The final frontier: the French director discusses his latest, The Empire, which polarized critics at the 2024 Berlinale with its blend of doofy Star Wars references and ambitious formal finesse
Smoke gets in your eyes: this year's edition included titles like Direct Action, exergue – on documenta 14, Favoriten, and Dahomey, all of which probe, in very different ways, the responsibilities of civic and cultural institutions
Alles gut: Ela Bittencourt and Frédéric Jaeger join to discuss German cinema at this year’s edition, along with films made by women, including Helke Sander, Christine Angot, Eva Trobisch, and others
Translation problem: Jonathan Ali, Frédéric Jaeger, and Antoine Thirion to talk about Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias’s Pepe, Hong Sangsoo’s A Traveler’s Needs, Victor Kossakovsky’s Architecton, and more
Reading history: this year's edition tips the scales toward ideas about documentation and bearing witness with films like Mati Diop’s Dahomey, Hong Sangsoo’s A Traveler’s Needs, and Victor Kossakovsky’s Architecton
Straight ahead: our first dispatch from Berlin offers context on the multiple controversies swirling around this year’s edition, including a shift in leadership, pulled films, and protests
A world askew: Erika Balsom, Beatrice Loayza, and Giovanni Marchini Camia join to discuss Dimitris Athiridis’s exergue – on documenta 14, Bruno Dumont’s The Empire, Mati Diop’s Dahomey, and more
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
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