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Home / Podcasts / Ep. 125: Berlinale 2022

Seventh Row Editors / March 16, 2022

Ep. 125: Berlinale 2022

Alex and Orla report from the 2022 Berlinale Film Festival, and introduce you to the films they loved, from Laia Costa-starrer Lullaby, to Swedish YA film about grief, Comedy Queen.

Clockwise from top left, four films from Berlinale 2022: Laia Costa holding a baby at her kitchen table in Lullaby/Lina Arashi sleeping on the floor with her two younger siblings /Sigrid Johnson with a freshly shaved head riding in a bus in My Small Land in Comedy Queen/Sadaf Asgari holding a baby outside a gated entrance in Until Tomorrow
Clockwise from top left, four films from Berlinale 2022: Laia Costa in Lullaby/Lina Arashi in My Small Land/Sigrid Johnson in Comedy Queen/Sadaf Asgari in Until Tomorrow

This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney and Executive Editor Orla Smith

On this Berlinale 2022 episode

  • Related episodes (1:10)
  • Joachim Trier challenge (2:14)
  • What we had screeners for (5:22)
  • Berlin’s films for young audiences (11:21)
  • Alis (Clare Weiskopf & Nicolás van Hemelryck) (14:31)
  • Comedy Queen (Sanna Lenken) (16:44)
  • Lullaby (Alauda Ruiz de Azúa) (20:56)
  • My Small Land (Emma Kawawada) (28:21)
  • Until Tomorrow (Ali Asgari) and Millie Lies Low (Michelle Savill) 34:16
  • Stay Awake (Jamie Sisly) 46:00
  • Coma (Bertrand Bonello) (47:50)
  • We Might as Well Be Dead (Natalia Sinelnikova) 50:26
  • Creative nonfiction: Nelly & Nadine (Magnus Gertten) and Mutzenbacher (Ruth Beckermann) (52:50)
  • Conclusion (1:01:55)

Show notes

  • Read Alex’s interview with Little Wing director Selma Vilhunen
  • Take our Joachim Trier challenge, in preparation for our forthcoming ebook on Trier’s work, Existential detours: Joachim Trier’s cinema of indecisions and revisions

Related episodes

  • Bonus Episode 23: Sundance 2022: Fiction films (Member’s Only)
  • Ep. 121: Ninjababy & Obvious Child: Unwanted pregnancies in romantic comedies
  • Ep. 84: Berlinale 2021, Part 2: The Competition (Member’s Only)
  • Ep. 83: Berlinale 2021, Part 1: The Sidebars (Member’s Only)

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Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: Alex Heeney podcast, Berlinale Film Festival, Creative Nonfiction, Festival Favourites, Film Festivals, Orla Smith podcast, podcast, Women Directors

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