(Berlin Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marina fearful – Photos are published courtesy of the Berlinale)
Our chronicle from the most popular festival of the Old Continent we end for our readers with the TALENTS from which we have selected and attended five MASTER CLASS of exception of which in the following we give you knowledge.
This year the password has been COLLECTIVE! Well summarized in the manifesto 2020.
The first Master Class took place on 23 February at 11:30 -13:00 at the historic room of HAU1 entitled:
Collective Change: The Age of Amateur Cinema in which the famous director of STILL LIFE Jia Zhang-ke was interviewed by the equally famous critic Peter Cowie.
The event was made possible thanks to the Minister for Culture and Media Robert Bosch Stiftung, a Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union.
In a crowded hall of HAU1 we witnessed the sharing of an author's way of doing CINEMA.
Some think it restless. Jia Zhang-ke has tirelessly documented the change in Chinese society since the 1990s from the very beginning, choosing socially neglected characters who interpret the historical seismic transformations as protagonists. Jia's portraits of contemporary China are always in tune with regional complexity, particularly through his preference for the dialects of his Shanxi province, which features non-professional actors. However, his approach to non-metropolitan cinema is not limited to movie sets: the foundation of the Pingyao Film Festival established in a city of less than 50.000 people, tests Jia Zhang-ke's desire to bring cinema to audiences normally excluded from international cultural events. One of China's most prolific and influential independent directors. Jia Zhang-ke reflects on the growing opportunities of a collective agency in the context of what he defined “the era of amateur cinema”.
We propose some salient moments of the event online:
The next day 24 February at 17:00 -18:30 always at the HAU1 room we found ourselves in the pigeon house to attend a round table from the four corners of the Earth to the title Talents Table Talk: Places like Home
Karim Ainouz, Original Nardjes, Cate Blanchett, Maryam Zaree, moderati da Florian Weghorn. Supported by Medienboard Berlin -Brandenburg. The theme is very topical:
The homeland is where you belong. But what if you were born in a country where you are forced to leave your country? Cate Blanchett, co-creator and actress of the Stateless series (ed:without nationality), delves into the darker aspects of his nation's migration policy. Next to her there are artists who face their multinational identity with a camera in hand. In his documentary Born in Evin, German actress and director Maryam Zaree returns to her hometown in Iran: materially a prison for political prisoners. On the other side of the table, the Berlin director Karim Ainouz, starting from wanting to know his father's homeland in Algeria, she was born in Brazil, he found Nardjes Asli instead, who took to the streets in Algiers to fight for a democratic future. All four artists and activists put the politics of belonging at the center of the table.
Again for complete information, here are the most important and salient moments of the round table:
With much interest the 25 February at 14:00 -1 5:30 in the other HAU2 venue an interesting Master Class entitled Inside Out: Cinema on the Verge
At the center Kleber Mendonça Fifho interviewed by Vincenzo Bugno.
Kleber Mendonça Filho temporarily puts aside his duties as a juror to reflect on cinema in Brazil and his multiple points of view as a screenwriter, director, critic and festival organizer. The exclusion mechanism that ignites neighbors in a residential block in Aquarius is fundamental (2016), or the supernatural events that lead a community to redraw its boundaries in recent Bacurau (2019). Life is not easy in Filho's cinema. Yet this discomfort is not at all artificial. Rather, derives from the political situation and social inequalities in contemporary Brazil, that he shamelessly discovers in his cinema.
Always for you a live summary of the event:
Finally on the day of 26 February at 14:00 -15:30 in the HAU2 room a photography lesson: Change of Focus: Caleb’s Camera. Meeting with Caleb Deschane J. Interviewed by Peter Cowie.
Starting with the graduation film of the 1969 by Terrence Malick at the most recent challenge with The Lion King. The cinematographer and director Caleb Deschanel (Twin Peaks. The Patriot) explains how curiosity drives a career. Despite the novelty of virtual reality for its toolkit, the photorealistic remake of the 2019 Deschanel's of the Disney classic shows his extraordinary ability to create naturalistic images and lighting, a gift that has earned him six Oscar nominations to date. We discuss the joys and difficulties of making films with others, which could bring us back to his part in an ambitious Californian film band, known as “The Dirty Dozen”.
At the end of the day, a sparkling experience in the beautiful vintage room HAU1- 17:00 -18:30
Berlinale Homage: In Conversation with Helen Mirren intervistata da Roy Rajendra.
In collaboration with Deutsche Kinematheksert, Museum of Film and Television.
Since his early years at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Helen Mirren continues to pursue the personification of female figures with emblematic personalities, perhaps in particular an Elizabeth Il in The Queen (2006) bound by duty but emotionally conflicted or, more recently, la Czarina Catherine the Great (2019 ). He received this year's Honorary Golden Bear at important art institutions in 2020, the berlinale. Dame Mirren has starred with strangers and has found friends followed by countless movie theaters and TV productions and her shelves are filled with prestigious awards, including an Oscar.
MoMA curator Rajendra Roy retraces the milestones of a career with the actress who experienced it firsthand.
Some of his jokes are really hilarious as you can see in the following video:
At this point, see you at the next edition of the Berlinale which places its many future hopes in the Talents: Some of his jokes are really hilarious as you can see in the following video: Goodbye!