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
Family time: the French actor and auteur discusses the autobiographical inspirations of his latest directorial venture and his father's Silver Bear–winning drama
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.
Mirror mirror: Marguerite Duras’s acclaimed classic India Song and her less well-known Baxter, Vera Baxter offer striking examples of her knack for colliding literary language with the audiovisual form
Straight, no chaser: Alain Gomis’s artful remix of a 1969 French TV interview with Thelonious Monk dissects the casual racism suffered by the musical genius
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
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