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Windows of revolution – interview with the directors of Memories of a Window

19Feb

Windows of revolution – interview with the directors of Memories of a Window

One of the most moving and politically urgent films in this year's Berlinale program is the Iranian shot film Memories of a window by Mehraneh Salimian and Amin Pakparvar. The film documents the Women, Life, Freedom protest in Iran in 2022 and the brutal oppression of the Iranian regime. At the same time, it is a poetic and deeply beautiful call to fight for your rights.I was eager to get to know the filmmakers behind this remarkable documentary. Since they couldn't make it to Berlin, we met online and I am very happy to be to share our conversation here. Amin Pakparvar and Mehraneh Salimian are both from Iran where they studied at Tehran University of Art. In 2023 they moved to Chicago to study at the Art Institute of Chicago. As Mehraneh explains they are partners in crime, in lif...

13Feb

By Leo, Liv Heyden, Liv Thastum, Hannah Everitt and Anouk SegebartNo Comments

Background, General, Review

It’s Time

A rustling sound. At first very quiet, barely distinguishable from the wind, then growing louder and louder, hissing and roaring. A flickering, bright light flashes on and off, clacking and clicking — until finally, slowly, a heavy hatch opens and thick steam hisses into the evening sky. ‘Do you think time travel is real?‘ The time machine is the mystery that gives this year's Kplus opening film, A Fabulosa Máquina do Tempo, its title. From the perspective of 10-year-old Manuellinha and her friends, the film explores questions about the past and future, among other things, and what it actually means to grow up. After watching the film, we also took a closer look at these questions and collected various impressions as brief texts, which we would like to share with you here. At the...

Little Rebels Cinema Club (Here we go again: Berlinale 2025)

14Feb

By KonstantinNo Comments

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Little Rebels Cinema Club (Here we go again: Berlinale 2025)

The time has finally come: tonight, the 48th edition of Generation will officially open at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt! It's a special year - the Berlin Film Festival is taking place for the 75th time - but then again, the Berlinale is always special. As every year, more and more people gather at Potsdamer Platz, film crews from all over the world arrive and trudge through Berlin's streets, people stand in endless queues outside the cinemas while others desperately try to click the “Tickets” button on their laptops in the right microsecond - and it's snowing. It's snowing! However, with this year's anniversary edition and the new Berlinale director Tricia Tuttle, there are definitely some changes ahead, and we are excited to see how the festival will grow with it. There is also...