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Filmmaker Mani Haghigi and Berlinale Director Dieter KosslickPhoto courtesy of Berlinale

Filmmaker Mani Haghigi and Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick

Photo courtesy of Berlinale

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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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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COURTESY OF THE LOCARNO FILM FESTIVALA still from Rana Eid’s ‘Panoptic’

COURTESY OF THE LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL

A still from Rana Eid’s ‘Panoptic’

The Locarno Film Festival Diaries: ‘Panoptic’, Cinematic Heroes and Dinner with a Diplomatic Legend

E. Nina Rothe February 5, 2018

It is not often that a film journalist like me gets to experience the stuff hard core news are made of in first person, up close. I mean, I’ve been privy to some great cinematic history in the making and yes, I lived in NYC at the time of the attacks of 9/11 so I watched unmentionable horror unfolding before my very eyes, but in Locarno I feel part of another narrative that will affect the world as we know it. 

I’m talking about the sudden decision by UN war crimes Special Prosecutor Carla del Ponte to quit her post, because she feels that Syria is now “a land without future”. Appointed to a three-member panel set up in August 2011 by the Human Rights Council to monitor the al-Assad regime and the unfolding civil war in Syria remotely, del Ponte represented the one slight hope for justice and yet today, that hope seems gone. Having previously sat on tribunals that investigated atrocities in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, del Ponte is most famous for putting Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević on trial at The Hague. And for having stood up to Sicily’s La Cosa Nostra and won, by simply walking away with her life. Now that’s a hero of a woman right there!

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Tags Todd Haynes, Wonderstruck, Villa Orselina, Locarno, Locarno Film Festival, The Song of Scorprions, Michel Merkt, Toni Erdmann, Yousry Nasrallah, Egyptian cinema, cinema, film, Panoptic, Rana Eid, Lebanon, Carlo Chatrian, Carla del Ponte, Human Rights Council, UN War Prosecutor
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