LAST DAYS AT SEA by Venice Atienza. — 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 the Berlinale screening in the open-air cinema in the Hasenheide can dream themselves into the distance. It is thanks to the…
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…
Waves of images.
About SEND ME AN IMAGE: From Postcards to Social Media. An exhibition at C / O Berlin, from May 29th to September 2nd, 2021. Three…
„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…