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Quick guide to this site and explanation. QUEER EXILE BERLIN Finished in March/April 2023. The third part of the queer Berlin trilogy about the time from 1990 to today!After OUT IN OST-BERLIN described the pre-turnaround period in the East and MY WONDERFUL WEST-BERLIN West Berlin until the fall of the Wall, the third part deals about the period from 1990 to today with a special focus on today queer life in Berlin: QUEER EXILE BERLIN, co-produced with rbb television. "Today" has come to mean a caesura for queer life in the city in many ways - not least because of the effects of the Corona pandemic. Completion in March/April 2023. Please feel free to email mail@galeria-alaska.de.  Attention: Non final poster do not publish or reproduce! All information soon at www.queer-exile-berlin.de For press booklet pls. email us at mail@galeria-alaska.de Synopsis: Queer people from all over the world have made Berlin what it is today. Many leave their home because they want to, others because they have to. This film follows a few of them. The queer universe of Berlin mirrors the movements of the world and is constantly evolving. In recent decades, a multitude of identities have made themselves heard. Today, gay and lesbian are only two terms among many. QUEER EXILE BERLIN is the third part of the queer Berlin documentary trilogy following OUT IN EAST BERLIN (2013) and MY WONDERFUL WEST BERLIN (2017). Eunice from Portugal falls in love on a trip to the city at 17 and now works in a Berlin nightclub and begins her transition process in Berlin, Haidar escapes from Syria and now works as a dancer and performer called "The Darvish". Jean-Ulrick, an artist born in Haiti and raised in New York, moves to Berlin in early 2000 and can't imagine living anywhere else. Mischa Badasyan, who was born in Russia but is of Armenian descent, has explored his body and sexuality in outstanding live performances and now engages with political movements beyond the queer community. Drag queen Gloria arrived in Berlin at the age of 6 and grew up in a politicized environment with her mother. As a seven-year-old, she was already at the first homosexual demonstration in Berlin with her mother. Monika fights as an activist in nearby Szczecin, Poland, for the fundamental human rights of queers. Berlin is a place of longing for her, but she does not want to abandon young queers in her home country. The film interweaves the personal stories and ambitions of the queer protagonists with historical events and current issues. The result is a true image of Berlin as a perpetual place of longing and a challenge to all those who arrive there. A city in constant transition. How do you make a life in Berlin? Come and see for yourself! Techs: QUEER EXILE BERLIN, Germany 2023, 105 mins, 16:9, stereo or 5.1, DCP, English, German original language with English subtitles (EN version) or German subtitles (DE version) Currently in development or production 2018-2019 In development AIDS TRILOGY (working title) tv documentaries Since 2019 In development UNTITLED (AT) (feature documentary) Since 2021 In production GRAN CANARIA LOCKDOWN Since 2022 In production EUNICE'S JOURNEY (working title) feature documentary Since 2020 In production THE DEMO TAPES (working title) documentary series MY WONDERFUL WEST BERLIN Feature length documentary. World premiere at Berlin Film Festival 2017 and now on festivals worldwide! Original title: MEIN WUNDERBARES WEST-BERLIN / Documentary, 97 minutes, Color and B&W, 16:9, Stereo 5.1 Detailled information at www.my-wonderful-west-berlin.de. Facebook at www.facebook.com/mywonderfulwestberlinthefilm  Today's hip image of Berlin is based on the city’s vibrant and subversive subcultures, which originally emerged within the grey walls surrounding West Berlin. The queer scene played a major role in creating that subculture, with its sexual diversity and its wild and unconstrained party culture, ranging from the notorious clubs to CSD. Many of the scene’s actors, such as the Gay Museum, the Teddy Award, AIDS help organizations, and the queer magazine Siegessäule originated before 1989. Yet gays in West Berlin suffered greatly under an incongruous provision in German law - the infamous 'Paragraph 175’ - that made homosexual acts between men a crime up until its reform in 1969. Raids and arrests in bars were common, yet ultimately failed in suppressing gay life in West Berlin. Instead, the city turned into a gay capital. The late seventies in particular were a period of great sexual and political freedoms and more intense social intermingling