Yesterday was a quite busy day for cineasts and cinephiles in Berlin, with 4 new competition feature films getting their world premieres. Still, it somehow felt like it wasn’t a nurture full selection, at least when it comes to the “big names”. Rithy Panh with his latest film Everything Will Be OK came to a point of the essay […]
The 72nd edition of Berlinale truly feels empty. As the second day of the festival is behind us, it becomes obvious how much we all miss and need the full scope of festivals we had pre-covid. Sure, the Berlinale team managed to create a “COVID save” event that works and doesn’t drain the energy or […]
The 72nd edition of the Berlin International Film Festival opened last night at Berlinale Palast with François Ozon’s latest feature film Peter von Kant (in Competition for the Bear Awards). Besides Ozon and his crew, at the opening gala, last night many international film industry names such as Asia Argento, Dario Argento, Emily Atef, Iris Berben, Jonathan Berlin, […]
After great interest in our previous film list, which focused on 5 essential films from South-Eastern Europe in the common Slavic language, in the past two decades, this time we decided to dive deeper and bring closer five more essential films of the Yugoslav region. This time we are focused on films that, in addition […]
South-Eastern Europe of the common Slavic language, every few years brings several films that are very highly acclaimed at international film festivals such as Berlinale, Cannes, Venice. Quite a nice amount of them also gets shortlisted for nominations of prestigious European, British, American film awards. Yet in a series of great films, it is difficult […]
The Brothers Karamazov theatre play directed by Oliver Frljić had its premiere this weekend (February 26 and February 27) at the ZKM (Zagreb Youth Theater). Made as a diptych, performed in a period of two nights, it is a generous adaptation arranged in such a way as to follow the two classes that Dostoevsky depicts in his […]
What if one of the most popular cultural magazines in the world, The New Yorker, was based in France? Also, what if, it was still the late 60’s or early 70’s and the magazine has just lost their quirky good-hearted founder/ editor that kept it going? They would, of course, do one last issue, with […]
There is a certain point where the film market gets oversaturated with one theme or film approach after which the topic just dies out. It seems as biopic films had their peak, with Trumbo and ever since they were blooming and raising to spectacular, glorious representations of everyone and everything, from queer figures of the world (The Danish […]
A noisy child is playful in the back seat of the vehicle. The kid just can’t keep it still. She imitates the sounds of the roaring engine. She drives the car with her feet, mouth, her full body. She is her driver in the backseat. In the front seat, her father is trying to watch […]
The voice announcing the “show” tells the audience that singing, clapping, laughing or farting, should be done, only in one’s head. A moment of silence, and then, the voice adds that also “Breathing will not be tolerated during the show”. Opening moments of Annette, the latest feature film by Leos Carax, that opened 74th edition […]