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TRANSCENDING THE RACE BARRIER

From First Cow to Berlin Alexanderplatz, this year’s Berlinale offered hope for greater racial harmony and inclusivity By Sadia Khalid

on March 4, 2020 11:58


The True Colors of Latin American Tricksters

On Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento’s The Tango of the Widower and its Distorting Mirror and Matías Piñeiro’s Isabella by Rodrigo Garay

on March 4, 2020 11:54


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Places of Individuality in Chinese Cinema at Berlinale 2020

Conversation around discourse and dialogue in Chinese cinema have featured prominently at this year’s Berlinale By Maja Korbecka

on March 4, 2020 11:53


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Proximity From a Distance: Collaborative Filmmaking in Arab Documentaries

Three Berlinale documentaries from the Arab world serve as powerful examples of collaborative filmmaking By Lili Hering

on March 4, 2020 11:48


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The Power of Sound: Listening to the 70th Berlinale

What happens when - if only a flickering moment - you close your eyes and listen to the sounds echoing at the Berlinale? by: Jakob Åsell

on March 4, 2020 11:35


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Letters from Berlin: Undine Loves

Reporting from Berlin, Savina Petkova and Debbie Zhou share their thoughts on Christian Petzold’s Competition entry, Undine

by Savina Petkova & Debbie Zhou

on February 27, 2020 13:45


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Letters from Berlin: Rainy Days and Running Women

Writing to each other from the 70th Berlinale, Lili Hering and Sadia Khalid weigh in on some of the fest’s most singular entries

By Lili Hering, Sadia Khalid

on February 27, 2020 13:33


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Friendship That Sticks

The world of First Cow is one of enmeshed existences, where solidarity to the other, human or nonhuman, is the key virtue

By Savina Petkova

on February 27, 2020 13:20


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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me…?

Jonas Heldt’s AUTOMOTIVE touches on the notion of desire fading away, yielding to functionality and utilitarianism
br> By Rodrigo Garay

on February 27, 2020 13:17


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A World Without Parents

In Melanie Waelde’s Nackte Tiere, a group of teens inhabits a world where adults are evanescent presences.

by Lili Hering

on February 27, 2020 13:14


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Cultural trauma through the generations

An affecting if somewhat safe family drama, Mogul Mowgli prods into the deeper, darker realms of a traditional father-son relationship

By Debbie Zhou

on February 27, 2020 13:10


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The Line From Past To Present Is a Spiral

The Living and the Dead Ensemble’s Ouvertures advocates for a collective storytelling that transcends and transforms time and space

by Savina Petkova

on February 25, 2020 17:14


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Standing on the precipice, leaping into the unknown

by Lili Hering

on February 25, 2020 16:48


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Down in Mexico

by Rodrigo Garay

on February 25, 2020 16:46


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Post-chair criticism

by Jakob Åsell

on February 25, 2020 16:43


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A third language to write about Third Cinema

by Maja Korbecka

on February 25, 2020 16:38


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Brazil: dancing bodies

By Rachel Morais

on January 13, 2020 10:33


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Resistance as a commodity

By Adriano Garrett

on January 13, 2020 10:28


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Favela Manifest

By Taiani Mendes

on January 13, 2020 10:21


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By the side of the workers

by Raquel Morais

on December 16, 2019 18:37


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A Strange Friendship

By Taiani Mendes

on December 16, 2019 18:35


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Not anymore a beautiful, maidenlike, housewife

By Chissana Magalhães

on December 16, 2019 18:30


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Once upon a time halfway around the world: A review of Rwanda

by Kayode Faniyi

on August 6, 2019 15:53


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A Day (or so) in the Life of Rwanda’s Riccardo Salvetti

by Kayode Faniyi

on August 6, 2019 15:43


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Knuckle City review

by Jeoffrey Mukubi and Nkululeko Zilibokwe

on August 6, 2019 15:30


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Neon Prayers

By Armando Quesada Webb

on April 11, 2019 12:12


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Día de Muertos: A Foreign Vision of a Very Mexican Festival

By Denise Roldán

on April 11, 2019 11:58


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Does the Berlinale Have a Nollywood Problem?

By Wilfred Okiche

on February 19, 2019 14:29


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Call Me By My Body

By Poulomi Das

on February 19, 2019 14:27


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Disarming Manhood, Raising Men: Toxic Masculinities in MONOS and PIRANHAS

By Leonardo Goi

on February 19, 2019 14:26


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Filming the Objects of Memory

By Devika Girish

on February 19, 2019 14:24


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Doing It Ourselves: Possibilities of Alternative Media Circulation

By Andrea Guzmán

on February 19, 2019 14:18


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Alibis

By Victor Guimarães

on February 13, 2019 17:46


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Intimate Dialogues at Berlinale Talents

By Narjes Torchani

on February 13, 2019 17:45


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Confinements of Perspective

By Hugo Emmerzael

on February 13, 2019 17:42


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Muses of Disobedience

By Andrea Guzmán

on February 13, 2019 17:41


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Sympathy for Failure

By Victor Guimarães

on February 11, 2019 14:49


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The Unbearable Intimacy of Being

By Narjes Torchani

on February 11, 2019 14:45


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Pedro Lemebel, the Mare of the Apocalypse

By Andrea Guzmán

on February 11, 2019 14:41


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Exhuming the Past

By Hugo Emmerzael

on February 11, 2019 14:21


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The Role and Challenges of a Film Critic

