Berlin International Film Festival
A Cold War instrument disguised as a film festival.
The Cold War
Forty-five years of proxy wars and mutually assured restraint.
- 8
- in culture
- 9:27
- average
- 76 min
- in total
- 69
- across the network
All briefs
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Goethe-Institut
A state-funded cultural network dressed as an independent NGO.
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Humboldt University of Berlin
The first research university wasn’t born of liberation—it was built to rebuild Prussia after defeat.
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The Manchurian Candidate
The title isn’t about the assassin — it’s a joke on the politician who wins by being weaponised.
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Bikini
A swimsuit named after a nuclear test—and worn without irony by the mid-1960s.
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Tteokbokki
A dish that began in the palace, went to the street, crossed a border, and got banned for being too South Korean.
Abstract expressionism
Abstract expressionism wasn’t about freedom—it was about staying safe while looking free.
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Beat Generation
It wasn’t a revolution—it was a courtroom breakthrough wrapped in a beret.