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Berlinale
The Ugly Stepsister
★★★★★

The story of Cinderella has been passed down across the world for...

Selina Sondermann 17th February 2025
Berlin Film Festival 2025: Girls on Wire | Review
Even with the presence of an underground heroin den, the most intriguing setting in Vivian Qu’s Girls on Wire is a sprawling film studio, where reality and performance blur but never quite merge narratively into a film-within-a-film. Instead, the cool-toned, behind-the-scenes set-up is where the film’s protagonist, Fang Di (Wen Qi), a...

Christina Yang 17th February 2025
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Berlinale
The Ice Tower
★★★★★

In her Berlinale entry, The Ice Tower (La tour de glace), French writer and...

Selina Sondermann 16th February 2025
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Berlinale
Late Shift
★★★★★

Unfolding over a single, high-pressure shift in a surgical ward, Petra Volpe’s...

Christina Yang 16th February 2025
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Berlinale
The Old Woman with the Knife
★★★★★

Assassination may seem like a young man’s game, but Hornclaw...

Christina Yang 16th February 2025
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Cinema & Tv
“This is a film about people looking at other people and wanting what they have”: Sam Riley and Jack Farthing on Islands at Berlinale 2025

Selina Sondermann 16th February 2025
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Cinema & Tv
“I couldn’t have hoped for a better cast for this film”: Jan-Ole Gerster on Islands at Berlinale 2025

Selina Sondermann 16th February 2025
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Berlinale
Magic Farm
★★★★★

In hopes of filming a special on a viral music clip, a US television crew...

Selina Sondermann 16th February 2025
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Berlinale
Islands
★★★★★

German director Jan-Ole Gerster’s (A Coffee in Berlin) English-language debut is...

Selina Sondermann 16th February 2025
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Berlinale
Mickey 17
★★★★★

Anticipation was already high as to what Korean director extraordinaire Bong...

Selina Sondermann 15th February 2025