“No matter where you go, the screen is always white.” Julian Ross on Takahiko Iimura’s short stay in Berlin, that shaped his artistic practice in film and video in a transitional moment of his career.

"It takes just a familiar word, a sound, to collapse space": Devika Girish explores how the temporal experience of immigration has been represented in films from the 53rd edition of the Berlinale Forum.

Although international film students at Potsdam-Babelsberg looked at East Germany differently, their work has yet to receive a great deal of attention. Fabian Tietke on the political context in which their films were made and the two rediscoveries from the 1980s showing as part of Fiktionsbescheinigung.

Simon Rothöhler on Anthropocene figures, digital imaging technologies and material aesthetic differences in the films Poznámky z Eremocénu (Notes from Eremocene) by Viera Čákanyová and SUPER NATURAL by Jorge Jácome.