Tagged Berlinale 2021

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. Alice Diop’s latest documentary captures life in the Paris suburbs, meandering between characters, vignettes, and...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. Caring for an ailing loved one means carrying the burden of their deteriorating health, supporting them both mentally and...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. The teenagers passing through this Swiss halfway home have suffered various traumas and losses, but their ebullience and...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. In Ballad of a White Cow (Ghasideyeh gave sefid) director duo Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha explore injustice and...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. The English title of Henrika Kull’s film Glück limits the meaning to a single implication: bliss, after all, is the...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. Not many films can start with three minutes of explicit sex and proceed to be both smarter and more shocking from there,...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. Céline Sciamma has always excelled at bringing magic to the screen – even more so in her latest feature Petite Maman...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. Cuneiform expert Alma works at Berlin’s prestigious Pergamon Museum, but like most academics she needs that last bit of...

A three-and-a-half-hour documentary could feel like a school assignment, but director Maria Speth and subject Dieter Bachmann make spending time with one teacher and his diverse class a leisurely joy. Mr...

Polina (Alina Korol) works at her father’s fish shop. She sleeps poorly worrying about her family, and when an eccentric woman claims to be selling a tea to cure insomnia she buys some, half curious and half...

“Do you want to hear about the other kid we lost? We had a little girl named Angela, she was quite the character…”, says Angelo’s dad as his son sits in front of him, camera in hand, as he attempts to...

There are a couple of 2021 releases titled Limbo, and Soi Cheang’s gritty serial killer drama distinguishes itself with its relentless nastiness. Its cops and criminals use anything they can find as...

Nelly (Matilda Gross) is different, that much is clear from the opening scenes of Amanda Adolfsson’s Nelly Rapp: Monster Agent. In front of an audience of fellow school children, she stages an elaborate...

Rakel (Kristine Kujath Thorp) and Ingrid (Tora Christine Dietrichson) are at a locker room getting ready for an aikido class, one of the many spontaneous activities the roommates take part in together when the...

Who We Were (Wir wer waren) switches the question of ecological destruction to one of identity, calling on experts including astronauts, marine biologists, economists, feminist scholars, social scientists, and...