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Mariëtte Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian announcing this year’s Competition & Encounters line up on Monday

All the latest Berlinale titles added to Competition and Encounters

E. Nina Rothe January 24, 2024

While many of us may be concentrating on the awards announcements, the Berlin Film Festival reminds us where it all starts from, and why these worldwide events are so important. Dare I say, more than the awards…

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In Cinema, Festival, The Diaries Tags Berlinale, Berlin Film Festival, Germany, Middle East, Mariëtte Rissenbeek, Carlo Chatrian, Golden Bear, Silver Bear, Meryam Joobeur, Who Do I Belong To, Tunisia, Qu, Qumra, Doha Film Institute, Nadim Cheikhrouha, Sarra Ben Hassen, Kaouther Ben Hania, Another End, Piero Messina, Gael Garcia Bernal, Berenice Bejo, Black Tea, Abderrahmane Sissako, La Cocina, Rooney Mara, Oded Fehr, Dahomey, Mati Diop, Hors du Temps, Olivier Assayas, Bruno Dumont, L'Empire, Lyna Khoudri, Yasmine Al Massri, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, The Stranger's Case, Omar Sy, Brandt Andersen, Aleppo, Riho Kudo, Chime, August my Heaven
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Filmmaker Mani Haghigi and Berlinale Director Dieter KosslickPhoto courtesy of Berlinale

Filmmaker Mani Haghigi and Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick

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The Berlinale Diaries: 'The Interpreter', the phenomenal Beki Probst and enlightenment from Mani Haghighi

E. Nina Rothe February 23, 2018

Thankfully, at this year's Berlinale, there are a couple of films in Competition which go against everything that a "competition film" should be. Whatever that definition is. I applaud the festival organizers for having had the courage to show them, and their continued support of indie voices.

One such film is Mani Haghigi's 'Pig' ('Khook') a wild colorful, humorous, dark and fresh ride through the Iranian film industry. Now wild and colorful, with women protagonists who run the show is hardly a definition one would typically associate with Iranian cinema and yet Haghigi manages it all.

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In The Diaries, Cinema, Festival Tags Berlinale, Berlin Film Festival, Berlin, Berlinale Camera, Beki Probst, The Interpreter, Mani Haghighi, Khook, Pig, independent cinema, competition, Payman Maadi, Rakshan Bani-Etemad, Iranian cinema, A Separation, Leila Hatami, women, Locarno, Jiří Menzel, Peter Simonischek, Martin Šulík, Toni Erdmann
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Lav Diaz at the press conference for 'Season of the Devil' held during the 68th BerlinalePhoto courtesy of the Berlinale

Lav Diaz at the press conference for 'Season of the Devil' held during the 68th Berlinale

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The Berlinale Diaries: Eric Khoo's 'Ramen Teh', Lav Diaz is my hero and the 'Pig' that's conquering Berlinale

E. Nina Rothe February 22, 2018

When I sat with the maestro Lav Diaz for our interview for his Competition film 'Season of the Devil', he pointed to the film critics, the journalists who write about cinema, as an integral part of the filmmaking process. And I agree wholeheartedly with the genius that is Diaz, a man who, in this age of everything fast and immediate, still makes films that lull us into watching them for four and a half hours! He teaches us how to watch his cinema, and I believe as film writers, we hold a responsibility to teach audiences to find those films. 

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In Cinema, Festival, The Diaries Tags Lav Diaz, Ramen Teh, Eric Khoo, Pig, Khook, Berlinale, Berlin, Berlin Film Festival, Season of the Devil, Golden Bear Lounge by Glashutte, Glashutte, film critics, film writers, film journalists, Hollywood, Independent cinema, celebrities, Cinema Paradiso, Leila Hatami, Hasan Majuni, Mani Haghighi, Social Media, Takumi Saitoh, Seiko Matsuda, Zhao Wei Films, Wild Orange Artists, food, Culinary Cinema, Iranian cinema, Umberto Eco, Twitter, Facebook, Social media, Ramen noodles, Japanese films, Singapore, Japan
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A still featuring Noel Sto. Domingo from Lav Diaz' 'Season of the Devil'Photo © Giovanni D. Onofrio

A still featuring Noel Sto. Domingo from Lav Diaz' 'Season of the Devil'

Photo © Giovanni D. Onofrio

The Berlinale Diaries: Hulu's 'The Looming Tower' and a Lav Diaz virgin no more!

E. Nina Rothe February 21, 2018

The 21st century version of the all-American question "where were you when JFK was assassinated?" is "what were you doing when the planes hit the World Trade Center?"

