The area in which the festival is located is known as Potsdamer Platz. This was a barren area, basically a no-man’s land, near the Wall on the Western side during the Cold War. After the Wall came down, this was one of the first areas targeted for rebirth. It is a haven of culture now.
Because of the great number of films showing at the festival (some 350 or so), not all films are able to play at the theaters in Potsdamer Platz. Wednesday provided me my first opportunity to see a film at Cubix theater, which is in Alexander Platz, the former center of East Berlin, about a 45-minute walk away.
Along the route were some remnants from the Wall and a line of inset stones tracing the path of where the Wall once stood.