By Narjes Torchani

on February 4, 2019 19:09


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Growing Old and Staying Hungry: a Chance-Meeting at an Industry Party

By Hugo Emmerzael

on February 4, 2019 19:06


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Notes from the In-Between: An Indian Critic in the States

By Devika Girish

on February 4, 2019 19:05


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The Highly Contagious Syndrome Called Cinephilia

By Leonardo Goi

on February 4, 2019 19:00


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DO STUFF AND GET MONEY FOR IT ALL THE TIME: TWO FILMS ON LABOR, FIFTY YEARS APART

Two films about automobile manufacturing at this year’s Berlinale track the emergence of neoliberalism past to present By Adina Glickstein

on March 4, 2020 11:29


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Letters from Berlin: Cow Theft and Video Games

Half way through the fest, Maja Korbecka and Jakob Åsell write to each other about some of the most intriguing films they’ve seen

By Maja Korbecka and Jakob Åsell

on February 27, 2020 13:37


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Letters from Berlin: A Revolutionary is a Doomed Man

Corresponding from the 70th Berlinale, Adina Glickstein and Rodrigo Garay reflect on Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther and Orphea By Adina Glickstein & Rodrigo Garay

on February 27, 2020 13:25


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Kelly Reichardt’s Secret Ingredient

Steering away from racial stereotypes, First Cow conjures a witty and affecting portrait of an unlikely friendship

By Sadia Khalid

on February 27, 2020 13:19


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Negotiating between propaganda and the private

Jia Zhangke’s latest offers a deep dive into personal memories within the tissue of state-sanctioned fiction.

By Maja Korbecka

on February 27, 2020 13:16


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Finding yourself – hair dye after hair dye

A kaleidoscopic collage of various video formats, Always Amber beats in synch with the restless hearts of its teenage protagonists.

By Jakob Åsell

on February 27, 2020 13:12


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Where Life Though Joyless Still is Calm

Expansive beyond its 90-minute runtime, Song Fang’s The Calming highlights the rarity of drawn-out depictions of feminine anhedonia

by Adina Glickstein

on February 25, 2020 17:18


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To Open, To Haunt, To Excavate

A haunting, multi-sensorial experience, Ouvertures questions the (f)utility of language to dissect history and colonial heritage

by Adina Glickstein

on February 25, 2020 17:04


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The Times They Are a-Changin’

by Sadia Khalid

on February 25, 2020 16:47


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The Incomparable Community of Film Criticism

by Debbie Zhou

on February 25, 2020 16:44


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Film Criticism as a Migratory Practice, or Why We Are All Immigrants

by Savina Petkova

on February 25, 2020 16:42


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Views from Somewhere

by Adina Glickstein

on February 25, 2020 16:33


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On the target of a 4K

By Bruno Galindo

on January 13, 2020 10:31


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The camera and the neo-liberal theocratic project in the old terra brasilis

By Lorenna Rocha

on January 13, 2020 10:24


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Undead Movie

by Adriano Garrett

on December 16, 2019 18:38


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Is this what a Latin-American woman deserves?

By Lorenna Rocha

on December 16, 2019 18:35


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Intervention and the bomb-movie

By Bruno Galindo

on December 16, 2019 18:33


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DIFF at 40: An interview with festival manager Chipo Zhou

by Nkululeko Zilibokwe

on August 6, 2019 15:55


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Roads to Olympia premieres at DIFF

by Kayode Faniyi

on August 6, 2019 15:50


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A Haunted Past review

by Jeoffrey Mukubi and Nkululeko Zilibokwe

on August 6, 2019 15:36


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Buñuel Making a Documentary?

By Denise Roldán

on April 11, 2019 12:13


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Welcome to Chile

By Denise Roldán

on April 11, 2019 12:10


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False Altruism

By Armando Quesada Webb

on April 11, 2019 11:55


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Of Alibis and Shields: Rhetorical Filmmaking and the Role of Criticism

By Victor Guimarães

on February 19, 2019 14:28


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The Rise and Fall of Intentions

By Narjes Torchani

on February 19, 2019 14:26


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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

By Hugo Emmerzael

on February 19, 2019 14:25


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Two Takes on THE PLAGIARISTS


on February 19, 2019 14:19


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Of Fathers and their Sons

By Wilfred Okiche

on February 13, 2019 17:46


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Vignettes of the Great Indian Romantic Hypocrisy

By Poulomi Das

on February 13, 2019 17:45


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Lord of the Flies Redux: Alejandro Landes’ MONOS

By Leonardo Goi

on February 13, 2019 17:44


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Phantoms of Cinema Past

By Devika Girish

on February 13, 2019 17:42


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Sex and the City: Tamer Jandali’s EASY LOVE

by Wilfred Okiche

on February 11, 2019 14:52


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Funeral for a Friendship

By Poulomi Das

on February 11, 2019 14:46


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Shooting the Mafia, Out of Focus

By Leonardo Goi

on February 11, 2019 14:42


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Detours in the Steppe

By Devika Girish

on February 11, 2019 14:36


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What Film Means to Me

By Wilfred Okiche

on February 4, 2019 19:09


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The Narrative Plurality of Indian Cinema

By Poulomi Das

on February 4, 2019 19:08


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Film Criticism in Times of Disaster

By Victor Guimarães

on February 4, 2019 19:05


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Healing Powers of Cinema: Brief Notes on the Trans-Andean Present

By Andrea Guzmán

on February 4, 2019 19:04


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