Scherbenland

In the organizer's words:

• DE 2025
• Director: Lutz Pehnert, Ferdinand Hübner
• FSK: from 12 years
• Documentary: Original version with German voiceover and subtitles where applicable

Screenings:

• Thurs., May 7, 2026 - Fri., May 8, 2026 at 4:00 p.m.
• Sat., May 9, 2026 - Sun., May 10, 2026 at 8:00 p.m.
• Mon, May 11, 2026 - Wed, May 13, 2026 at 4:00 p.m.
• Sat., May 16, 2026 - Sun., May 17, 2026 at 2:00 pm

"Scherbenland" tells the story of a band whose first album began with the question: "Why am I in such a mess?" - and about a city that was changed by their songs. In the early 1970s, Kreuzberg became a field of experimentation for a counterculture.

The film follows the traces of this time and asks: What has remained of this awakening? And what happens when the hymns of the Scherben meet the songs of the present? In today's Berlin, "Scherbenland" meets musicians whose songs tell of life in the neighborhood - including the rap trio RAPK and songwriter Maike Rosa Vogel. Their music emerges from the everyday life of a district that moves between myth, gentrification and new cultural energy. A film about music and poetry as resistance - then and now. And about the question of whether both still have the power to change a city.