between the gay-, hetero-, and transsexual worlds. Then AIDS struck, wrecking greater havoc in Berlin than in any other German city. After OUT IN EAST BERLIN (2013), MY WONDERFUL WEST BERLIN describes gay life in the western half of the city in the dynamic period between the end of WWII and the fall of the Berlin Wall, all the while referencing current social issues. The stories and experiences of political activists, party-goers, hedonists, club owners, musicians, fashion designers, a DJ, and a make-up artist paint a vivid picture of the gay scene in that period. The use of never before seen archival film footage completes the picture by allowing viewers to travel through time to a hitherto unknown West Berlin. MY WONDERFUL WEST BERLIN explores the historic roots of the fascinating city, that is a dream destination and a place of refuge for gay men form across the world to this day. The film is the second part of filmmaker Jochen Hick’s Berlin trilogy, the final part of which will focus on the period after the fall of the Wall, up until today. Supported by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, MFG Filmföderung Baden-Württemberg und Deutscher Filmförderfonds Film started in Germany on June 29 in 13 German cities. In Berlin film started in 8 theatres plus special screenings in additional tehatres. German theatrical release by Salzgeber Medien THE GDR
COMPLEX Feature documentary. Theatrical start in
Berlin Nov 10, 2016, all over Germany from Jan 19, 2017! World premiere at
Berlin International Film Festival / Berlinale 2016
(Panorama section). Detailled information at www.the-gdr-complex.de.
Screenings @ 66. Berlinale / Panorama (2016) Sa 13.02. 17:00 Kino International (E) (Premiere) So 14.02. 14:30 CineStar 7 (E) Mo 15.02. 16:00 Colosseum 1 (E) Fr 19.02. 17:00 CineStar 7 (E) THE GDR COMPLEX on Facebook! Press contact Berlinale: Andreas Strohfeldt as@galeria-alaska.de Festival requests: festival@galeria-alaska.de Synopsis: Being gay, young and conservative, Mario Roellig is one of the most in-demand witnesses to the atrocities committed by the GDR (former German Democratic Republic). He guides groups through today’s memorial site in the former Stasi (state security) prison where he was once incarcerated. Roellig confronts GDR aficionados and is also confronted by people who still believe in social utopias and who also talk about freedom (without ever mentioning the GDR). The film unveils a strange atmosphere of misunderstandings and failures to communicate. Mario still awaits an apology from his tormentors while simultaneously being ridiculed by some hardliners. More than 25 years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall the process of coming to terms with the past has just begun. Techs, cast & team: Funded by Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein. Coproduced by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg. Additional information soon on www.the-gdr-complex.de and here on our portfolio page.  Main protagonist: Mario Röllig Author, director, producer: Jochen Hick Co-worker, research, boom operaator, assistant director: Andreas Strohfeldt Editor: Thomas Keller Re-recording mixer: Mathias Ludwig 5.1 surround mixer: Michael Kaczmarek Camera: Jochen Hick & Nicolai Zörn (rbb) Assistant camera: Timo Kahlenberg (rbb), Jeanine Strehle Consultant: Karin Wallenczus Production managers: Hermann Hick & Ursula Scheid Production managers rbb: Rainer Baumert, Bärbel Kreimes-Lück Commissioning editor: Rolf Bergmann (rbb) OUT IN EAST-BERLIN North American distribution with Nancy Fishman Releasing News article: Nancy Fishman picks up OUT IN EAST BERLIN. Contact and festival information: nancy@fishmanfilm.com
Our new doc OUT IN EAST BERLIN at Berlinale 2013 (Panorama). Theatrical start in Germany 31 October 2013.
Our new feature length doc with spectacular archival materials, exciting stories and interesting protagonists is shown at the Berlinale 2013. For more information in English pls. click here. For press reviews (English & German) pls. click here. Link to Trailer English. Press contact during Berlinale: press@galeria-alaska.de
Andreas Strohfeldt. Link to review in The Hollywood Reporter
All of our documentaries now out on DVD in English or with English subtitles. Please check them out on our order page. For shipments from and within Germany pls. check the German order page with a wider range of films and products. Please note, that we do not deliver titles into countries, where they have already been released on DVD by local distributors. You will find a list of those local distributors on our distribution pages.
