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Berlinale 2025


234 articles available in total starting from 12/12/2023. Last article published on 23/07/2025.

Christine Haroutounian • Director of After Dreaming

Interview: Christine Haroutounian • Director of After Dreaming

“The question of what constitutes the self is at the root of everything I make”

The director and artist of Armenian roots breaks down the origins of her film and explains how her powerful images and concepts came into being  

23/07 | Golden Apricot 2025

Review: After Dreaming

Review: After Dreaming

Christine Haroutounian’s debut feature attempts to expose on screen personal inner worlds, troubled by the uncertainty and anxiety that life in wartime causes  

16/07 | Golden Apricot 2025

Review: Paternal Leave

Review: Paternal Leave

Alissa Jung’s debut film sidesteps rhetoric but is too hesitant when exploring the relationship between a teenage girl and the father she never knew, played by Luca Marinelli  

14/05 | Films | Reviews | Germany/Italy

Paula Tomás Marques • Director of Two Times João Liberada

Interview: Paula Tomás Marques • Director of Two Times João Liberada

"We had a synopsis of a violent life, and we didn't want to portray that"

The Portuguese director discusses her collaborative process, the act of transcending temporality and creating the film’s tangible materiality on celluloid  

08/05 | IndieLisboa 2025

Želimir Žilnik • Director of Eighty Plus

Interview: Želimir Žilnik • Director of Eighty Plus

“I want to show people with dignity – neither victims nor heroes, just human beings trying to live with integrity”

The Serbian director discusses his deep suspicion of ideologies in relation to his irresistibly charming latest feature, which follows a man whose life spans three political systems  

28/04 | goEast 2025

Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani • Directors of Reflection in a Dead Diamond

Interview: Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani • Directors of Reflection in a Dead Diamond

"We approached the story as if it were a diamond and gave it different facets"

We met with the inspired filmmaking duo to talk about their latest film effort, a frenetic and psychedelic rereading of the Hero myth  

06/03 | Luxembourg 2025

Maksym Nakonechnyi • Director of The Earth Is Flat – I Flew Around and Saw It

Interview: Maksym Nakonechnyi • Director of The Earth Is Flat – I Flew Around and Saw It

"I want all of us to reflect on our own 'flat Earth theories' and prepare ourselves for the moment when objective reality crashes them one way or another"

BERLINALE 2025: The Ukrainian director offers insights to his upcoming film, which won the Eurimages Special Co-production Development Award at the Berlinale Co-Production Market  

04/03 | Berlinale 2025 | EFM

Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama • Director of Têtes Brûlées

Interview: Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama • Director of Têtes Brûlées

"I was interested in showing how much more responsible a 12-year-old can be than an adult"

BERLINALE 2025: The young filmmaker chatted with us about her first feature film, which paints the portrait of a young girl having to face the loss of her big brother  

28/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Generation

Andrea Štaka • Director of IBICABA – Visions of Paradise

Interview: Andrea Štaka • Director of IBICABA – Visions of Paradise

"It's a challenge to shoot a period film - set in the 19th century - with a European arthouse budget"

BERLINALE 2025: The Swiss director breaks down her upcoming film, which won the Eurimages Co-production Development Award at the Berlinale Co-Production Market  

27/02 | Berlinale 2025 | EFM

Arnaud Dufeys and Charlotte Devillers • Directors of We Believe You

Interview: Arnaud Dufeys and Charlotte Devillers • Directors of We Believe You

"It was important to us to leave plenty of time for her to speak, for us to hear her"

BERLINALE 2025: We met with the Belgian directors to discuss their first feature film, which paints a subtle yet intense portrait of a morning spent in court by a mother  

27/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Perspectives

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