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Malik Berkati is a Swiss journalist, film critic and political scientist,
based in Berlin, Germany. He has worked for several years at
festivals in Western Switzerland (PR and program adviser). He is the
co-founder and editor-in-chief of an international multilingual online
magazine focusing on culture and civic awareness (j:mag), and a
correspondent in Berlin for various newspapers and magazines from the
French-speaking part of Switzerland. He has served on numerous
international juries in Europe and Asia for FIPRESCI (International
Federation of Film Critics), as well as on the German Film Critics Juries
for Best German Documentary, Best German Short Film, and since 2020 Jury
Member of The Critics Award for Arab Films of the Arab Cinema Center
(ACC). He is also member of the Swiss Association of Film
Journalists (SVFJ • ASJC • ASGC).
Interested in a wide
range of cinematic horizons, he has specialized in Eastern European cinemas
over time, while maintaining a strong affinity for both contemporary and
classic Korean and Japanese cinemas, as well as Nordic cinemas. A
regular at A Festivals, he is keen to include many independent and auteur
film festivals in his annual circuit, enabling him to follow the careers of
many filmmakers over the course of time. Drawing from his cultural
background and media affiliations, he writes extensively on Swiss, German,
and Israeli cinema, as well as Arab and African cinemas. His corpus
includes numerous interviews with filmmakers from these regions of the
world, in addition to those from Eastern European countries.
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