1. Spuk! Leif Geiges‘ photographs. Shuffling steps in the attic, a carpet becomes a snake, bread rolls fly through the air like swallows … It’s…
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Berlinale Generation Kplus: About Venice Atienza’s documentary Last Days at Sea
Again and again the viewer hears the sound of the sea. Like in a meditation, Venice Atienza’s documentary ensures that the young and adult viewers…
Berlinale Competition: About the Iranian drama Ghasideyeh gave sefid (Ballad of a White Cow)
Mina’s life turns upside down when she learns that her husband Babak has been wrongly charged with the crime for which he was executed. The…
Berlinale: SHORT REVIEWS
Berlinale competition: “Természetes fény / Natural Light” by Dénes Nagy 1943. During the Second World War, a long winter lies ahead in the occupied Soviet…
Berlinale Forum: About Ignacio Ceroi’s film Qué será del verano / What Will Summer Bring
— GERMAN VERSION BELOW — A found footage film is a film that consists of found, appropriated film material, i.e. material that the director somehow…
Berlinale Encounters: An exciting new cinematic voice from Vietnam: About Le Baos movie VI/TASTE.
We are in gloomy, bare corrugated iron huts in Saigon, Vietnam. Hardly any sunlight penetrates in, everything is sparse, barely furnished, the press release speaks…
Berlinale Encounters: Argentina, in the heart of darkness. About Andreas Fontana’s film AZOR.
The Swiss private banker René Keys disappeared without a trace in the turmoil of the Argentine military dictatorship. Together with his wife Inés, his partner…
PARIS&LIEBE: Über Suzanne Lindons Debütfilm FRÜHLING IN PARIS
…. English version below … Paris, im Frühling. Suzanne (Suzanne Lindon) ist 16 Jahre alt, und ihre gleichaltrigen Freunde langweilen sie. Der Smalltalk, den die…
„I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far“
…ENGLISH VERSION BELOW… Die meisten Fans der Musik von Leonard Cohen können eine Anekdote erzählen, die sie mit seinen Liedern verbinden. Meine ist die: Ich…
The magic of books
THE BOOKSELLERS, the film by American documentary film director D. W. Young, awakens two dreams in the pandemic-plagued Central European author: on the one hand,…