Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the gaping wound caused by that violent separation is beginning to heal. Building projects have transformed the city with amazing speed. The quaint glitz of cold-war west-Berlin and the broken down communist »show piece« of the east have been pulled together and polished up to create a new unified capital city.¶

      This new Berlin is currently experiencing an intense amount of curiosity from around the world. Is there a real »Berlin Boom« or is it just a bit of hype? Many visitors have come to see the new architecture or traces of the past.¶

sketches was developed by Henrik Zimmer & Irvandy Syafruddin

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But right now it seems the eyes of the world are focused on new artistic and creative impulses from Berlin in the areas of art, music, design and lifestyle.¶

     Many artists from Berlin, Germany and beyond are directly responsible for this Berlin renaissance. They have filled the unused and discarded areas of Berlin with studios and used these creative spaces to send out the message that there is something very special about this city.¶

     This film is therefore not so much about Berlin the city but about Berlin as a home and hub of a variety of creative people. We interviewed artists in the mediums of painting, music and dance due to their visual power on film.¶

     Each of the three portraits is a short, rough, sketch profile of the artist or artistic group. We filmed them in an expressive manner in the attempt to capture their artistic spirit. The goal of these sketches is to meld the documentary with art •

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