Talks

Nominated for the New Critics & New Audiences Award, Joachim Hérissé elaborates on his stop-motion horror fairytale for adults.

Now nominated for the New Critics & New Audiences Award 2024, the Brazilian-German directing duo talks about the misconceptions of Berlin, and its gay scene.

Now nominated for the New Critics & New Audiences Award 2024, French filmmaker Mathilde Profit opens up about the feminist tendencies in her work.

Now nominated for the New Critics & New Audiences Award 2024, Greek-Austrian filmmaker Anna Vasof elaborates on the family tragedy at the heart of her film.

Now nominated for the New Critics & New Audiences Award 2024, Moritz Geiser discusses the female characters at the center of his raging hyper-modern fable.

The acclaimed French filmmaker talks about his latest short film, a visual anthem to a whole generation of queer people.

The London-based Four Chambers situates itself deliberately on the punctum where art and porn meet. “Porn works best when it’s about exploring sexual desires and one’s creativity around sex in a way that doesn’t feel bounded by a need to make it look faultless.”

Filipino filmmaker Sam Manacsa unveils the thought process behind her most recent short, which premiered at the 80th Venice Film Festival last September as the only Shoutheast Asian entry in the short film competition.

Filmmaker Richard Misek takes on the world’s largest commercial image archive, probing the legal, economic, and ethical implications of granting a private corporation such power over our shared cultural memory.

Curator Nadia Denton talks about her programme on Nigerian cinema, that, with every iteration, has often played the role of bellwether.

Syllas Tzoumerkas talks about his short film My Mother Is a Saint, an eight-minute “religious slapstick” starring Angeliki Papoulia.

In Les Chenilles, two women originally from the Levant find themselves working in the same restaurant Lyon. Both bear the weight of a home they were forced to leave behind. Initially wary of each other, they gradually discover a common thread that binds them.

Professors and filmmakers Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold talk about their Black Fire project, an ongoing exploration of Blackness, history and interiority.

Filmmaker Janaina Wagner, part of the Berlinale Talents 2023 class, talks about her past and future projects.

Lebanese-Canadian writer and director Dania Bdeir received the Jury Prize for Best Fiction at Tampere Film Festival for Warsha.

Alaa was the first Egyptian filmmaker to be part of the Official Short Film Competition in Cannes. He won the Palme d’Or that same year.

Using collages of found footage on YouTube—with subjects ranging from hunting videos to the unboxing of snakes ordered by mail—the collective NEOZOON uncovers patterns in human behaviour.