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11Feb

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Kritik

Hip-Hop for graduation

A comment on Allons Enfants The Turgot Highschool in Paris is not just an ordinary school. Here, in addition to their lessons, the students also take hip-hop dance classes, practice for national competitions and learn to express themselves through dance. "Allons Enfants" follows eight students from different backgrounds through their everyday lives at the school. In their documentary, the two co-directors Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai focus on the fact that the Turgot gives young people from all social backgrounds the opportunity to escape their determinism and graduate from school. In order to continue to take dance classes, they have to achieve good grades. In "Allons Enfants" we see in turns dance scenes with animating music, teaching sequences and talks about grades between st...

11Feb

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Kritik

Being strong until spring comes

A comment on Moja Vesna "Why don't you ever cry?" - "I'm not allowing myself to, that's why." After the sudden death of her mother, ten-year-old Moja and her family is left with a gaping hole. While her father is trying to ensure the care of his daughters and her older, pregnant sister Vesna expresses her feelings with writing, Moja tries to deal with the grief on her own way. Moja quietly tries to keep the family together with taking almost a mother's role: she arranges clothes for the baby that is coming soon, buys medicine for Vesna and a present for her birthday. It sometimes seems as if the two girls had switched positions - the younger sister taking responsibility, caring for her sister and handling tasks that shouldn't be done at her age. Vesna, on the other hand, is the only o...

7Feb

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Kritik

A Documentary of Love

A comment on Kind Hearts - Their last summer before the seriousness of life sets in. Billie and Lucas have just graduated from high school. So, what comes next? How can they properly celebrate this summer? Is it enough to just go on vacation in Portugal for two weeks as usual? And what is supposed to happen afterwards? Will much change? Or is it just a bit more of the same? And the relationship between the two - is it still enough or is it time for a new beginning here, too? The film Kind Hearts is dedicated to these questions of the transition between school days and life afterwards. In semi-documentary form, the directing duo, Olivia Rochette and Gerard-Jan Claes, follows Billie and Lucas in this crucial phase of their lives. Static camera shots in particular capture the different deba...

19Jun

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Kritik

“Once you leave you can never go back to who you were as a child” – An Interview with The Director Venice Atienza of “Last Days At Sea”

Wednesday morning I was able to talk to the director Venice Atienza whose film “Last Days at Sea” is screening at this year’s Berlinale. Since she is currently based in the Philippines we arranged a Zoom meeting that would take into account the 6 hours of time difference. An inspiring talk emerged that started with her special way of filming and lead to a discussion of vulnerability that is needed for these films. fGR: Would you like to introduce yourself shortly?My name is Venice Atienza. I initially studied cinema, but before that I actually wanted to be a chef. One day, when I was 16 or 17 years old, I was watching a Korean drama and I asked my mother: “What job makes people feel things?” and she replied by asking me “Why don’t you become a film maker?”. After applying for the secon...

“Once you leave you can never go back to who you were as a child” – Im Gespräch mit der Regisseurin Venice Atienza von “Last Days At Sea”

19Jun

Von SarahKeine Kommentare

Interview

“Once you leave you can never go back to who you were as a child” – Im Gespräch mit der Regisseurin Venice Atienza von “Last Days At Sea”

Am Mittwochvormittag durfte ich mit der philippinischen Regisseurin Venice Atienza über Zoom sprechen, deren Dokumentarfilm “Last Days at Sea” im diesjährigen Berlinaleprogramm gezeigt wird. Es entspann sich ein inspirierendes Gespräch über ihre empatische Art, Filme zu drehen und was es heißt, sich auf der Leinwand als Regisseurin vulnerabel zu zeigen. fGR: Would you like to introduce yourself shortly? My name is Venice Atienza. I initially studied cinema, but before that I actually wanted to be a chef. One day, when I was 16 or 17 years old, I was watching a Korean drama and I asked my mother: “What job makes people feel things?” and she replied by asking me “Why don’t you become a film maker?”. After applying for the second time I finally got into film school. I really always kn...

