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…
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…
Martin Kudlac
Martin Kudlac is a freelance journalist and film critic based in Slovakia. He is Cineuropa’s correspondent and TwitchFilm’s – “Leading Voices in Global Cinema” – contributing writer. His…
FIPRESCI Young Critics Warsaw Project
Monika Gimbutaite, Lithuania
Monika Gimbutaite, born in 1993 in Lithuania, graduated from Vilnius Academy of Arts, Art Theory and History programme. For three and a half years…
Political Cinema: The Past as a Provocation for the Present
By Rowan El Shimi
“History repeats itself” is as common a belief as vegetables are good for you. Many states find…