In this interview, Alice Winocour discusses telling a subjective story of coping with PTSD in her film Revoir Paris.
World Cinema
Visions du Réel Review: Piotr Pawlus and Tomasz Wolski’s In Ukraine
Tomasz Wolski’s observational documentary In Ukraine is the best and most harrowing film I’ve seen about the Ukraine War because it focuses on the banal.
Visions du Réel & HotDocs Review: Erik Gandini’s After Work
Erik Gandini works with documentary images and sounds as if he’s making a musical in his creative nonfiction film After Work, a look at varying attitudes to work around the world.
Chie Hayakawa on avoiding sentimentality in Plan 75
In this interview, writer-director Chie Hayakawa talks about asking tough questions and avoiding sentimentality in her first feature, Plan 75. She also discusses how the film reflects the increasing lack of empathy for the most vulnerable people in society in the real world.
Philippe Faucon’s Les Harkis tackles colonial violence towards Algerian soldiers during the Algerian War of Independence
In Philippe Faucon’s film Les Harkis, set in the final years of the Algerian War of Independence, it’s a losing battle for the Algerian soldiers in the French Army.
Ep. 133. Berlinale 2023: Here, The Teachers’ Lounge, Delegation, and more
In this episode of the podcast, Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney goes solo to discuss the highlights of the 2023 Berlinale film festival, including Bas Devos’s award-winning Here, as well as The Teachers’ Lounge, Delegation, The Quiet Migration, and more.