Oceanic feeling: the German filmmaker talks about his latest, a slyly comedic chamber piece, which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at last month’s Berlinale
Undercurrents: this year’s Berlin Critics’ Week focused on “sur-realism,” a mode of Latin American filmmaking that doesn’t imagine an escape from reality but instead is fully, vividly, nightmarishly of it.
By José TeodoroMirror mirror: Marguerite Duras’s acclaimed classic India Song and her less well-known Baxter, Vera Baxter offer striking examples of her knack for colliding literary language with the audiovisual form
The Film Comment Podcast: Louis Garrel on The Innocent and The Plough
Family time: the French actor and auteur discusses the autobiographical inspirations of his latest directorial venture and his father's Silver Bear–winning drama
By Clinton KruteStraight, no chaser: Alain Gomis’s artful remix of a 1969 French TV interview with Thelonious Monk dissects the casual racism suffered by the musical genius
Life spans: the Scottish artist discusses Berlinale highlight Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait, his experimental portrait of the great Orkney filmmaker
I'm on a boat: Noah Teichner’s Navigators and Jean-Luc Godard’s Film socialisme share curious resonances, not least of which is the looming specter of real-life catastrophe
Reversal stock: even after a rash of changes, this year's edition still retains the fest’s long-standing commitment to adventurous international art cinema