This Novemeber’s German Film Festival marks two decades since the fall of the Berlin wall. BRANNAVAN GNANALINGAM checks out one of the twenty post-reunification films on offer.

BERLIN has regained a reputation as one of the world’s most eclectic and electric party spots over the last decade, a sort of 1920s Weimer decadence typified by a wildly diverse artistic scene, plenty of young people attracted by the cheap rent/squatting opportunities, and the city’s spatial dynamics. And as Hannes Stöhr’s Berlin Calling shows, the heady mix of drugs, music, and artistic types has had both productive and cautionary effects on some of Berlin’s citizens. The film, while at times a hackneyed narrative of self-destruction and redemption, is aided by its pulsating techno soundtrack and its depiction of the great city.