Introduction. Berlinale Talents, Goethe Institute and FIPRESCI organized at this year’s Berlinale for the 13th time the “Talent Press”, an initiative within the Berlinale Talents. A new generartion of critics…
Oris Aigbokhaevbolo Oris Aigbokhaevbolo is a film critic living in Lagos, Nigeria. He has worked with the European Film Festival; iREP Documentary Film Festival; Lights, Camera, Africa and other…
By Sergio Huidobro
In last year’s Berlinale Competition film “Eisenstein In Guanajuato” (UK, Mexico, 2016), director Peter Greenaway recalls the ten day visit that Soviet film pioneer Sergei Eisenstein…
By Isabella Akinseye
Rich in diversity and intercultural relations, three films at the 66th Berlinale program are metaphorical for their protagonist’s dilemmas and identity crises. Three young men stranded…
By Rasha Hosny
This year’s Berlinale features a special interest in refugees and migrants from around the world. Encouraging festivalgoers to engage with this global crisis, Festival Director Dieter…
By Elizabeth Chege
An exploration of the mind as a sanctuary and a prison at Berlinale.
What would your demons look like were you to encounter them in worldly…
By Ruben Demasure
“Shadow,” said he, “Where can it be – This land of Eldorado?” (Edgar Allan Poe, “Eldorado”, 1849)
While critics mine film festivals for hidden or sometimes…
The Shape of Our Inner Fears, by Elizabeth Chege A Romanticized Attachment to Home, by Isabella Akinseye Depicting the Refugee Crisis, by Rasha Hosny Digging the Past, by Ruben Demasure…
All participants were asked to review the film “Uncle Howard”, shown in the section “Panorama Documents”.
The Film. “Uncle Howard”. Great Britain / USA, 2016, 96 min. Directed by Aaron…