EAST/WEST - Sex & Politics at FFGLP Festival in Paris in November 2010. Interview with Jochen Hick in the February 2009 edition of EX-BERLINER, Berlins English sepaking magazine as PDF or as only text version.
THE GOOD AMERICAN premieres at Berlin Film Fest and many other festivals (@ SZIGET Budapest in August 2010).
For more information about the film
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EAST/WEST - Sex & Politics Jochen Hicks documentary about the political fight and situation of Moscows "sexual minority" at festivals abroad. For further information please click here.
RAINBOW'S END the new version still showing on festivals worldwide. Out in Europe on DVD. Released in the U.S. by Frameline, San Francisco.        
More information here.
With the advent of same sex marriage, homosexuals have achieved
near-equality in much of Europe. Everything is rosy, so why should they
keep on fighting? A revealing and exciting journey from the center to
the borders of Europe. Original
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HALLELUJAH! Short about the Pope's visit in Cologne on many international Filmfestivals! HALLELUJAH! (Documentary, Germany 2006, 6 Minutes,
written by
J. Hick & Karin Wallenczus, directed, filmed and produced by:
Jochen Hick, editor: Jörn Hartmann). "A wonderful and comical snapshot." Bernd Sobolla in Deutschlandradio Kultur "The Berlin short film festival offers the rare opportunity to watch a great film of Jochen Hick. In "Hallelujah" Hick documents the frenetically awaited Pope's visit un Cologne from an interetsting perspective. Long before the Papamobil arrives, Christian youth and homosexual counter demonstrators collide (...)" Siegessäule Berlin 11/06 Festivals (not complete): Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (Wettbewerb), Clermont-Ferrand, San Francisco G&L, ExGround Wiesbaden, Dokumentarfest Kassel, Shadow Festival Amsterdam, Filmfest Lünen, Barcelona G&LFF and many more.
CYCLES OF PORN - Sex/Life in L.A. Part 2 now out on DVD in Europe and the U.S.. CYCLES OF PORN at 55th Berlin International Film Festival.Festival and press contact: juttaplatte@galeria-alaska.de. Link to Berlinale film archive sheet (external link). Some press excerpts as PDF-File or all on press page. US distribution with TLA Releasing www.tlavideo.com. US DVD start expected for 2006. Theatrical start in Germany www.cyclesofporn.de! "MOVIEGOERS PRAISE GAY ADULT DOCUMENTARY -'Cycles of Porn – Sex/Life in L.A., Part 2' opened the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival this week to rave reviews. Feb 11, 2005, Peter O'Conner in X-BIZ "BERLIN CHEERS DOCUMENTARY ON GAY PORN FILMS - A documentary about the lives of aging porn actors that throws a harrowing spotlight on the gay film industry in Los Angeles opened the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival Friday to an enthusiatic reception. One of many films at this year's Berlinale examining sex and pornography, "Cycles of Porn -- Sex/Life in L.A. Part 2" by German filmmaker Jochen Hick takes its audience on a riveting journey into the world of low-budget sex films." Feb 11, 2005, Erik Kirschbaum in REUTERS
TALK STRAIGHT - The World Of Rural Queers TALK STRAIGHT - The World Of Rural Queers on many film festivals worldwide. Theatrically released and shown on tv in Germany. It is now available on DVD in German (German Version). The L.A. premiere of TALK STRAIGHT became #4 pick of all cultural events of the week for the Greater Los Angeles area in the online edition of the Calendar Weekly (Los Angeles Times). Please see also "Screening Room" column in the printed edition of Los Angeles Times of June 17 and Variety Review of January 2004. "Not to be missed Jochen Hicks smart, funny, moving documentary TALK STRAIGHT - The World Of Rural Queers, in which Jochen Hick leaves the queer heaven of Berlin to the Swabian countryside to explore, what is is to be a provincial gay man." LA WEEKLY June 2004
"Impossibly optimistic, outrageously clever
and camp
as concentration will allow."
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