Schon als Maria Speths Dokumentarfilm HERR BACHMANN UND SEINE KLASSE seine Première im Rahmen des Berlinale Summer Specials im Juni 2021 feierte, hatte ich einiges…
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Über David Lowerys THE GREEN KNIGHT
Weihnachten am Hof von König Artus (Sean Harris). „Oh greatest of kings! Let one of your knights try to land a blow against me. Indulge me…
Über Knut Elstermanns wunderbaren DEFA-Gesprächsband „Im Gespräch“
Zwanzig Jahre meines früheren Lebens habe ich ja in der Filmbranche verbracht und dort PR für Kinofilme gemacht, viel für IMAX und viel für die…
The top 5 exhibitions that I haven’t seen but would not like to miss.
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 haunted! Or…
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 of…
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 Union.…
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 came…
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 Yvan…