Some of us watched the towers disintegrate before our very eyes, our landscape changed forever, and it's a vision, a feeling we will carry inside our hearts for as long as we live. The smell throughout downtown Manhattan, the lines of demarcation -- complete with checkpoints -- between the northern and southern parts of the city but also the newfound sense of camaraderie we bestowed upon each other to merely get from day to day, is also what I remember from those days.

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In Cinema, Festival, The Diaries Tags Hulu, Berlinale, Berlin, Berlin Film Festival, The Looming Tower, Lav Diaz, Season of the Devil, Filipino cinema, Philippines, opera, Black and White, Ali Suliman, Tawfeek Barhom, Samer Bisharat, Omar, Martin Schmidt, Ali Soufan, Alex Gibney, Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Peter Sarsgaard, 9/11, September 11th, East Africa, Middle East, Dan Futterman, Lawrence Wright, Manhattan, NYC, World Trade Center tragedy
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Milán Csordás in a still from 'Genesis'Photo © Genesis Production

Milán Csordás in a still from 'Genesis'

Photo © Genesis Production

The Berlinale Diaries: Face to Face with German Films and 'Genesis' by Árpád Bogdán

E. Nina Rothe February 20, 2018

There are several films this year at the Berlinale that explore the theme of family. Or rather, set out to redefine it. In 'Daughter of Mine', Laura Bispuri asks, cinematically, just who our mother is -- the woman who physically brings us into this world, or the person who rears us? For most of us they are both within one person, but in rare cases, it's not. 

Also present during this 68th edition of the Berlin Film Festival is a sub current of childhood, attempting to view this chaotic, pretty damn ugly world of ours at the moment through a child's eye view. Wes Anderson kicked that off in style with the opening film 'Isle of Dogs' and now I keep finding myself looking at what I watch from his "I don't want to grow up" POV.

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In Cinema, Festival, The Diaries Tags Berlinale, Face to Face with German Films, Genesis, Burhan Qurbani, Milán Csordás, Daughter of Mine, Laura Bispuri, Berlin, Berlin Film Festival, cinema, films, Vogue Italia, Emanuele Farneti, Árpád Bogdán, Anna Marie Cseh, Toni Erdmann, Valeska Grisebach, David Wnendt, Lars Krause, 3 Days in Quiberon, Emily Atef, Anca Miruna Lazarescu, Wetlands, Shahada, women, women filmmakers
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Valeria Golino and Alba Rohrwacher in Laura Bispuri's 'Daughter of Mine'© Vivo film / Colorado Film / Match Factory Productions / Bord Cadre Films

Valeria Golino and Alba Rohrwacher in Laura Bispuri's 'Daughter of Mine'

© Vivo film / Colorado Film / Match Factory Productions / Bord Cadre Films

The Berlinale Diaries: Elia Suleiman talks Qumra plus Laura Bispuri's 'Daughter of Mine'

E. Nina Rothe February 19, 2018

From the fabulous women of 'Daughter of Mine' to a wondrous man, my early Sunday morning at Berlinale was spent in the company of Elia Suleiman, the Palestinian filmmaker extraordinaire and Artistic Advisor of the Doha Film Institute. 

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In Cinema, Festival, The Diaries Tags Doha Film Institute, Qumra, Daughter of Mine, Figlia Mia, Valeria Golino, Alba Rohrwacher, Laura Bispuri, Berlinale, Berlin, Berlin Film Festival, Hanna Issa, Elia Suleiman, Mohamed Ben Attia, Palestine, Amal Al-Muftah, Sh'hab, Basil Khalil, Ave Maria, Dora Bouchoucha, Weldi, Gianfranco Rosi, Cannes, Oscars, Sandy Powell, Bennett Miller, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Sara Casu, Italian cinema, Arab cinema, Qatar, Doha
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Courtesy of the Berlinale

The Berlinale Diaries: The #MeToo movement and should the carpet really have been black?

E. Nina Rothe February 16, 2018

This year, at Berlinale, the annual film festival held in Berlin, there is media chatter of a red carpet that should have been black in honor of the #MeToo movement. In my country a black carpet means someone died so I wonder, do we want to open a film festival, a festive event by definition, with a gloom and doom parade of stars on a drab black piece of carpeting? Isn't it enough that we woke up on its inauguration day to the news of yet one more totally avoidable shooting in the US?

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In The Diaries, Festival Tags MeToo, Berlinale, Berlin Film Festival, Berlin, gun violence, black carpet, red carpet, Liev Schreiber, Isle of Dogs, Instagram, US gun laws, NRA, Stefan Sagmeister, Ted Talks, The Power of Time Off, HuffPost, cinema, film, bloggers, No to Discrimination!
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