133: Berlinale 2023: Here, Delegation, The Teachers' Lounge, Le Paradis, and more

Mar 1, 2023

On this episode, Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney talks about several highlights of the 2023 Berlinale from the festival's sidebars.

• 0:00 Intro to the Berlinale & the episode
• 4:12 Here (Belgium, dir. Bas Devos)
• 12:20 The Teacher’s Lounge (Germany, dir. İlker Çatak)
• 16:59 The Quiet Migration / Stille Liv (Denmark, dir. Malene Choi)
• 23:17 Intro to the Generation sidebar 
• 25:30 Delegation (Israel/Poland/Germany, dir. Asaf Savan)
• 30:15 Le Paradis / The Lost Boys (Belgium/France, dir. Zeno Gratan)
• 37:20 Wrap up

First, Alex discusses the best film of the festival she saw, Here (dir. Bas Devos), which screened in the Encounters section where it won the top prize. Next, Alex discusses two films from the Panorama sidebar (the not quite prestigious enough for competition sidebar): award winner The Teachers' Lounge and the low key Danish film The Quiet Migration. Finally, Alex discusses two films from the Generation sidebar, a sidebar of Young Adult films for Young Adults: Delegation and Le Paradis. Finally, 

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Show Notes

• Read our interview with the director and star of Ninjababy, a Berlinale 2021 Generation program highlight
• Listen to our podcast on Ninjababy
• Read our interview with the director of Brother's Keeper, a Berlinale 2021 Panorama film which, like The Teachers' Lounge, is also about systemic injustices in the educational system.
• Read our review of Magnus von Horn's The Here After, which would make a great double feature with the 2023 film Le Paradis (The Lost Boys).
• Listen to our podcast on My Small Land, which screened in the Generation sidebar at Berlinale 2022. Like this year's The Quiet Migration, My Small Land also tackled the story of a young immigrant in a country where they grew up not looking like the majority of the population.
• Read and listen to all of our Berlinale coverage from this year and past years.

Related episodes mentioned on this episode

• Ep. 83: Berlinale 2021 Part 1: The sidebars
• Ep. 84: Berlinale 2021 Part 2: The Competition
• Ep. 125: Berlinale 2022
• Ep. 101 Magnus von Horn’s films: The Here After and Sweat

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This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney

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