“The Children Have to Hear Another Story” — Alanis Obomsawin Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 12 February to 18 April 2022

panning more than five decades worth of material, “The Children Have to Hear Another Story” (2022) is a comprehensive retrospective celebrating the cinematic voice of Alanis Obomsawin and the blurry lines between artist, activist, musician, and filmmaker that have defined her career. Starting in the ’70s, Obomsawin developed a process of recording conversations on tape long before the arrival of any camera—part of a careful method of relationship-building that would come to lie at the core of her film works. Removed from the cinema and installed in the thoughtfully designed, elliptical exhibition space of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Obomsawin’s work takes on an affecting physicality, turning