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Jacob Elordi in Justin Kurzel’s ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ photo © Curio Pictures

New additions to Berlinale Special program include much anticipated title 'Mickey 17' and new Justin Kurzel series with Jacob Elordi

E. Nina Rothe January 16, 2025

There is goodness to be found in this year’s Berlinale Special program and it includes some eye candy, for yours truly.

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In Film, Film Festivals Tags Berlinale, Berlinale Special galas, Mickey 17, Robert Pattinson, Bong Joon Ho, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Justin Kurzel, Richard Flanagan, Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge, Simon Baker, Dylan Southern, The Thing with Feathers, Benedict Cumberbatch, Je n’avais que le néant - "Shoah" par Lanzmann, Guillaume Ribot, Claude Lanzmann, Shoah, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo, Islands, Jan-Ole Gerster, Sam Riley, Stacy Martin, Dylan Torrell, Spencer, Jack Farthing, Lars Eidinger, Das Licht, The Light, Tom Tykwer, Syria, Berlin, Yalla Parkour, Areeb Zuaiter
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'Why War' may be Amos Gitai's most important film to date and will screen at this year's Venice Film Festival

E. Nina Rothe July 24, 2024

For a man whose personal mission has been to “build bridges through cinema,” as he told La Repubblica newspaper in an interview just published this week, his latest film may prove the most important peace-making link yet.

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In Film, Features, Film Festivals Tags Amos Gitai, Why War, Israel, Palestine, Venice International Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, cinema, films, documentary, Shikun, Tel Aviv, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Kyoomars Musayyebi, Alexey Kochetkov, Louis Sclavis, Eric Gautier, Yuval Orr, Albert Einstein, Alberto Barbera, Sigmund Freud, Mathieu Amalric, Micha Lescot, Irène Jacob, Yael Abecassis, Keren Mor, J. Richard Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer, League of Nations, war
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A still from ‘Brief History of a Family’ by Jianjie Lin

Seven DFI supported films to screen at this year's Berlinale

E. Nina Rothe February 7, 2024

They include two projects ‘In Competition’, three in ‘Panorama’, one each in the ‘Encounters’ and ‘Generation’ sections.

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In Film, Film Festivals Tags Doha Film Institute, DFI, Doha, Qatar, Ajyal Film Festival, Qumra, Berlinale, Berlin, Fatma Hassan Alremaihi, Luck Razanajaona, Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story, Demba, Mamadou Dia, Nelson Makengo, Rising Up at Night, documentaries, feature narrative, Panorama, Encounters, Myriam El Hajj, Diaries from Lebanon, Lebanon, Senegal, Madagascar, Democratic Republic of Congo, Shambala, Nepal, Min Bahadur Bham, Who Do I Belong To, Meryam Joobeur, Brief History of a Family, Jianjie “JJ” Lin, Sundance
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Between Heaven and Earth

She put a spell on me: Najwa Najjar's bewitching 'Between Heaven and Earth'

E. Nina Rothe February 19, 2020

One of my favorite films in Berlin this year is not in Competition. Actually it’s not even in any of the sidebars. You’ll find Najwa Najjar’s stunning, heartwarming latest feature at the Berlinale’s European Film Market, with a screening on the 22nd of February, at 9.30 in the Simon Bolivar Saal.

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In Film, Film Festivals, review Tags Najwa Najjar, Between Heaven and Earth, Berlinale, European Film Market, Berlin, Palestine, Israel, Occupied Territories, women filmmakers, EFM, Souad Massi, Yuma, Natasha Atlas, Orange Blossom, Tania Saleh, Gazal, Arab cinema, Arab women's cinema, Mouna Hawa, Firas Nassar, Eyes of a Thief, Tot Ard, al Raseef
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PHOTO BY LORENZO PIERMATTEITrine Dyrholm in Susanna Nicchiarelli’s ‘Nico 1988’

PHOTO BY LORENZO PIERMATTEI

Trine Dyrholm in Susanna Nicchiarelli’s ‘Nico 1988’

Talking ‘Nico 1988’ with Susanna Nicchiarelli and Trine Dyrholm

E. Nina Rothe April 25, 2018

From a haunting first image of Christa Päffgen portrayed as a child watching Berlin burn in the distance with her mother at the end of the Second World War, to the core of her film ‘Nico 1988’ which concentrates on the last three years of the rockstar’s life, filmmaker Susanna Nicchiarelli keeps us, her audience, spellbound. ‘Nico 1988’ opened the Orizzonti section of this year’s Venice Film Festival and for me, the event started then and there, with this touching, moving, electrifying yet perfectly human masterpiece.

The life of Nico went from teenage model to Velvet Underground singer and Andy Warhol muse, to, as the artist himself famously stated, becoming “a fat junkie” and disappearing — all in the blink of an eye. Yet when the world wanted her to go away, as they do with pretty women once they turn, eh hum... older, say thirty, Nico found her second wind. She dyed her hair, started wearing head to toe black and became the original mistress of darkness, crooning songs about her existence that still send shivers down every woman’s spine, they are so true to life!

The film screens the weekend of April 26th in NYC, as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. Book tickets on the TFF website. 

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In Film, Interviews Tags Susanna Nicchiarelli, Trine Dyrholm, Nico 1988, Tribeca Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Christa Päffgen, Berlin, Velvet Underground, model, Andy Warhol, Factory girl
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