CINÉMA DU RÉEL 2018: CENTRAL AIRPORT THF BY KARIM AÏNOUZ
By Pablo Gamba
Central Airport THF (Zentralflughafen THF, 2018) is a film about the airport of Tempelhof, in Berlin. It was recognized as such in 1923 and the Nazi regime developed it until it transformed the terminal into the biggest building in the world. Occupied by the Americans and transformed in a military base after World War II, it was used as the aerial bridge that supplied the occidental side of the city when the Soviet Union impeded the fluvial and terrestrial access in 1948. The airport was closed in 2008 and transformed in a park in 2010. But since 2015 it serves another function: a refugee camp was stablished there; welcoming refugees recently arrived in Germany.