What is the history of fsk Kino, and how is its programming made up?
fsk Kino is an art house cinema which opened in 1988. At first it had one theatre with 60 seats. 6 years later we moved to be able to open 2 screens, but stayed in Kreuzberg district, a Berlin neighbourhood inhabited mostly by immigrants and students. Before the Wall came down the neighbourhood was a bit out of the way, but now it’s in the centre of town. The cinema is run by a group of 6 people, all of whom simultaneously act as proprietors, exhibitors and employees. We select films according to their content, and not their possible results. And that is exactly what the artists, filmmakers or film enthusiasts enjoy who come to see them. Our audiences are mostly made up of students, but they are aging with us. Many foreign students and tourists come to see the films we screen in original versions with subtitles. We’ve cut down the number of festivals or events we organise in the cinema because there are already so many in Berlin. Three cinemas each with 5 screens do nothing else, for e
