By Ren Scateni
In Thailand, the lemongrass girl is no mythical figure. As soon as thunder rumbles, she is immediately summoned. Her task is as simple as it is fundamental:…
One film, eight reviews. The eight participants of this-year's Talent Press have seen one film in advance, presented in the "Perspectives on German Cinema": Jide Tom Akinleminu's When a…
An exercise in introspective film criticism, the video letter is addressed to all the participants and mentors of Talent Press 2021. It examines both the process of written criticism and…
Cinematic Letters to Wuhan and Beirut: Inter-images of a Mnemonic River and After-images.
Letters have been sent and received since antiquity. But what is the relation of the epistolary practice…
Following the Berlinale premiere of a new documentary on Tina Turner, an exploration of how biopics talk about Black women musicians.
In Beloved, Toni Morrison writes of Baby Suggs who’d…
“Waits for no one.” “Once lost is never found again.” “The most valuable thing one can spend.” Each and every consideration about time in Western society tends to treat it…
A woman’s hand enters the cavity in a puppet’s back. It awakens, seems to breathe. She removes her arm, and it (perhaps ‘he’) deactivates, falls backward. A puppet is an…
Making the Knowledge of the Image a Knowledge of the Earth
Long ago I heard the story of a botanist who went to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta accompanied…
The Jury of the Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique, FIPRESCI, awarded four films at the Berlin International Filmfestival 2021. One each in the sections Competition, Encounters, Panorama and International…
After the great success of the online portion of last year's festival, the Tallinn Black Nights Festival (PÖFF) will launch a year-round online initiative on March 6, making a wide…
As this year’s Berlinale has been split into an industry event in March and a public event in June everyone is facing new challenges. The International Federation of Film Critics…
The Sofia International Film Festival and FIPRESCI inform
For six years in a row at the Sofia Film Festival we have the honour and pleasure of presenting the special FIPRESCI…