TBH I was a bit bummed out by lack of gloomy dadrock going into my first Primavera, but was a thrilling start to Pride month to see 2 tiny queer women (Chris, Janelle Monae) blow their peers out of the water with 2 of the slickest festival sets I've ever seen

Saw David Lynch trending and my heart started racing. Very happy he's not dead, but now a tad disappointed he's not announced something new.

Even from a safe distance in Germany and with an Irish passport on the way, I really can't stomach the thought of having to engage with this on any level.

I wrote about a few highlights from the recent Docaviv festival in Tel Aviv.

For Sight and Sound magazine I reviewed Advocate, controversial standout of the recent Docaviv festival and perhaps the best doc I've seen this year: bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/s…

For Sleek, I wrote about a new doc exploring one of Berlin's modernist housing estates and the legacy of Bauhaus: sleek-mag.com/article/bauhau…

#Advocate first look: this portrait of tenacious Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel is less biographical documentary than “a propulsive, cool-headed courtroom drama”, says Paul O'Callaghan ☞ buff.ly/2IvjNVG

For this month's shit-themed @exberlinermag, I was coerced into compiling this list of the finest faecal moments in film. Gave me just the excuse I needed to rewatch Salo at 9am on a Monday: exberliner.com/features/cultu…

4 beers at a pub quiz last night and today I'm contending with a pounding headache, some weird muscle twitch and mild existential dread. Growing old is wild.

The fart jokes and subpar Elton John songs of The Lion King really don't mesh too well with the sequences of photorealistic predators mauling each other to death.

The substantial quality of life upgrade I made by moving to Berlin is 100% offset by the unfathomable horror of having to use its airports on a semi-regular basis

The Cossacks + orchestra on the Potemkin Stairs. Pretty great way to spend my first night in Odessa Odesa Film Festival

Glad to have caught Ken Loach's Sorry We Missed You at Odesa Film Festival. Despite some wooden performances, it had me choking back tears in a way I haven't experienced at the movies since that food bank scene in I, Daniel Blake

For Slant, I wrote about a few highlights from my recent brief stint at Odesa Film Festival

“Heng delivers a captivating, terse performance, while Rathjen slowly ratchets up the tension to almost unbearable levels" Paul O'Callaghan listed #BuoyancyFilm as one of 8 unmissable films Berlinale in Sleek sleek-mag.com/article/hidden…

There are many aspects of German culture that annoy the hell out of me, but honestly moving here was the best thing I ever did and if I could formally renounce Boris's Britain today for citizenship I'd do it in a heartbeat thelocal.de/20190801/germa…

To give credence to Carrie's possibly biased take below, I've been freelancing for Blinkist this year and recommend them highly - lovely team, very clear briefs, fair deadlines and they pay extremely promptly!

Inconsiderate of Locarno team to throw a stellar black cinema retro + John Waters tribute into the mix this year. How am I meant to commit to an experimental drama inspired by the choreography of Isadora Duncan when I can watch Polyester or Boyz n the Hood instead?

Ciao Locarno - if I could spend every day gazing at this landscape and watching 3-5 mediocre arthouse films, I'd be perfectly content.

Destination Talent: Berlin Still Rules at Content Marketing buff.ly/3bV3CNP Thanks to the presenters at the Content & Copy Meetup Berlin who inspired this post @carrienicanri Paul O'Callaghan Noemi Tanoni SAND Journal / Submissions open Katrin Jahns #contentmarketing #journalism #veganpizza