This week,\xa0Film Comment is reporting from Berlin, where the 2024 Berlinale kicked off on February 15. Throughout the festival, we\u2019ll be sharing daily podcasts, dispatches, and interviews covering all the highlights of this year\u2019s selection, including new films by Olivier Assayas, Mati Diop, Bruno Dumont, Hong Sangsoo, and many more. Subscribe to the Film Comment Letter here to stay up-to-date.\n\nOn today\u2019s episode, our second from Berlin, FC Editor Devika Girish is joined by critics Erika Balsom, Giovanni Marchini Camia, and Beatrice Loayza to talk about the political situation in Germany and how it\u2019s affecting the festival, before digging into films including Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor\u2019s No Other Land, Dimitris Athiridis\u2019 exergue \u2013 on documenta 14, Bruno Dumont\u2019s The Empire,\xa0Ruth Beckermann\u2019s Favoriten, and Diop\u2019s Dahomey.\n\nStay up to date with all of our Berlinale coverage here: https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/category/festivals/berlin/