We Make Reality
The most asked question at any film festival is always: “What films have you seen so far?” It’s a reasonable question, and of course the movies we see are important. But at any festival — and especially one as rich and multifaceted as the Berlinale — our experiences are as much defined by what... (more)
Vagina Dentata
With TEETH, veteran character actor Mitchell Lichtenstein has become a filmmaker in his own right after acting in supporting roles for directors such as Robert Altman and Ang Lee. His film, a romantic... (more)
Film Industry Has to Be Reinvented
Recently filmmakers got an innovative and powerful tool to promote their pieces: Web 2.0. Susan Buice, Arin Crumley and Lance Weiler showed participants of the workshop “An Indie Filmmaker’s Guide to... (more)
Music and Cinema: a Never-Ending Love Affair
Even if some great filmmakers, such as the Dardenne brothers, choose to use no soundtrack at all in their films, music is still one of the most important things in cinema. A soundtrack can either save... (more)
Battle of the Sexes
Interviewing a dull starlet with nothing to say must be the worst nightmare of every sophisticated journalist. Conversely, being interviewed by a sarcastic and incurious journalist is what every... (more)
Somewhat Forgettable
Fiona and Grant have been married for forty years, living in their log cabin by the lake, skiing, making love and reading to each other by a log fire. It all seems quite perfect, until Fiona (Julie... (more)
Fighting Censorship in India
Rakesh Sharma is a leading Indian documentarist. His award-winning FINAL SOLUTION deals with the riots against Moslems that took place in Gujarat in 2002. He participated in this year’s Campus panel... (more)
The Last Moment of Withdrawal
Based on a novel by Rom Leshem, BEAUFORT (Israel) revives the events that took place before Israeli troops withdrew from Lebanon in 2000. It touches on a very sensitive subject — the controversial,... (more)
Surviving the Artifice
From the Argentine EL METODO to the Hollywoodian THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, passing through the French LE COUPERET, contemporary cinema seems to be getting more and more interested in business and the... (more)
On a Quest With the Filmmaker
Two years after riding pillion into the limelight with the iconic MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, Walter Salles returned to the Berlinale Talent Campus this week. The fifty-year-old director with boyish looks and... (more)
with Goethe Institut and FIPRESCI