Berlinale
I’m Your Man press conference with Dan Stevens, Maria Schrader, Maren Eggert, Jan Schomburg and Lisa Blumenberg
A film festival isn’t the safest place to be during a global pandemic, so instead of cramming hundreds…
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The Girl and the Spider (Das Mädchen und die Spinne)
As Lisa moves out of the apartment that she shared with her friend Mara, the two women along…
By Emma Kiely
Berlinale
The World After Us (Le monde après nous)
Fans of künstlerroman rejoice! This portrait of the artist as a young man (apologies to James Joyce, our…
By Joseph Owen
Berlinale
Tina
Perhaps the most straightforwardly joyous part of Tina is when Ms Turner, now 80 years old, recalls meeting…
By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale
Drift Away (Albatros)
What would it take to make the certainties of life suddenly seem uncertain? This is the question asked…
By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale
Philly D.A.
The inadequacies and oddities of the US justice system are pushed into the spotlight in Philly D.A. Although…
By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc)
Golden Bear for Best Film winner Something to offset the intake of staid and middlebrow filmmaking – always…
By Joseph Owen
Berlinale
Mr Bachmann and His Class (Herr Bachmann und Seine Klasse)
The prospect of a gentle, three-and-a-half-hour observational documentary focussed on a teacher and his class of young charges…
By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale
Souad
Souad is a film about looking past the façade: of religion, of online escapism, of empty claims of…
By Samuel Nicholls
Berlinale
Natural Light (Természetes fény)
The Russian Winter has defeated some of the most formidable armies of tyrants throughout history. Brutal and unforgiving,…
By Sean Gallen