Makbul Mubarak

articles by Makbul Mubarak

Walls and Binoculars: Cinema of My Surroundings

Berlinale Talent Press, February 11, 2012

Walls and Binoculars: Cinema of My Surroundings There are many potential films made in Indonesia, but there is no one there to write about them and to later capture and place them into some frame in our history. This is where I wish I could do my task. Indonesia is a country with endless ...

Chicks with Their Father’s Mustaches

Berlinale Talent Press, February 11, 2012

Chicks with Their Father's Mustaches With her documentary MAN FOR A DAY, Katarina Peters playfully puts to practice the theoretical complexity of gender-studies issues. “A nurture it is, not a nature”, says Diane Tor, the main character of the documentary MAN FOR A DAY (KATARINA PETERS, ...

Unworldly Spain Amidst Its Worldly Crisis

Berlinale Talent Press, February 13, 2012

Unworldly Spain Amidst Its Worldly Crisis The rural landscape of southern Spain, the shadow of the international crisis, a secret love story and a group of knights travelling in a car: Cristina Diz's SLEEPLESS KNIGHTS from the Berlinale Forum. Try to fold all the stories in Stephen Frear ...

Cinema Equals Respect Toward Life

Berlinale Talent Press, February 13, 2012

Cinema Equals Respect Toward Life Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien is "In the Limelight" at the Berlinale Talent Campus. For more than three decades, Hou Hsiao-Hsien's films have been flooding our vision with images, captured and fractured, that come mostly from his experience of Taiwa ...

Improvising Upon Historical Accuracy

Berlinale Talent Press, February 14, 2012

Improvising Upon Historical Accuracy An interview with pluri-decorated costume designer Sandy Powell, who returns to Berlin as a Campus expert after her participation in the Berlinale Jury last year. Costume designer Sandy Powell, a member of the Berlinale jury in 2011, has returned to B ...

The Zoo and the Society

Berlinale Talent Press, February 15, 2012

The Zoo and the Society Talent Campus alumnus Edwin returns to Berlin with his second feature POSTCARDS FROM THE ZOO, showing in the Berlinale Competition. There are two worlds in Edwin's second feature, POSTCARDS FROM THE ZOO (Indonesia), showing at the Berlinale in competition: the zoo ...

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.