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Time to read, time to think

Griselda Soriano of the Talent Press Buenos Aires 2011 reports on a panel that raises some questions about the present and future of film criticism.
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on April 18, 2011 12:57


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The art of improvisation

Patricio Guzman explains in his masterclass why documentaries are like jazz, reports Patricia Kaiser of the Talent Press Buenos Aires 2011.
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on April 16, 2011 17:42


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First the movies, then life

Griselda Soriano of the Talent Press Buenos Aires 2011 finds Federico Veiroj's THE USEFUL LIFE, much like its cineastic protagonist, split right down the middle between cinema and real life.
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on April 15, 2011 21:30


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All the world's a stage

Matías Piñeiro's ROSALINDA engages in role-playing to find the fleeting moments, writes Sebastián Santillán of the Talent Press Buenos Aires 2011.
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on April 15, 2011 21:39


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Sing a Song from Home

Patricia Kaiser from the Talent Press Buenos Aires 2011 finds Alberto Fuguet's COUNTRY MUSIC to be a touching and brillantly acted city-road movie about a Chilean in Nashvill.
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on April 13, 2011 21:02


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What is cinema (today)?

Sebastián Santillán of the talent Press Buenos Aires 2011 sees new directions of film production and distribution discussed at the panel “New Forms: Beyond Cinema”.
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on April 13, 2011 13:54


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Beyond cinema

Sergio Zapata of the Talent Press Buenos Aires 2011 reports from a panel discussion about filmmaking in the era of new technologies and reproducibility.
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on April 9, 2011 11:32


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Forgiven by history

Pablo Larrain’s 2010 film POST MORTEM masterfully opens up a new approach of the Southern American nations to deal with their past, writes Jacqueline Venet of the 2011 Talent Press Guadalajara.
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Jaqueline Venet
on April 2, 2011 12:30


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Sketching creative freedom

Bill Plympton's IDIOTS AND ANGELS is a case study of both the benefits and the perils of individual artistic freedom, writes Ulisés Pérez Mancilla of the 2011 Talent Press Guadalajara
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on March 30, 2011 17:51


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The Nausea of the Anunciation

Jaqueline Venet of the 2011 Talent Press Guadalajara reviews Bill Plympton's animated feature film IDIOTS AND ANGELS.
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Jaqueline Venet
on March 29, 2011 11:17


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You and Me Against the World

The Berlinale Retrospective offers a chance to rediscover an early gem by Swedish maestro Ingmar Bergman - a review of IT RAINS ON OUR LOVE.
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Francis Joseph Cruz
on February 16, 2011 20:45


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Discursive Entertainment

A lack of subtlety and ambition prevents Berlinale Forum's STATE OF VIOLENCE from being more than just an entertaining revenge tale.
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Diego Faraone
on February 16, 2011 20:37


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Screenplays, Stories, Meanings

The "Dial F for Fiction" event discusses the scripts the participants of the Berlinale Talent Campus Script Station have worked on.
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on February 16, 2011 20:25


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Taste of Cinema

A road trip through Argentinian vineyards – Nicolás Carreras´ WAYS OF WINE – followed by an amazing dinner inspired by the film and cooked by chef Sonja Frühsammer: the perfect recipe to enjoy cinema.
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Pamela Pianezza
on February 16, 2011 20:07


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Estrangement in the Land of Magic

Can a Chinese educational and cautionary tale about AIDS reach the broader audience of the Berlinale Panorama?
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Eren Odabasi
on February 15, 2011 20:02


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Breaking Schemes

Documentary filmmakers Andres Veiel and Heddy Honigmann meet Talents for the “Too Good to Be True: Directing Reality” panel.
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Diego Faraone
on February 15, 2011 19:54


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One Man’s Terrorist Is Another Man’s Gay Porn Subject

THE TERRORISTS (Berlinale Forum) uses transgression as a way to unsettle its viewers and lure them in.
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Nicholas Deigman
on February 15, 2011 19:39


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Double bill of sex and art

Two films by Director Joe Swanberg are screening in the Berlinale Forum, and there's no shortage of controversy in both.
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Bethsheba Achitsa
on February 15, 2011 19:00


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The Actors and the Alchemist

A conversation with Beatrice Kruger, casting director for filmmakers such as Tom Tykwer and Anton Corbijn.
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Francis Joseph Cruz
on February 15, 2011 18:09


