The call for Berlinale Talents 2021 is open – and we'd like to extend a warm welcome to emerging critics of all backgrounds to apply.
Berlinale Talents 2021: February 13–18,…
By Derek Malcolm
The death of Ronald Bergan deprives FIPRESCI of one of its longest serving and most knowledgeable members. Born in South Africa, he came to the UK as…
Egyptian film critic Ahmed Shawky has resigned from his post as artistic director of the Cairo International Film Festival. In an open letter he explains the reasons and the background…
The former Volkskrant film journalist Peter van Bueren passed away at the age of 78. For decades, he was of great influence in the Dutch and international film world. In…
Talent Press, an initiative of Berlinale Talents in collaboration with FIPRESCI and the Goethe-Institut, is a platform for up-and-coming film critics and journalists from around the globe to deepen their knowledge of current trends in world cinema. Selected by an international jury, eight…
• A third language to write about Third Cinema By Maja Korbecka • Film Criticism as a Migratory Practice, or Why We Are All Immigrants By Savina Petkova •…
• Finding Yourself – Hair Dye After Air Dye By Jakob Åsell • Cultural Trauma Through the Generations By Debbie Zhou • Where Life Though Joyless Still is Calm …
• Kelly Reichardt’s Secret Ingredient By Sadia Khalid • Friendship That Sticks By Savina Petkova • Oh Lord, won’t you buy me…? By Rodrigo Garay …
• A Revolutionary is a Doomed Man By Adina Glickstein & Rodrigo Garay • Undine Loves By Savina Petkova & Debbie Zhou • Cow Theft and Video Games …
• Do stuff and get more money for it all the time: two films on labor, fifty years apart By Adina Glickstein • Owning the Story: Authenticity and Authorship By Debbie…
• Places of Individuality in Chinese Cinema at Berlinale 2020 By Maja Korbecka • The True Colors of Latin American Tricksters By Rodrigo Garay • Transcending the Race Barrier…
Nelson Hoineff, the Brazilian film critic and documentary filmmaker, passed away, 71 years old. He had founded the "Association of Film Critics of Rio de Janeiro" in 1984 and was…