In the page's words:

KinoBerlino is the German capital's free and voluntary short film platform and is run by Dave Lojek, the most screened director at film festivals in the 21st century.

We produce and project non-commercial works by self-taught artists and have been part of the international cinema movement founded in Montreal in 2004. This consists of self-sufficient groups in many countries that are guided by the basic principles of playful collaboration without competition, improvisation with existing resources and openness in terms of content and style. People with and without previous experience create their own works and thus learn their cinematographic craft.

In our annual KinoKabarets (ten-day intensive film workshops in the fall), we bring together around 120 volunteer producers, directors, actors and film technicians who, together with musicians, artists and authors, write, plan, shoot, edit, set to music and present their own narrative, animated, experimental and documentary works for the cinema. They are given 2 x 4 days at each of the venues to do this. Intrinsically motivated, all participants network organically under extreme time pressure and develop new ideas without censorship or sales intentions.

In this way, we created over 1500 short films in the micro-cinema or guerrilla film segment in all genres. These low-threshold workshops form the antithesis to the extremely privileged state film schools, which regularly reject 95% of their applicants and have created a tiny, rich elite with a hermetic film funding bubble that dictates, dominates and constricts our media world in television and cinema.

At KinoBerlino, we cure the perfectionism of the inexperienced with the art of the possible, because our short films don't have to sell. They float as free radicals above the ocean of commerce, amusing, impressing or irritating cinema audiences hundreds of thousands of times over. For 2025, we are planning our KinoLab in the B.L.O. - Ateliers in Lichtenberg.

In the monthly openscreenings at the Moviemento cinema in Kreuzberg, we have also been organizing a regular forum for filmmakers to project their own productions in a dignified setting and discuss them with the audience since 2006.

We have celebrated over 3,000 world premieres in Germany's oldest movie theater and initiated hundreds of new films that have also been screened here. We address our target groups of cineastes, dreamers, hyper-experimentalists and lone wolves in the underground via social media and at film festivals, which we eagerly attend