Devika Girish

Future days: the director discusses his new film, how he gets bodies to speak for themselves, and the role of art in the face of the apocalypse

Truth claims: the French-Senegalese filmmaker discusses the real-life roots of her fiction debut and what it means to embody universality in a Black woman

Throughlines: the German actor, known for his extraordinary physicality, discusses his inspirations and his firecracker performance in Ira Sachs’s new film, Passages

Walkin‘ the talk: at this year's Berlinale, strikes and protests exposed a crisis of agency for art workers

Together and apart: the two directors discuss the making of their award-winning documentary, their transition from journalism to cinema, and finding the right balance between images of incontrovertible violence with those of resilience and life

Double vision: how long can we maintain the ruse of championing artistic freedom and civil liberties in cinemas surrounded by hundreds of cops and A.I.-powered cameras and staffed by underpaid workers?

Look and see: a number of films this in year’s selection—including Atropia, The Stringer, and others—grappled with the ethics of making images of war, violence, and suffering

Rise up: a special retrospective series at this year‘s festival captured the revolutionary promise of the historic Afro-Asian Film Festivals of the 1950s and ’60s

End of the road: new films by Kelly Reichardt, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Julia Ducournau, and Sergei Loznitsa explore the politics of time

Field reports: films like Cover-Up, Landmarks, and The Voice of Hind Rajab pierced through the festival’s illusive bubble with lightning bolts of reality