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Yony Leyser's desires

INTERVIEW. Leyser's queer Berlin underground snapshot "Desire Will Set You Free" has been making the rounds in film circles this early summer and everyone's got something to say – including him. It...

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Interview with the aliens

We caught up with XLterrestrials, the otherworldly artist collective behind Berlin's strange, experimental film evening Citizen Kino challenging viewers to think about the visuals we see around us...

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The Italian connection: Itaca

International magazine, international band! At our 14th Birthday Party this Friday, June 17 at Humboldthain Club, catch Itaca, the German duo throwing Italo pop hooks into the mix with cool synth...

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Feeding on refugees: The Center for Political Beauty

INTERVIEW: Four hungry tigers and the promise of the carnage of ancient Rome are now on offer at Gorki as refugees are asked to volunteer as human-food in protest of travel restrictions. Tasteless?

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The physicality of the internet: Andrew Blum

INTERVIEW! Disruption Network Lab is back with "Deep Cables" (Jun 17-18 at Kunstquartier Bethanien), an exploration of the internet's workings. On Sat, Jun 18, author Andrew Blum takes us through the...

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How queer can feminism be?

INTERVIEW. Hengameh Yaghoobifarah is a lot of things: A blogger, an activist, a queer feminist, a fa(t)shionista. She sat down with Exberliner to sound off about her intersectional dentity and queer...

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Beauty, death and neon: Nicolas Winding Refn

INTERVIEW! The hotly anticipated (and Cannes-contested) Refn film, "The Neon Demon", hits Berlin cinemas June 23.

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Money for everyone: Stefan Mekiffer on basic income

From neoliberals to hippie dreamers, the spectrum of people talking about basic income runs the gamut. Read our interview with one of its proponents and then go learn more for yourself on Thu, Jul 7 at...

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Back to the future: Ben Wheatley

INTERVIEW! British director Ben Wheatley discusses his adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s dystopian novel High-Rise, a period social commentary that doubles as a sci-fi satire. The film opens in Berlin on...

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Smartshots: Sean Baker's "Tangerine"

INTERVIEW! Writer/director Baker managed to turn his iPhone 5S-shot film into a gimmick-free, distinctly fabulous and heartfelt look at the hustle of trans working girls in Los Angeles – fears,...

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Five questions for... Vessels

INTERVIEW. Martin Teff, of post-rock electronic band Vessels, talks about the band's change from cerebral to dance music. Don't miss them play Foreign Affairs on July 9 at Haus der Berlin Festspiele.

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The Berliner who took Cannes by storm

INTERVIEW! Defying all expectations, the surprise hit at Cannes this year was not only German, but a comedy! Three-time director Maren Ade's tale of prankster dad and his corporate daughter, "Toni...

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A different kind of cooking show

Pick up the fork and the smart device! "Thirsting for Salt" is a multi-part experimental performance and installation tying together culture, family, technology and, of course, food Jul 20-21....

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Documenting life and death in Lampedusa

INTERVIEW! This year’s winner of the Berlinale Golden Bear, Gianfranco Rosi, sat with us to talk about his emotional documentary Fuocoammare (Seefeuer) and his approach to filmmaking.

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Top chef: Klaus Reiher

Twice a month, we shine a spotlight on our favourite chefs in Berlin. This month: Klaus Reiher of Mitte bistro L'Ami Fritz explains his love of French-German cooking and wonders why nobody eats piglet...

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Tanz im August Blog: SUNNY openings

INTERVIEW! Emanuel Gat and Awir Leon open this year’s Tanz im August festival with SUNNY, an unpretentious and largely improvised collision of music and movement. Lily Kelting spoke with the duo about...

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Top Chef: Patrick Groth

Patrick Groth is the man behind Centro Italia, a mini-chain of Italian grocery stores, each containing impressive trattorias serving impressive lunch.

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Hating music Fearlessly

INTERVIEW! Death in Vegas frontman Richard Fearless certainly fits his moniker. He dishes on everything from the state of the British music scene to working with former porn star Sasha Grey ahead of...

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Moving on from Madonna: Reijer Zwaan's Strike a Pose

INTERVIEW! Zwaan and co-director Ester Gould's Berlinale crowd-pleaser, Strike a Pose, about the men behind Madonna at the height of her career, returns to Berlin Thu, Aug 25 at Freiluftkino Hasenheide.

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EXBlicks: Lorde of Berlin

INTERVIEW! Most of you know of poet and activist Audre Lorde, but did you know she spent some of her last years here in Berlin? Dagmar Schultz' doco details them in "Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years",...

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Tanz im August: An interview with Sidney Leoni

Sidney Leoni on his new feature film: Under Influence. Leoni talks female idols, Scandinavian darkness, and the return to basic, human sensations.

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Human error or cyberweapon: Alex Gibney

INTERVIEW! How Alex Gibney learned to start worrying and fear the cyberbomb in "Zero Days", opening in Berlin cinemas on Sep 1.

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Rejecting fear, resisting Islam

INTERVIEW! Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, the controversial author behind 2084: The End of the World, sounds off on Islam and why "we cannot talk about anything anymore." Catch him at the...

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Top Chef: Sebastian and Roma Barticzka

Twice a month, we shine a spotlight on our favourite chefs in the city. This time around, it's Polish couple Sebastian and Roma Barticzka of Schmeckerei/Pierogi.

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Palestinians speak out: After the Last Sky

INTERVIEW. Israelis have a voice here, but Palestinians, not so much. Curators of "After the Last Sky" Anna-Esther Younes and Pary El-Qualqili aim to change that with their fest at Ballhaus...

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Refugees on Mars: Halil Altindere

INTERVIEW! Refugees... in space! Halil Altindere is hitting Berlin Art Week with a jarring dystopian proposal: send them to Mars. Check out "Space Refugee" opening at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein on Sep 14.

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The nice kind of Obama drama: Richard Tanne

INTERVIEW! A low-budget, fictionalised account of the Obamas’ chaste first date might sound like a made-for-TV nightmare, but Tanne’s directorial debut is in fact an impressive slice of lo-fi...

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Top Chef: Vladimir Kosic

Twice a month, we shine a spotlight on our favourite chefs in the city. This time around, it's Vladimr Kosic, owner of fish restaurant Lesendro, celebrating his newly opened branch in Wilmersdorf.

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Metal machine music: Wir sind die Roboter

INTERVIEW! The robots are coming! New festival Wir sind die Roboter fills the Musikbrauerei with the mind-warping booming, beeping and humming only mechanical musicians can make. Read our chat with the...

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Subtle monsters: Sebastian Koch

INTERVIEW! The first film to deal with the Nazi euthanasia programme, “Nebel im August” star Koch (of “The Lives of Others”) must channel a hard-to-recognize evil in the form of a Third Reich...

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