Animals on the rise: Cinematic alerts from Hungary and Poland
Two Bear-winning films explore the austerity of modern life and the suppression of the animal side of human nature.
Tagged film
Images projected on walls: Berlinale and the global political drama
What should be the role of an international film festival in these confusing and insecure times? Berlin’s recipe for addressing contemporary challenges
Berlinale 2017: LIVE COVERAGE
Berlinale, Berlin’s international film festival has just kicked-off today and will continue for ten days. Tune in for live updates.
Before Gezi there was Emek: The demolished heart of Turkish cinema
The opening ceremony of Which Human Rights Film Festival was a tribute to Istanbul’s iconic Emek Cinema, demolished in 2013 to make place for a shopping mall.
Elia Suleiman: Hope and Action Despite Pessimism
- Film , Interviews , Arts
On the role of engaged art in an increasingly globalized world and old and new Jerusalems. An interview with the Nazareth-born filmmaker Elia Suleiman (1960), President of the Jury at this year’s, 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.
Brothers and Others: Junction 48 Shows Israel-Palestine at a Crossroads
- Film , Slow News Europe , Dialogue , Arts
Udi Aloni’s new feature film, the winner of this year’s Berlinale Panorama Audience Award, is one of two Israeli films at the festival having the word “junction” in their title. Can one see this as a sign that Israel is standing at an important crossroads in its history? Katoikos.eu spoke to the director and the Palestinian leading actor, Samar Qupty.
Europe, She Loves: A Portrait of the Bored-Of-It-All Generation
- Film , Slow News Europe , Work , Arts
“May you live in interesting times,” says a Chinese curse. Yet, reaching adulthood in “interesting times” might be an even grimmer fate. Jan Gassmann’s documentary Europe, She Loves pays a tribute to European youth’s lost years.
Berlinale 2016: Live Coverage
The Berlinale’s main award ceremony took place on Saturday, 20 February 2016, at 7.00 pm (CET) — see www.berlinale.de
- The Golden Bear went to Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea), a documentary by Gianfranco Rosi about the Italian island of Lampedusa, which has become synonymous with the hardships and the hopes of refugees.
- The Silver Bears went to Death in Sarajevo by Danis Tanović, who received the Grand Jury Prize; A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery directed by Lav Diaz received the Alfred Bauer Prize for a Feature Film That Opens New Perspectives; Mia Hansen-Løve received the Silver Bear for Best Director for her film L’ avenir (Things to Come); …
Berlinale Fights Back: A Cinematic Offensive on Global Unhappiness
- Slow News Europe , Film , Arts
Berlin International Film Festival kicks-off on Thursday, February 11 and will continue for ten days. Katoikos.eu will be there to cover new cinematographic developments from a pan-European perspective.
