By Irina Trocan

Seeing Deborah Stratman’s medium-length film in the Forum Expanded section of the Berlinale means taking an unrepentant break from the hectic rhythm of the festival – in the end, you may conclude midway through the screening, none of this really matters, and when we consume our life on this planet we’ll only be a thin layer of dust that covers the rocks. As mankind’s impact on Earth is more demonstrably damaging from decade to decade, the least cinema can do about it is to accommodate views that don’t place humans at the center of everything. Last Things is a definite model for such an eco-cinematic approach.