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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

Sunset cruise: the visual splendor of Albert Serra’s paranoid island epic elides and effaces the material reality of his setting's residents

Dust in the wind: critics Antoine Thirion and Jean-Michel Frodon join to discuss Disco Boy, Manodrome, Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert, and more

Flesh and blood: Ela Bittencourt and Jonathan Ali join to discuss Our Body, Black Head, Superpower, Horse Opera, and more

Performance art: Erika Balsom and B. Ruby Rich join to discuss Orlando, My Political Biography, Reality, and The Echo

Take care: as part of the 2023 Berlin Critics’ Week, our panel debates the question of who will care for film culture

Field of dreams: the great director of form-bending classics like Freak Orlando discusses her penchant for breaking rules

On the grind: Mark Asch, Beatrice Loayza, and Devika Girish get together for an epistolary exchange about the thoughts and, yes, feelings elicited by Magic Mike’s Last Dance

Eyes on the prize: director Sam Pollard and scholar Samantha N. Sheppard join to discuss Pollard’s new doc about basketball great Bill Russell

Remote viewing: fest highlights like The Tuba Thieves and Gush reimagined the visual and sonic experience of cinema