Babylon Kreuzberg

In the location's words:

The BABYLON KREUZBERG is located in the middle of one of Berlin's hippest and most multicultural districts and, like almost every Berlin neighborhood cinema, has a very eventful history. Opened in 1955 as HELO and frequented mainly by customers from the eastern half of Berlin, it played exclusively Turkish films as KENT in the 1970s. In 1986 it was taken over by the YORCK KINOGRUPPE and established itself - still as a single cinema - with legendary night-filling special programs. After being converted into a two-room house, the BABYLON has now been successfully showing original versions beyond the mainstream for over 20 years and is thus, just like the Schöneberg ODEON, one of the pioneers of original-language cinema culture in the city. The Babylon welcomes guests time and again. Film premieres are often celebrated here, and the cinema hosted the Turkish Film Week for several years and was the venue for the "Berlinale goes Kiez" program in 2012.