Beauty and Decay @ Hot Docs Canada

We’re very happy about the World-Premiere of „Beauty And Decay“ (Schönheit & Vergänglichkeit) by Annekatrin Hendel in Toronto: Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, North America’s largest documentary festival!!

Fri, Apr 26
8:30 PM Scotiabank Theatre 3
Sat, Apr 27
1:15 PM TIFF Bell Lightbox 1
Sun, May 5
6:30 PM Scotiabank Theatre 13

In Berlin, Sven Marquardt is legendary for working as the stone-faced gatekeeper of ultra-exclusive techno club Berghain, but there’s more to the famous bouncer than meets the eye: he also wrote a bestselling autobiography and is an accomplished photographer. Now, as Germany celebrates the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Marquardt revisits his days as a young East German punk. This glimpse of his early career also sees him reunite with his former muse, Dominique Hollenstein, to shoot a new series of portraits, and looks in on the life of his friend Robert Paris, a photographer who moved away from his art and now spends most of the year as a happy family man in India. Moving between observational scenes of Marquardt at work and highlights of his gorgeous black-and-white portrait photography, Beauty and Decay is a fascinating look at three close friends, still giving society the middle finger and ignoring preconceived notions of what it means to age. Aisha Jamal