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Giovanni Marchini Camia

Berlin Diary #5

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 12, 2013
The competition's not bearish: Calin Peter Netzer’s Child’s Pose, Pia Marais’ Layla Fourie, and José Luis Valle’s Workers

Berlin Diary #4

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 12, 2013
A doubleshot of cinematic lesbianism—Guillaume Nicloux's The Nun and Denis Côté’s Vic + Flo Saw a Bear

Berlin Diary #3

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 11, 2013
Russian collective farm skepticism, German Romanticism on the Canadian plains, and Shia LeBeouf getting his face smashed up in Bucharest

Berlin Diary #2

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 11, 2013
Ulrich Seidl returns with the final installment of his Paradise trilogy while Małgośka Szumowska tackles spiritual devotion and fleshy desire

Berlinale Diary #1

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 7, 2013
Berlin's opening night film The Grandmaster lands some—but not all—of its punches