Film

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. More...

on April 15, 2011 21:39

Film

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. More...

on April 13, 2011 21:02

Film

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. More...

Jaqueline Venet
on April 2, 2011 12:30

Film

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. More...

Rubén Padrón Astorga
on April 1, 2011 21:37

Film

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. More...

on March 30, 2011 17:47

Film

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. More...

Francis Joseph Cruz
on February 16, 2011 20:45

Film

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. More...

Josefina García Pullés
on February 16, 2011 20:32

Film

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. More...

Pamela Pianezza
on February 16, 2011 20:07

Film

The Day Before the End

A look at JC Chandor’s Berlinale Competition film MARGIN CALL, a positive byproduct of the financial crisis. More...

Pamela Pianezza
on February 15, 2011 20:01

Film

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. More...

Bethsheba Achitsa
on February 15, 2011 19:00

Film

Winter Is too Harsh for Flowers

German short film ICE FLOWERS is well executed, but suffers the shortcomings of its own ambition. More...

Eren Odabasi
on February 14, 2011 19:31

Film

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. More...

Conall Cash
on February 14, 2011 18:53

Film

Colorful Shadows

Animation expert Michel Ocelot visits the Berlinale with his unique 3D puppetry film TALES OF THE NIGHT. More...

Francis Joseph Cruz
on February 13, 2011 19:22

Film

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. More...

Nicholas Deigman
on February 13, 2011 18:55

Film

Can the Market Solve Africa’s Problems?

Director Ulrich Köhler tackles some long-standing issues in SLEEPING SICKNESS, shown in the Berlinale Competition. More...

Bethsheba Achitsa
on February 12, 2011 19:56

Film

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. More...

on April 15, 2011 21:30

Film

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. More...

on April 13, 2011 20:28

Film

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. More...

on April 2, 2011 12:05

Film

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 More...

on March 30, 2011 17:51

Film

The Nausea of the Anunciation

Jaqueline Venet of the 2011 Talent Press Guadalajara reviews Bill Plympton's animated feature film IDIOTS AND ANGELS. More...

Jaqueline Venet
on March 29, 2011 11:17

Film

Discursive Entertainment

A lack of subtlety and ambition prevents Berlinale Forum's STATE OF VIOLENCE from being more than just an entertaining revenge tale. More...

Diego Faraone
on February 16, 2011 20:37

Film

She Monkeys Riding High in Cinema World

Berlinale Generation 14plus' SHE MONKEYS deals with sex, power and gender issues. More...

Bethsheba Achitsa
on February 16, 2011 20:17

Film

Estrangement in the Land of Magic

Can a Chinese educational and cautionary tale about AIDS reach the broader audience of the Berlinale Panorama? More...

Eren Odabasi
on February 15, 2011 20:02

Film

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. More...

Nicholas Deigman
on February 15, 2011 19:39

Film

Farewell Chen Kaige

SACRIFICE is a beautiful and labyrinthine classical drama - for unconditional aficionados of sword plays and twisty plots only. More...

Pamela Pianezza
on February 14, 2011 19:37

Film

Follow the Light

A look at the short films in the Berlinale Generation Kplus section. More...

Josefina García Pullés
on February 14, 2011 19:00

Film

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. More...

Eren Odabasi
on February 13, 2011 19:47

Film

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. More...

Diego Faraone
on February 13, 2011 19:13

Film

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. More...

Josefina García Pullés
on February 12, 2011 20:15

Film

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. More...

Nicholas Deigman
on February 12, 2011 19:49

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

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