Berlinale 2024
‘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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‘Sons’ Review: Sidse Babett Knudsen Is Remarkable as an Avenging Corrections Officer in a Plausibility-Challenged Drama
The Berlin competition entry is the latest from Danish 'The Guilty' director Gustav Moller.
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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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‘Brief History of a Family’ Review: Subtle Psychological Thriller Puts a Contemporary Chinese Family Under the Microscope
Taking its European bow at Berlin after a premiere at Sundance, Lin Jianjie’s first feature focuses on a teenage boy, his parents and the classmate who becomes their surrogate second son.
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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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‘The Devil’s Bath’ Review: A Disturbing Psychodrama About a Woman Driven to Extremes in 18th-Century Rural Austria
Genre auteurs Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s third feature explores in unflinching detail a dark footnote in early modern European history.
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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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