Face to face: critics Jordan Cronk, Jessica Kiang, and Jonathan Romney join to discuss the opening days of the festival, which included new films from Olivier Assayas, Alonso Ruizpalacios, Ruth Beckermann, and more
Oceanic feeling: the German filmmaker talks about his latest, a slyly comedic chamber piece, which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at last month’s Berlinale
Undercurrents: this year’s Berlin Critics’ Week focused on “sur-realism,” a mode of Latin American filmmaking that doesn’t imagine an escape from reality but instead is fully, vividly, nightmarishly of it.
Binary systems: two Berlinale standouts, Our Body and Orlando, My Political Biography grapple productively with the boundaries between subjective and objective experience
Life spans: the Scottish artist discusses Berlinale highlight Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait, his experimental portrait of the great Orkney filmmaker
Don’t look back: critics Giovanni Marchini Camia, Victor Guimarães, and Frédéric Jaeger join to discuss Angela Schanelec’s Music, Hong Sangsoo’s In Water, German cinema at the Berlinale, and much more
Earth, wind, and fire: Inney Prakash, Edo Choi, and Caitlin Quinlan join to discuss the festival's buzzy new premieres, including Tótem, Samsara, Afire, The Plough, and Allensworth
Dust in the wind: critics Antoine Thirion and Jean-Michel Frodon join to discuss Disco Boy, Manodrome, Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert, and more
