News, 01.08.2025

DIAMETRALE Musikfilme

DIAMETRALE x ALLES GUTE, 27.+28.08.2025

This year, ALLES GUTE will be the setting for extraordinary music documentaries for the first time: from the glittering ruins of Italian mega-discos and empowering stories of the so-called “she-punks” in German-speaking countries, to the portrait of a musical crossover artist (“Death Metal Grandma”) and the short report “POSITIVE FUTURES” – the selected films offer diverse perspectives on music as a unifying force and tell of social change, rebellious adventurousness, and collective ecstasy.

A cinematic ride into a world full of guitars, beats, and progressive attitudes – loud, wild, and experimental!

Admission: EUR 7.70 (EUR 5.00 reduced price for ALLES GUTE festival pass holders)

Mi 27.08.2025 • 20:00 • Theater praesent (Tschamlerstr. 3)

Disco Ruin

IT 2021 • Lisa Brosi, Francesca Zerbeto • 112min • it. OV with engl. Subs • HDV

A visually powerful, essayistic, and experimental journey through the history of nightlife in Italy, beginning with the ruins of former mega-discotheques scattered throughout Italy—one magnificent example, for example, had a DJ booth in a glass elevator, capable of simultaneously playing on multiple floors! What follows is the grand narrative of over 40 years of nights on highways and days in after-hours clubs. Of crowded beaches in the Italian summer and elite circles in the big cities; of people who, for four generations, longed to be on guest lists and to access places of communal experience and depravity, where what you do during the day doesn’t matter, but rather who you transform into at night. The rise and fall of a very special pop culture that has produced its own music, its own style, and its own art, with all the associated contradictions and aberrations: four decades of “Planet Disco, Made in Italy.” (UNERHÖRT! Musikfilmfestival Hamburg)

Trailer - Disco Ruin

Vorfilm: Music Beyond Boundaries – The Positive Futures Story

A Film by Caroline Eiter and Wolfgang Gollmayer Österreich/Innsbruck 2025 • 15min • german OV

Documentation about the Innsbruck Positive Future Festival.

Do 28.08.2025 • 20:00 • Theater praesent (Tschamlerstr. 3)

Einfach Machen! She-Punks von 1977 bis heute

DE/CH 2024 • Reto Caduff • 89min • deutsche Originalfassung • HDV

Punk is a promise – of rebellion and self-empowerment! When it conquered the entire world from England and the USA in the late 1970s, suddenly neither training nor perfection was needed to express oneself musically in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. “Don’t talk, do it!” was the motto. What counts is the idea and the courage to get on stage. And this is especially true for the women in the scene: Östro 430 was founded in Düsseldorf, Mania D, later Malaria!, in West Berlin, and Kleenex, later LiLiput, in Zurich. Their role models came from England and were named X-Ray Spex, The Slits, The Raincoats, and Siouxsie Sioux. The songs they created were about female role clichés and philistinism, about machos and dogmatic feminists. It was about female desire and sexual self-determination. And always about conquering free spaces—within the male-dominated punk scene, but also in society as a whole. “Just do it! She-Punks from 1977 to today” portrays female artists who, 40 years later, are still on stage together or are back together again. As pioneers of German-language she-punk, Gudrun Gut, Beate Bartel, Bettina Köster, Sara Schär, Klaudia Schifferle, Martina Weith, and Bettina Flörchinger share their experiences and stories. Despite the bands’ different sounds and without knowing it at the time, they were part of a female revolution in the music industry that had a lasting impact on subsequent artists. A film about punk from a female perspective, feminism with a guitar riff, and the incomparable attitude to life in the late 70s and early 80s.

Trailer - Einfach Machen! She-Punks von 1977 bis heute

Vorfilm: Death Metal Grandma

USA 2018 • Leah Galant 12min • english OV

“Old people are excluded from life”, muses Inge Ginsberg as she prepares for a performance as a death metal grandma. The 95-year-old uses heavy metal as a vehicle to express her deep, insightful, and poetic reflections on life.