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Endless Power for the Artist

The great Harry Belafonte shares his thoughts on activism, art and the challenges for the next generation.
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Bethsheba Achitsa
on February 14, 2011 19:59


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Winter Is too Harsh for Flowers

German short film ICE FLOWERS is well executed, but suffers the shortcomings of its own ambition.
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Eren Odabasi
on February 14, 2011 19:31


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A Woman in this World of Men

Active in Berlin as the Jury President of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, actress Isabella Rossellini visited the Campus to discuss her craft and love of juries.
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Francis Joseph Cruz
on February 14, 2011 19:12


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Complicity, Victimhood, Violence

The controversial story of a man who became involved at a young age in the horrors of Pinochet's Chilean dictatorship: a documentary in the Berlinale Forum.
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Conall Cash
on February 14, 2011 18:53


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A bleak future for war films?

Three award-winning directors come together to discuss the status of a genre inextricably tied to the dangers of reality.
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Bethsheba Achitsa
on February 13, 2011 20:25


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Colorful Shadows

Animation expert Michel Ocelot visits the Berlinale with his unique 3D puppetry film TALES OF THE NIGHT.
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Francis Joseph Cruz
on February 13, 2011 19:22


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People-obsessed

Actress Kerry Fox joined the Campus panel “The Rules of Engagement” along with Swedish author and screenwriter Henning Mankell and 2008 Golden Bear winner José Padilha.
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Josefina García Pullés
on February 13, 2011 19:03


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Collision Matters

The limits of the world that SUICIDE ROOM aims to investigate end up being the limits of the film itself - a review of the Berlinale Panorama entry by director Jan Komasa.
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Josefina García Pullés
on February 12, 2011 20:15


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Can the Market Solve Africa’s Problems?

Director Ulrich Köhler tackles some long-standing issues in SLEEPING SICKNESS, shown in the Berlinale Competition.
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Bethsheba Achitsa
on February 12, 2011 19:56


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A (Puritan) Miracle

It's come a long way - from the viral campaign on Youtube to Berlin. The global documentary LIFE IN A DAY (Berlinale Panorama) comprises glimpses of existence of its many subjects: us.
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Diego Faraone
on February 12, 2011 19:37


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Boy Meets Girl

Who says networking must be boring or intimidating? Gifted girls meet talented boys in search of their professional soulmates - an odd yet enjoyable kick-off of the Berlinale Talent Campus 2011.
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Pamela Pianezza
on February 12, 2011 18:58


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Evolution of a Filipino Film Lover

I’m sure it did not happen deliberately, like a well-hatched plan from an expertly crafted heist film. And unlike dear Alexis Tioseco’s important pronouncements about film criticism, that it be fueled not by anything else but love, my almost accidental foray into film writing was borne out of frustration and a tinge of subtle rebellion.
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Francis Joseph Cruz
on February 1, 2011 14:03


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Waiting for the new Nouvelle Vague

Let’s get lost in film festivals. They are the best places to keep you awake and hold off the routine. To give you nausea, headaches, heart attacks, cold sweats and goose-flesh.
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Pamela Pianezza
on February 1, 2011 19:35


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Doing Film Criticism

Film criticism was never really something I decided to do, but it's something that I've always done. Criticism is an act, not a profession. You do it because the artwork requires it; and if the artwork doesn't require it, if there's nothing necessary for criticism to contribute to it, then you don't do it.
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Conall Cash
on February 1, 2011 13:43


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Cursed hobby

I was never interested in filmmaking. I find the shootings absolutely boring, and my real interest is the analysis, research and study of cinematographical phenomena.
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Diego Faraone
on February 1, 2011 18:59


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The Human Aspect

Mexican filmmaker David Pablos talks about his time at the Berlinale Talent Campus and his new film ONE FRONTIER, ALL FRONTIERS

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Aily Nash
on November 24, 2010 23:43


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Little Red Riding into the Unfamiliar

Talent Press alumna Erzsébet Plájás about the shooting of Eva Pervolovici's LITTLE RED, one of the five finalists of the Berlin Today Award, the short film competition of the Berlinale Talent Campus
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Erzsebet Plajas
on September 12, 2010 19:56


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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

We've seen one face of the industry - now it's time to look at the other reality of Philippine cinema, with a report from the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival.
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James Gabrillo
on August 3, 2010 18:39


