OCTOBER: Secrets and lies

Date: 22.10.15 → 29.10.15

Location: Exile Room
Entrance fee: Free

Modern-day spies, big brothers, conspiracy theories and wizards of deceit are awaiting this month to lure you in. Exile Room opens the Fall/Winter screening season with the 2015 Best Documentary Oscar, eager to introduce you to a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!

Citizenfour

Date: 22.10.15 @ 21:00
Location: Exile Room

Free

Date: 22.10.15 @ 21:00
Location: Exile Room

Free

Director: Laura Poitras

Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 114'
Subtitles: English

“Citizenfour” is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA).

Date: 29.10.15 @ 21:00
Location: Exile Room

Free

Date: 29.10.15 @ 21:00
Location: Exile Room

Free

Director: Robert Kenner

Country: USA
Duration: 96’
Subtitles: English

“Merchants of Doubt” lifts the curtain on a secretive group of highly charismatic, silver- tongued pundits-for-hire, who present themselves in the media as scientific authorities – yet have the contrary aim of spreading maximum confusion about well-studied public threats ranging from toxic chemicals to pharmaceuticals to climate change.