Meta House invites you to a special screening exploring the challenge of adapting Dune—a science fiction masterpiece long considered “unfilmable” due to its complexity, rich lore, and philosophical depth.

The exoticism of Bhutan and the spiritual philosophy of Buddhism combine with an eerie invented ritual by which masked anonymity allows participants to inhabit a limbo world of the present that excludes the past and future in lama/director Khyentse Norbu’s visually rich though narratively challenging “Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait.”

Experience a Taste of Germany tonight at Berlin Bar!

A battered wife leaves her husband and takes her son back home, but their reception is not at all what she expected in Feo Aladag’s well-crafted examination of the blindness of hidebound tradition.

For proof of the universality of rock ’n’ roll, look no further than Cambodia in the 1960s and ’70s. Even there, young people picked up electric guitars and studied Mick Jagger’s moves, melding Eastern melodies with Western grooves in ways that are still strikingly fresh.

Phnom Penh’s legendary live act Electric Universe returns with a brand-new chapter: The Next Universe. For 15 years, the project (founded by Berlin producer Nick Meta alongside US musicians Tim Sirois and James Speck) has fused live synthesizers, strings, grooveboxes, and DJ culture into hypnotic, psychedelic jam sessions. From stages across Cambodia to virtual performances in Second Life, the band has built a cult following.

Gripping and important: “Kill the Messenger” (2014, 112 min) depicts a reporter’s suppressed attempts to cover the CIA involvement and secret support of large scale cocaine sales to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. The US feature film is based on the book of the same name by Nick Schou and the book Dark Alliance by Gary Webb. Not since 2003’s “Shattered Glass” has the journalistic pursuit of truth been presented on screen as such a mortally serious matter of honour.

The place is Phnom Penh, 1979, immediately following the fall of Pol Pot. A grainy film shows a Czechoslovakian doctor walking through the debris around the deserted Central Market. Amid piles of shoes is a grandfather clock, evidently left standing in the street since the city had been evacuated four years earlier. He winds up the derelict artifact of a lost time and a chime rings out. Viewers would be excused for believing they were watching genuine footage of Phnom Penh days after the city’s liberation. In fact, the Czechoslovakian-Cambodian production was made after the Vietnamese had occupied the city – but only just.

German Night at Berlin Bar – Tonight!

A high school teacher’s experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.

German Food Night: Potato Pancakes, Film & DJ

German Night at Berlin Bar – Tonight!