Uncomfortably at Home: German Films at the 64th Berlinale Jaimey Fisher March 2014 Festival Reports In the press conference for Stereo, one of the Berlin Film Festival’s German films, the cast was asked why their film had already sold out its large, Zoo-Palast premiere whereas George Clooney’s The Monuments M...
Finding the Centre: The 64th Berlinale Philip Cartelli March 2014 Festival Reports Hito Steyerl’s 1998 film The Empty Centre follows the transformation of downtown Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz from a no-man’s land, once split in half by the Berlin Wall, to a central European Times Square, thick w...
Urban Modernity and Fluctuating Time: “Catching the Tempo” of the 1920s City Symphony Films Sarah Jilani September 2013 Feature Articles Writing in 1926, Virginia Woolf expressed a certain suspicion that, if anywhere, "the past could be unrolled, distances annihilated in the chaos of the streets", (1) as represented via the new medium of film. ...
Berlin: A Winter’s Tale: The 65th Berlin International Film Festival Daniel Fairfax March 2013 Festival Reports It was in the sad month of February, When the days had become dreary, And when the wind whipped at the trees, That I made my way to Germany. And when I to the border came, I felt a mighty hammering In my...
“The three of us traveled the whole path together. Now that is Utopia.”: The 7th Berlinale Talent Campus Kate Matthews July 2009 Festival Reports 7–12 February 2009 On a wintery Sunday morning, in the hundred-year old HAU1 theatre in Berlin, British screenwriter Sir David Hare is in conversation with Brazilian writer/director Daniela Thomas (Foreign L...
Insecure Times, Confident Localities: German Films at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival Mattias Frey April 2009 Festival Reports 5-15 February 2009 As if out of spite, just as banks fail and states teeter towards insolvency, German cinema could not be better. In a year of crisis, the Berlin International Film Festival booked...