Berlinale Blogger 2018

Berlin Hosts the Film World: The 68th Berlinale will take place from 15 to 25 February. Ten bloggers and film journalists from around the world will report as Berlinale Bloggers for the Goethe-Institut on the international film festival - from a multinational perspective.

In 2018 the Berlinale Bloggers are from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom.

Blog posts

Black Women in Film

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Black women at Berlinale – Mental health

For the final part of her article series on black women in film, our blogger Grace Barber-Plentie focuses on the portrayal of mental health.

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Black women at Berlinale - Family Relationships

Grace Barber-Plentie saw Supa Modo and Maki’la - and explores how family relationships between black women are portrayed in these films

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Black Women at Berlinale: Gender and Sexuality

How are black women portrayed in film? Grace Barber-Plentie is tackling this question this week – looking into gender and sexuality in this first article.

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Game Girls - A Painful Look at Life on Skid Row

This documentary explains what the phrase “skid row” really means.

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Interview: Shakedown’s Leilah Weinraub on creating a documentary, "Paris is Burning", and utopic moments

In her interview with director Leilah Weinraub, our blogger Grace Barber-Plentie discusses the creative process, purpose and feelings that the documentary ‘Shakedown’ encompasses.

Movies from the UK

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Isle of Dogs: A Return to Form For Wes Anderson?

Our blogger Grace Barber-Plentie saw Wes Anderson’s animation ‘Isle of Dogs’: Why the film is emotionally rewarding to pet owners and animal haters alike, but still not quite up to scratch.

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MAYA/MATANGI/M.I.A. - Portrait of the artist never quite reveals the whole M.I.A

Artist. Mother. Activist. The British/Sri Lankan musician M.I.A. has many personas. This film doc attempts to encompass all of them.

10 bloggers - 10 opinions

Ondes de choc – Journal de ma tête | Shock Waves – Diary of My Mind

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Has the boom in TV drama series made its mark on the Berlinale?

Has the current boom in drama series on TV affected the films shown at the Berlinale – in terms of subject-matter or narrative structure, for example? Our Berlinale Bloggers answer:

Inkan, gongkan, sikan grigo inkan | Human, Space, Time and Human

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Does the #metoo-debate take place at Berlinale?

Are the issues expressed in the #metoo-debate a topic of discussion at the Berlinale? Our Berlinale Bloggers describe their experiences.

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How important are Documentaries at this year's Berlinale?

Do documentaries become more important in times of crisis, and if so, can you see that at the Berlinale? Here’s what the Berlinale Bloggers have to say about that.

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It’s like coming back to your favourite cinema

Australian film critic Sarah Ward clearly caught the Berlinale-bug when she attended the festival for the first time in 2017. Because now it’s 2018 and she’s back in the German capital to cover all things film. But is it just as magical the second time around?

„Toppen av ingenting“ von Axel Petersén, Måns Månsson

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Seven things you need to know about the Berlinale

Spectacular, forgotten, memorable and utopian: Why the Berlinale is what it is.

Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski in Christian Petzold's "Transit".

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The Past as Present

Christian Petzold’s Transit, a frontrunner in the Berlinale competition, turns Anna Seghers’ World War II novel of exile into a cautionary tale about present-day developments.

Victoria Schulz and Daniel Zillmann in “Rückenwind von vorn” (Away you go)

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That uncertain feeling

What trends are next-generation German filmmakers setting these days? Philipp Bühler looks at the “Perspektive Deutsches Kino” section of the Berlinale showcasing highly imaginative work of up-and-coming German talents.

Gerhard Lamprecht's silent drama Children of No Importance is featured in this year's Weimar Cinema Revisited retrospective.

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Weimar Cinema Revisited retrospective

The cinema of the Weimar Republic remains astonishing to this day for its sheer variety and productivity. Some of the German films from 1918–1933 featured in this Berlinale retrospective are real discoveries addressing issues that are highly topical in our day and age.