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2+2=22 [The Alphabet]

There can be something enthralling about the use of real cinema in documentary filmmaking, wherein the camera simply…

By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale

Wilde Maus (Wild Mouse)

Most of us spend our 20s trying to find ourselves and looking for a purpose. Those who are…

By Sean Gallen
Berlinale

Final Portrait

Alberto Giacometti was a sculptor, a painter and an outsider among outsiders. Refusing to be labelled, he dabbled…

By Sean Gallen
Berlinale

Casting

The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant will forever be remembered as one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's finest melodramas.…

By Sean Gallen
Berlinale

Pendular

There is a reason why lovers should never work together. Too many emotions, too many egos, too much…

By Zoe Tamara
Food & Drink

Sakagura in Mayfair

Authenticity is a tricky beast. Supermarket chicken with “such and such farm” proudly emblazoned on the label, jelly…

By Daniel Masters
Berlinale

The Wound

Eastern Cape, South Africa. Far from the freedoms of the modern world. A lonely factory worker, Xolani (Nakhane…

By Sean Gallen
Berlinale

Vazante

Life was unforgiving in Brazil back in 1821. It was still a Portuguese colony, but to live there…

By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale

The Dinner

The Dinner tells the story of Paul (Steve Coogan), a cantankerous, disgraced history teacher and his wife, a…

By Sean Gallen