Ghosts of the Present: Spectral Echoes and Utopian Ruins at the Berlinale
Berlinale 2026: I firmly believe The Berlin International Film Festival to be haunted. Yes, for real. By ghosts.
Berlinale 2026: A year of controversy and contradiction
Berlinale 2026: Through its successes and failures, Berlinale reminds us that films are never purely art nor entertainment – and even if cinema stayed out of politics, politics would not stay out of cinema.
Automation anxiety: Park Chan-wooks No Other Choice is a morbidly hilarious satire
After his award-winning feature Decision to Leave released in 2022, Park Chan-wook is back with a morbidly hilarious satire of the near future. No Other Choice predicts the coming bloodbath.
Oliver Laxe’s Sirât: The Fine Line Between Beauty and Terror
Oliver Laxe’s new film Sirât opens in Dionysian madness, sweaty bodies, and the sound of acid bass in the Moroccan desert. Anarchic, psychedelic, and uncompromising, Laxe moves through the underground like second nature.
A world outside with no interest in the human ego: Reflections on Patrik Syversen’s Demring
TIFF 2026: «The way Demring plays with Chekhov’s gun and foreshadowing in order to destabilise horror conventions is quite exciting.»
TIFF 2026: Films that use AI and public debate about our cinematic and cultural future
TIFF 2026: The Arctic University of Norway presents two films that use and challenge AI to spark public debate about our cinematic amd cultural future.
Between Judgment and Emotion: Movies on War 2025
The Movies on War festival offers a landscape of reflection – on journalism, displacement, memory, and the fragile borders between nations and the individuals who inhabit them.
Mosaic of moments: Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value
A truly in-depth exploration of a film packed with characters, time planes, strands back into history, complex flashbacks, and a vast number of contrasts, intertwinings, echoes and motifs – plus a house with eyes and a corridor from life to death.
Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank: Realism and Metaphor
Fish Tank (2009), British director Andrea Arnold’s second feature, is a brutally tender exploration of adolescence and isolation, where realism and metaphor mirror the struggle between hope and disillusionment.
Fucktoys‘ offbeat charm aims to lift the curse of our days. Give it a try at TIFF 2026!
TIFF 2026: Toys-R-Us! All of us! That’s just good business. But fear not! Help is at hand: Annapurna Sriram’s Fucktoys cuts to the black, sex-industry heart of capitalism, lays it bare & turns it upside down.
Nina Knag’s road to hell on a fine, strapping pavement of good intentions: Se meg
KVIFF 2025: Norwegians! They try to be nice but really they’re dark to the core – just how the Czechs like them!
Good films come in all shapes and sizes: Karlovy Vary 2025
The tight, almost clinically dark vision of Se meg, the reflective subtlety of The Visitor, the anarchic odysseys of About a Hero and Fucktoys. The highlights of yet another Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the 59th, are many.
Oliver Laxe’s Sirât: The Fine Line Between Beauty and Terror
Cannes 2025: Oliver Laxe’s new film Sirât opens in Dionysian madness, sweaty bodies, and the sound of acid bass blaring through the dry vastness of the Moroccan desert. Anarchic, psychedelic, and uncompromising, Laxe moves through the underground like second nature.