Does the Berlinale Have a Nollywood Problem?
The bustling Nigerian film industry – popularly known as Nollywood – is one of the largest film industries in the world, at least…
Of Alibis and Shields: Rhetorical Filmmaking and the Role of Criticism
Everyone who has experienced the atmosphere of a major film festival in recent years can testify: rhetoric is all…
Call Me By My Body “One of the most challenging misconceptions that thwarts filmmakers from being able to portray female desire in a way that is seeped in authenticity,…
The Rise and Fall of Intentions Since the birth of the first moving images, filmmaking and intention were linked to each other. First there was the intention to capture…
Disarming Manhood, Raising Men: Toxic Masculinities in MONOS and PIRANHAS Wars do not simply claim lives – they also create new ones that are integral to their continuation. …
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Condemn the present, examine the past or escape to a better future? Three films at the 69th Berlinale reflect upon Russian youth culture and its…
Filming The Objects Of Memory “There is no archive fever without the threat of [the] death drive,” wrote French philosopher Jacques Derrida. The act of archiving is a response…
As part of the Talent Press workshop all eight participants wrote a review about Peter Parlow’s Berlinale Forum contribution THE PLAGIARISTS. The whole group discussed the articles afterwards and even…
Doing It Ourselves: Possibilities of Alternative Media Circulation Pioneer feminist video activists Carole Roussopoulos and Delphine Seyrig only had a domestic video camera. Chilean queer artist Pedro Lemebel did…
Muses of Disobedience By Andrea Guzmán Phantoms Of Cinema Past By Devika Girish Confinements of Perspective By Hugo…
Pedro Lemebel, the Mare of the Apocalypse By Andrea Guzmán Detours in the Steppe By Devika Girish Exhuming the Past…
The Festival, the Goethe Institute and FIPRESCI organize again, in the framework of Berlinale Talents, a workshop for young film critics. The Talents 2019 present themselves and talk about the…