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Ola Salwa


346 articles available in total starting from 21/03/2017. Last article published on 13/08/2025.

Review: Treasure

Review: Treasure

BERLINALE 2024: Julia von Heinz’s post-Holocaust story, set in early-1990s Poland, is a noble yet botched attempt at a family tragicomedy  

27/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Berlinale Special

Review: Rising Up at Night

Review: Rising Up at Night

BERLINALE 2024: The new offering from Nelson Makengo attempts to convey what it’s like to live in a constantly dark and flooded Kinshasa  

26/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Review: Diaries from Lebanon

Review: Diaries from Lebanon

BERLINALE 2024: The efforts to live a relatively normal life amidst the unstable realities of Lebanon are at the heart of the socially engaged documentary by Myriam El Hajj  

26/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Myriam El Hajj • Director of Diaries from Lebanon

Interview: Myriam El Hajj • Director of Diaries from Lebanon

“I was inside the events and living through them with my characters”

BERLINALE 2024: The director breaks down her portrait of the hardships that Lebanese society has gone through over the last few years  

22/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Review: Foreign Language

Review: Foreign Language

BERLINALE 2024: Young actresses Lilith Grasmug and Josefa Heinsius are the beating heart of this coming-of-age drama by Claire Burger, revolving around a language exchange trip to Germany  

21/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

Review: Pepe

Review: Pepe

BERLINALE 2024: While the peculiar sound the eponymous hippo makes in Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias’s film lingers in the mind after the screening, everything else is washed away quickly  

21/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

Matthias Glasner • Director of Dying

Interview: Matthias Glasner • Director of Dying

“I’m not very judgemental: I think human beings are allowed to be the way they are”

BERLINALE 2024: The German director enlightens us on how love, music and hope intertwine in his dark dramedy starring Lars Eidinger and Corinna Harfouch  

20/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

Review: Dying

Review: Dying

BERLINALE 2024: Matthias Glasner’s latest offering is a winning combination of pitch-black humour and warm human drama  

19/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

Review: Dahomey

Review: Dahomey

BERLINALE 2024: Mati Diop’s documentary, which follows the return of works of art stolen in colonial times, is a precious little gem – little in terms of length, but not artistic expression  

19/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

Review: From Hilde, with Love

Review: From Hilde, with Love

BERLINALE 2024: Wars can be fought with acts of love and kindness, and silence screams louder than bombs in Andreas Dresen’s deeply humanistic film  

18/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

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