FOOD & FOOTAGE – Independent movies in combination with food

16 JULY 2025 / starting 19:00

ZK/U BerlinSiemensstr. 27, 10551, Berlin, Germany

At Food & Footage, filmmakers and chefs come together to combine moving images with a three-course meal and thus bring current social, cultural and political topics to the table.

This edition, PLANT STORIES, reflects on the ambivalence of beauty and violence in botanical gardens, and how to approach such contradictions with accountability.

With this premise, the film Schauhaus turns its gaze to the Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden, where a group of people encounters lingering traces of colonial and imperial thinking—as well as the utopian potential embedded in this space. The screening at ZK/U marks the Berlin premiere of the film.

In a complementary approach, bingenTV explores human-plant relationships through speculative storytelling. Their work delves into how extractive and patriarchal structures have shaped archives and knowledge systems around plants. At the same time, they highlight how queer communities of care—between humans and across species—have always existed, resisted, and created alternative forms of connection, even if their histories have remained unrecorded.

After the films, there will be a Q&A with the filmmakers, moderated by Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro.