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...
View ArticleRefugees 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.
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleTop 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.
View ArticleMetal 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...
View ArticleSubtle 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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