Welcome to the 2022 Berlinale Talent Press, please take a seat. COVID restrictions meant our twentieth edition could only take place virtually, but we, the Talents, still managed to forge…
The German Film Critics Association (Verband der Deutschen Filmkritik) has announced the annual German Film Critics’ Awards for best achievements in German films. The critics honor Sandra Wollner’s The Trouble…
Questions on the Organisation of the Berlinale 2022 Verband der deutschen Filmkritik – Association of German Film Critics February 4, 2022
In the last few days we have received questions…
The National Society of Film Critics (USA), which is made up of 59 of the country’s most prominent movie critics, on Saturday, January 8th, 2022, held its 56th annual awards…
Dimitris Charitos, veteran Greek film critic and poet, died on January 7, of heart failure, in Athens. He was 92.
Dimitris Charitos who is best remembered with his graceful…
On December 11, along with the winners in the other categories, the European Discovery Award – Prix FIPRESCI has been announced during the European Film Awards Ceremony.
European Discovery 2021…
The "Gandhi Medal", the film prize of the "CICT – International Council for Film, Television and Audio-visual Communication" (institution linked to UNESCO) has been awarded at the occasion of the…
The FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project has returned to the 37th Warsaw International Film Festival, which runs from October 8 to 17, 2021. The training workshops for young critics and film journalists…
Hive (Zgjoy, 2021), dir. Blerta Basholli
“I thought we all had a limited reservoir of tears in ourselves,” writes Javier Cercas in his most recent novel Lord of All the…
Meeting Point (Kimya, 2021), dir. Umut Evirgen
Written and directed by Umut Evirgen, Meeting Point thwarts its promise of adventure with an overreliance on blurry aesthetics (evoking the sensation…
Sisterhood Founded on Blood, Sweat & Tears: an Interview with Monika Kotecka and Karolina Poryzała
The Herd (2021) is a tender look at sisterhood and committed examination of the ups…
In Limbo (2021), dir. Aleksandr Khant
Discipline the punished: Aleksandr Khant delivers spellbindingly-sardonic millennial take on the getaway genre.
“I vow to become a drunk, I vow to be a…