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Berlin 2015, Specials

Berlinale – Festival of Evilness

Some personal thoughts on how Berlinale has become a festival of evilness.

Berlin 2015, Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Love, Theft and Other Entanglements – Berlinale 65 Panorama

A simple story of a simple anti-hero who tries to fix his almost destined troubled life in Palestine. Debut feature film by Muayad Alayan.

REVIEWS

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013)

A folk romantic crime saga by the emerging indie Texan filmmaker, David Lowery on the footsteps of Terence Mallick tradition.

La Vénus à la Fourrure (Venus in Fur, 2013)

Roman Polanski offers a revamped verbose sadomasochistic experience that manipulates Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner and his audience.

Ana Yurdu (Motherland) – Thessaloniki 56 Balkan Survey

Senem Tüzen explores if Motherland could be the place of reconciliation of past and present in an ongoing love-hate relationship between a mother and her daughter.

Marionette (2007)

Minos Nikolakakis creates a dark minimalistic tale that comes closer to reality or a dark reality that touches the edges of chilling fantasy.

The Act of Killing (2012)

Joshua Oppenheimer creates a multilayered documentary that explores the Indonesian massacres by blending fiction with reality, the present with the past and surrealism with true horror.

TagMuayad Alayan

Berlinale – Festival of Evilness

Love, Theft and Other Entanglements – Berlinale 65 Panorama

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013)

La Vénus à la Fourrure (Venus in Fur, 2013)

Ana Yurdu (Motherland) – Thessaloniki 56 Balkan Survey

Marionette (2007)

The Act of Killing (2012)

Dziga Vertov’s Eye

The Meaning of Cinema by Andrei Tarkovsky

A cinephile’s wish

Ingmar Bergman in Iceland

Pier Paolo Pasolini – Sesso, consolazione della miseria!