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After long program meetings, the new film program for the summer semester is ready for the beginning of spring! Once again, we have collected, discussed and evaluated dozens of film suggestions...

Well, we're off then. The program from April is in the bag, but it's still a while until then. The cinema is closed, we'll be traveling in other spheres until then.

Yesterday was the last screening of a brightly colored film series by FARBEN, which virtually made us forget the grey autumn and winter days of the winter semester in a frenzy of color. We take this review as an opportunity to present this year's trailer to you, namely the way the “trailer” was originally used in the movie theater, as a “trailer” after the actual show. Many thanks to Alex Thelen for this little masterpiece and to the entire Blue Salon team!

This Friday, February 14, we cordially invite you to spend an extraordinary evening together in the Blue Salon of the HfG Karlsruhe. Our Open Stage starts at 8 pm and, as always, anyone who plays an instrument is welcome to take the stage! Whether it's a jazzy classic, a spontaneous improv or a cool funk beat - the evening is yours! 🎷🎶

Next Saturday, we will be showing SHOAH (1985) by Claude Lanzmann. The almost 10-hour film will be shown in cooperation with the Kinemathek Karlsruhe on two consecutive days and in two different cinemas. The screenings are part of the nationwide cinema initiative January 27 - 80 Years of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was initiated by the Haus des Dokumentarfilms in Stuttgart.

We are delighted to welcome the director of the Academic Film Center in Belgrade (AFC) Milan Milosavljević in January. In a short film program, 10 films from the history of the center's renowned film archive will be presented. Don't miss the unique chance to see these treasures, one of the rare cases where the old saying ONLY IN THE CINEMA is actually true.

We are delighted to be part of the Federal Congress of German Communal Cinemas this coming weekend. The congress is hosted by our friends at the Kinemathek Karlsruhe and on Saturday we are offering a night full of experimental short films from almost 100 years of cinema history - come along to the NACHTWACHE!

We are delighted to bring you some very special news: Kino im Blauen Salon has been awarded the Kinematheksverbund 2024 cinema prize in the “Cinema that looks back” category! 🎉

It's hard to believe that after several dozen years, it's actually goodbye, Ludger! Ludger Pfanz, a member of staff at the HfG since the 5th year after its foundation, is looking forward to retirement and as a farewell we will watch the short film of his filmmaking career together again, which in a way went down in history as the initial HfG project, in the sense that many members of the HfG, from students to the janitor to the secretariat, were involved in the production.

The time has finally come: after a long period of thinking back and forth, poring over Excel spreadsheets and reviewing trailers, our programme team has now agreed on a great new programme for the cinema winter 24/25 in the Blauer Salon!