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In memory of El Hadj Samba Sarr

One of the Talent Press writers shares memories of his friend, filmmaker and Talent Campus Alumnus El Hadj Samba Sarr.
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Espera Donouvossi
on June 10, 2010 13:02


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SHOOTING STAR

A big budget, the country’s biggest stars, and a Big Brother-like film studio. It’s a day in the life of the Philippines’ biggest commercial director filming her next big blockbuster.
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James Gabrillo
on May 17, 2010 11:43


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Death Is At the Center of Banality

The lasting impact of a 2004 sex tape involving New Delhi students serves as inspiration for Indian filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee, who reflects on voyeurism in the digital era with LOVE SEX AUR DHOKHA.

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Kartik Nair
on May 4, 2010 16:54


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Found Footage - Part I

The first part of a journey of discovery into the world of borrowed images - the act of collecting frames out of control can lead to interesting pieces of filmmaking. From Duchamp to WW2 propaganda by Frank Capra.

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Ezequiel Schmoller
on April 21, 2010 11:23


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The fall of the house of Wilson

Bolivian film SOUTH DISTRICT goes inside a family house to explore what's outside of it.

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Alan McLane
on March 29, 2010 17:34


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Good Herbs for the heart

Screened at the Guadalajara Film Festival, THE GOOD HERBS is the latest effort by director Maria Novaro, who takes Alzheimer's disease as a metaphor for the abandonment to which the healing power of herbs has been condemned by contemporary world.

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Lautaro Salgado
on March 23, 2010 20:15


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Professionalism and love at first sight

The founders of Canana Films discuss with the students of the Talent Campus the importance of good casting in film.

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Altagracia Lizardo Medina
on March 14, 2010 11:40


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All About His Father

Turkish director Hasan Semih Kaplanoglu in Competition at the Berlinale with HONEY, the final installment of his trilogy about a child and its difficulties in growing up.

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Loic Valceschini
on February 17, 2010 20:17


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In the Mood for Noodles

In only his second departure in eight years from the wuxia genre, Zhang Yimou's A WOMAN, A GUN AND A NOODLE SHOP is a retelling of an early Coens' classic.

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Loic Valceschini
on February 14, 2010 20:35


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Design Then and Now

Veteran production designer Sir Ken Adam looks back on his career and shares his views about the current state of his business.

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Tuba Parlak
on February 16, 2010 19:10


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In Full Circle

Restoration brings to life a piece of film history never seen outside of Germany ― NUREMBERG: ITS LESSON FOR TODAY. From 1948 to Berlinale Special.

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James Gabrillo
on February 17, 2010 18:43


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A Different Kind of Dogma

No matter how bad it gets, there's still hope in this latest effort from Dogma 95 co-founder Thomas Vinterberg that premiered at the Berlinale Competition.

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Aily Nash
on February 14, 2010 19:19


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Real-life Soap Opera

Heavily autobiographical account of a director's family quest, ALL MY FATHERS adds to the 2010 Berlinale trend of troubled parenthood.

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Aleksandar Radovanovic
on February 17, 2010 21:06


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Music will change the way you see the world

Griselda Soriano of the Talent Press Buenos Aires writes about Karin Idelson's experimental documentary LOVE SONG.
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on April 13, 2011 20:28


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Nobody is saying that cinemas will disappear

Daniela Espejo of the Talent Press Buenos Aires attended a panel on the the latest trend in viewing films - online movies.
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on April 9, 2011 11:50


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The Abolition of the Present

The Chilean documentary NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT by Patricio Guzman fuses a mesmerizing cinematographic discourse with the personal desire of an author to explore his nation's past, writes Ulises Perez Mancilla of the 2011 Talent Press Guadalajara.
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on April 2, 2011 12:05


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Prehistoric Interiors of the Chauvet Cave

Werner Herzog's CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS not only tells us about the prehistoric past but also about our complex and paradoxical point of view when dealing with our history, says Rubén Padrón Astorga of the Talent Press Guadalajara.
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on April 1, 2011 21:37


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How a an incomprehensible obsession becomes a debut film

Guillermo Gonzalez Montes' debut feature MUD FLOWER feels rather ill-conceived, writes Daniel Campos of the 2011 Talent Press Guadalajara.
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on March 30, 2011 17:47


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Redemptions of Cinematographic Literature

Rubén Padrón Astorga of the Talent Press Guadalajara reports from a three-hour workshop of screenwriting legend Guillermo Arriaga at the 2011 Talent Campus Guadalajara.
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on March 29, 2011 10:50


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Of Time, Space and Belonging

2009 Golden Bear-winning director Claudia Llosa talks about relating to her audience, cultural differences and controversial subjects.
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Eren Odabasi
on February 16, 2011 20:41


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Oh Mother, Mother! What Have You Done?

