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A still from The Village Next to Paradise showing a man in a brown cap and blue jacket sitting beside a young boy wearing a box with eyeholes on his head, against a bare wall.

A Look Into This Year’s Arab Film Festival ‘ALFILM’ in Berlin

The 16th Arab Film Festival Berlin (ALFILM) casts a daring gaze into the past and future with its spotlight on "Canceled Futures, Endless Pasts"—a theme that unearths archival ghosts and imagines alternative realities through speculative fiction. With a compelling lineup that includes To a Land Unknown and The Village Next to Paradise, this year’s festival bridges personal memory and political struggle, offering cinematic stories from across the Arab world that challenge dominant narratives and invite audiences to rethink what could have been.

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Models dressed in coordinated black-and-white Balmain outfits featuring an all-over logo pattern, standing against a matching patterned backdrop.

The Price of Visibility: Fashion’s Obsession with Logos

Once dismissed as a fleeting trend, logomania is staging a bold comeback—dominating runways, reshaping consumer identity, and redefining what it means to flex in fashion. Big names, bold prints, and zero subtlety: today’s fashion isn’t whispering, it’s shouting. From the runway to your IG feed, logos are the loudest flex. But is it fashion or just a branded identity crisis?

Hilal Külec @
Kaytranada performing on stage at the Velodrom in Berlin, wearing sunglasses and pointing toward the crowd under stage lights.

Berlin Danced All Night to Kaytranada’s High-Energy Set at the Velodrom

As the lights dimmed inside Berlin’s Velodrom, a familiar silhouette stepped out: wine glass in hand, shades on, cool as ever. Kaytranada didn’t need a hype man, his set spoke entirely through rhythm. Within minutes, the crowd was moving as one. From start to finish, the energy never dipped.

Jasmin Kraenzel @
Group of models styled in medieval-inspired fashion with symbolic props like a raven and sword, from Steven Meisel’s “The Renaissance Woman” editorial for Vogue Italia (2007), reflecting fantasy and Castlecore aesthetic trends.

Knightcore Is Now: Why Our Medieval Obsession Never Ends

The Middle Ages are more than just a time period—they’ve become a cultural touchstone and a powerful narrative tool. Through their fictionalized and stylized reimaginings, this era lets artists and creators explore the present by looking through the mirror of an imagined past. Remixing the familiar castles, myths, and medieval aesthetics, challenge expectations and reflect on the world today.

Roberta Fabbrocino @
Actress Zendaya, portraying Rue Bennett in the TV drama Euphoria, sits in a diner wearing a maroon hoodie. Her curly hair frames her solemn face as she gazes into the distance with a contemplative and melancholic expression, capturing the emotional weight of friendship breakups and personal struggles.

BFFs to Ex-Friends: The Breakups No One Talks About

Sometimes, the hardest breakups aren’t the romantic ones—they’re the ones that leave your group chats empty and your memories bittersweet. Friendships aren’t supposed to have expiration dates. But when they do, the silence can be deafening. Here’s to the ones we’ve loved and let go, and to learning that some endings don’t need closure to have meaning.

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