16Jun

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Interview

Five minutes with Fred Baillif

an interview with the director of „La Mif“ The cinema is slowly filling up and the joyful voices of the crowd are giving me a feeling I haven't felt for a long time in the last months of lockdown. Finally it is possible again to celebrate a Berlinale film together. The film team of La Mif is welcomed with loud applause when they arrive at the cinema. Everyone of the crew - the director Fred Baillif, a few of the actresses and family and friends - is smiling and radiates pure joy as they’re walking up to the photo wall. I wait until they’re done with all photos and take the chance to sit down with Fred Baillif for a few minutes before the film starts. What interests me the most about this quite special topic is why Baillif chose it to portray it in one of his films. Fred Baillif: „Because...

15Jun

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Kritik

Für 122 Minuten Teenager sein

"Fühlst du dich noch verbunden zu dem, was du gefühlt hast, also du so alt warst wie ich? Liegt das alles in der Vergangenheit oder kannst du diese Erlebnisse irgendwie wieder erleben?" Nach „Shkola nomer 3“ (2017) und „The earth is blue as an orange“ (2020) präsentiert Generation 14+ mit „Stop Zemlia“ auch bei der diesjährigen Berlinale einen Jugendfilm aus der Ukraine. Für ihren einfühlsamen Film erhält Regisseurin Kateryna Gornostai den gläsernen Bären der Jugendjury. Eine Schule irgendwo in Kiew. In Sequenzen unterschiedlicher Länge folgt die Kamera Schüler*innen aus der 11. Klasse und lädt die Zuschauer*innen dazu ein, am Gefühlsleben der ukrainischen Teenager teilzuhaben: Am ersten Verliebtsein, an Klassenfeiern, Schulstunden, Freundschaftsritualen, Ängsten und Selbstzweife...

13Jun

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Interview

“Because movies and art can be dreamlike” – Interview with Dash Shaw

Interview about the film CryptozooThe open-air cinema Rehberge is filling up more and more. The director of the film "Cryptozoo" Dash Shaw is invited on stage to receive the honorable mention for the best feature film from the international jury. After he says a few words about his film and leaves the stage, it gets quiet and the film starts. We walk out of the film with Dash Shaw to ask him a few questions: fGR (free generation reporter): The whole movie is really incredibly special animated. So first of all, I wanted to ask how was the process of the animation? Dash Shaw (director): It was first storyboarded. So then the storyboards kind of become the division of labor of how everything is organized. And then there's a casting process of casting different artists to do different backgrou...

12Jun

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Kritik

Wo blutverschmierte Wale Normalität sind

Eine Kritik zu From The Wild Sea.Es sind Bilder, die nahegehen müssen. Minutenlang kämpft eine kleine Robbe in der Auffangstation um ihr Leben. Minutenlang ist selbst den freiwilligen Helfer:innen nicht klar, ob sich das kleine Pelzknäul noch quält oder schon tot ist. Dann ist klar: es wird es nicht schaffen. Die Infektion war schon zu weit fortgeschritten. Schicksale wie diese gibt es in den letzten Jahren immer häufiger entlang der Atlantikküste – wie hier im britischen Cornwell. Grund ist die Klimaerwärmung, die Stürme und Unwetter begünstigt und Meereslebewesen in ihrer Wucht brutal an die Küsten spült. From the Wild Sea zeigt die schonungslose Wahrheit: einen 19 Meter langen blutverschmierten Wal, der auf Felsen gestrandet ist und dessen Gewicht seiner eigenen Organe ihn langsam aber...

9Jun

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Kritik

The Last Stop

A review of Jong chak yeokFour young schoolgirls who are part of a photography club are given the task of taking a photo of the end of the world with old-fashioned cameras over their summer vacation. They come up with the idea to drive to the end of a train line to take the photos there. But the trip turns out differently than planned, as the end of the train line doesn't really look like the end of the world. Thus, their trip extends throughout the day, and the four friends wander through rural Korea - laughing, persistent, and inquisitive. Jong chak yeok is one of those kinds of films that - festival goers and skilled strays of the film landscape aside - most people are unaware of. Films with no real structure, no certain points in character development to check off, no real goal - a fi...