Marina Richter

2 weeks ago | asianmoviepulse.com | Marina Richter

It is difficult to turn the tradition of one country’s outstanding cinematic genre history on its head. And yet, this is what the Thai writer-director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke did with his quirky, out-worldly ghost comedy “A Useful Ghost” that world-premiered in the Critics’ Week competition strand of the 78th Cannes Film festival. It is one of the most talked-about movies which has won the hearts of film critics with its originality, good and offbeat story telling and good performances.

2 months ago | ubiquarian.net | Marina Richter

Diagonale, Documentaries, Festivals Diagonale Documentary Competition Eight years past the massive protests which spread from Washington DC to London and further to multiple countries across the world, “I can’t believe we still have to protest this shit.”, to quote a multitude of signs held by women and spurred by the 1st election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, still resonates. With the rise of right-wing governments in the Western world, the fight for gender equality is...

2 months ago | ubiquarian.net | Marko Stojiljković |Marina Richter

Diagonale, Documentaries, Festivals Some of us remember Soldier Ahmet, a son of Turkish immigrants, a devout Austrian patriot, soldier, field medic and instructor in the Austrian Army, a man who loved his family, but defied its long-standing traditions by refusing to get married with a girl brought from the “Old Country” and, lastly, an amateur stage actor who did not want to give up on his dream about a professional career in theatre. Throughout Janis Lenz’s 2021 documentary, Ahmet searched...

2 months ago | ubiquarian.net | Marina Richter

Berlinale, Diagonale, Documentaries, Festivals DiagonaleDocumentary CompetitionWe hope Siaka Touray’s and Victoria Preuer’s time will come one day. In Ivette Löcker’s suggestively titled documentary, nothing points in this direction except the couple’s tireless optimism and determination to improve their situation.

2 months ago | ubiquarian.net | Marina Richter

Diagonale, Documentaries, Festivals We tend to study history incorrectly: focusing on particular events, years, and numbers, we lose the picture of the processes that lasted for some time. This also concerns wars and battles as central points of historical science – we get lost in the raw data of when and where what happened, the sizes of conflicting forces, and the casualties.