This week,\xa0Film Comment\xa0is reporting from Berlin, where the 2023 Berlinale is currently underway.\xa0Throughout the festival, we\u2019ll be sharing daily podcasts, dispatches, and interviews covering all the highlights of this year\u2019s selection, including new films by Christian Petzold, Angela Schanelec, Hong Sangsoo, James Benning, and many more.\n\nOn today\u2019s episode,\xa0FC co-editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute are joined by curator and critic Antoine Thirion and critic (and former editor-in-chief of Cahiers du Cin\xe9ma) Jean-Michel Frodon to discuss some recent viewings from the festival's mid-point: Giacomo Abbruzzese\u2019s Disco Boy, John Trengove\u2019s Manodrome, Bas Devos\u2019s Here, Zhang Lu\u2019s The Shadowless Tower, Margarethe von Trotta\u2019s Ingeborg Bachmann \u2013 Journey into the Desert, and Manthia Diawara\u2019s AI: African Intelligence.\n\nStay up to date with all of our Berlin 2023 coverage\xa0here.