Gregor Brändli’s HotDocs documentary Elephants and Squirrels explores the repatriation of Sri Lankan artifacts from a Swiss museum — and how Sri Lankan artist Deneth Piumakshi Veda grapples with the issue in her work.
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HotDocs Review: Let Our Mountains Live
HotDocs documentary Let Our Mountains live shows injustice after injustice perpetrated by the Norwegian government in spite of the Supreme Court decisions.
Ep. 190. Oslo, August 31st: Beginning and Ending
On the podcast, Alex Heeney talks to Joachim Trier about the beginning of Oslo, August 31st and to Eskil Vogt about the ending of the film.
Ep. 189 Berlinale 26: Arrú, Black Burns Fast, The Education of Jane Cumming
On the podcast, Alex Heeney discusses three Berlinale 2026 highlights directed by women: Elle Sofe Sara’s Sámi musical Arrú, Sandulela Asanda’s queer South African film Black Burns Fast, and Sophie Heldman’s 1810 queer period drama The Education of Jane Cumming.
Ep. 188 My Berlinale Talk: Why the first conversation about a film shouldn’t be the last
On the podcast, listen to the talk Alex Heeney gave at the Berlinale this year on building spaces to think and talk about film, including The Long Take, featured in the panel on pluralistic discourse in film criticism.
Berlinale: Systems of (in)justice in Prosecution and A Family
At the Berlinale, Alex Heeney reviews two films tackling systems of (in)justice: Faraz Shariat’s Prosecution and Mees Peijnenburg’s A Family