Berlin Film Festival
‘The Strangers’ Case’ Review: Omar Sy in an Intense Refugee Drama That Preaches a Bit More Than It Practices
The 'Lupin' star headlines the feature debut of producer and activist Brandt Andersen, who adapted the story from his prizewinning short 'Refugee.'
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Who Will Win Berlin’s Golden Bear?
The awards ceremony for the 74th Berlin International Film Festival kicks off Saturday night, where this year’s jury, headed by 12 Years a Slave and Black Panther actress Lupita Nyong’o, will hand out the coveted Gold and Silver Bears. Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha’s Iranian drama My Favourite Cake is being given good odds for […]
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‘Shambhala’ Review: Stunningly Crafted Nepalese Drama Takes Too Long to Cast Its Spell
Writer-director Min Bahadur Bham’s second feature follows a newlywedded woman who crosses the Himalayas in search of her fleeing husband.
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‘A Family’ Review: French Writer Christine Angot Makes Directorial Debut With a Bruisingly Personal Doc About Incest
Like many of her written works, this explores the damage done by the abuse inflicted on Angot as an adolescent by her father.
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‘Who Do I Belong To’ Review: A Brooding and Overwrought Drama About Radical Islam
Director Meryam Joobeur, whose 2020 short 'Brotherhood' was nominated for an Oscar, unveiled her first feature in competition at the Berlinale.
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‘Black Tea’ Review: Abderrahmane Sissako’s Evocative but Slippery Diasporic Drama
The latest feature from the ‘Timbuktu’ director follows an African bride who flees to China in order to start a new life.
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‘Langue Étrangère’ Review: A Tough and Tender Romance Between Two Teen Girls Finding Each Other in Translation
The third feature by writer-director Claire Burger ('Real Love') co-stars Nina Hoss and Chiara Mastroianni as mothers of 17-year-olds on opposite sides of the French-German border.
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‘My New Friends’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Headlines Andre Techine’s Unconvincing Social Drama
The latest feature from the 80-year-old French director (‘Wild Reeds,’ ‘My Favorite Season’) premiered in Berlin’s Panorama sidebar.
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‘Dying’ Review: Lars Eidinger Stars as a Harried Orchestra Conductor in a Moving and Funny German Family Saga
Life, death and everything in between are there in Matthias Glasner’s competitor for the Golden Bear, which also features Corinna Harfouch, Lilith Stangenberg and Ronald Zehrfeld.
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‘Architecton’ Review: From the Director of ‘Gunda,’ a Visually Mesmerizing Meditation on the Bedrock of Existence
The latest documentary from Victor Kossakovsky premiered in competition at the Berlinale and will be released stateside by A24.
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French Writer Christine Angot on Confronting Incest in Her Filmmaking Debut, ‘A Family’
With over 20 books to her name, author Christine Angot has been a pillar of France’s literary scene for more than three decades. Her breakthrough novel Incest, published in 1999, was a blisteringly honest account of the author’s rape by her estranged father while she was a teenager. Many of her subsequent novels, including Le […]
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‘The Empire’ Review: Bruno Dumont’s Artsy Space Spoof Is Beautifully Crafted and Certifiably Insane
The director of 'Humanity' and 'Li'l Quinquin' returns to Berlin's main competition with a sci-fi satire starring Fabrice Luchini and Camille Cottin.
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