First-time director Ralph Fiennes makes some bold choices in this Shakespeare adaptation, and they don't always work - but Vanessa Redgrave saves the day.
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Josefina García Pullés
on February 16, 2011 20:32


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She Monkeys Riding High in Cinema World

Berlinale Generation 14plus' SHE MONKEYS deals with sex, power and gender issues.
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Bethsheba Achitsa
on February 16, 2011 20:17


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Queer International

John Greyson, filmmaker, academic and gay rights activist talks about the current state of queer cinema and its future prospectives.
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Nicholas Deigman
on February 16, 2011 20:02


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The Day Before the End

A look at JC Chandor’s Berlinale Competition film MARGIN CALL, a positive byproduct of the financial crisis.
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Pamela Pianezza
on February 15, 2011 20:01


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A Material World

A richly assembled team of filmmakers gets together to discuss the art of building narrative worlds.
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Josefina García Pullés
on February 15, 2011 19:46


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The Uses of 3D Cinema

A panel discussion with Wim Wenders and his team about PINA and the future of 3D filmmaking.
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Conall Cash
on February 15, 2011 19:12


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Animal Acting

Acting coach Jean-Louis Rodrigue believes actors should get back in touch with their primal nature, and explains how he helps them achieve this goal.
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Pamela Pianezza
on February 15, 2011 18:20


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Working in the Shadows

An interview with editor Andrew Bird, a mentor at the Campus Editing Studio who also edited the Berlinale Competition film THE FUTURE.
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Diego Faraone
on February 14, 2011 20:37


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Farewell Chen Kaige

SACRIFICE is a beautiful and labyrinthine classical drama - for unconditional aficionados of sword plays and twisty plots only.
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Pamela Pianezza
on February 14, 2011 19:37


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A Lively Introduction to an Unpopular Process

'Dura lex, sed lex': two experts brief Talents on the insidious legal aspects of filmmaking.
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Nicholas Deigman
on February 14, 2011 19:21


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Follow the Light

A look at the short films in the Berlinale Generation Kplus section.
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Josefina García Pullés
on February 14, 2011 19:00


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Rooted and Uprooted

A conversation with director Kyoko Miyake about her Berlin Today Award winning HACKNEY LULLABIES.
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Conall Cash
on February 13, 2011 19:26


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The Architect of No Man’s Land

From Berlinale Forum, HI-SO by Aditya Assarat frames the themes of alienation and identity with architectural rigour.
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Eren Odabasi
on February 13, 2011 19:47


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Amputated Resistance

One of the best filmmakers in the world should have been in Berlin as part of the International Jury. Instead, he has been silenced and shackled in his own country. A profile of Jafar Panahi.
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Diego Faraone
on February 13, 2011 19:13


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Dance! Dance! Otherwise we are lost

German maestro Wim Wenders experiments with 3D in his latest work PINA, a tribute to legendary choreographer Pina Bausch.
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Nicholas Deigman
on February 13, 2011 18:55


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A Bright Winter in Berlin for Emerging Filmmakers

The Berlinale Talent Campus 2011 is off to a great start - we zoom in on one of the participants to learn his story.
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Eren Odabasi
on February 12, 2011 20:06


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Divorcee Sex at the Click of a Button

From drama to comedy and back: Berlinale Forum’s E-LOVE mixes old tragedies and new remedies in a woman's journey to self-discovery.
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Nicholas Deigman
on February 12, 2011 19:49


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Family Lessons and a Familiar Message

Yasemin Samdereli's Berlinale Competition entry ALMANYA is a feel-good immigration tale.
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Conall Cash
on February 12, 2011 19:20


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A View From a Room

From the Berlinale Forum 2011, DAY IS DONE by director Thomas Imbach invites viewers to re-think their perspective of the mundane - there is certainly more than meets the eye here.
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on February 12, 2011 18:14


