Production: 25Films / Ardenfilm

Director: Britta Mischer & Nana Yuriko

Producers: Andro Steinborn & Ben Schneider

25/7 is a love song to a bygone place in the heart of Berlin- the Bar25. It documents the freewheeling lifestyle of music, creativity, individuality, and unflagging energy that transformed a riverside wasteland into a fantasyland on the Spree. Over it’s seven year history, Bar25 evolved in every direction. It was a place to live, to drink, to dance, to create -- a nightlife venue and daytime (and nighttime) workspace, a wellness oasis and gourmet mecca. Worlds away from society’s conventions and norms, it became the melting pot from which a truly Berlin culture emerged.

Then, in the Summer of 2010, Bar25 lost its final battle with the forces of development. The businessmen and city politicians had different ideas about what should happen along the Spree’s banks – and free-floating creativity and revelry were not part of it. On midnight, September 13, with a final foghorn blow and a shower of confetti, Bar25 closed its doors for good.

Check out the trailer on www.25films.de

Production: Wildfremd production

Director: Marten Persiel

Producers: Ronald Vietz / Michael Schöbel

THIS AIN’T CALIFORNIA is a celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary documentary trip into the cranky world of “rollerboarding” in the German Democratic Republic. A coming-of-age tale of three teenagers and their passionate love for a sport on the crumbling tarmac of the streets in the GDR, which was considered very ill-fitting. The punk fairy tale of Nico, Dirk and Denis is a story of the subversive powers of fun in that part of Germany, which had lost touch with its citizens.

The film follows its three heroes from their childhood days in the seventies through their teenage rebellion in the eighties, ending in the late, last summer of their life in the GDR in 1989, when their lives changed forever.

Check out the trailer on www.thisaintcalifornia.de/en/teaser