Finding Your Rage: On Club des Femmes’ ‘Revolt, She Said’ Programme
In 2018, feminism is everywhere and nowhere at once. Women, we are told, can now be CEOs, and entrepreneurs and…
Documentary
Portrait of Penny Lane
We Skyped with Penny Lane, an American filmmaker whose award-winning documentaries are predominantly archival, often containing no original footage at…
Ordinary Devotion: The Seduction of Normalcy in Chantal Akerman’s ‘No Home Movie’
Chantal Akerman’s final film, No Home Movie, opens with an image of a tree in the Israeli desert, being buffeted…
TIFF Review: Margarethe von Trotta’s ‘Searching for Ingmar Bergman’
Searching for Ingmar Bergman opens with acclaimed German director Margarethe von Trotta in Gotland, on the rocky beach from several…
Filming too Close: Naomi Kawase and the Caring Filmic Gesture
1 – We both like the same things. We’re parent and child. Are you filming again? Give it a rest!…
“I wanted to make a film that makes you feel like you’re in the middle of the storm”: An interview with ‘Shakedown’ director Leilah Weinraub
People warned me that my first Berlinale would be surreal, but nobody prepared me for the experience of sitting down…
BERLINALE – Bojina Panayotova’s ‘I See Red People’ (Je Vois Rouge)
Early on in I See Red People, Bojina Panayotova, the director and protagonist of the documentary, calls her mother, Mirena,…