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Greetings from London

Ever since I was old enough to collect money – and propel myself by means other than bipedalism – I have been a passionate filmgoer. Those early years were filled with the sort of vacuous Hollywood tripe that I now rail against; but with age my passion grew and became more refined.
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Nicholas Deigman
on February 12, 2011 21:51


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Other Colours, Other Voices

Turkish cinema hides so many dilemmas and questions within that it is only natural film criticism turns into an act of reasoning here.
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on February 1, 2011 19:25


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The show is yet to begin for East African film critics

Film criticism is a conspicuously absent topic within the Kenyan film circles. With the exception of 2008 when the Goethe-Institut in Nairobi, Kenya, brought together participants to train them on film criticism, no other efforts have been in place.
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Bethsheba Achitsa
on February 1, 2011 12:55


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Life in a can

Cinema seizes life and dresses it up, making it happen in a delimited space and time. I’m obsessed with the halo of mystery that surrounds it.
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Josefina García Pullés
on February 1, 2011 19:48


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Road to the Oscars

With LA YUMA, a film that depicts the daily lives of Nicaraguans, French-born filmmaker Florence Jaugey leaves her mark on the cinema of Latin America.

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Altagracia Lizardo Medina
on November 24, 2010 23:24


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The Second Generation

Talent Press alumna Suchandrika Chakrabarti about the shooting of Kyoko Miyake's HACKNEY LULLABIES, one of the five finalists of the Berlin Today Award, the short film competition of the Berlinale Talent Campus
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on September 12, 2010 19:50


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Manipulating Emotions

The true story of a Nazi deportation in 1942 Paris strives for historical accuracy but fails to find a balance. Directed by Roselyne Bosch.
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on June 25, 2010 23:50


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A triangle of ambiguity

Shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008, Yin Lichuan's KNITTING finally got released in China in early 2010. Was it worth the wait?
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Alice Wang
on May 31, 2010 14:53


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Imaginarium of vacant dreams

Talent Press interviews Terry Gilliam after the release of THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS.
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Aaron Graham
on May 11, 2010 17:55


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Found Footage - Part II

Following our first descent into the world of found footage, we now look at further examples of how filmmakers can manipulate existing images to convey new meanings.
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Ezequiel Schmoller
on May 2, 2010 12:51


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A spiral of contained emotions

Alberto Rodriguez brings his last work AFTER to the Guadalajara Film Festival

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Altagracia Lizardo Medina
on April 3, 2010 15:23


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the bittersweet flavour of Latin American poverty

The director of TROPA DE ELITE turns to the documentary form with GARAPA, an intense account of the lives of three family in a region stricken by famine.

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Alan McLane
on March 26, 2010 12:10


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When the numbers call the shots

How does a screenwriter survive? What films do Hollywood studios look for? The power of original stories and the importance of creative freedom are discussed in the early days of the Talent Campus Guadalajara.

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Altagracia Lizardo Medina
on March 14, 2010 11:36


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Loving the small things

As one of the guests at the Campus in Guadalajara, screenwriter Barry Gifford met with the Talents and shared some insight on his work with David Lynch.

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Lautaro Salgado
on March 14, 2010 10:47


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Fences of the Mind

Shaking up the Berlinale Competition, Florin Şerban's IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE is a minimalist tale of brotherhood morphed into parenthood, with gaps in between.
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James Gabrillo
on February 13, 2010 18:01


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Scorsese-Lite

A Hollywood Maestro tries his hand at a psychological thriller, but his fourth partnership with DiCaprio might be the worst of them all.
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Kartik Nair
on February 13, 2010 20:11


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Yoji Yamada and His Family

The Berlinale Talent Campus series "In the Limelight" gives the Japanese director the chance to retrace the different steps of his career.

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Tuba Parlak
on February 17, 2010 20:07


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Blue Comedy

Stellan Skarsgård gives a wonderful physical performance in Hans Petter Moland's A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN, shown in Competition at the Berlinale.

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Erzsebet Plajas
on February 17, 2010 20:51


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Glimpses of Insight

"Directing Actors": a speech by Johanna ter Steege on the work of the performer and its relationship with the director.

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Aily Nash
on February 17, 2010 20:46


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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 thoase of its partners - FIPRESCI and the Goethe-Institut.

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