Berlinale competition: “Természetes fény / Natural Light” by Dénes Nagy Natural Light by Dénes Nagy. – 1943. During the Second World War, a long winter lies ahead in the occupied Soviet Union. István Semetka is part of a Hungarian special unit that searches village by village for partisans. One day the unit comes under enemy…
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…
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 gigantic…
„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…
FOTODOKS, home office edition.
Munich based international photography festival FOTODOKS will take place online in 2021 – but as well on site (Lothringer13 Halle) – everyone is hopeful, that…
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,…
Berlin, in times of nightlife
Do you remember how it was when we hung out at parties, danced in clubs, chatted at events, hugged, hugged, kissed each other? David Dietl’s…