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The Berlin International Film Festival’s red carpets have been rolled up. While we’re still wrestling with the controversial fallout of the 74th Berlinale and getting over some of the decisions made by the jury, we’re focusing on what the event, at the end of the day, is all about: quality filmmaking. It’s time to round up our favourite films of this year’s Berlinale, giving you the lowdown on the titles you should be seeking out in cinemas over the coming year. 1) Des Teufels Bad (The Devil’s Bath)Most descriptions for The Devil’s Bath may inadvertently discourage viewers looking for a clear ...
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Amidst the glitz, tension and controversy of this year’s Berlin Film Festival was a small cabin, located a stone’s throw away from the red carpet. Walk towards it and you could see a rather apt sign on the side of the wooden hut: 'Tiny Space'. The project, conceived by Shai Hoffmann and Jouanna Hassoun, who have Israeli and Palestinian roots respectively, invited festival attendees to discuss and debate the contentious issue of the war in Gaza inside the intimate location. The meetings with changing participants didn’t have fixed beginnings or ends, but instead allowed interested parties to dr...
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The Berlin Film Festival prides itself on being a politically active film festival, but they were not going for this... The end of this year’s 74th edition has escalated beyond all expectations. The Berlinale said yesterday (Monday 26 February) that it has filed criminal charges following the hacking of its Panorama sidebar section’s Instagram social media site, which was used to post “anti-Semitic” messages. The Berlinale in a statement said the Instagram channel for its Panorama section was briefly hacked during the weekend, post-awards, and “anti-semitic image-text posts about the Middle Ea...
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The Berlin film festival found itself at the centre of a controversy on Sunday, after several artists accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza during Saturday night's awards ceremony. "Antisemitism has no place in Berlin, and that goes for artists too," said Berlin mayor Kai Wegner on his X account. "What happened yesterday at the Berlinale was an intolerable perspective," he added, calling the festival management to account. Filmmakers at Saturday night's award ceremony accused Israel of genocide. Israel's air and ground offensive has driven around 80% of Gaza's population from their hom...
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An unseasonably warm Berlin celebrates a new Golden Bear winner. This Berlin International Film Festival has come to a close, and the jury of the 74th edition, led by Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years A Slave, Black Panther, Us), has elected its winner out of the 20 films in Competition. The coveted Golden Bear for Best Film went to Dahomey, by French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop, who previously won the Grand Prix at Cannes for her 2019 film Atlantics. This docu-fiction essay details the return of twenty-six artefacts from France to the Republic of Benin, which were among thousands plundered from the...
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Canadian director Kazik Radwanski specialises in interpersonal dynamics – specifically the ones that go unnamed. Following his 2019 film Anne at 13,000 ft, which also premiered at the Berlinale, Radwanski reteams with Deragh Campbell (Never Eat Alone, Anne from Anne at 13,000 ft) and Matt Johnson (director of The Dirties and last year’s critically acclaimed BlackBerry) for Matt And Mara. Premiering in this year’s Berlinale Encounters section – a rather fitting sidebar name, all things considered – it sees teacher Mara (Campbell) welcoming her students to poetry class. As she is about to head i...
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After his Oscar-shortlisted short Refugee, US producer and activist Brandt Andersen makes his feature directorial debut with The Strangers’ Case, a kaleidoscopic portrait of the refugee crisis that world premieres in the Berlinale Special section. The Strangers’ Case follows a chain reaction that involves five different families in four different countries. The tragic spark that ignites a chain of events is an explosion that forever alters the lives of a Syrian family in Aleppo. From then on, the film chronicles interweaving perspectives of a doctor, a soldier, a people smuggler, a poet and a ...
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Where to begin with Treasure? It stars Britain’s beloved Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham, who feature as Polish father (Edek) and his daughter (Ruth), born and raised in New York, travelling to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1991 to retrace the family’s tragic history as Jews. Sounds good on paper. But what we actually get is an obnoxious Ruth shouting at Polish people “I don’t speak English” and bulldozing over their greetings with “me llamo Ruth” before embarking on a self-harming journey that screams of clichés. We can see Ruth means well when she tells two separate characters off for calling Auschwitz ...
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Elbow is a film based on a book of the same name by Fatma Aydemir. It opens with beautiful cinematography introducing the protagonist Hazal in a series of reflections in shop windows in Berlin. The Turkish-German is just a few days away from turning 18. We get to know her through her unsuccessful search for an apprenticeship, as she encounters rejections and being fobbed off. In between, she’s accused of shoplifting make up in a drugs store. Whether she’s guilty or not is unclear, but what is evident is the casual and systematic racism she endures. It’s subtly presented however as part of the ...
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A film whose title sounds like a Transformers reject and billed as a “journey into the realm of materials from which human dwellings are made: concrete and its predecessor, stone” may not be everyone’s idea of a good time at the talkies. But the Berlinale has a way of surprising you, reminding you to never judge a film by its title – or its ponderous logline. Architecton is the latest film by celebrated Russian non-fiction director Victor Kossakovsky, and it deals with rocks. Exploding. Mined. Grounded. Turned into concrete - the world’s second most used substance in the world after water. It ...
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