Berlin (AFP)

In Berlin as everywhere, boredom begins to gain with the confinement which continues, the cinemas, theaters, bars or restaurants always desperately closed.

But residents have found an idea to have fun together without risking contamination: watch films on the bare walls of building courtyards.

"We have this white wall here and we always thought we should show a film there," said Carola Lauter, who applied to "Windowflicks", the organizer of these backyard sessions.

The inhabitants of the neighborhood thus benefit from the bright colors of the film projected onto a neighboring building in the twilight glow.

"We feel a certain lethargy, fear and uncertainty here after all these weeks, so I thought it would be good for them to offer them something positive, invigorating," adds Carola Lauter.

Small groups, seated on candlelit balconies or posted at the windows, take advantage of this animation by tasting take-away meals or snacks provided by a local popcorn maker.

"Since we have not been able to go to the cinema for weeks, the cinema comes to us," explains Undine Zeibig, resident of the building, who finds the idea "very good."

"We hope that many people will also donate," added her husband Uwe, because "it will do good to the artists" who "really need it these days."

The Berlin cinemas no longer selling tickets, they came together to launch a call for donations called "To be continued", in order to raise more than 700,000 euros.

Financial pledges reached 100,000 euros on Friday, with an average donation of more than 44 euros.

"We said to ourselves: people want to live something, so let's put them on their balconies, on their windows," says Olaf Karkhoff, head of the initiative called Windowflicks, a word game in "allusion to the famous service. streaming ".

Beyond the projection of films, he pursues other ambitions such as the organization of "a concert or several simultaneous concerts in hundreds of courses".

A project which is close to his heart would be to convince the French traveler writer Sylvain Tesson "to entrust us with his photo montages, which we could project during a concert of classical music", dreams M.Karkhoff.

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