CONTENTS THE BERLINALE Fine f ilms by Radu Jude, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Urška Djukić and Fine f ilms by Radu Jude, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Urška Djukić and Richard Linklater captivated audiences, but as a new political era dawns, Richard Linklater captivated audiences, but as a new political era dawns, it ’s not yet clear what the future holds for the Berlin Film Festival it ’s not yet clear what the future holds for the Berlin Film Festival 28 BONG JOON HO Mickey 17, the director’s most expensive film yet, revisits issues from his previous work, but this time as black farce. He tells Tony Rayns about working with a Hollywood major, silliness and stupidity 24 36 FLOW Gints Zilbalodis’s magical fable is a survival story about a cat seeking safety. The director tells Alex Dudok de Wit why emotion is more important than technical prowess and why he dislikes storyboards 46 STEVEN SODERBERGH As his spy thriller Black Bag hits cinemas the director talks about why box office is hard to predict, his fascination with duplicity, and building his career by filming ‘two people in a room’. By Philip Concannon 52 THE END Joshua Oppenheimer has created a bold musical set in a bunker. He discusses the guilt of oligarchs and the end of the world as we know it. By Nick Bradshaw I NT H I S I S S U E I E R O U G E : M A R C O V E R P H O T O G R A P H 42 SOULEYMANE CISSÉ An obituary of the Malian director by Joseph Fahim, plus tributes by writer Ben Okri and filmmakers Julie Dash, Miryam Charles and Martin Scorsese