By Ali Moosavi. I design the concepts and then within those concepts I leave the actors free…. As Béla Tarr has said, with interesting people and interesting locations you can make a good movie. […]
By Ali Moosavi. 2026, a year of apolitical comments and walkouts, featured many standout selections.” The Berlin Film Festival, or Berlinale, started with pouring rain but a storm was brewing in the press conference hall. […]
FILMFESTIVAL. Berlin International Film Festival är den största filmfestivalen efter Cannes. Ingela Brovik rapporterar om nya sevärda filmer 2026. Berlin International Film Festival 12-22 februari 2026 Publiken på den stora biografen vid […]
By Ali Moosavi. Hysteria also has something to say about some people’s preconceived ideas of others of different race and religion, something that is fueling Germany and a few other Western countries now….” The […]
By Yun-hua Chen. What’s important is understanding that pain cannot be compared. We can’t measure how someone else’s pain impacts them versus our own. Empathy is key.” It’s an unexpected […]
By Ali Moosavi. The best kind of humour has roots in tragedy.” Silver Haze premiered at the Panorama section of Berlin Film Festival. In most movie productions the starting point is a script (original or […]
By Yun-hua Chen. I am dedicated to creating films that facilitate our healing process with the natural world.” Geographies of Solitude, screened at the Berlinale Forum 2022, is a breathtakingly beautiful experimental documentary which […]
By Yun-hua Chen. It’s always very hard to put these labels on films. It’s easier to come up with new labels that didn’t exist before, and that is why I call […]
By Yun-hua Chen. The gender concept is now so flexible. And that, I find quite appealing. The not quite so ordinary thing in this film is that here a woman is the perpetrator, and […]
By Ali Moosavi. There were four films made by Iranian directors in this year’s Berlin Film Festival, shown at four different festival sections: Panorama, Forum, Generation and Berlinale (Main Competition). Mohammad Rasoulof’s There […]