Berlinale aficionados who diligently watch the live streams of the festival’s press conferences might be familiar with the…
By Oliver JohnstonIn Hormigas (El Despertar de las Hormigas), director Antonella Sudasassi Furniss turns her focus on women living in…
By Fenja Akinde-HummelYoung teenagers fill a power vacuum in the gang-filled streets of Naples in Claudio Giovannesi’s Piranhas. Based on…
By Mary-Catherine HarveyBreaking Monsters into three chapters, award-winning Romanian writer/director Marius Olteanu gives us a brief window into the sombre despair of…
By Laura JordenAngela Schanelec returns to Berlinale with her lyrical film I Was At Home, But (Ich War Zuhause, Aber). The…
By Mary-Catherine HarveySerpentário is director Carlos Conceição’s allegorical film based, to some degree, around his own life. The movie follows a…
By Fenja Akinde-HummelChiwetel Ejiofor has taken his place in a long line of actors transitioning from in front of the…
By Mary-Catherine HarveyWritten and directed by experimental filmmaker Santiago Loza, Brief Story from the Green Planet follows the journey of…
By Andrew MurrayThe obscenely photogenic Anatolian Mountains of Turkey form the backdrop to director Emin Alper’s bewitching A Tale of…
By Oliver JohnstonMiroslav Terzić’s Panorama contribution, Stitches, has a double meaning. For one, Ana, the stoic mother at the centre of…
By Mary-Catherine Harvey
