An ongoing series of mini profiles on the blog German Film @ Canada on the movers and shakers that make the Berlinale one of the most important events in the international film calendar: the filmmakers, actors, programmers, curators, industry promoters and fans, from rookies to veterans.Dr. Elisa Jochum, head of the Deutsche Kinemathek Film Archive and lecturer at Film Academy Baden-Württemberg; Elisa Jochum is a film scholar and cultural historian. She previously worked and did research at the Goethe-Institut, Humboldt-University Berlin, University College London, and Yale University.
This is only my 2nd Berlinale, can you believe it? Film has been a determining factor of my entire adult life and yet, until 2022, a Berlinale visit had never happened for me. I started my job at the Deutsche Kinemathek only a few weeks before last year’s festival. Continue reading "#BerlinalePeople: Elisa Jochum, Deutsche..." »
Four years ago I sat in a Toronto restaurant at an intimate TIFF dinner with Angela Schanelec and Canadian indie musician Doug Tielli, whom she had discovered and liked after a year of searching for the right musician for her next project. At Berlinale 2023, Tielli was next to Schanelec again, at the Competition world premiere of Schanelec’s stark drama Music. The film is loosely based on the tragedy of Oedipus, where Oedipus/Jon (French-Quebec actor Aliocha Schneider) unwittingly murders a man, goes to jail, marries his jailer-bio mother, has a daughter and moves to Berlin as he goes blind.
Where are we, what is happening? The documentary Lonely Oaks in the Berlinale emerging filmmakers section Perspektive German Cinema starts out by thoroughly disorienting the viewer. We seem to be in a wood, watching from the forest floor as police in riot gear frantically charge around. One grabs the camera, neglecting to switch it off, so we keep watching and listening to the chaos around us through a clear evidence bag. It takes the viewer a moment to figure out that filmmaker Steffen Meyn, a 360-degree camera installed on his bike helmet, has just plunged dozens of yards from a tree, capturing his own last moments.
An ongoing series of mini profiles on the blog German Film @ Canada on the movers and shakers that make the Berlinale one of the most important events in the international film calendar: the filmmakers, actors, programmers, curators, industry promoters and fans, from rookies to veterans.
An ongoing series of mini profiles on the blog German Film @ Canada on the movers and shakers that make the Berlinale one of the most important events in the international film calendar: the filmmakers, actors, programmers, curators, industry promoters and fans, from rookies to veterans.
An ongoing series of mini profiles on the blog German Film @ Canada on the movers and shakers that make the Berlinale one of the most important events in the international film calendar: the filmmakers, actors, programmers, curators, industry promoters and fans, from rookies to veterans.
Back in the real world, for an all-in-person 73rd Berlinale with a record number of top German film premieres, we are getting ready to bring you film news as it happens. Berlinale Bloggers are reporting live from Berlin -- from their perspectives coming out of Canada, Egypt, India, Korea, Russia, Brazil, Italy, and China.
The Goethe-Institut is thrilled to present the art documentary Girls/Museum by Shelly Silver as an in-cinema installation 
Happy to report that the Goethe-Institut gets to present my favourite documentary of the past few years 
