Invitation to the launch
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Dear friends,
dear colleagues,
dear media people,
we are pleased to invite you to the 2nd Taxi Film Festival 2025. There will be entertainment and information, film culture and protest, reflection and action.
Dress Rehearsal
The rehearsal and a first opportunity for discussions with the Taxikultur team will take place on
Tuesday, 11 February from 4:30 p.m.
_until sunset and the blue hour.
_Location: Boulevard of Stars,
_near Potsdamer Straße 7, Berlin-Mitte.
Talks and Interviews
Encounters with filmmakers
– Premiere of the documentary about the legendary Berlin ‘Ruine’ at Winterfeldplatz
Location: Wilde Renate, Alt-Stralau, on the corner of Markgrafendamm
Time: Saturday, 15 February, 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm
– Press conference with filmmakers
Location: BALZ Atelier, Beusselstraße 35, 10553 Berlin-Moabit, and as a Zoom video conference
Time: Sunday, 16 February from 2:00 p.m.
Schedule
We start at the same time as the Berlinale on Thursday, 13 February on the Boulevard of Stars and celebrate on Saturday, 22 February the awarding of the Golden Taxi to the best taxi film.
Under the motto ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’, we protest against the takeover of the city by platform capitalists and exploiters. At a workshop on Thursday, 20 February, we will plan the radical re-conquest of Berlin.
One world, stories, places and perspectives
From 1640 submissions, we have selected 5 feature films and 63 short films that show encounters in taxis and tell of life, love and hate. Gods and demons are summoned and the morals of humanoid robots are put to the test. There are ‘normal’ and ‘weird’ stories. Everything takes place in the taxi, is about the taxi and everything around the taxi.
At the Taxi Film Festival, we show the background of the globalised taxi industry. With the attack of international corporations on small and medium-sized companies, the livelihoods of millions of self-employed and dependent employees are being destroyed.
We travel to Brazil, China, Ecuador, France, Greece, Great Britain, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Canada, Croatia, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Romania, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Togo, Hungary, the USA and Uzbekistan.
A world trip is not enough. We undertake time travel to the walled city of West Berlin, the robotic future and the darkest Middle Ages.
Taxifilmfest 2025 - an international festival
We are opening parts of the programme to the general public, but we will remain a neighbourhood cinema for friends and colleagues.
On Saturday, 8 February, we will publish the programme here.
Welcome!
The Taxikultur Team
Stephan Berndt, Irene Jaxtheimer and Klaus Meier
Contact
Klaus Meier
phone: +49 176 58 87 37 70
email: info@taxifilmfest.de
postal address: Taxifilmfest, c/o BALZ Beusselstraße 35, 10553 Berlin
Blog: https://www.taxifilmfest.de/blog, Mastodon: https://berlin.social/@taxi
The Taxi Film Festival is supported by
BALZ (https://www.berliner-arbeitslosenzentrum.de/)
Senatsverwaltung für Arbeit, Soziales, Gleichstellung, Integration, Vielfalt und Antidiskriminierung (https://www.berlin.de/sen/asgiva/)
Taxi Deutschland e.V. (http://www.taxideutschland.eu/)
Ver.di (https://bb.verdi.de/)
Many colleagues.
