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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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Lessons learned from cinema and beyond: a wrap-up of the Rome Film Festival

E. Nina Rothe November 7, 2019

There were films, fashion and public conversations with cinema celebrities. But beyond the red carpets, this year's Festa del cinema di Roma proved a meeting point for understanding the world around us, and sharing thoughts with like-minded people from faraway lands. Here is my personal diary of a wonderful event held in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

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In Cinema, Festival, Fashion, The Diaries Tags John Travolta, Festa del cinema di Roma, Rome Film Festival, Roma, Greta Garbo, Martin Scorsese, Nicolas Bedos, Ron Howard, Edward Norton, Motherless Brooklyn, Bill Murray, Wes Anderson, Antonio Monda, Bret Easton Ellis, White, 1982, Oualid Mouaness, Qumra, Doha Film Institute, Arab cinema, Netflix, The Irishman, Filmuforia, The Best Is yet to come, Olivier Assayas, Getty images, Judy, Swarovksi, Laura Biagiotti, Ralph Lauren, Maria Tilli, Very Ralph, Viola Davis, Meryl Streep
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The Venice Diaries: Creativity decoded by Schnabel's 'At Eternity's Gate', Assayas' 'Non-Fiction' and 'Why Are We Creative?'

E. Nina Rothe September 4, 2018

The first ever Venice Film Festival was held in 1932, from the 6th to the 21st of August and it opened with 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' -- the Fredric March version. March went on to win favorite actor and since there were no official prizes, he was picked by the audience.

In that magical moment, during the first edition of the first ever world film festival our own profession -- film criticism and film writing -- was also born. There hadn't been a true need for it before, think about it.

When I come to Venice, I realize this is where it all comes from, and despite some problematic years in our history, we should remember the heritage of the Venice Film Festival. All journalists should take a moment and think about that when they first set foot on the Lido. Without Venice, we probably wouldn't be here. They started it. All.

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In Cinema, Festival, The Diaries Tags Venice 75, Venice, Venice Film Festival, Venice Days, La Biennale di Venezia, Why Are We Creative?, Hermann Vaske, Quentin Tarantino, Yoko Ono, Dalai Lama, David Bowie, Vivienne Westwood, Stephen Hawking, Giornate degli Autori, Arafat, Shimon Perez, Willem Dafoe, Doubles Vies, Non-Fiction, Olivier Assayas, Juliette Binoche, Guillaume Canet, Personal Shopper, Vincent Macaigne, Nora Hamzawi, creativity, favorites, At Eternity's Gate, Julian Schnabel, Vincent Van Gogh, Rupert Friend, Mads Mikkelson, Emmanuelle Seigner, Miral, Basquiat, Before Night Falls, Competition
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COURTESY OF THE LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL

COURTESY OF THE LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL

The Locarno Film Festival Diaries: The Prizes, the Takeaways and ‘Till We Meet Again, Locarno

E. Nina Rothe February 5, 2018

A film festival is of course only as great as the sum of its parts, and one very important, visual and ever-present part of the well-loved and hyper-attended festival that is Locarno is represented in the figure of its Artistic Director, Carlo Chatrian. A film journalist, writer, film programmer and now as the visionary head of the festival, Chatrian has been a part of Locarno Festival since 2002, inheriting his latest role in 2013. Those attending, as well as those following the event on social media and through their informative, interactive website, will notice his infectious enthusiasm. When I caught up with him on the next to last day of the festival, after he greeted the delegations of the day’s films during lunch — an activity he calls “a pleasure, after spending so much time in the dark watching films, to see these films come to light, and meet those who have done that work” — and then did a lively TV interview, he still had energy to spare. I, on the other hand, was exhausted by then.

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In Cinema, The Diaries Tags Locarno Film Festival, Marco Solari, Irrfan Khan, Adrien Brody, Nastassja Kinski, Fanny Ardant, Golshifteh Farahani, Lucky, Harry Dean Stanton, Oscar Contenders, Piazza Grande, Kursaal, Jacques Tourneur, Ana Urushadze, Carlo Chatrian, Pardo d'Oro, Miguel Gomes, Wang Bing, Madame Hyde, Isabelle Huppert, Mrs. Fang, Elliott Crosset Hove, Winter Brothers, Yousry Nasrallah, Three Quarters, Scary Mother, Rok Bicek, The Family, Olivier Assayas, Netflix, Locarno Stepin, Michel Merkt, Open Doors, Nadia Dresti, Richard Lormand, Sophie Bourdon
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A still from Rok Biček’s ‘The Family’

A still from Rok Biček’s ‘The Family’

The Locarno Film Festival Diaries: ‘The Family’, Struggles of ‘The Poetess’ and ‘A Letter to the President’

E. Nina Rothe February 5, 2018

Away from the main competition films featured in the Locarno Film Festival are two important sidebar sections which are filled with works of art worthy of the numerous audiences who attend their screenings. La Semaine de la Critique, Critics’ Week, and the Open Doors programs offer each and separately a fresh insight into modern groundbreaking filmmakers who will be the future maestros of our times. With Open Doors that even goes beyond the films we are watching on the big screen now, but bear with me before I get to that.

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In Cinema, The Diaries Tags cinema, Locarno Film Festival, The Family, The Poetess, La Semaine de la Critique, Open Doors program, Locarno Critics' Week, Rok Bicek, Olivier Assayas, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Nadia Dresti, Druzina, Slovenia, Yulia Roschina, Stefanie Brockhaus, Andreas Wolff, Saudi Arabia, Hissa Hilal, Arab poetry, Middle East, Fatwas, A Letter to the President, Roya Sadat
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