When the Football World Cup starts on 12th of June, the whole world will look to Brazil. In contrast, the fact that there a military coup occurred exactly 50 years ago, barely attracted...

Somewhere in Oaxaca, southern Mexico: 16 years old Mateo lives here in a rural community, where the traditional Zapotec culture is still alive. But on the other hand it´s a poor region from where a...

1999 in Mexico City: „Fede”, his roommate Santos and Fede´s younger brother Tomás hanging out in a spartan housing block apartment somewhere in the big city. They have nothing to do, because the...

In Germany we say: „Fußball ist die schönste Nebensache der Welt“ (an English translation could be: „Football is the nicest minor matter in the world”). Others are sometimes more radical – like the...

1989 will be remembered forever in history books as the year, when the Berlin wall came down. `Cause of this revolutionary event and his results, it´s almost forgotten what happened in other parts of...

Winner or loser? To think only in this categories, that´s the cruel side of sport – not only of the professional. If you see the documentary „The Other Final” (Netherlands 2003, directed by Johan...

All soccer fans know these moments of „What would have happened, when...?“. If the normally so brilliantly playing defender of the own team, would have attended better, yes, then… Take, for example,...

After one exhausting week with hundreds of films at Berlinale, nerves are on edge. Some have given up before – like columnist Harald Martenstein from „Tagesspiegel”: „There are strong people, and...

If you are running out of money, don´t have an accreditation and losing your Berlinale tickets, which you have bought – that´s… Berlin. Different as our mayor said: Poor, but not sexy anymore...

Dear guests, as a Berliner I have to apologize: Sorry for this awful weather! More mud than snow, a harsh and cold westerly and the sky almost always grey. Instead of „Heavens over Berlin” (the...