Anders Wotzke

articles by Anders Wotzke

Reaching Critical Mass

Berlinale Talent Press, February 11, 2012

Reaching Critical Mass We're lucky enough to be writing about a medium that billions enjoy watching, so what's stopping us from developing it into a medium that billions enjoy discussing? Before I could even spell the word “critic“, I was one. Just ask my mother who, upon returning home ...

Poor d'Or

Berlinale Talent Press, February 11, 2012

Poor d'Or THE WOMAN IN THE SEPTIC TANK satirises both the Filipino film industry and the film festival culture - but is there more than just a laugh to this Berlinale Forum entry? In a Filipino slum, a desperate mother fights back tears as she chaperones her daughter to the doorstep of a ...

Don’t Mention the Lunar War

Berlinale Talent Press, February 12, 2012

Don't Mention the Lunar War Nazis in space? IRON SKY from Berlinale Panorama imagines an alternative 2018 in which the Reich has beaten everyone to the Moon. But are these jokes from the future already outdated? Pink Floyd called it: there's something on the dark side of the moon, and it ...

Dancer in a Dark Editing Suite

Berlinale Talent Press, February 13, 2012

Dancer in a Dark Editing Suite An interview with Lars von Trier's editor Molly Malene Stensgaard, visiting the Berlinale Talent Campus for the panel "Directing Scripts, Editing Stories". Outspoken Danish director Lars von Trier could use the editing finesse of Molly Malene Stensgaard dur ...

The Iron Closet

Berlinale Talent Press, February 14, 2012

The Iron Closet In Berlinale Panorama, the documentary AMONG MEN collects memories from the gay community of East Germany, from a time in which walls public and private were still standing. On the night of November 9, 1989, the ground-breaking gay film COMING OUT was set to premiere to a ...

The Book of Leigh

Berlinale Talent Press, February 15, 2012

The Book of Leigh Berlinale Jury president Mike Leigh speaks to the Talents about his working process. The Mike Leigh method of filmmaking is a bit like the bible: collaboratively constructed, religiously studied and often woefully, disastrously misconstrued. Thankfully, however, Leigh s ...

Talent Press, a hands-on training of the Berlinale Talent Campus in collaboration with FIPRESCI and the Goethe-Institut, is a platform for young film critics and journalists from around the world to acquaint themselves with current trends in world cinema. Selected by an international jury, they are invited to Berlin to review films of the festival and report on events of the Berlinale Talent Campus. Under the tutelage of prominent film critics they share their impressions and insights through their daily articles for the Berlinale Talent Campus website and those of its partners – FIPRESCI and the Goethe-Institut.