Seven Winters in Tehran – Steffi Niederzoll (2023)
How can a man understand the devastated should have a woman after rape? How can a man understand the shocked mind and body of a...
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Tag: Berlinale
No Other Land – Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham (2024)
June 20, 2024
by Nadin Mai
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It’s a sign of the times that the few film reviews I wrote since the beginning of the year dealt with Israel and Palestine. For...
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Behemoth – Zhao Liang (2015)
March 14, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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How do you write about something that is, cinematographically, absolutely gorgeous but which, paradoxically in doing so, highlights the suffering of labourers? Behemoth by Chinese director Zhao...
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Havarie – Philip Scheffner (2016)
March 3, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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What does the word "havarie" actually stand for? Originally, it is linked to ships, speaking of accidents, emergencies, and shipwrecks. But we can draw the...
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Hele sa hiwagang hapis – Lav Diaz (2016)
February 18, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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Well, he did it again, and Lav Diaz's Berlinale entry Hele sa hiwagang hapis is, at the same time, his longest film since his nine-hour...
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Journey to the West – Tsai Ming-liang (2013)
March 23, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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A lucky accident brought me to an online screener of Tsai Ming-liang's new and highly acclaimed film Journey to the West. It had its premiere at...
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