Berlin Film Festival 2021

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  Summer Blur (Han Nan Xia Ri)

  ★★★★★

  Pawned off to her aunt’s family, 13-year-old Guo is woken one sweltering summer night by...

  Selina Sondermann 5th March 2021
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  Beans

  ★★★★★

  Beans is the moniker by which the 12-year-old protagonist of this story goes, as many...

  Selina Sondermann 5th March 2021
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  Theo and the Metamorphosis (Théo et les métamorphoses)

  ★★★★★

  Whether it’s a Marvel film where marketable superheroes battle some expensive CGI with generically evil...

  Oliver Johnston 5th March 2021
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  Celts (Kelti)

  ★★★★★

  Drinking too much, talking about sophisticated things in an unsophisticated manner, pointedly avoiding certain people,...

  Oliver Johnston 5th March 2021
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  Je Suis Karl

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  It’s rare that a film seems entirely reverse-engineered from a college politics seminar, but it’s...

  Joseph Owen 5th March 2021
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  Stop-Zemlia

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  To be on the cusp of adulthood, where the distinction between childhood and maturity becomes...

  Oliver Johnston 5th March 2021
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  “At school, I always asked myself what my teachers were really like as human beings”: Director Maria Speth on Mr Bachmann and His Class

  Director Maria Speth spent a number of years working on her latest documentary feature, and...

  Oliver Johnston 4th March 2021
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  “I am not the kind of actor who is really interested in mimicry”: Tom Schilling on Fabian – Going to the Dogs

  Tom Schilling is a Berlinale regular. Since 2015 the prolific Berlin actor has been steadily...

  Selina Sondermann 4th March 2021
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  Tzarevna Scaling (Doch rybaka)

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  Uldus Bakhtiozina’s glorious film conjures up a dream factory of images, almost functioning as a...

  Joseph Owen 4th March 2021
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  Short Vacation (Jong chak yeok)

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  The Berlinale Generation entry Short Vacation tells the story of four young girls participating in...

  Selina Sondermann 4th March 2021
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