A still from Loktak Lairembee being screened at the Berlinale

It is always a pleasure to return to the Berlin International Film Festival, whose 67th edition runs from February 9-19, 2017. It is quite a whup in your face to go from 32 degrees in Mumbai to -5°C in Berlin, but programmers assure me the colder it is, the more inviting warm cinemas become for the audience. Not that the loyal audience of the Berlinale, as the festival is called, needs any incentive: the festival sells over 3.3 lakh tickets and receives over 20,000 professional visitors.