in Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport is shown by the director. With a delicate glance and thus constantly on eye-level, he tells of the inhabitants of the hangar, allows them to tell their dramatic tales and presents their difficult life situation” – this is how the jury justified their decision. Equally pleasing to mention is […]

We will look at decency – or the lack of it – on a small scale and its echo on the grand scale. It’s about decency and the mutual goodwill as a prerequisite for a livable, functional community; in everyday life, in politics, the economy and social media. We would like to show films about people who work against brutality and everyday lies; […]

We are greatly pleased to welcome the director Lars Kraume to the board. Lars Kraume, whose current film ‘Das schweigende Klassenzimmer‘ (The Silent Classroom) celebrated its world premiere at this year’s Berlinale and is currently showing in cinemas, has already been highly acclaimed, having won many prizes. At the German LOLA Awards alone, his film `Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer` (The Government versus Fritz Bauer) won 6 Lolas. Kraume’s new film   ‘The Silent Classroom’ is set in the […]

  What a Film Festival for our 5th anniversary! The weather was weighted towards delightful Autumn sunshine and this year’s visitors came execptionally plentifully. With over 2.000 guests, WITHOUT BOARDERS once again clearly lured more film fans to the ‘culture barn’ than the previous year. ‘Good news’ was not only the motto of the festival […]

This year at the opening of our film festival we will be letting the engines roar! Ronald Zehrfeld and his team from `Motorcirus` will drive up with their retro motorbikes. The actor will be presenting his project „Ärzte helfen e.V./Mission South“ at the festival’s opener. A further highlight of the evening will be the live […]

We eagerly await the participation of our discussion guests telling of their ‘success stories’ during our Sunday talk on 17.09.17 at 3:30pm, which will once more be moderated by Barbara Schönberger and Gero von Boehm. Confirmed, amongst others, are the film maker Aelrun Goette, Volker Schlöndorff, Isabell Suba and the actor Nik Xelahalij.

It is our great honour to welcome the ‘Centenary Journalist’ Georg Stefan Troller to this year’s film fest.  Gero von Boehm will speak to the 95-year-old about his moving life. As a child of Jewish parents who barely escaped deportation, Troller has as long as he can remember had a great interest in people and […]

The ‘Deutsche Welle’ (DW) is also staying our media partner for 2017 Film without Boarders and will broadcast a CINEMA SPECIAL (broadcast date: 24th September, www.dw.com/filme). Germany’s international broadcaster reaches over 118 million people all over the world and stands as a profound, reliable source of information in over 30 languages. Their flagship TV-show is […]

This year’s film festival is dedicated to ‘Good News’.  Bad – and false – news about violence, destruction of the environment and political wrongdoing is constantly being reported. That is why it is so important for us to also focus on good every now and again. Not in order to practice positive thinking, but to […]