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Zhaleika

"I expect you to change fundamentally." These are the distressing words that epitomise a film that premiered at…

By Jonathan Hutchings
Berlinale

Life on the Border

It is easy to foresee that in years to come the refugee crisis will not be defining this decade.…

By Thomas Unsted
Berlinale

The Illinois Parables

Style is critical in The Illinois Parables. More specifically, the style of the film provides the uniting force…

By James Ager
Berlinale

Nakom

Directors Kelly Daniela Norris and TW Pittman are not the sort of filmmakers who make things easy on…

By The editorial unit
Berlinale

Sufat Chol (Sand Storm)

For women who live in a manner that many parts of the world would view to be oppressed,…

By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale

Inside the Chinese Closet

For LGBTQ people worldwide, there is little to match the intense pressure surrounding the act of coming out…

By The editorial unit
Berlinale

La Helada Negra (The Black Frost)

La Helada Negra (The Black Frost) is sequel of sorts to director Maximiliano Schonfeld’s 2012 work Germania, and…

By Stuart Boyland
Berlinale

Kollektivet (The Commune)

The key events of Thomas Vinterberg’s film Kollektivet (The Commune) can be rather easily predicted from the moment…

By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale

The Writer

Kateb is a success. He is an Arab Palestinian living in Israel who has perfectly integrated into the…

By The editorial unit