Saturday, February 21, 2026

Notes on Les Juifs Riches (The Rich Jews), by Yolande Zauberman, France: 2026-Berlin Filmfestival2026 VIII.-Berlinale Shorts (program 4)

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This film by Yolande Zauberman (a French filmmaker with Polish-Jewish roots) does not fit in any category, almost too long for a short film ...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

Notes on Eight Bridges, by James Benning, USA: 2026-Berlin Filmfestival VII.-Forum

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  The film consists of eight sequences, each of them presents in 10 minutes one bridge. One can question the categorization of James Benning...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Notes on Jiureo Ganeun Gil (En Route To), by Yoo Jaein, Korea: 2026-Berlin Filmfestival2026 VI.-Generation

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  In the last years, films from South Korea presented always a very rich and diverse film culture – if auteur cinema or mainstream. Not to m...
Monday, February 16, 2026

Notes on Masayume, by Nao Yoshigai, Japan: 2026-Berlin Filmfestival V.-Forum

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Like I mentioned recently in my text on films by Anjan Dutt or Steven Spielberg, this kind of very personal and often autobiographically ins...

Notes on Ghost School, by Seemab Gul, Pakistan/Germany/Saudi-Arabia: 2025-Berlin Filmfestival 2026 IV.-Generation

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  Rabia, the ten years old girl, is always “en route” and Ghost School is at first a film about roads and paths. Her walking on sometimes w...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Nous Sommes Les Fruits De La Forêt (We Are The Fruits Of The Forest), by Rithy Panh, Cambodia/France: 2025-Berlin Filmfestival 2026 III.-Forum

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The Cambodian-French filmmaker Rithy Panh is one of the great chroniclers in contemporary cinema. In fiction films, but mostly in documentar...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

Notes on Not A Hero, by Rima Das, India, Singapore: 2026-Berlin Filmfestival 2026 II.-Generation

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A film only truly begins to breathe and live in the cinema. Cinema, and I mean this very special place where the collective experience of a ...