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22 articles available in total starting from 28/01/2025. Last article published on 28/04/2025.

Yuri Semashko • Director of The Swan Song of Fedor Ozerov

Interview: Yuri Semashko • Director of The Swan Song of Fedor Ozerov

“Writing a film is like being a gold miner. You work hard everyday, but when you finally find the gem you’ve been searching for so long, it feels like enlightenment”

BERLINALE 2025: The Belarusian director told us about the musical, personal and artistic inspirations behind his feature debut  

18/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Forum

Review: Time to the Target

Review: Time to the Target

BERLINALE 2025: Vitaly Mansky returns to his hometown of Lviv to show life in Ukraine 1,000 kilometres away from the frontlines over the period of a year and a half  

18/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Forum

Review: The Swan Song of Fedor Ozerov

Review: The Swan Song of Fedor Ozerov

BERLINALE 2025: Yuri Semashko’s feature debut is an intriguing blend of diverse influences that come together seamlessly, making this micro-budget film particularly memorable  

18/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Forum

Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski • Director of The Memory of Butterflies

Interview: Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski • Director of The Memory of Butterflies

"This showed once again to me, that documentary is never objective, it's always about the perspective"

BERLINALE 2025: We talked to the Peruvian filmmaker about her documentary, how she got interested in its subject and how she approached archive images  

17/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Forum

Review: The Memory of Butterflies

Review: The Memory of Butterflies

BERLINALE 2025: Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski’s debut feature is an essay film that makes intelligent use of archive images, offering an alternate vision of the Peruvian colonial period  

17/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Forum

Review: The Kiss of the Grasshopper

Review: The Kiss of the Grasshopper

BERLINALE 2025: Elmar Imanov's surrealist second feature is an introspective journey through the melancholy, solitude and backsliding that inevitably accompany the loss of a loved one  

17/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Forum

Review: Eighty Plus

Review: Eighty Plus

BERLINALE 2025: Serbian director Želimir Žilnik returns with a gentle, cross-generational story that applies his interest in social injustice in order to pick apart layers of history  

16/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Forum

Elmar Imanov • Director of The Kiss of the Grasshopper

Interview: Elmar Imanov • Director of The Kiss of the Grasshopper

“It’s crucial for me to work with people I get along with”

BERLINALE 2025: The German-Azeri filmmaker reveals details about the intimate atmosphere in which he creates his cinema and elaborates on the shift to magical realism in his second feature  

15/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Forum

Review: Sirens Call

Review: Sirens Call

BERLINALE 2025: Artists and researchers Miri Ian Gossing and Lina Sieckmann’s experimental film dives deep into the merfolk subculture  

15/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Forum

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Berlinale Forum title Sirens Call

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Berlinale Forum title Sirens Call

Miri Ian Gossing and Lina Sieckmann’s film dives into the merfolk subculture through the lens of social justice activist and real-life siren Una  

29/01 | Berlinale 2025 | Forum

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