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6:30pm • Thursday, Jun 25, 2026
Christiane F.: Bleak Week
Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history.
The fifth annual edition in June 2026 expands to nearly 100 theaters across the U.S., Canada,U.K. and South and Central America, with each venue presenting its own original curated lineup of uncompromising films defined by unpleasant truths and raw empathy. The Park Theatre is delighted and honoured to take part in this monumental series, and sought selections from local filmmakers and friends of the venue when creating the series.
CHRISTIANE F. Selected by Oscar-winning filmmaker Sean Baker (ANORA, THE FLORIDA PROJECT, TANGERINE)
Adapted from actress and musician Cristiane Felscherinow’s harrowing account of her teenage years, CHRISTIANE F. depicts the impact of West Berlin’s mid-to-late-70s heroin epidemic on one of its youngest and luckiest survivors. On the cusp of fourteen, David Bowie-worshipping Cristiane begins slipping out from under the watch of her divorced mother and spending time at hip discotheque Sound. There she falls in love with Detlev , whose recent experiments with heroin soon have her hooked.
Working with first-time actors and shooting on location with real-life regulars of Zoo Station’s notorious drug cruising scene, director Uli Edel unflinchingly captures the degradation of each phase of junkie life, from underage prostitution to brutal withdrawals to the seemingly endless vows to “go straight.” Bowie himself appears in a concert performance of “Station to Station”; the film’s soundtrack is a virtual compendium of the epochal musician’s celebrated “Berlin period” and a perfect sonic evocation of nightclubbing’s dark side. With Natja Brunckhorst, Christiane Lechle, Thomas Haustein.
"It is one of the most unremittingly grim portraits of drug addiction ever filmed." (Roger Ebert)
"A sad, sordid look at the horrors of drug addiction, and 'horrors' is the operative word.." (New York Times)
Thursday, June 25
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Bleak Week Pass HERE
CHRISTIANE F. "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" (Uli Edel, 1981 / 132 mins / NR / German w. English subs ) A teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies.
