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Tides

To describe the storyline of Tides might be a bit disorienting. The plot itself isn’t all that complex,…

By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale

The Fam (La Mif)

This excellent, if dramatically overburdened realist drama has the quality of texture: the lives of seven girls in…

By Joseph Owen
Glasgow

Back to the Wharf

After his place at university is unfairly given to someone else, exemplary student Song Hao’s (Zhang Yu) day…

By Andrew Murray
Berlinale

Ted K

Packed with cinematic tricks (cuts, fades, tilted angles: the lot!) and led by Sharlto Copley’s committed American accent,…

By Joseph Owen
Berlinale

Nebenan (Next Door)

Daniel Brühl supposedly sends himself up in this sly and insinuating two-hander, which is part attempted self-satire, part…

By Joseph Owen
Berlinale

Fabian – Going to the Dogs

Dominik Graf's German Berlinale Competition entry is based on the 1931 book Fabian by Erich Kästner, or more precisely…

By Selina Sondermann
Berlinale

We (Nous)

This tender, affecting film threads together the apparently disparate lives and stories of people in Paris, whose only…

By Jake Cudsi
Berlinale

Moon, 66 Questions

This promising domestic drama about a young woman reconnecting with her ailing parent has an intelligent scene in…

By Joseph Owen
Berlinale

Language Lessons

This sincerely felt, fundamentally misguided film amounts to a lockdown exercise for bored actors. Natalie Morales directs, co-writes…

By Joseph Owen